The Birth Of A Logo – Day 1

on Dec 16th 2009 with 38 comments
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This entry is part 9 of 33 in the Logo Reveals Session
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There was an explosion of characters and thus the Logo was born. In this tutorial we’ll be using some of the new options of Trapcode Particular 2 as well as some techniques with Trapcode Form to create an epic depiction of the first logo in history.

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Stefan Surmabojov is Stefoto on Videohive
 
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  • MINIMUS

    pretty cool tutorial.. nice interesting technic

  • http://www.peewee1002.co.uk peewee1002

    Preview looks nice.

    I am quite interested in that end sort of effect when the AE logo appears.

    Will watch later if my internet connection is up for it.

  • Billy

    The text effect appears to be a ramped up version of Maltaannon’s Particular 2 preview tutorial here: http://maltaannon.com/articles/after-effects/particular-2-overview/

    …and the logo reveal is really just the reverse of what Devin Northrup did in his tutorial here: http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/create-a-flare-and-light-streak-text-reveal/.

    The entire effect is very nice, thyough. Combining Form and Particular has a way of making everything just a little sweeter!

    • Stefan

      Billy just to make all clear, I didn’t copied anything from this tutorials. It might looks similar but it’s not on purpose. Actually I tried to recreate the Logo reveal from the beginning of District 9. The difference is that the letters there are 3D and look a bit different. If you want i can post a link with the video to see what I tried to recreate.

      • Billy

        Stefan,

        I wasn’t really suggesting you were plagarizing, only pointing out that both major effects you were doing have already been covered. I pointed out that yours was a “ramped” up effect from Maltaannon’s. Anyone who watches both can see you didn’t copy exactly. I would be interested in seeing the District 9 title sequence only to see if you were successful in your recreation. As I said, your entire effect is very nice. I haven’t yet….but will be….checking out your tutorial. I love anything particular or form!

    • Mark McAiden

      Heh Billy, nice one. :)
      I checked his site. I can’t understand it all but I saw a lot of rip offs from videocopilot. Even the music in the tutorials seemed like it /as this part was the one I understood/
      Specially for this one – way beginner level /a lot of tips and tricks are not familiar to the author/ and really bad accent :)

      Peace,
      Mark

      • http://www.tripodbg.com Stefoto

        He Mark :) tell me something which tutorial in my site is a rip off from Videocopilot? The magic strokes tutorial is way older than Andrew’s similar tutorial with light casting. The vanishing point is just a translation, because a lot of users wanted to learn this technique. The Scary 3D Sparks Title tutorial is a tutorial which shows how Andrew did something which grab my attention long time ago and i decided to create a tutorial about this. As you can see there is no such a tutorial in videocopilot. The music in the tutorials is from Pro Scores pack. I think that this pack as all the products in Videocopilot are made to be used for such things! That’s why i bought it, because i need it for several projects and i decided to use it for intro part in my tutorials, because i love this kind of music. And for this tutorial. Please tell me which tips and tricks I’m missing i would love to know. Maybe there is a reason for something that i did.
        For the accent yeah I know that it’s bad :D

        Thanks for the comment. Soon i will post the intro of district 9 and also I’m waiting for your answer Mark.

  • http://www.slowpoy.inc.se Slowpoy

    Great tutorial. I really like the beginning when the letters just gets thrown out in towards the camera.

  • http://www.youtube.com.br/ianhpiratao IANH – BR

    The begin is really great. Cool

  • Remington M

    That looks awesome! I’ll rarely ever actually watch the entire tutorials on here, but I will definitely being checking this one out later.

  • Antwan

    Bravo brato! Super e!

  • illd

    Good one! But in the beginning you could have used the random function for the letters instead of setting up 25 letters manually. Its way faster and your more flexible…

  • http://rafaelbraga.com Rafael Braga

    hahahaha

    you`re quite good man… =)

    thanks … again …

  • MassFocus

    Very interesting effect Stefan ! Congrats ;) i’ll check the tut lateron.

  • http://www.gimei.de Nikolaus

    Cool effect. Thx for share your know how.

  • madmonk

    I guess somebody should thank maltaanon…

    • http://www.tripodbg.com Stefoto

      madmonk i don’t know why you think so. Maybe only maltaanon can use particular with letters for custom particles? Don’t you think that there are lot’s of creative people over the world who can create amazing stuff themselves.
      The fact that there is a tutorial showing how to use letters for custom particles doesn’t nessecery mean that everybody who uses this technique is coping from the tutorial!

      • madmonk

        Well stefoto I guess at this point that is just the fact that the new options in particular 2 kinda “suggest” to people this kind of effects, that’s all. My fault.

        Good work and keep it up!

  • madmonk

    wow I’ve been through watching the first part and it’s really worth the watch, I loved how you set up curves to create the metal look effect! and also all the particular settings. Now I’m gonna watch part 2…well done since now! :)

    • http://www.tripodbg.com Stefoto

      Thanks! It means a lot for me! Thank you guys for all the great comments! :)
      I really appreciate it!

  • bluelabel

    Very nice one, well done… The part before the logo appears looks like a tutorial i have seen on http://www.ayatoweb.com . But i like it. Keep going on…

  • Stefan

    That’s the opening i tried to recreate. It’s not successful but it came out pretty well.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SqpjcM6Gak

  • http://no naveed

    best

  • DarkRoomFX

    The funniest thing probably is that probably the guy who did District 9′s begining title ripped it from Maltaanon,because just like Stefan I saw District 9 and found striking resemblance between logo sequence of the movie with Maltaanon’s tutorial on Particular 2,whose works I totally respect and know almost all of them by heart.His talent and skills in AE are trully outstanding,so Stefan probably’s not guilty of plagiarizm,but eventually in this small community each one of us is using ideas that are similar to those already made!

    Nice one buddy.Keep on working hard!

  • http://www.vimeo.com/karlos12 Juan Carlos

    Este tutorial me cayó como añillo al dedo.

  • spiros

    plz i need help how you do that at 17:18 of the video

  • http://en.mrjojo.com Mrjojo

    Hi , amazing tutorial ,
    i got this question , ive done all the steps same as u , however i cant see my fractal noise n lens flare layers , although all of’em are on ” they arent hidden ” . could u guide me on this ?

    also why my particles are entering the scene from the top left corner ? they arent in the middle center !!?
    tnx :)

  • abhi

    best tutorial ever thanks man

  • Paul Peralta

    where is the continuation of this Tutorial???

  • Anand

    Hey this is a nice tutorial but the problem is…… I wanna chk the 2nd part of this tut… Plz upload it asap or just give the link if posted anywhere!!!!!

  • natasa

    Can this logo be made with outbthe use of trapcode and just using After effects?

  • saby

    ou est ce ke je peu trouver la 2eme partie de ce tuto??? pleaaaaaase :(

  • Raj

    Hi, Nice tutorial.

    In version CS5, Colorama does not have “output cycle” color wheel preset. So how to make that “Golden Look”? Any help please.

    • lol

      Update to cs6

  • http://cytai.tk Eimantux

    Thx 4 this :)

  • Tharindu

    Where’s the part 2 dude ?. Cn u hlp with tht?

  • http://YourGay Huge vGuy

    Dude, you have to be doing lines of coke to follow you… you act like everyone knows what to do and you skip like a rock that has no hard on… if it wasnt for my patience and your ability to follow through I would hav asked my cat to find you and scratch “speee-aaa-engrrrish” so lame!!!

    PS… Nice work;{

  • Robin

    How to get Character Animation.mov in 2nd Video? http://prntscr.com/9ibzm
    Tell me please. :(