Get Caught Up In A Spider Web Tutorial – AE Premium
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Get Caught Up In A Spider Web Tutorial – AE Premium

on Apr 5th 2010 with 30 comments
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Learn how to use Trapcode Form to create a stylistic and dynamic Spider Web. This tutorial will show you how to “think outside the box” when it comes to using plug-ins to get away from that “preset” look.

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I have lived in sydney, australia for the last 10 years though I'm back in the uk for a couple of years to start up my company, sidekick and various other entrepreneurial efforts, all design related. I have been working as a design director for the last 9 years working mainly in After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator. I started my career working in print and fell into motion graphics purely by accident. I design, direct and create tv commercials, packages for award ceremonies and high profile events.  

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  • alex

    what the track play?

  • Terminator

    hurray i am the first nice preview

    • Billy

      Seriously? Every time? And laughably you aren’t even first to comment most of the time. There is something definitely wrong with you dude.

      • http://blog.losercoalition.net Jeff

        probably a bot.

  • http://youtube.com/cdtitanic Mark

    wow this is one of the best premium tut ive seen i think! I like the syncing with the music

  • http://www.vimeo.com/ Rami

    that looks great James … nice job sir

  • Giga

    Very nice tuto

  • http://www.robertoalanis.com Roberto Alanis

    WOW. Mind sharing the source for the audio, it’s also awesome. O:

    • http://www.sidekikstudio.com james schofield

      thanks guys!
      the band are called AFI, the track is prelude and the album is called december underground.. and its a fantastic track!, i had to do a fair bit of editing to get it working for the animation. its on itunes.

      • http://www.vimeo.com/user2183189/videos Rami

        BTW James, very nice reel.

    • Kurtis Thomas

      Sounds like the intro to the long version of Miss Murder by AFI… i might be wrong on that but either way its a great tune!

  • chriz

    wish that i had premiun account….

  • http://www.avdata.ru Jurijs

    Awesome tutorial. Thank’s a lot.

  • tvandang

    Very well explained. Cool techniques! Learn something new today! I love these kinds of tutorials. I wish there were more like these. I hope you will do more in the future. Thanks!

    tvandang

  • http://www.webtwist.de Webtwist – Webdesign/Bamberg

    looks awsome! it´s time to think about a premium account.

  • aido

    Where did that recent flourish quick tip go?? Kinda disappeared of the site!

  • sid

    pretty cool, but like the tutorial Web of Deceit’ by Dean Velez….

  • http://www.uniexproductions.com Carlos

    Looks awesome, need to try this one!

  • Robert

    What song is that? ive been looking all over for it, Sounds like prelude but it doesn’t have any vocals in this one.

    • http://www.sidekikstudio.com james schofield

      hi robert, yep, its prelude, i edited the track to cut out the vocals.

  • http://www.mandyleigh.com Storm

    I’m a premium member and yet this is another tut I can’t access… yet I can download the project files… just not the actual tutorial. Can someone please fix this?? Yes I`m logged in. It just seems to be a bunch of tuts (maybe 6 or 7) which I can’t access…. the rest are fine.

  • Dean

    Same as above, premium member here can’t access this tutorial, access others easily, not this one!!!!!!

  • alet0

    hay i’m premium member and cant view tutorial redirects to sneak peak????

  • Carl Bertossi

    How to get all of effect I get message from my AF cs4 that 64 effect are missing, any one can help me ?

    Thanks

  • http://www.jonathanpatterson.com Jonathan Patterson

    Sweetness! Sounds great too.

  • ash

    like what you did with form here but i think the effect could be just as achievable using a web created in photoshop couldn’t it? maybe even would cut the render time down too… though i guess this is more of a demonstration as to how diverse the plugin really is!

    • http://www.sidekikstudio.com james schofield

      hi ash, thanks for your input, yeah, your absolutely right!
      for me, this was the best way, as i am then able to get in really close, macro close, plus get a really nice shallow depth of field from it. also, if i wanted to play around with transitions, i am able to split up the particle strands, put movement into it, the list is endless with what you can do with setting it up this way.
      if i was not planning on getting the camera close to the web, for sure, i would have set up the lines in illustrator or photoshop.

  • Lena

    Hey James

    I just recently became a premium member on tutsplus, and was following your tutorial…
    I hit a snag around 7:50 into the tutorial. Whenever I changed the z position on the camera, all of my web strands positions messed up and they were no longer in the right place. This seems to happen if I move anything to do with the zoom or position of the camera. Any ideas why this might be happening?

    Cheers,
    Lena

    • Aaron

      Same issue. Was there a step or setting that I missed?

  • luke

    Hey James,

    Just wondering what did you use to edit the vocals out of the audio track? did you just have a mp3 of the song to begin with?