Quick Effect: Create a Mac OS X Leopard-style Aura Effect
In this tutorial you learn how to create an aura effect which can used as a background for a dramatic title, similar in style to the default desktop background shipped with Mac OS X Leopard. This is a simple effect with an attractive end result that will be of use to all users of After Effects.
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Requirements: Trapcode Shine (download the trial version here).
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Cool effect, could be used in a lot of ways. Thanks!
Spooky
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very cool effect. thanks for the tutorial
lovely effect
good work
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nice show Mohsin….. Thanks for sharing!!
beautiful and simple to do
cool effect,
but teenagers learning After effects can’t afford $300 Particular!! or any of the infamous trapcode plug-ins.
Please, please, try to create tuts that don’t use plug-ins. Anyone not using AE professionally wont likely have pricey Trapcode stuff.
hey thanks guys! this was my first screen cast ever (as you may be able to tell) i was so nervousness while i was recording (even though this was my 5th try!) ill try to come up with some more useful quick effects for the future!
Oh now thats cool. I might try it…
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@gk – You say “teenagers” using After Effects can’t afford a $300 plugin for a $1000 application? You do realize that right? If you can afford the application then you can surely afford the plugins like Trapcode’s plugins.
chris, thought the same
nice tutorial btw!:)
Awsome!
keep up the good work
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Good effect….but yet another very, very basic (basically beginners) tutorial. One after another around here. Where oh where are the advanced tuts?
Hey Billy why don’t you create one then? I visualize you with a thumb in your mouth whining about this. You came here for a reason right? Okay then!
Good effect and Tutorial!
I training a lot !!!
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I must agree, some advanced tutorials are in call for. these have been some fairly easy tuts. Maybe AETuts is working on a PLUS section for the advanced tuts.
Nice
@Billy
Maybe no one submitted advanced tutorial so far? Waiting as well but simple tutorials can show some new ways.
hey
nice tutorial. maybe you shouldn´t have tried to explain the title/action safe area
also i think that changing first and last evolution keyframe on the second aura would have been a more elegant way of makig the two look different. (no speed change and also no extra layer.)
i am looking forward to more complex tutorials from you, especially if you think that there are no complex ones on here yet (which might be true, still i am curious what you will come up with that is more complex).
good stuff anyway. i saw that you also have no perfect way of centering stuff (you were just going for the center by the title safe area, which i do too). i wonder why you can´t type in the position of an object (like in illustrator or so). or can you?
cheers
thanks for the tutorial.
there is one point i do not agree. if the first frame and the last frame will be the same it means when it loops the animation freezes 1 frame in every loop.so you should slide end keyframe 1 frame to the right for seamless loop.for slow animations maybe it doesn’t mater but fast ones it does.
Loved it! As a novice to After Effects, this was a easy to follow tutorial. I love Trapcode Shine!
amazing effect, just that in Nigeria here it is hard for tutorials to load.
am appealing to Aetuts to make there tutorials written as well as vedio
Thank you very much, very impressive stuff !
Good Stuff! Most of the tutorials I find are very bland.
Would you guys like to see this in AETUTS?
Please vote for my idea guys.
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top stuff, really special
Wow, I’ve never even worked with after effects, I’m primarily a graphic designer but so interested in moving into the motion graphics realm. Just watching this tutorial helps me see how the interface works in after effects and some of the basic functions of creating motion graphics.
Lots to learn yet!! Great tutorial.
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Great ! Thanks from Brasil!
solo queria decirte que esta bueno el tutto, pero en ingles…quisiera uno en español….seria genial…
Nice effect thanks
GOOD effects. thanks
awesome effect….
when I finished there are 2 lines in the back ground forming an X how do I get rid of them?