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After Effects Guru: Integrating Type into Video Volume 2

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Overview

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Learn four unique type treatments that integrate with action on screen. Find out how to explode text, create liquid text, map text to moving objects, and animate type in Z space.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know before watching this course
  • Using the exercise files
1. Dandelion Type Effect: Explode Text into Dozens of Seeds
  • Deciding on mood, story, and typeface
  • Modifying the timing with time remap
  • Tracking the text to the motion of the video
  • Animating the text using offset
  • Scattering the type with Pixel Polly
  • Adding glow
  • Duplicating a second title
  • Rotoscoping with the Roto Brush
2. Floating Type: Create a Liquid Text Simulation
  • Studying the footage and planning the animation
  • Designing a title using text and shape layers
  • Designing the title using shape layers
  • Creating a displace source
  • Creating a water effect with caustics
  • Moderating the distortion
  • Isolating the bottle using color range
  • Ripple effect transition
3. Perspective Match: Attach Type to Guitar Neck
  • Analyzing the shot and designing the titles
  • Planar tracking using mocha AE
  • Pasting the tracking data
  • Creating a fluorescent blinking effect
  • Preparing a blur map
  • Matching the focus with Camera Lens Blur
  • Rotoscoping fingers using masks
4. Hot Spot Type: Add Graphics to Runner Steps
  • Examining the footage and planning the animation
  • Camera tracking preparations setup
  • Adding titles across Z space
  • Animating titles and setting timing
  • Adding contact shadows and light
  • Creating the pulse effect using radio waves
  • Placing pulses under a runner's steps
  • Masking the runner using Color Range
Conclusion
  • What's next?

Taught by

Eran Stern

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