Use Color To Control Your Textures – Part 1
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The government may have control of your money, your boss may have control of your schedule, and you’re kids may even have control of what you’re doing this weekend… but alas, there is one thing you will not forfeit! You will never give up control of your textures!… that is, unless color wants control… then you have to hand it over, sorry.
Overview
- Core Training Value: Learn how to use After Effect’s native effects to create a beautiful dynamic texture controlled and animated by it’s base colors. and create a custom “control panel” to animate it. The design options hidden within this technic are endless and depends entirely up to you.
- Difficulty: Beginner
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Thanks tut nice.
I really wanted to know how to do the cube part too =/
lol just make 6 layers with 3d and rotate it position it.
thats it
make new comp. apply to the sun-checkbox or just parent them to a 3d null objekt
and if this takes too much time, you should find the scripts in web.
Very usefull tut, :]
Really nice!
beatiful preview^^
useful tut, thanks!
Cool one mennn
Great work.
This has so many possibilities!
Where did you get the sound (the last one)
Thank you all for all your lovely comments.
“Nickium” – the second part of this tutorial is in progress and i will try to have it ready ASAP.
As “frankyframe” said, the animation part is very simple. and it can be done the way he described it.
however, i animated the cubes using expressions connected to a custom build control panel, which makes the animation proses a lot easier and faster.
i will demonstrate that technique in my next tutorial.
“Pierre” the sounds origin will be in my next tutorial as well.
coool!!
thank you!
PERFECT!
Congratulations!
=]
Thank you all for all your kind words.
The follow up tutorial will be coming soon. like “frankyframe” mentioned the animation is very easy and simple. bu the way i did it was with expressions connected to a custom build control panel – a faster and more fun way to do this animation.
I really liked the entire effect. Can’t wait to see your tutorial covering the animation part. Good work!