Heads Up on Some Cool Graphic Type Techniques

on Jun 22nd 2009 with 42 comments

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

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

Tutorial

Download Tutorial .flv

File size 255MB

Download Head.ai

File size 1MB

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

 
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  • http://rama.awarzim.com Rama

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

  • Joseph

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

  • vasu

    great work dude downloading it right now

  • Binggeba

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

  • http://www.dsaportfolio.com.br Diego SA

    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”!

    • http://www.dsaportfolio.com.br Diego SA

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

      • Martin

        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!

  • carig.z

    Can learn a lot here.

  • John Doe

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

  • Raptor

    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!

  • Alan

    Great Tutorial, Thanks a lot!

  • Shadowzproductions

    What format is: .ai
    :P

    Nice looking.. Thanks again.

    • http://www.frankvoors.com Frank Voors

      .ai stands for Adobe Illustrator. ;)

    • Alex

      Vector. Illustrator

  • William G

    Nice tutorial.

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

    Keep up the great work!

  • http://www.zfxstudios.com James Wicks

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

    • http://aescripts.com Lloyd

      Thanks for catching that. Link has been fixed.

  • khaled

    another great tutorial thanks’

  • Martin

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

  • http://URL(Optional) ALJ

    Nice one i like it

  • aniat

    thx masta!

  • Flo

    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.

  • Antônio

    Perfect! Thanks for sharing.
    Greetings from Brazil.

  • Makproductions

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

  • http://www.vimeo.com/chaske Chaske

    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!

  • Håvard Fandrem

    And, whats so special with this?

  • Jim Hines

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

  • http://aevion.co.nr Dave

    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…

  • Cavaleri

    Un poco inútil este tutorial, pero en fin…

  • samer

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

  • Raoul

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

    Tks for all,
    R.

  • http://www.l4u.dk/ Kasper Lau

    Nice tut, and simple

  • ken

    Nice, but can not download.

    • http://aescripts.com Lloyd

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

  • João Pezão

    very nice… amazing…
    a hello for Brazil

  • Yturru

    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

  • http://noncom nadji

    very nice tuto thanks man

  • trey

    What music is playing there? sorry for my english

  • bresson

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

    • rks

      m agree with u …

  • roberto

    For some reason when i download the head ai folder but whn i look at it it doesnt have the ai logo on it its just blank paper and when i transfer it to ae it just says heads.ai and nothing else it isnt working do i need illustrator to open it right please help

  • arimo

    Hi, I just watched all your tutorials and I find them amazing, filled with lots of nice technics. Bring some more,pls!