How to Create Glowing Elegant Lines
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: Just After Effects... enjoy!
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Run Time: 11:13 min
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
In this tutorial you’ll be creating elegant glowing lines using shape layers within After Effects. We’ll create a few basic arc layers and then stylize them by using the find edges effect, glows, and blending modes. I enjoy this technique and you can easily adapt this concept to many different shapes to create some stunning looks.
Tutorial
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File size 62.4MB
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By Haley Saner
I’m a motion designer always looking for new and exciting jobs. I also try and contribute to the Go Mediazine and Arsenal as much I can and recently put out a new animated series. I’ve also written some articles for the nice folks at Computer Arts Magazine.
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The abstract music is incredibly distracting.
Hi! love youre tuts, but how on earth did you change the start point in the shape layer? cant find it in my AE….
Ugh, I can’t even get this to look right. The lines I drew way back when with the pen tool don’t look like yours in the end.
When you finalized yours the lines kind of faded down the coming of the arc… while mine continue out through the whole thing. So when I go to flip it at the end, it just looks weird. A bit hard to explain too.
Could you just upload the .aep file?
Loved this tutorial but might be better without the BG music
Thanks for the Tut !
My first project in AECS4, xD
Music is excellent. Zappa I believe. Could only be Zappa I’m sure. Pleasant change of pace from the all the other tutorial presenters and their often times lame attempts at humor. I guess the detractors would prefer the Jonas Brothers but you stick to your guns. Good Tut.
im all for the jazz my man
That was hilarious. I was so focussed on the music I have no idea what the tutorial was about.
That’s the most funky tutorial I’ve seen for a long time. Pretty nice stuff to learn. Props for the tunes…
Keep up the good work…
wow SUGOiii Na
i like it its totally awesome
SAlamat sa tutorials
nice tutorial and great effects
thanks
The music was funny. Any chance of offering a low quality and high quality videos in the future?
video zappa fan heheehehehe
Thanks, that tutorial was very useful! It made me think more about the techniques I use.. I wasn’t too sure about the music though! I prefer to play my own music in the bkground when I watch through tutorials..
Thanks again for the tut though!
Great tuts.
Btw, to those who want to do a little more with after effects, I recommend this website, if you don’t know it already:
http://www.videocopilot.net
great free after effects tuts
Like the tutorial but please kill the music next time. Not sure what it adds?
Haha i feel like in SF movies when i watching this. Cool tutorial.
wheres the video???
Great tutorial, but I’d like to toss in one more vote for leaving out the music in the future. It’s… shapes…
Fantastic work
Good tutorial. Whats up with the creepy background music though?
so good~
the result is nice, but you have to explain a lot more. there are times where you just tweak the sliders and say nothing. honestly i’d like some background info why you’re using this or that effect and what you’re actually doing.
in other words: explain more, please
Is it just me or does the video guit at about 1.15 in?
Would like to see it all
Thank you for this tutorial.
mfg emkaythree
no matter what would be the quality of video,i appreciate the work as it
has a great learning items
your music is annoying.
What if i dont have Gradient Fill?? Help me!
WHERE CAN WE FIND THE ” find edges” effect PLEASE!!!!! HELP ME ..
I really don’t understand what you do at 5:00 with the CC Toner…can you explain better plz ?
Wow Great tut only the music where can i get it? Its so nice for my commercial
Great tutorial! I used it and got an awesome result. Thank you for posting!
how do you download it
it shows video not found.
Good tut… BG Music was very annoying though..
The tutorial was nice but the background music was not touching at all. Infact it was distracting, but I found the tutorial interesting and useful still. Thanks
hello! tell me what kind of music in this lesson, or what band performs the music
Music was just fine
This isn’t so much a Tutorial as much as it is a ‘Watch ME make this cool effect and i’ll tell you every now and then what to do.’
Don’t get me wrong, thanks for the tutorial, but it could definitely use some improvements! The Music ‘DON’T’ it’s really really distracting.
This isn’t so much a Tutorial as much as it is a ‘Watch ME make this cool effect and i’ll tell you every now and then what to do.’
Don’t get me wrong, thanks for the tutorial, but it could definitely use some improvements! The Music ‘DON’T’ it’s really really distracting.
Hi there. Tried your tut but only managed to get half way before you lost me. The entire tut is way too fast. I think you need to slow down when you are trying to teach others. It’s no use to be going at such a fast pace. You have to understand that a good tut consists of having the student follow you. Maybe you need to split it into two segments as others have done.
regrads,
Fabian
Ps: The music is very distracting….
why do you duplicate your comps?
Not a very good tut from my point of view. Besides the distracting background music the author jumps through steps that he doesnt explain, ends up being a bit of a guessing game as to what to do. I followed the tut step by step and my final looked crap.
Would be a good tut to do with a descent presenter.
I dont have the CC options in the effects list… im stuck at 05.34 in the video “CC vector Blur”… i have AE cs 3 on my xp.. what do i do?
search for the Cycore Effects online, I’m pretty sure you can download them for free.
when i move the mask, forms me a black line. why???
Nive tut but what kind of music is this?
I swear at 3:22 or so the song is sampling “Predator” lines…
Anyway, it is a good tutorial, and I thought that the music while it was distracting at times it was good to have something to keep me involved during the what in other standard tuts would be dead air.
This really is the information I want to. Appreciate your writing this posting.
pretty helpful, thanks a lot :D