If you're wanting to help to save Sarah Connor then maybe this tutorial will give you an insider's perspective on what to do. Here is the Final Day of this 3 Part Series by Ben McEwan. You can view Day 1 here and Day 2 here.
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( ADD YOURS )BAD GHOST September 25th
nice work i really like it
( )Dawg September 25th
Very Cool thanks!!
( )Creative Media Films September 25th
Nice thankz
( )IANH - BR September 25th
Thanks so much, keep doing!
( )Chaske September 25th
great tutorial, thanks for all the thorough explanations…good looking final product too!
( )RiddickMedia September 25th
Nice
( )RiddickMedia September 25th
Nice……………
( )Billy September 25th
Ben….this is the most ridiculous tutorial I have ever seen…
JUST KIDDING!
Just got around to watching the first part. When i saw your preview, my first impression was “huh….so-so.” I wasn’t going to “waste” my time with watching 3 whole parts. However, after reading all the wonderful comment you got, I thought I’d give the first part a try.
I’m very glad I did. The way you went about creating the UI was creative and useful and the addition of expressions I have never seen made it all the better! I loved the way you actually explained parts of the expression and then showed how changing parts of the expression would change what was produced.
The creation of a UI is nothing I will probably ever do in any of my personal projects….BUT the parts of your tutorial, especially the expressions, will come in very handy!
So….since I saw in the comments to part two that there were people just dying for my opinion….there ya go!
( )Ben McEwan September 26th
Thanks buddy! That’s exactly the response I was looking for… The whole point of this exercise was to teach people some expressions they may have never seen before, and show them what each one does so that they can apply that knowledge somewhere else.
( )Ricky September 25th
I was looking forward to the third part… very exhaustive tutorial covering even small details, and this should be very useful for a beginner in the art of AE.
( )Ben McEwan September 26th
I lost my voice and had a huge headache after finishing recording. THAT’S exhaustive
Thanks!
( )thejoltjoker September 26th
Very good tutorial! I liked that you explained the expressions.
( )Rolo September 26th
Great tutorial.
( )maor700 September 26th
Great tutorial of any aspect- professional design, process work, useful expressions, and very cool technique.
( )I’m recognize professionals and you one of them
if you keep relase tutorials like this one you will be in the top list of the AE leadere.
Norman September 26th
Very Cool thanks!!
( )Peter September 27th
So glad you made this, i’ve been able to use aspects of your tutorial with other tutorials on aetuts+ to make short film, many thanks for sharing the knowledge!
( )Gio September 27th
This tutorial is very very very wonderful !
( )can u send me the After Effects Project?
Ben McEwan October 21st
You’ll ahve to sign up to the Plus program for that. See the little banner between the tutorial and the comments section. It’s pretty cheap and you’ll get access to other project files as well!
( )Yonatan September 28th
THIS IS GREAT!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH BEN!!!! This is what I need for my films, was looking for a tut like this, THANK YOU!!!
( )beesh October 2nd
Thank you Ben – I learned a lot from this tut!
( )1 question if you have time – is there a way to slow down the random speed of the numbers in the expression so they don’t generate so fast?
Thanks!
Ben McEwan October 21st
Sorry for taking so long on the reply – been really busy lately!
I thought I covered this in the tutorial, but I might be wrong. It was a really, REALLY long recording session. I’d watch it back, but my own voice still haunts me
The following expression should make a lot of sense to you since it was done throughout the tutorial. The very first line is the one that’ll delay the counting. Experiment with changing the number in the brackets (3, in this case) and see what it does!
posterizeTime(3);
( )S=thisLayer.transform.position.speed
S
Math.round(S*10000)/10000
Price October 4th
Great exhaustive explanation and tutorial… will be very helpful for any aspirant like me.
( )Logic October 9th
Very Good tutorial, i really liked it, because:
-All details covered
-Good explanation
-Shows useful expressions
Thank you so much Ben.
P.S.
( )You should make a tutorial on how to do the electrokinesis video you made.
Creg October 10th
Excellent tutorial that must have taken you hours of hard work… Gives a very exhaustive approach to recreating the magic!
( )Jeremy October 21st
I was the designer and lead animator on the Terminator Salvation “machine vision” sequences, and am honored that our work has inspired these tutorials!
After Effects was our primary software, and most of our techniques were very similar to the ones you have outlined here. In some cases we animated things by hand that you have scripted, and in other cases we ended up with much more complex setups.
The most involved use of expressions was in creating a curved altimeter style widget for the T800. It was built from the start with the ability to art direct every element using sliders and other expression controls (about 30 by the end) in the base comp. Here is and example of some variations I threw together by adjusting a couple sliders: http://www.jeremycox.com/stuff/HUD_demo-web.mov
My one critique would be your use of typeface. This is mostly just a warning to others, but using OCR-A will always make your work look dated and there are all sorts of interesting alternatives out there.
Good job!
- Jeremy
( )Ben McEwan November 8th
Thanks for your input Jeremy – this effect definitely has an infinite potential!
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