How To Make The “Hypno Pre-Compulator”

How To Make The “Hypno Pre-Compulator”

on Mar 5th 2012 with 23 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: After Effects and ShapeShifter AE
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Run Time: 23:06 min

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Download Source Files

Do you remember that “Hypno Pre-Compulator” alien gag from the Mettle tutorials? Personally – it blew my mind when I first saw it, and I still think it’s pretty amazing you can accomplish that all inside AE! Well, I’m very happy to tell you all that the good folks at Mettle where kind enough to share their techniques with us and in this tutorial I will rebuild the “Hypno Pre-Compulator” step by step.

Tutorial

Download Tutorial .mp4

File size: 461.2 MB

 
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Ran Ben Avraham is post production artist working mainly in the fields of motion design and visual effects. He is a freelancer from Israel, and also runs http://ran-mograph.blogspot.co.il/, an AE templates website, designated for the visual effects industry.  

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  • Strut

    Wow… just wow!

    Excellent job breaking it down Ran

    Strut

    • Ran Ben Avraham
      Author

      Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.

  • zeev

    Great , thanks
    תודה :]

    • Ran Ben Avraham
      Author

      התענוג כולו שלי, חבר.

  • http://www.mettle.com/Products/ShapeShifter-AE.php Chris

    @Ran

    Superb!

    Excellent job on the tutorial and the trailer Ran – love your sense of humour :-)

    Cheers,
    Chris
    mettle.com

    • Ran Ben Avraham
      Author

      Thanks Chris,
      it’s always a pleasure working with your products.

  • John

    That’s great!

  • Steph

    what font did you use…

  • Question

    Shouldn’t that be “hiding in *plain sight*”? Unless you meant it was hiding at the location (site) of a flying vehicle (plane).

    • http://www.mettle.com Chris

      @ Question

      I think Ran intended that as a pun – as in residing on a plane in AE 3d space (site) – I thought it was quite clever.

      Chris

      • Ran Ben Avraham
        Author

        It seems you’re the only one who got it…

  • Jay

    Very nicely done. Thank you for the tutorial. I have been looking for some cheesy sci-fi music. Where did you find that piece for the opening?

    • Ran Ben Avraham
      Author

      Jay,

      I’m glad you liked it.
      I used several bits and pieces and combined them together.
      some of it is stuff you can find on line but most of it is stuff i purchased over the years.

  • http://www.mettle.com Nancy

    @ Ran

    I love it! Thanks for the autopsy. Great approach to explaining things.

    :) Nancy

    • Ran Ben Avraham
      Author

      Well thank you Nancy :)

  • sam

    what is the font of the text you used ? please i need to know

  • Alexa

    Ran you rock! Great tut – awesome plug-in. Did you design + Hypno?

    Peace
    Alexa

    • Ran Ben Avraham
      Author

      Alexa,

      Thank you, and i think it’s an awesome plug-in to.
      but it’s not my own design. the Hypno Pre-Compulator was designed by Mettle.com .

  • Alessandro

    Ran, Excellent tutorial, thank you.

  • http://www.creativedojo.net VinhSon Nguyen

    Very nice and in-depth look at creating some awesome 3D objects using ShapeShifter! Awesome work!

  • Miranda

    I love that trailer!

    How did you do that trailer? That’s exactly what I’ve been wanting to do for a project of mine but haven’t worked it out. I have the typeface and music mind.