War! Or How to Create a 3D Particle Generated Video Display

Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: After Effects and Trapcode Form
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Run Time: 28:53 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 Wes Kandel. This tutorial was first published in June 2009 and using Trapcode Form as the basis to display video, he shows how to use the audio reactors built in to form to achieve something very very cool! Let’s take a look…


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  1. Guest says:

    Great tutorial.
    I’m interested in how did you rendered the Depth pass from Cinema 4D

  2. Daniel M says:

    Man I have spent over 48 hours re-doing this over and over and I at 20 minutes when you get the text to punch through the Z layer mines not doing that, it’s just staying 2d. Like the particles are not being pushed by the grayscale value on the ramp compistion. I have followed every move and thats where im stuck. If anyone else thats completed this could assist me here.

  3. Arsen says:

    Wes u are a genius.. i love the tutorial very match .. very pedagogically explained

  4. Nathan says:

    having trouble to get the form to move with the audio file? any ideas

  5. Aaron says:

    Name of the song?

    Sorry if this was answered earlier. I could not find it.

  6. Alex says:

    Hi, thnx a lot 4 this fantastic Tut !!! I wanna know if i want put a music with 3.00 min. of duration what changes i need 2 do. Thnx a lot nd sorry 4 my bad english !

    Amazing Tut !!

  7. ccrzR says:

    thank you very much for allowing me and all of us to learn from you.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uAXT1GbM5M&hd=1

    i hope you like it ;)

  8. Legend says:

    It’s very good tutorial thabk you

  9. KulorDS says:

    Totally perfect tutorial, just thought I’d share mine!

    http://vimeo.com/10955650

  10. Armen says:

    Great tutorial. Thanks a lot pal!

  11. Anisha says:

    Great tutorial to teach FORM! You explained eveything so well, and great quality of sound/video.
    My fav part: “Feather the crap out of that thing!”

    That made me laugh! XD I hope you made more tutorials

  12. G-Phi says:

    Cool. I just created a video using this tutorial and effect with Trapcode Form.

    Check it out. Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5psR1OQfeQ

    G-Phi

  13. Diego Senger says:

    How did you do the ending of the video? Anyone knows how?

  14. mr.rabbit says:

    HI,
    very cool tutorial… in the preview is an effect with red and cyan layers, is it a 3d effect?? How could i create this effect it is not in the tutorial

  15. xstyle says:

    If you dont get any effects after you applyed the audio layer try to change the Frequency. In the tutorial he used 20 hz wich is very deep bass so if you dont have a song with enaugh bass you wont get any result.

  16. tio dave says:

    I did this tutorial the first time it was posted.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5TJWvSC0uI

  17. alex says:

    where is the source files for members ?

  18. Leon Benlolo says:

    I used several tutorials on this site to make this video of my holiday in Manicore, a small town in Amazon, Brazil
    http://youtu.be/Jcxb_7_su_Y

  19. Candido says:

    Hello Wes, thank you for sharing your tutorial. I really enjoy following your steps and it wasn’t hard just took a long time. but every tutorial is always a long time but at the end it give a great finish result that is aw some. Thanks again I look forward for more from you.

  20. The Rasch says:

    Heya!
    First of all…damn…that´s a great tutorial!
    But…when I insert the values in FORM Effects (Layer Maps – Color and Alpha and all the stuff) and I make the RAMP invisible and the FORM visible…my preview screen just turns grey…not as seen in the tutorial.

    What am I doing wrong???

  21. Silky says:

    I cannot get the form to move with the audio?? and I’ve followed it to a T… please help

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