Invent Your Own Custom Logo Transformation Template

Invent Your Own Custom Logo Transformation Template

on Jan 10th 2011 with 40 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: Just After Effects... enjoy!
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Run Time: 51:14 min

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 3 of 33 in the Logo Reveals Session
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In this tutorial I will show how to create a logo transformation template that can be re-purposed and features the ability to drop in any logo and have the effect and shadows update automatically… similar to something you might see on Videohive. Then, to finish off we will build a simple 3d environment plus some additional scene elements.

Tutorial

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File size: 243MB

Ben Watts is benandaim on Videohive
 
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I’m a motion designer from Swan Hill, Australia. I mainly work in broadcast design but love creating motion templates, Visual FX and 3d in my spare time. Besides family, this is my number one passion in life.  

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  • http://www.vimeo.com/ahmadabdulhamid Ahmad Abdulhamid

    NICE AND SIMPLE :)

  • Brendan Woolbert

    Great tutorial. Awesome outcome!

  • Adam

    This is a really great tutorial! Thanks!

  • Gindi

    Awesome

  • http://www.gsatgames.com kamal98

    WOW this looks great…

  • http://www.ju-r.nl Rutger

    I like it! Nice work, first great tutorial i’ve seen in a while now.

  • http://www.adamfarnsworth.com Adam

    Is anyone else having problems downloading the AETuts+ tutorials? It’ll download part of the video than stall out for me, am I the only one?

  • Metoyer

    Great tutorial! I opened up After Effects for the first time and was able to follow through to the end with little difficulty.

    • http://www.vimeo.com/everettoptions Adam Everett Miller

      Good job!

  • http://videohive.net/user/benandaim/portfolio Benny W
    Author

    Thanks for the kind words guys! Appreciate it ;)

    B.

  • alsmo

    great tut’ where the file for premium members???

  • http://www.youtube.com/badashahfx saad

    thanks. was Waiting for this one.

  • http://www.aedaddy.com MiselD

    Very nice, simple and useful Ben.

  • http://videohive.net/user/adintermedia?ref=adintermedia adintermedia

    Pretty good tut. Thanks!

  • http://www.chris-slowik.com Chris Slowik

    Hey, to deal with the black edges when you do the transform effect, apply Motion Tile with like 200% for the output width and height, and turn on mirror edges. Make sure to put Motion Tile above Transform in your effect stack.

    You can download my sample project showing this here:
    http://www.chris-slowik.com/fix-edges.zip

    • http://videohive.net/user/benandaim/portfolio Benny W
      Author

      Cheers for that Chris,

      I did have a quick look at motion tile but I didn’t have it located correctly in the stack so nothing was happening. Simple but handy workaround.

      B.

      • http://www.chris-slowik.com Chris Slowik

        anytime! glad to see a tutorial of this quality on here =] keep it up

  • Srijit

    Awesome work and a great tutorial..was very helpful!! :)

  • Jay

    instead of using the “shake” adjustment layer over the whole comp, add the wiggle expression to the camera position (and potentially the x,y,z rotation) and pickwhip the first number of the wiggle expression to the slider control.

    • http://videohive.net/user/benandaim/portfolio Ben
      Author

      I just use that method sometimes in case I also have 2d layers in the comp, just ensures the shake will apply to all of my layers,

      Ben.

  • Damien

    Hi, i have a problem at 14.19 of your tutorial. I don’t know how to merge all the layers to get the logo transformation1 comp.. Can anyone help me out please?

    • http://videohive.net/user/benandaim/portfolio Ben
      Author

      Hey Damien,

      This is what you do. Pre-compose all your sections, call it “Main Comp” then make it 3d and turn on collapse transformations. Then Pre-compose that comp cal it “Logo Transformation 1″ make it 3d and turn on collapse transformations. Hope this helps.

      B.

  • http://www.aakashweb.com/ Aakash

    Awesome effect and tutorial

  • Damien

    Thank you for the tip, it helped a lot !

    Many thanks for this great tutorial :)

  • RIWI

    hey, can u upload sound effects please.
    P.S. Great Tutorial.

    • http://benwattsdesign.com Ben

      Contact me @ ben@benwattsdesign.com and I can give you a link to the SFX.

      Cheers.

  • Adam

    Hey there, great tut, just one question – Is there a way to change the logo (from logo 1 to logo 2) in the same comp without having to do the masking & rotating etc again?

    • Kelly

      My question exactly!

      Ben – really cool tutorial and your teaching style is just right. Looking forward to more tutorials if you can manage it!
      But yeah, is there a way to just swap out that first logo file, and save it all as logo2…?
      Would be an awesome help.

      Thanks!
      :)

      • kelly

        Aaah! – Never-mind!
        It’s explained pretty clearly at 48:15.
        Just some careful duplicating and renaming of comps. Duh… sorry.

        Great tutorial!

  • geoff

    Where did he get that place your logo here thing?

  • http://benwattsdesign.com Ben Watts

    Hey Guys,

    I’m glad you got it sorted out. Geoff the ‘place your logo here’ graphic is just a basic image I created in Photoshop. I’d love to do more tuts for you guys but just can’t find the time at the moment, things are super busy around here.

    Cheers,

    Ben.

  • Ravee sigdel

    gr8…..

  • Kevin Vo

    For the black edges, you can apply the effect called CC Repetile and expand the Left and Right values In one Effect and set the repeat mode to Horizontal. And then Apply CC Repetile again and expand the Up and Down Fields and apply Repeat Vertical and it will in most cases repeat your pixels :)

  • http://hailstonemedia.co.uk Elisa

    Wow, what a fantastic tutorial! So easy to follow. And what a fantastic effect!

    Thank you for taking the time to make this for us!

  • Leader king

    Nice Bro!! :)

  • Victor Chavez

    How can I do this with a logo that has a polygon crest shape?

  • Kyle Jackson

    Fantastic tutorial – thanks so much for the inspiration! I was able to get 2 transforming logos with a customized “wall” and “floor” in place pretty easily.

    • http://www.facebook.com/ben.watts.969 Ben Watts

      That’s great! All the best :D

  • timur kadic

    good job,helped me a lot

  • timur kadic

    good job,thanks a lot