Aetuts+ Hollywood Movie Titles Series: Gamer

Aetuts+ Hollywood Movie Titles Series: Gamer

on Apr 26th 2010 with 27 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Requirements: After Effects and Photoshop.
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This entry is part 5 of 33 in the Logo Reveals Session
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This entry is part 5 of 33 in the series Hollywood Movie Titles

Hollywood Movie Titles

In this tutorial we are going to make a distortion effect, similar to the intro titles in ‘Gamer’. We start of by creating a stylized text in Photoshop, and making some cool distortions with Photoshop filters. After that we go into After Effects to animate the photoshop layers into a sequence, and stylize the sequence to make it look even cooler.

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I am 1/3 of a shortfilm production team called BITMOTION. The 3 of us fulfill all the roles in our filmcrew. Among other things, such as directing, filming and editting, I generally do all the After Effects work for our films. I learned using After Effects by practicing a lot in my own time, playing around with different effects and doing a lot of tutorials.  

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  • Mark

    Hey Pretty Cool

  • http://psdho.me PSDhome – Everyday free PHOTOSHOP files

    Very nice. Great tutorial. Thanks.

  • Terminator

    hi nice preview

  • Paul

    Needed a glitch effect!!!

  • Nathanael

    Nice tut, very useful but it would be better if was all done in AE…

    • Travis

      Why? Typical workflows for any serious vfx artist typically involves flipping between applications. It’s easier and faster to work with text in photoshop. Why would you want to do it in all in AE other than to say, I did this entirely in AE? No client wants to pay you extra time because you ‘wanted to do it entirely in AE’.

      • Nathanael

        No, what I meant was, it would of been useful for me because my system has extreme problems with any version of Photoshop, so since it doesnt work I cant do this tutorial :((

      • Tim Schiphorst
        Author

        Hey,
        Yeah I was planning on giving some directions in the tutorial on how to create a similar effect in just AE. Unfortunately that would have just take to much time and might be better for an entirely seperate tutorial.

        Some directions:
        You can create the text for example with a fractal noise, and a bevel effect. To add the blue gradient you can duplicate the layer and add a ramp+colorama. And for the distortions, like nono said, I would play around with a displacement map and a blocky fractal noise with a lot of random expressions.

        Hope this helps you in the right directions.
        Regards,
        Tim
        BITMOTION

      • http://www.ardillamedia.com Anders Hattne

        My reasoning for why to do it all in After Effects is because if you were to work on say video – with this technique you’d have to move square blocks around in one frame, find the next frame modify that.. and so on. Would be very time consuming.
        Spending time on setting up some procedural method would be more time efficient in the long run.

  • http://www.webguide4u.com WebGuide4U

    thanks for the sahre. Gamer like glitch title love it

  • nono

    For a full AE tut, i would have used a displacement map with a fractal noise layer as source.

  • hwang

    wow! very good!

  • http://youtube.com/sabiaproductions Matthew Sabia

    Where the heck do you get a sound like that!?!?!?!??!?!?!?! lol

    • http://www.bitmotionfilms.com Tim
      Author

      Hey Matthew,

      I got them on soundsnap.com.. They used to have the option to download 5 free sounds every month, but now you have to pay for it.

      I’m sure you’ll be able to find sounds like it for free though, and else try to record it yourself ;)

  • http://bit.ly/dhmkzE thewisejanitor

    Thanks for this tutoiral, it finshed off my advert very nicely! http://bit.ly/dhmkzE Keep up the good work!

  • Ron

    Very nice tutorial, but when I switch to AE and open up everything I made in Photoshop, it doesn’t show all the layers. Just my layer 1, which has the texture on it. Any help? I opened it in PS, and everything’s there.

    • http://www.bitmotionfilms.com Tim Schiphorst
      Author

      Maybe you didn’t check the ‘Include Layers’ checkbox when saving to a .psd?
      Hope this helps,
      Tim

  • Oliver

    Hey,
    really nice Tutorial. Wich Mac Book did you used to make this Tutorial?! Was it the 13″ ?!

  • http://thefree3dmodels.com Silviu

    Nice tut, really looking for this kind of effect

  • http://www.wix.com/mbspeed36/LightNight-Home?gu%5Fid=dba34147%2D7fa0%2D4f4b%2D9db9%2D605827822eab&wixComputerID=jQGwk6uOFYliYnZ2xyDP2rBND2BxhHxjOTifgHglIlFA7lrDqMKsGLrqm3bAot%2BcqmrhEl6IelXYzs9%2B LightNight

    There is a nice little plugin from Video Copilot, named Twitch http://www.videocopilot.net/products/twitch/ that allows you to complete this effect in a few clicks. But still, this tutorial is great to people who don’t want to buy it from vcp and want to achieve a cool, unique effect! Thanks!

  • wqwq

    Twitch by Video Co-pilot does not produce this effect at all, let alone “in a few clicks”. Believe me I have “Twitch” and I still find this tutorial very useful.

    All Twitch will do is allow for some jitter and chromatic aberattion, and you still have to work at it to produce the results you want.

  • digifruitella

    I dont have “track matte” showing up… how do I enable it ?

  • Caius

    what kind of sound effects would you recommend using?

  • Frostraver

    Very good tutorial! Thanks!

  • Andrea

    really a good tutorial man, you know that staff,
    good luck
    andrea

  • Lama

    I cant use the WIND filter tu mare some distortion in PS why?

  • http://qzyxya.deviantart.com Elliot

    Thank you so much! The tutorial really helped. But what about the audio?
    I would really like to have some audio for it. Is there a tutorial to make it or something?