This tutorial will teach you how to recreate a stylized Glitch Interface Animation that resembles a high tech control system, with an analog monitor startup. Anthony Errisuriz provides his step by step process for creating this amazing effect with design from Illustrator and animating in After Effects.
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( ADD YOURS )DeadLegs August 26th
Sweet!
( )jeo@yert.org August 26th
Nice
( )jason August 27th
COOL!
Peter Somers August 26th
Excellent !!!
( )spankie August 26th
nice:)
( )Paul Singh August 26th
Wow – luks great – cnt wait to watch the tut for this…
( )John August 26th
I like it. Kinda retro but it works. As for the tutorial 316 MBs!! Little bit much. I’ll take and 8bit version please.
( )Modisana August 26th
Wow.. the preview looks awesome.. cant wait to watch the tutorial
( )Joseph Chen August 26th
Really Cool stuff, now I can get some idea about my HUD design, thanks !
( )Billy August 26th
Already have something to do that….easily. It’s called Twitch.
( )Adam Everett August 26th
Billy, bro, I love ya, but you kill me sometimes… Please watch the tutorial before you comment. It’s not a tutorial on creating a glitch, it’s about creating the interface, that conveniently happens to be glitchy… It’s a simple process, but I think the end product is impressive.
( )ABOJUNG August 26th
right..Billy, we have been agreeing in many tuts regarding the views but i think in this i disagree. i think the point of this tut is to show the workfflow with illustrator and AE. and twitch, well it would be to achieve more dramatic effect. no hard feelings mate.
( )Eric Kristin August 26th
Muito bom! parabéns obrigado por compatilhar!
( )BHO August 26th
Love it….. reminds me of old school arcade games and tron of course…..
( )Anthony Errisuriz August 26th
Gotta love the old arcades. Glad you enjoy!
( )Adam Sklar August 26th
This looks amazing!
I was hoping I could create a main menu for my film, And this is hat I was looking for!
Thanks a lot man.
( )Anthony Errisuriz August 26th
Glad I could help out. This is an easy way to obtain this look for a scene composite later. I actually developed this tutorial from a project I used on a film once.
Cheers!
( )luantran August 26th
tuts nice. but file video tutorials more than big. hi hi hi
( )Billy August 26th
I did watch it Adam. But….you know me, Adam….if I want an illustrator shape tutorial….I’ll go find an illustrator shape creation tool. Probably on a tuts site dedicated to such things…..like vector.vectortuts.com. I’m sure you are familiar with it.
Overall this is a very basic tutorial. Basic keyframing, basic masking, some basic shortcut keys….that the first 30 minutes. Then the rest can be done with Twitch. Interestingly enough, he even uses a VCP project! I had to laugh!
Basic tutorials are not bad….but its pretty much been all we’ve seen almost all of them have been since early August….with the noteable exceptions being the Particlar 2 tutorial and the two tutorials on the Mac OSX wallpaper (I loved Saquib’s Invigorator tutorial by the way! I’d love to see more tuts with Zaxwerk’s plugins featured).
Not slamming the tutorial (if you haven’t noticed I have been pretty quite about the tutorials lately), just pointing out the obvious, I guess.
( )Ben Morgan August 26th
Im at the stage now where you annoy the ****ing **it out of me.
Why are you on this site? And if your so good, and arogant to constantly slate people, lets see you contribute, or show us some of your “amazing” work!
I’m expecting a sarcastic and lame reply, but at the end of the day – you contribute nothing to this site. ( except insanely arrogant comments, whatever you justify them as!)
Unfortunately this site is not here to cater specifically for you, which you seem to have forgotten. It’s actually here to cater for users of all levels of learning and experience, and if you don’t like something – keep it to yourself. I know exactly what your response to this will be, as I have read them many times before, but seriously mate your seriously boring me, and insulting people on here.
( )Ben Morgan August 26th
this was a pent up rant, I realise you have been quiet, and this is by far not your worst comments, but I just think your slightly to cocky and I had to voice my opinion.
Keep the tuts coming AEtuts.
Good stuff, always something to learn, even in the most basic tutorials. Always love to see work flow tips between software, no matter how long I’ve been doing it for.
Billy August 26th
Ben, I don’t know how to express the level of my remorse knowingyou don’t like what I have do say. I simply don’t know what I’ll do now….except to say that if you don’t like what I post….don’t read it. Pretty simple. I couldn’t even attempt to care any less whether I am boring you….or angering you…or anything else.
I didn’t “insult” anyone. You should look up the meaning of the word. I stated the obvious. Another beginners tutorial. We’ve had quite a few recently…and many, many more than we’ve ever seen. Go back and look at the early tutorial and the difference is quite obvious. I’ve complimented just as many tutorials since aetuts opened (as I did just above in my last post) as I have criticized…and I’ve never insulted anyone.
So, you have the right to comment on anything you desire to comment on….just as I have the right to say what I would like…and to ignore you. Sorry “mate.”
Les Rivers August 26th
I totally agree with you Ben.
Billy, take a pill and be nice. If you do not like peaches, do not shake the tree. All I mean is that you are not the only one who checks the website and your comments do not add absolutely anything to it. Add a tutorial and YOU make the difference.
Have a nice day.
Les
ps.
would LOVE (underline, highlight and sparkle that), to see your work.
alex August 27th
I think your attitutude is limiting you. All creative styles, applications and techniques are interchangable. I have found that a lot that I learned from music sequencing applies to after effects. A lot of hobby modeling that I have done applies to Cinema 4D. I do not claim to know you, but you should try to think a little more dynamically. It can ONLY do you good.
( )Osvaldo M August 30th
“Basic tutorials are not bad….but its pretty much been all we’ve seen almost all of them have been since early August”…
Then build your own http://www.ultramegaadvancedae.tutsplusandbeyond.com site, get people to write for you and demand them to write ultra-advanced tutorials for people who has IQ over 170 and 15+ years of experience in the industry and stop visiting this site.
I check often all of the tuts.plus sites and i have across basic photoshop, illustrator and cg tutorials. You know what i do? i realize they are all free tutorials, and move on to the next post to see if it is something i dont know or a skill i would like to improve.
Complain when you pay for “basic” tutorials, not for FREE tutorials.
Nice tutorial by the way.
( )Hooper August 26th
I’d like to see some advanced stuff as well, stuff like that urban Jungle 2 part tut.
But until then, I’ll watch or read whatever comes on here…..you can always pick up new tips and pointers.
p.s.
( )I just moved to new house….once I get settled in and that I’m gonna make some 3ds max tuts.
mes August 26th
Thanks homie…been a fan of your work since way back and I’m glad to get to learn your tricks. It’s a simple tut with lots of tips and tricks that I wouldn’t have thought of myself. The final output looks great. Want to see more tuts from you. holla.
( )Anthony Errisuriz August 27th
Thanks Mes….I had fun creating this first tutorial, and I will definitely create more in the near future.
( )moviemaker August 26th
Hey, I love this tutorial, but this website is called AEtuts.com. I understand sometimes you really need to create things in other programs, but I don’t have illustrator. Maybe you should let us download the project file?
( )Billy August 26th
moviemaker….to fully appreciate AE’s potential you REALLY need both photoshop and illustrator. I understand both are pricey but if you can swing it….you’ll never regret it.
Most of the more advanced tutorials around here (and obviously some of the more basic) employ a third party plug-in like the trapcode products, photoshop, illustrator, zaxwerks, etc. Try to add to your AE arsenal if you can!
( )Rafael Guerra August 26th
Hum….erm, although I don´t disagree with that I have to say that you can survive and make some very decent things without Illustrator. I have Photoshop and AE and I think they work great together…but I don´t think FLash and Illustrator are as crucial as Trapcodes for example. However, I do agree that they should make the vectors and .ai files for people.
This was a very nice tut, by the way, one of the most “advanced” in the recent months.
( )Billy August 26th
Didn’t say anything else was essential….said it would aid you. I would agree that if you can buy particular or illustrator that you should ALWAYS buy particular. Some things are more essential…but illustrator can aid greatly. You need Illustrator if you are going to make Zaxwerks plugins work as well as they can, for example.
Loay Emad August 26th
Woooooooohao
( )This is brilliant
Ashish August 26th
Damn… that’s awesome….great work!!!
Anyways guys plz. check my blog and leave ur comments & criticisms……..& help improve
http://aftereffectsunlimited.blogspot.com/
( )Dave August 27th
Nice work
( )Derrick van Niekerk August 27th
Man, now this is an incredible tut!
thanks for this!!
- Derrick
( )doh August 27th
a great tut I must say!
( )320mb is way too much though. Please consider to resize next time. Some of us live in such an unfortunate country that access to this with download limits.
John August 27th
I live in the US and this file size is unfortunate.
( )Anthony Errisuriz August 27th
Would you be interested in another version that is a bit more compressed?
( )Guilherme Rambo August 27th
Can’t you post the tutorial in another server rather than Vimeo? Vimeo is too slow, look at this -> http://gallery.precisodesite.com.br/storage/cf12e75633/704326f5845d2088d9ab930a34f5f08d.jpeg
I have a 1mb ADSL and It’s downloading at 5kb/s, wich would take 17 HOURS to complete =\
( )ABOJUNG August 27th
LOL!
( )Abe August 27th
Looks pro, good job! Very handy, thanks.
( )Anthony Errisuriz August 27th
Thanks for all of the positive comments everyone, and I am glad to help out and provide a solid tutorial. I apologize about the file size and will do my best in the future to make them a little shorter.
I could also probably upload a smaller file size that is not 720p or compressed a bit more. AEtuts likes providing everyone with hi res HD renders, but for those with download limits, I can hook you guys up if you’d like.
( )doh August 28th
that’s gotta be hella awesome! Thank you Anthony!
( )I don’t know what file format Andrew Kramer (VC) uses on his tuts but it’s really affordable and pleasant to watch all of his works. it’s like his 35mins tut size is around 100mb.
Thanks again!
Anthony August 27th
Anthony Love the tutorial its class, I’m new to illustrator thou so was wondering how you exported each layer seperately rather then as a pdf file???
Pleez someone Help!!
Kind regards
( )Anthony Errisuriz September 1st
Thanks man…. as I worked in Illustrator, I was sure to use LAYERS for each individual object I planned to animate. Illustrator can be a little funny about its layering system, and if you’re not careful it will look like layers, but it’s really objects all in one layer. Be sure they are separate Layers and save as an AI file. Then you should have no problem importing into After Effects.
( )Anthony September 7th
Thanks Man, Once again Great tut!
Jan August 28th
good stuff mate
( )ckRED August 28th
YES!
( )John Stanowski August 29th
Very nice! The shortcuts and the expression alone are gold.
( )Johannes August 31st
is there a project file ?
( )Adam Everett Miller August 31st
There will be when we launch our plus program
( )Robert Morris August 31st
As an AE tutorial, I concur that a lot of the interface he shows could have been created right in AE with solids and masks. Sure, Illustrator has more design tools for drawing shapes. But it would have been nice to take the tutorial a step further and show how to create everything in one program.
( )Martijn September 5th
Brilliant! Looks amazing!
( )CBrPNk·666 September 12th
Hi!
Very nice tutorial, but where better for me when you can put the illustrator archive to know how i must create the layers and work with the illustrator!
( )Matiss September 23rd
Really briliant tutorial ! Proffesional, teach a lot in few minutes , Great Job! This is what i needed to start with AE
( )Jeff October 3rd
how do you import each individual layer from the ai file?
( )Anthony Errisuriz October 23rd
Here’s how to import below.
( )Anthony Errisuriz October 23rd
As I worked in Illustrator, I was sure to use LAYERS for each individual object I planned to animate. Illustrator can be a little funny about its layering system, and if you’re not careful it will look like layers, but it’s really objects all in one layer. Be sure they are separate Layers and save as an AI file. Then you should have no problem importing into After Effects.
( )Ole December 21st
This was just stupid.. I did all the illustrator things and then you just expect me to know how to make it look as good as yours and even import it to after effects.. You need to teach beginners how to do the things in the tutorial.. 0/5
If you would have told me how you made the rest of the design and put it onto AE it would be 5/5
( )Airlim January 8th
This is going to be really nooby but looking at the Illustrator part how do you make it so the lines overlap? i’ve been playing around but i’m not used to Illustrator at all so just really a basic question
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