Mac OSX Wallpaper Creation – With Invigorator Pro, Day 1
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
In this tutorial Saqib recreates the Mac OSX Wallpaper. He will start off Day 1 setting up the background to create the simulated aurora feel. Then be ready for Day 2 as we jump into Invigorator to create our 3d logos.
Requirements
- Zaxwerks Invigorator Pro You can download it here.
- Trapcode Particular You can download a trial version here.
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By Saqib Naqvi
Saqib Naqvi is freelance News Producer in Associated Press TV News in Islamabad Bureau Pakistan. He enjoys experimenting with motion graphics because it is his one of the best tools in post production, documentaries, and features. He is addicted to playing around with After Effects.
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nice !
badly animated and the colours are way off…
but a nice try anyway
“poorly animated”
and the principles are still there. its called creativity and thats where you should come in, minus the comment.
word!
It’s ;)
fail!
Nice, can’t wait the second part
Wooooho!!
I love the tutorials from AE.tutsplus.
Great Job ;)
That is SICK… I was actually installing Leopard on my machine last night and thinking how nice the intro is and then a tutorial of how to make it today… Great one… Also looking forward to day two
Thanks
Thanks, and greetings from Italy!
very nice.
Thanks , for this Great tuts
Saqib bhai Great job
Very Nice
Thanks, Cool Effect
nice overall effect. would suggest using some other reflection map rather than that ‘default’ invigorator one. it’s a bit obvious.
You forgot to add Trapcode’s shine to the requirements, as it is a third party plugin too.
Nice one.
When is part 2 coming?
why cann’t down it for .flv
Great one waiting for other part
Nice to see some Zaxwerks Tut. It is rare. Nice!
Thanks for the tutorial
I am confused as to why adding the star mask returned the layer to 3d. Will that trick work with any mask?
I don’t think I have ever seen that before.
This is confusing: But when you collapse transformation of a layer, it’s most of 3d compatibilities seems to be vanish. Because now it is taking it dependancies from the original layer or comp. So Mask in this case do little help as in this case and when you experiment with that you will notice that it is not a complete 3d instead it gives illusion of 3d.
Now I’m working on a project where a pre-comp is used in final comp and when I move camera around it, it’s edges cuts off and if I collapse transformation it doesn’t react with the camera. still trying to find the solution and may be come with comprehensive details and explanation very soon.
And by the way the star mask is not necessary, you can use any mask to make your aura reacting with the camera.
This star is used to give aura close resemblance with the aura in theme wallpaper of Mac OS X Leopard.
How do you make your star tool make that shape? When I use my star tool it makes a star, and not what your shape looks like
I have described in tutorial the detail method of doing so.
Anyway, you just select star tool, click it on the screen (Comp) drag it and don’t leave the click button and press left, right and up,down arrows key in the keyboard. Just experiment that, and come with the results.
I believe that after some experiments you will be able to do so.