Give Your Type Some Ball Action
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- Program: After Effects
- Difficulty: Beginner
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
We get a lot of requests for tutorials that don’t require 3rd party plugins, and since we like to make our readers happy whenever possible, Adam is back breaking down the rarely used “CC Ball Action” built-in plugin to make some very cool type transitions.
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thats coool………..very handy
Amazing tutorial.
What is the music?
Thank……………….
Ok, now i really need the name of that song! :)
It’s called “Share it with me” by Family Force 5 on their Dance or Die album… great band. He added some other sound fx to it too.
Wow, this looks really awesome. When I first went in here I actually thought it was gonna be a step-by-step-tutorial. I watched about the half, and I realised that it wasnt going to be a step-by-step-tutorial. Well, I thought, I dont think im going to be able to achieve this by own. However, at the last part, you showed the Presets! I got excited, it’s so easy to do and I can probably come up with some new effects by my own. You can do whatever you want with it. It’s awesome!
Thank you very much!
Very good tutorial and effect thanks
Wow, another ‘tutorial’ that isn’t a ‘tutorial’ of the ‘preview’. Will this site get renamed to ‘AEcompositionkindofexplained+’ ?
Negative of me, I know, but none-the-less true. Cool effect to a degree, would have been better to show the effect and your process rather than run people through your composition.
My 2 cents.
i disagree because he explained what he did. what use is it for us to know EVERY single step? I mean if you work on a project it is bad to recreate stuff 100% the way it was shown. That’s just shows a lack of inspiration and individual thoughts and creativity. If you don’t have that you shouldn’t use After Effects or any other creative program.
Not at all, we’re not talking about creative projects here are we? We’re talking about learning to use a program.
Don’t give anyone on the site the whole spiel about “yeah, but i’m creative enough to do my own thing” if that were the case, you wouldn’t be here.
Ghost is correct, this ‘tutorial’ doesn’t actually provide an in-depth look at techniques within the program and by definition, that’s what a tutorial should do, making his original statement right: This is not a tutorial, it’s a run through.
nice one Very good
Cool! It’d be awesome if the ball transformation were faster. But it’s great! Thanks!
Adam,
You da man! I love this tutorial. You’re not spoonfeeding us. You’re just showing us what tools we got at hand and letting our imagination do the rest. I love it.
It’s only been two months I’ve been playing with AE (I was a total Adobe illiterate) and between this site, Kramer’s & Creative Cow’s, I’ve accomplished more than if I took three years worth of courses.
I thank you! Keep up the great work.
Thanks for this Great Tut!
that effect is awesome good work =]
the song is: Share it with me – Family Force 5
youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCRS-3jV7uQ
just throwing that out there for anyone who wants to know
wow nice song…..
Cute lyrics! :)
i love the song like this tutorial :mrgreen:
Funny non-tutorial. Thanks Adam! :)
WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW
Enough said..:)
Thats awesome!!
I came up with my own little preset, kinda cool.
Nice tutorial ! :D
I’d love to see any presets that you guys come up with.
Im not as good as you are, im just getting started with ae! But if you want, ill show you? how do I send it?
save the preset and mail it to me, everettoptions@gmail.com
coool!
thanks man God bless you.
Thanks, Adam! I appreciate your helping us think bigger than just a cookbook effect.
You are the next andrew Kramer !!!
Really cool man.
adam you’re tuts are phat!
as in cool and tempting…not thick….
i meant pretty hot and tempting =P
Adam, make more tuts!
You make me laugh in every one… Really like the ones you do.
Andrew Kramer does excellent tutorials….Adam’s ideas are excellent but his descriptions are erradic and haphazard…and this isn’t a “tutorial.” Great preset would like to see a “tutorial” on how to use it to its full potential.
Please keep these non-step-by-step tutorials coming. I like to learn the application, not just a cookie-cutter type of design. Props to everybody here at AETuts+. Amazing place to learn.
WORD
i love you
I agree with Chip. These tutorials are great and it makes us explore the power of AE.
I think this is a great presentation for someone who already has an idea about AE but would like some sort of open discussion on it. It’s not to see a ‘tut’ thats not so linear.
Great video! I inspires us to try and have fun with AE while creating cool new stuff. I never saw the potential in that plugin till now. It does n´t have to be just an image or text solid, it works also with video files. I applied it to a video I made and it works great.
And yes, I really like this kind of videos, maybe even more than just a step by step tutorial to achieve a specific effect.
once again proved u r genius good work Adam
Amazing !
Nice work Adam :D Love the effect!
Its nice, but failed due the reason that this isnt a tutorial. Whats wrong with this page recently? … gotta cancel my plus.
On the one hand your “toots” are little hard to watch because you go off on tangents quite a bit. On the other I appreciate the fact that you’re not a robot and neither am I. Sometimes you want something explained step by step and other times it’s nice to have your imagination sparked by some solid conceptualizing. On top of which you are very talented and come up with some really cool stuff that I would like to emulate. I’ve watched all of your tutorials on AE Tuts + and I can say you are steadily moving towards finding your voice. Keep ‘em coming bro! You’re all right. Thank you and all the others on this site including those who comment. This is how knowledge and creativity grows and morphs.
P.S. When adding a preset while AE is open I think you can use the drop down menu in the upper right hand corner of the Effects and Presets Pallet to refresh it. That way you don’t have to restart the app to see it.
I like getting an overview of the effects in AE. The “cookie cutter” effects are great too but they are a little too focused for me. So I like your approach in that aspect of the tutorial.
On the other hand, I shut it down after about 15 minutes. In that 15 minutes there was maybe 5 minutes of actual content. The rest was just rambling, undirected and unfocused. Honestly? I just don’t have time to listen to 18 minutes of nothing to get 7 minutes of tips. Tips I can use, certainly, but from what I have seen in the first 15 minutes, I am certain I can get the rest on my own.
Anyway, thanks for the shove in the right direction. And try working off an outline. It might help.
Love the animation.
However, I always find it hard to find sounds and music that works.
Would be nice if some of these tutorials could also show some ways of creating some cool sound design. After all, the sound helps to make them so much more engaging.
I know it’s not quite in the field of visual effects but adding a few tips every now and again would be cool.
Thanks for the tutorial. Great work as always :D
pure amazingness! thank you a lot for the time and the effort!
People are asking for the name of the tune? I never have that problem. I make my own music. Being a trained classical musician, recording artist, fine artist and graphic designer sure is handy …
I KNOW THAT SONG! Its by Family Force 5
adam always stunning me !!~~~~
I never thought I’d be having so much fun with ball action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAmbVbWhxFo
What font was that he used?
Thanks
hey very nice Tutorial……….NICE JOB
THE MUSIC, for those of you who are asking is:
Share It With Me by Family Force 5
But as for the actual tutorial:
DUDE! NICE!
Gotta be honest, I have never even touched this plugin before now.
And also awesome addition of Family Force 5 music! Gotta love them! Can’t wait to see them this summer at Creation!
I love your tutorials!!!!!
Great tutorial. I messed around with the settings as you suggested and came up with a transition effect that I like.
http://www.vimeo.com/4542394
Very nice project. I like it.
When i try to use the presets they are really slow, dont fit on the comp. and they are all gray. Does anybody know what i did wrong?
Great tutorial. I understand exactly what you were saying at the end. When I was first learning from books, everything in them was step by step. They had a bunch of values for you to plug in but never explained what was going on or what any of the values meant. It was frustrating to complete an entire project but still not understand what I had done. It wasn’t until I discovered video tutorials and from practice on my own that things began to make sense.
You rock!
OHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! crazy Effect !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WWoWWoWWooooooooooooooooooooooooo;0 thanks :)
Really thanx…..
I absolutely love tutorials that don’t involve long periods of shooting footage. In fact I love making typographic videos and I love tutorials on them. I find them more fun to make, mainly because you can let your imagination do its work and do what you want.
I would love to see more like this.
I don’t get it.. AT ALL.