This video is still very helpful. I have watched it about 18 times because that's how long it takes me to learn new things. I made my own video and my mom was really impressed.
Nifty beans! I'm a bit of a *cough* newb and was trying to find a tutorial for some other thing. When I couldn't find that I started randomly watching your tutorials to stave off my poor attitude. Now I want to make all the things! All of them I say! Please download your brain into my dropbox. K, thx.
I always think of asking tutorials that I would like, but ended up surprised by what you decide to show. I have downloaded all your tutorials and watched them many times on the train while going to work. I don't get tired of thanking you for the simplistic, explicative and creative tutorials you provide us every time!!!
Mr. Abrams, within the couple of months I've challenged myself to learn how to create motion graphics via Illustrator and After Effects. I've a heavy Photoshop user. I've been through about about ten different RU-vid tutorial channels and came across yours this morning. I found your video to be entertaining, informative and very well organized. Please keep cranking these out, as I'm eager to start this journey with you. Muchas Gracias, from West Texas.
I'll try my best. Just out of curiosity, when people say "West Texas" do they usually mean the town of West in Texas or just somewhere on the west side of Texas?
West Texas as in the broader picture of the entire state. I'm as West as Texas gets, El Paso! San Antonio, on the other hand, is when you start getting to South Texas but quite as south as Laredo. I've subscribed to your channel and your teaching methodology is super. Please keep up the great work and if we can help you out with any ideas or inspiration, please don't hesitate to reach out.
Evan! Thank you SO MUCH for your tutorials! They teach all the really slick stuff that I'd love to learn and incorporate into my channel. Also, you are hilarious! I never thought I would laugh so much watching screen captures. Please don't stop!
Thank you so much! Always I follow step by step your tutorials I achieved my expectations and I learn something new. I really appreciate the value of your share. Love your style !
Excellent Abram. I definitely learned something new. One question, let's say i wanted my color logo to reveal at the end, instead of black, how should I do that?
nikola jokic Haha, yeah I watched the beginning 5 minutes of it only. I'm not going to watch the entire thing because I'm not going to remember. I'll watch the whole thing step by step once I'm trying to recreate it :)
Of course I will :) Your tip about editing the speed graph of motion keyframes has single handedly transformed my animations from phenomenally shitty to a little less shitty. Thanks again man :)
Hey Evan! I really appreciate your videos. I`ve learned so much from them. You helped me get a job, man! I owe you a beer or something. Thank you! Cheers from Brazil.
Could you make a tutorial on how to do transitions in the style of 'Watchtower of Turkey'? I'm not really sure what to call the effect or what to type into Google lol. Basically the smooth transitions that move shots into one another.
How different of a process is this if the punch through is used for a webpage opening animation? Click enter site zoom through logo and main page is revealed. Im a noob, and need to know which programs and how to add it to a website i have through wordpress
Another great video! By the way, do you know where I can find the best settings for a Mac optimized to work with After Effects? I'm planning to buy one shortly. :)
I don't know if a lot needs to be "optimised". And Ae is only picky about the graphics card. Make sure the GPU is on the list of supported GPUs if you want to make use of the CUDA integration. Other than that, just have more hardware than the required specs for the software and you're golden. And it never hurts to max out your ram, but it's cheaper to do that after market anyway.
I think that depends on how you mean "hologram" exactly. You mean like how you see in the star wars? Or like a hologram you want to project somehow into the real world?
love this, thanks. i was wondering if you could do a tutorial on for example a video where you walk forward and as you walk thete is stable text on the ground for example and as he walks it disappears sorry if I'm not clear did tye best i could x)
Yeah I might get into that in a later tutorial. It's just solving the scene with the camera solver and putting in some 3d layers. Not much else going on there.
Can you convert the AVI file to another format and still retain the fly through? DaVinci Resolve doesn't like AVI and when I convert to MP4, the cutouts are black and no longer reveal the clip below. Boo-urns!
Perhaps. I always recommend using fewer colours. But for this technique, the only requirement is choosing the positive and negative space that will be moved through.
Certainly, you would need to use mattes and make sure you export with an alpha channel. It might actually be one step fewer. The main thing is to make sure you're exporting in a format that accepts rgb+alpha in the end.
I'm trying to do this effect but with text and when I add the scale to bring the text on, the speed of it is off. It's really slow at the start and then super fast at the end. How do I fix this?
It allows you to attach other things to the null that will scale at the same rate. Also, it allows you to scale the logo up or down independent of the motion we are giving it if you need to reframe or compose you frame differently later. A null in the middle conveys the motion we want. If you were scaling the logo and it happened to not be in the centre of the frame since scale is based on the anchor point that would convey a different internal logic to the project right? That about covers it.
ECAbrams Ahhh, so wise. I have much to learn but thanks for the response, it was the answer I was hoping for, As it was a question and not a critique(don't want you thinking I'm one of those upity agressive comment types)
How old are we talking here? As far as I know, that option has been around since the beginning. Could it be you need to click the "toggle switches/modes" on your timeline to see the switches in general or do you see the other switches (like 3d, motion blur, quality and sampling) but not the "continuous rasterization" switch?
It's been a feature since the beginner I believe. It's called Continuous Rasterization/collapse transformations. You may not be seeing it because you need to click the "toggle switches/modes" button to toggle between the modes you're seeing and the switches you would like to see? Maybe?
You can. You just have to make choices about what shape in the logo is going to be the hole, and instead of using a black solid to fade in, you'll use the colour of your choice.
That really depends on what you want the painting to "do" as the logo comes on. Is it replacing the black solid in your vision of the piece? Really it's all going to depend on what you want to see happen.
So we basically want to push from this logo on a white background, I'm guessing, and end up inside the logo in the red area? Is that correct that the red should be the negative space?
Oh no, It's more inspired by the many commercials that abused this look about a year back. We might do something like the stranger things credit text but that's some advanced magics to pull that look off right.
The resemblance between your head and the yeti mic is disturbingly uncanny. Having said that, I really like your videos and I'm gonna use the stuff I have learned from you in my videos. Thanks a lot.
I hope someone can help me as I'm starting to get a bit disheartened with AE. I use a widescreen monitor and have subbed to the cloud to try and learn some skills for video creation. I go through the initial process of creating a composition but when I do the black workspace/canvas is cropped off to the bottom of the window and if I use the spacebar to drag it up the top edge (or where it looks like that edge should be) seems to crop off the area. Using something like the pentool to create a diagonal line makes it appear below the field of vision and not in the workspace...I for the life of me have no idea whats going on with this. Apparently widescreen monitors are great for working with After Effects, but right now I cannot use the program with this issue. Does anyone have any ideas what's going on? I've asked on the Adobe forums, tried contacting their tech support (no one ever answers) but nothing - I would love this to work as I'm really trying to learn some skills for video creation. If anyone can help PLEASE DO! Thanks in advance. forums.adobe.com/message/9100228#9100228
Tried that - even at 50% the issue with the pen tool seems to still occur. Not sure if this is down to something like the screen resolution or not but I've never had this issue before.
Double clicking the hand seems ot set the magnification to 50% and the magnifying glass sets it to 100%. The bottom part of the black workspace is still cut off by the timeline window.
