We are very happy to welcome Nick Campbell (aka The Greyscale Gorilla) to the Aetuts+ family. He's an incredibly talented designer and a fantastic teacher. In his first tutorial for us he shows us how to create this awesome 80's style title animation. He covers a whole bunch of awesome little tips that are sure be useful on any After Effects project.
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( ADD YOURS )simon March 30th
First first first!!!
Kinda reminds me of doctor who.
I lke it
( )Snorri3D March 30th
Nice 1
( )Stijn Jasper March 30th
Very nice, I’m new here to. But I’m just a visitor. I’m hoping to learn some After effects skills here
Welcome
( )mr h March 30th
this is cool
( )Ei_b3low March 30th
hmm..that nice..
( )Ei_b3low March 30th
hmm..that googd
( )Jacques Nyemb March 30th
I love that intro. Being an 80’s baby I can truly appreciate it. I try that out real soon :0)
( )ninjtso March 30th
cooooool ,,,,, nice work
( )James March 30th
great tutorial, how the heck did they create this in the 80’s???
( )okee October 6th
Possibly on an Amiga: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaRkacQ-YMg
( )Naveen March 30th
Nice Tut! Shift drag was a cool tip as well!
( )Kevin Richards March 30th
good job.
( )seems very close to Harry J Frank’s “Old School Special Presentation” AE project download.
http://tinyurl.com/d26zpu
Harry March 30th
It’s like the Old School Presentation download and the retro tutorial of mine had a baby and Nick raised it feeding it Chicago dogs during the 80s. Num num.
Good stuff, though.
( )Nick Campbell March 30th
What else is the Echo plugin good for other than making sweet 70’s and 80’s time scan effects?
Looks like we drank the same 80’s Kool-aid while watching A-Team, Snorkles and Smurfs, eh Harry?
For our next number, Harry and I will join forces and tackle the Hanna Barbarra Logo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHDxTUhK9_k
80s forever!!!!
gokaycagri March 30th
woww
( )Alexandre Broggio March 30th
=@
( )aravind March 30th
woow. nice tutorial..
( )im likeing it March 30th
im really liking it
( )Studiox March 30th
Nice! Tut easy to follow and the end Effect was the same.
( )Well done!
Nightfirecat March 31st
Wow! Extremely cool. I got a few ideas just by seeing that Vegas effect that I’ll have to try out, but this goes over some very good techniques, and is extremely flexible.
( )Nicolas March 31st
Why don’t you post the proejcts files ?
( )Burning Chariot TV March 31st
because that would just be lazy. I know it says “spoon fed motion graphics” but c’mon… you wouldn’t learn and appreciate stuff if project files were handed on a plate!
Watch it, follow it, and take it as inspiration and a way of extending you knowledge of even the simple AFX standard plug-ins.
I thought this TUT was one of the best one’s posted here – by far it’s not the most complex, or extravagant, but just explained very well by a great tutor, great end result and all together usefull tips and tricks for workflow techniques which even I (a 6 year AFX user) found very very handy.
Cheers Nick, i allways like your tuts and you’ve got a great range of them. Hopfully we’ll get another one soon. I’m working on the Hannah Barbera one as we speak just for a laugh. lol
Ben x
( )_JP March 31st
Hey Nick, this is great – you really are a great teacher!
( )This is perfect in terms of the level of difficulty — i’ve been following you for a while on your blog, it’ll be great if you continue to record these tutorials!
Alex McCabe March 31st
that effect is far too cool =D
( )will try that later after uni
naim alwan March 31st
Thanks Great TUT
( )Richard March 31st
pretty nice
( )Diego SA March 31st
Ah, cool effect!
( )Remember me Justice’s videoclip DVNO!
ME March 31st
Harry J Frank did this better, you can find it over at graymachine.com/v3
( )Josh March 31st
NICK! you are the bomb. keep the tuts comin! thanks for all your help!
( )Mike April 1st
Amazing result! and I like see your face in the tutorial is more closely the tutorial. The tricks like Fast Blur, Glow on an Adjustment Layer is very usefull.
Thanks
( )isra April 1st
niceeeeeeeeeee
( )Bezajo April 1st
It is nice.
But why does it take sooooo long to download, even though i have the fastest broadband in the marked.
This seems to be true for all the tutorials in this site unlike the tutorials in “videocopilot” website.
You must be doing something wrong or capturing in wrong format.
Keep on the good work
( )partelo April 6th
i agree. it is going to take me 3+ hours to download the video… and it wont play on my machine without chugging and stopping constantly. annoying.
( )Lloyd April 6th
We just added the option to download the tutorials (Right-Click and Save As on the Download Link). Now you can download it to your local machine and scrub through it without having to download it every time.
( )VertigoSFX April 1st
Haha cool, I like this one a lot.
( )FEDFiLM April 2nd
Hey can anyone help me???? i exported a comp made form this tutorial, and everyone of the four times ive tried, it hasnt exported my comp, but instead a screen capture, as in, i can see my whole screen along with the render bar in after effects as it renders, my cursor moving around doing other things, and then my screen saver, but broken up to fit the length of the comp. whats going on???
any help guys?
( )Alistair April 3rd
Hey Nick,
Thanks for this amazing tutorial, I followed along and right now i’m rendering the effect. This was the first tutorial I did in After Effects and your was great as it didn’t require any additional plugins etc.
When you did the pre-comp early on in the tute though it was a little confusing (you later explained how to do this) but Google was the saviour before that.
Many thanks again and great contribution. Very nice tute.
( )hugo castro April 3rd
Amazing tutorial!!!!
Kepp the good work
( )pablo April 3rd
Great tutorial, and shift drag a nice tip I didn´t know Soooo usefull
( )Thank you !!!!
BORABORA April 5th
Very nice tutorial! This will definately help me improving my AE skills.
( )Thanks!
Nikola April 6th
Eeeextraordinary….
( )partelo April 6th
I wish that there was an option on this site to see the tutorial through screenshots, as opposed to having to wait an hour or so to download the tutorial. for some reason i can never see the videos on this site smoothly. Sometimes I dont want to see every single step, just scroll thorough the lesson and get the highlights. Am i alone?
( )Lloyd April 6th
We just added the option to download the tutorials (Right-Click and Save As on the Download Link). Now you can download it to your local machine and scrub through it without having to download it every time.
( )CgBaran Tuts April 18th
Great tutorial thanks
( )Swany April 21st
great tutorial, thanks for the time and effort to post this. I just finished the tut and are exporting as we speak… Thanks!
( )wee May 14th
where can I get the vegas plug in?
( )Lloyd May 14th
It comes with After Effects, it’s under the Generate menu
( )mich May 18th
very nice tut! thank you
( )Bryant Haff June 13th
that is real cool motion graphics
( )Vitaliy June 22nd
Where i can download the project files?
( )elad June 26th
hi nick, great tetorials.. keep rocking and thanx a lot for your time doing it for everyone. this is great that we can learn from someone who knows much about design and not only technics…
elad
( )Fran August 19th
Thanks for the great tutorial Nick. I did it! It looks sweet!
( )john August 29th
So good, but you gotta stop throwing the cursor all over the screen while you talk. It makes me nervous
( )K S Busam November 7th
It’s Very very nice
( )Oostblok December 10th
very nice work
( )thanks alot u really helped me
Owen Thomas December 18th
thanks Nick!
I like how you briefly explain some short-cuts and how to navigate the menus along the way like the key. I never knew you could go full screen on menus. So much easier to edit key frame graphs!!!
( )Khoren Mirzakhanian January 8th
Great Tut Nick!
Helped a lot. by the time the tutorial was done, I had my very own different version finished.
Keep em coming!
( )steven w January 30th
Hey does anyone know where i can get those sound effects that Nick used ? I cant seem to find any as good as those
( )