Make Form Cinematic
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: After Effects and Trapcode Form
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Run Time: 32:57 min
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Twice a month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from back in the archives of Aetuts+. Today we’ll look at an amazing post from Simon Bronson. This tutorial was first published in May 2009 and dives into some simple principles that are sure to enhance your graphics-based projects! Let’s take a look…
The secret to making motion graphics look sexy and less digital is to borrow some tips from the cinematic production world. Simon breaks down a bunch of tips including how to build your own light leaks and film scratches! The tricks learned in this tutorial can be applied to any motion graphics piece.
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Cool!
Amazing – definitely going to try this after work…………
gracias vieja! great!!!
Great one thanks
Simon,
Thank you for sharing. A lot to digest. Beautiful work.
COOlllllllllllllll~~~~THKS~~My Friend~
Well presented! Great work.
Very impressive work, maybe you can add something more in the clip but anyway it looks pretty awesome!
Good job man, keep it up!
These are the kinds of tutorials people want to see. Excellent work! Haven’t gotten to the tutorial yet but I can’t wait! Love Form tuts!
gooooooood.
thank
Man this looks nice. Thank You. Downloading it now.
It’s definitely sexy and less digital. Excellent!
awesome!
This is truly excellent, loved it! Great way to add that extra something to your work. Thank you!
Awesome looking stuff!
What’s the sound?
Or did you make it?
All of the audio samples courtesy of freesound.org/
Spaced out telephone: Twisted Lemon freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=508
soundscape: ERH freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=34421
soundscape: yewbic freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=33796
reverse drum: dropthedyle freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=686
that was crazy thing i really like it
Fantastic tutorial, thankyou.
Very well done! I love some of the work on your reel… very fun! Great tutorial, very clear you know your stuff… I’d love to hear a bit more energy or enjoyment with the audio… it seemed like you were bored a little bit. Other then that one thing… it was perfect!
Thanks for the feedback. Being my first tutorial I was quite daunted by the process and a bit self conscious too. Next time I’ll record the voice separately and add a bit more life to the screencast.
hehe adam u hot!
Great! I am always a big fan o Simon’s work on vimeo.
Her is mine version, did not use the scratches and dust, just form. http://vimeo.com/4595872
dude! your the bob ross of after effects! :D
3 WORDS:
WON DER FUL ;)
pleas documant
ı dont me
after effecte yeni başladım arkadaşlar başlangıçta ne yaptın ne ettin belli değil direk olaya girdiniz anlamadım sahneye ne koyulmuş onuda bilmiyorum
dökumanı verirseniz çok makbule geçeçek
am i the only one that doesnt see in the motion graph the starry night and the lady with ermine?
Hello, Simon.
Thanks for your time spent on this tutorial, but, I’m sorry, I’ve found this tut some sort of useless. There is a bunch of Form Tutorials explaining how to use Fractal Field, Layer Maps, etc. Even on Trapcode.com. So, having a little fantasy, there’s no problem to create such simple wiggling particle field.
If you could explain how to create such fluid looking particle flows, like Mate Steinforth did in his Colour Love, it would be really appreciated.
http://www.dixonbaxi.com/rebrand/colourlovefive.html
As for dust and scratches you don’t have to purchase Trapcode Form to create them. You can do it simply in AE using Fractal Noise.
Thanks. :)
U can maybe get something similar by adding vector blur on top.
man the video loads so slow (same for all the rest of tutorials) i suggest u use flash video or swf like videocopilot instead of mp4 its better quality and much less size and loads fast
Rather than bashing one of my “less favorite” tutorials for not doing a good job recreating the final effect, I’ll commend this tutorial for doing a fantastic job in that sense.
All you other folks making tutorials for this site take note. This is how tutorials should be done; I think actually producing something very close to the final effect at the end of a tutorial is absolutely essential, and not some half-assed video that barely shows the theory and technique behind the effect. (It’s not often that this happens, just often enough…)
That’s just my rant, that I felt I needed to get off my chest for a few weeks.
Now, one idea I loved in this tutorial was using paintings as a basis for colorizing the particles, that is awesome!
Nicely done.
A rant shared by me, my friend! I agree wholeheartedly with every word! A professionally designed tutorial that recreates the preview….and teaches a TON. Something that has been sorely lacking around here lately!
awesome work…
fantastic, thanks
Sweet, I love the color idea, I’ll have to find other ways to use that outside of form ;)
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Kevin
Its amazing…this site has A LOT of Form tutorials, but everytime we are surprised with smething that hasn´t been covered before. Good job.
Thanks, Simon! Very professionally executed tutorial. Loved seeing the tricks for creating film grunge elements using… FORM!!! WHAT? But hey.. it’s works so why not! Sometimes you have to consider using a certain plug-in not for what it is named or is “designed” to do, but more so on the results you can produce with it.
Thanxs a lot Simon! Pretty inspiring tutorial :D u ar awesome!
wow,thats gr8..
this i give u site,http://sikatwes.blogspot.com/
anything what do you want about 3d software and AE project,maybe will give u all inspiration..
cool tuts,thnx simon..
You can download streaks, film burns, and flairs @ http://vfxschool.blogspot.com
which should save you some time….
Just got done with the tutorial. I learned more than I have in weeks. Best tutorial since the last one put up by the Maestro Lloyd Alvarez. I think I learned more in this tutorial than I have in maybe any other. Thank you soooooo much! FANTASTIC STUFF!!!!!
Very,very nice tutorial.
支持~~~~~~~~~~~~~~！！！
cool!
that was wicked….thanks …look forward to trying it out…cheers mate….have a good day!
Why is my comment still awaiting moderation, while others are being already posted? :(
I this becoming a trend?
Waves of Color… http://oscardante.com
What’s the music on your version it sounds so familiar?
not my work, just found it and chuckled at the similarity to this tut.
Great work. Loved the tut. Especially the depth of field part. I noticed you did not use a null object to control the cameras. Is that the way you usually animate and do you recommend that?
Using nulls for the camera would probably make sense, I’m just used to the old fashion way, but whatever works for you.
There are also cool scripts out there for controlling the focus distance too which could come in handy as well.
nice work simon.
It’s always nice to get new ways to use Form. Thanks.
I have to agree with Adam on the voice part, but your new plan seems like it will counteract that, other than that a really good tutorial.
I loved the film scratch effect; I have always used a 3rd party plug-in and I never really thought about how to do it without it. Thanks and Good Job!
Great! Thanks For Tutorial.
/o türkçe yazan arkadaşım sne yanlış yerde öğreniyorsun :D önce içerde Beginner eğitimleri var onlara baksan ardından bunlarla ilgilensen kannımca daha iyi anlarsın. Adamlar pata küte dalmamış seni de beni de unutmamış yani/
Hey wicked TUT…but, being realitivly new at the after effects game….i would like to see more tutorials that don’t use trapcode…….i can’t afford to create trapcode effets.
But hey…..nice job regardless
şahap kardeş
benim ingilizcem o kadar yok ki türkçe kaynak bulmam lazım en azından sonra bakarız
A stupid question to ask…but how and where did the dust come from photoshop. I’ve completed the tut but with the standard sphere setting of form.