Design an Awesome 80′s Inspired Title Animation
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: After Effects
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Run Time: 39:16 min
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Twice a month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from back in the archives of Aetuts+. Today we’ll look at a tutorial originally published in March 2009 by Nick Campbell. Enjoy!
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.
Tutorial
Download Tutorial .mp4
File size: 496.4MB
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By Nick Campbell
My name is Nick Campbell and greyscalegorilla is my photoblog. I currently live in Chicago and work at Digital Kitchen as a Motion Designer. I get a kick out of solving problems.
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First first first!!!
Kinda reminds me of doctor who.
I lke it
Nice 1
Very nice, I’m new here to. But I’m just a visitor. I’m hoping to learn some After effects skills here ;)
Welcome :D
this is cool
hmm..that nice..
hmm..that googd
I love that intro. Being an 80′s baby I can truly appreciate it. I try that out real soon :0)
cooooool ,,,,, nice work :P
great tutorial, how the heck did they create this in the 80′s???
Possibly on an Amiga: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaRkacQ-YMg
Nice Tut! Shift drag was a cool tip as well!
good job.
seems very close to Harry J Frank’s “Old School Special Presentation” AE project download.
http://tinyurl.com/d26zpu
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.
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!!!!
woww
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woow. nice tutorial.. :)
im really liking it
Nice! Tut easy to follow and the end Effect was the same.
Well done!
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.
Why don’t you post the proejcts files ?
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
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!
that effect is far too cool =D
will try that later after uni
Thanks Great TUT
pretty nice
Ah, cool effect!
Remember me Justice’s videoclip DVNO!
Harry J Frank did this better, you can find it over at graymachine.com/v3
NICK! you are the bomb. keep the tuts comin! thanks for all your help!
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
niceeeeeeeeeee
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
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.
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.
Haha cool, I like this one a lot.
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?
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.
Amazing tutorial!!!!
Kepp the good work
Great tutorial, and shift drag a nice tip I didn´t know Soooo usefull
Thank you !!!!
Very nice tutorial! This will definately help me improving my AE skills.
Thanks!
Eeeextraordinary….
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?
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.
Great tutorial thanks
great tutorial, thanks for the time and effort to post this. I just finished the tut and are exporting as we speak… Thanks!
where can I get the vegas plug in?
It comes with After Effects, it’s under the Generate menu
very nice tut! thank you
that is real cool motion graphics
Where i can download the project files?
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
Thanks for the great tutorial Nick. I did it! It looks sweet!
So good, but you gotta stop throwing the cursor all over the screen while you talk. It makes me nervous
It’s Very very nice
very nice work
thanks alot u really helped me :D
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!!!
Great Tut Nick!
Helped a lot. by the time the tutorial was done, I had my very own different version finished.
Keep em coming!
Hey does anyone know where i can get those sound effects that Nick used ? I cant seem to find any as good as those