Heads Up on Some Cool Graphic Type Techniques

Jun 22nd in Motion Graphics by Markus Gustafsson

In this tutorial, regular Aetuts+ author Markus Gustafsson shows us how to use adjustment layers and expressions to create some edgy graphic design.

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Author: Markus Gustafsson

Visit my portfolio at NinjaEffects.com.

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Links to elements used in this tutorial:
Bald head
Lorem ipsum generator


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    Rama June 22nd

    pretty cool effect, i’ll try it right now!
    thx markus, thx aetuts, keep sharing, we love it! ;)

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    Joseph June 22nd

    I saw this in your short animation where’s your head at. Cool Short as well as tut. Thanks Markus

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    vasu June 22nd

    great work dude downloading it right now

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    Binggeba June 22nd

    Nice looking effect. I’ll sure try it sometime…

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    Diego SA June 22nd

    Cool! I’ve already seen this effect in various videos, but using the idea of the tag with a true head is awesome! But this hear is kinda famous! I’ve seen this head before…
    Anyway, awesome tutorial. Love Basement Jaxxx’s song “Where’s your heat at”!

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      Diego SA June 22nd

      Where’s your head at! Sorry, typed wrong!

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        Martin June 22nd

        thanks for the hint! i was thinking about the song name, but didn’t recognized it fully. now i think, i heard that song in a fatboy slim remix!

        and to markus: superb tutorial!! thanks!

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    carig.z June 22nd

    Can learn a lot here.

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    John Doe June 22nd

    That’s really cool. I like your style a lot. Keep em coming!

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    Raptor June 22nd

    I had some trouble downloading the Head.ai. I found a quick fix by just going to the link in Internet Explorer and erasing the “%20″ that appears at the end.

    Other than that, great tutorial!

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    Alan June 22nd

    Great Tutorial, Thanks a lot!

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    Shadowzproductions June 22nd

    What format is: .ai
    :P

    Nice looking.. Thanks again.

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      Frank Voors June 22nd

      .ai stands for Adobe Illustrator. ;)

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      Alex June 22nd

      Vector. Illustrator

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    William G June 22nd

    Nice tutorial.

    Markus, i would also like to add that you have a really nice site.

    Keep up the great work!

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    James Wicks June 22nd

    Nice.
    The download link for the Head.ai file is broken.
    Needs to be fixed.

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      Lloyd June 22nd

      Thanks for catching that. Link has been fixed.

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    khaled June 22nd

    another great tutorial thanks’

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    Martin June 22nd

    This is great and exactly what I think we should have more of.

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    ALJ June 22nd

    Nice one i like it

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    aniat June 22nd

    thx masta!

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    Flo June 22nd

    At first I thought lame but I watched it till the end cause I wanted to know why this tutorial is so long. Now I can say the animation is still not my favor but this tutorial has some potential. Very good example and explanation of how to use the wiggle expression. Overall a good tutorial even though I don’t like the outcome.

    One think I please every author to consider:
    Watch your audio level!
    Sometimes it was simply to quiet (middle part). I couldn’t hear everything clear with my MacBook build-in speakers at full blast. I had to put on my headphones.

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    Antônio June 22nd

    Perfect! Thanks for sharing.
    Greetings from Brazil.

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    Makproductions June 23rd

    Cool but nothing really ground breaking. All we can really do is recreate what you have already done. We need more techniques to apply.

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    Chaske June 23rd

    Thanks for the tutorial, I appreciated when you put in the array since learning how to more fully control animations with expressions is something I am studying/trying to improve on. I created a similar wiggle-expression driven animation that is somewhat related, http://vimeo.com/5242026 – thanks again for the work and for the tutorial!

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    Håvard Fandrem June 23rd

    And, whats so special with this?

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    Jim Hines June 23rd

    I enjoyed watching this tutorial and I learned a few things as well. You have a nice presentation style. Keep up the good work.

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    Dave June 23rd

    This looks like one of Andrew Kramer’s recent tutorials using a plug-in called twitch or something like that, that he used for a dvd title menu. Still cool…

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    Cavaleri June 24th

    Un poco inútil este tutorial, pero en fin…

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    samer June 25th

    Great stuff as always by marcus. your work is inspiring & you are a great tutor.
    god bless

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    Raoul June 28th

    Excuse me but, how do you read the flv ? ^^

    Tks for all,
    R.

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    Kasper Lau June 29th

    Nice tut, and simple

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    ken June 30th

    Nice, but can not download.

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      Lloyd July 1st

      Download is working for me here, what can’t you download?

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    João Pezão July 1st

    very nice… amazing…
    a hello for Brazil

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    Yturru July 2nd

    Thanks Markus for your tuto, but i don’t remember the music, could you tell me the tittle, i’ve already heard this one, Thanks a lot Yturru

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    nadji August 1st

    very nice tuto thanks man

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    trey August 10th

    What music is playing there? sorry for my english

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    bresson September 24th

    my thoughts exactly – what’s so great about this tutorial?

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      rks November 6th

      m agree with u …

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