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Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: After Effects and Trapcode Form
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Run Time: 19:33 min
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

In this tutorial we will be creating a really cool title effect suitable for epic title sequences. The tutorial will explain the steps in order to create a Time Trail effect, and then disintegrate the title to transition out.

You will want to have a rendered out text animation, preferably having the text flying into center from all sides of the shot, creating a better Time Trail.

Republished Tutorial

Every few weeks, we revisit some of our reader's favorite posts from throughout the history of the site. This tutorial was first published in December of 2009.


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  1. Juan Antonio Castillo says:

    awesome !!!

  2. macbeth says:

    niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice :)

  3. Omar says:

    Great tutorial!

  4. beauty_angelno1 says:

    hi great tuts from great Arabic person
    good luck an from success to greater one
    Heba

  5. jink says:

    griffith uni southbank?

  6. Bill says:

    Cool !!!!!!!!!!!

  7. Adam Sklar says:

    Wow, this looks spectacular. :O

  8. Nice effects and well taught. Well played.

  9. emin says:

    I dont like your flash player…

  10. IANH - BR says:

    Hooooly Sh****!

    AWESOME!

    love it!

  11. Rafael Braga says:

    C’mon man … can’t you guys change this video player. It is the worst.

    Anyway .. nice tut, great effect.

  12. Thomas says:

    I agree, the tutorials are awesome but the video player is really bad. It lags.

  13. Mirek says:

    Nice effect, and nice tut :)

  14. IANH - BR says:

    I Dont Understand, how i do the Title Sequence, in the beggining.
    Have any Tut to make one like the beggining ?

    • lebnash1 says:
      Author

      just create any text animation in after effects, then precompose it. make sure the text is offscreen at first, then comes in to screen from all sides like in the tutorial.

      • IANH - BR says:

        Yeah, i just get it!
        Thanks..

        but i cannot make the final part, just like you.
        but i know how to do, is hard to make, because my ram preview is too slow!

        I’ll keep trying.
        Thanks again!

  15. Brian Revels says:

    I have been trying to leava comment on here forever…!

  16. bob says:

    What a pain to decipher through lots of unimportant details trying to understand what is important amd what’s not — that is if one wants to really learn something rather than simply repeat as a monkey after the tutor.

  17. Tom Ellingsen says:

    That is really an astonishing shot. The music helped sell it as well. Great tutorial, Ahmed.

  18. Chris says:

    Very similar to Aharon Rabinowitz’s Text to sand transition…
    http://allbetsareoff.com/tutorials/rgtv-ep-21-creating-a-text-to-sand-transition/

  19. naimalwan says:

    COOL

  20. فهد says:

    شكرا اخوي احمد

  21. Mojo says:

    Go Griffith Go! I studied at the Nathan/Gold Coast Campus!

  22. pras says:

    hi ahemad i m pras!
    tel me 1 thing that text animation u used in beging that was created in 3d max?

  23. Stefoto says:

    Nice tutorial. Pretty simple and well explained. Great work :)

  24. Nick says:

    What’s funny is that some time before my friend came to me and asked if it is possible to disintegrate image into sand. I said it might be possible with Trapcode Form, but I’ve never tried to do it. And here you go, a tut like this xD Thank you very much for it, mate.

  25. kamal98 says:

    This site is getting better!!!

  26. Jonathan says:

    There is just a word for this… woooooow awesome. thanks

  27. GtaSpider says:

    Amazing, thanks a lot

  28. madminnycar says:

    How do you make 3d animated text?

  29. Great work! I don’t like the echo waves at the beginning too much, but the ending is just amazing.

  30. tndesign says:

    very nice animation thx

  31. SkyKing says:

    Hey how can i do the animation in the beginning? Is there a tutorial for that, or maybe a Preset?

  32. David Moreen says:

    I was blown away by the preview.

  33. jielnsong says:

    nice !!!!!!!
    THX!!!!!

  34. lala says:

    GOOD VERY NICE

  35. Hamza says:

    جميلة والله

    very nice
    thanks

  36. Mike says:

    how can i do the animation camera?

  37. altaf says:

    amazing man! cool fx

  38. salat says:

    it’s very easy but thx 4 tutorial ;)

  39. thank y ahmed :) i wish y the best bro

  40. Graham says:

    very nie of you to share

  41. Rough Cut says:

    So clear and concise. Really brilliant design too. This tutorial just made this place one of my favourite sites, awesome tutorial.

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