After Effects Guru: Integrating Type into Video Volume 2
3h 19mIntermediate2016-07-13
Authors
Eran Stern
Teacher and Motion Designer, 20+ years of post-production experience
Course details
Discover new ways to combine text and video in After Effects and create more visually stunning scenes. This course, the second volume of Eran Stern's Integrating Type into Video series, features four unique type treatments that integrate text directly with the action on screen. Watch and learn how to explode text, create liquid text, map text to moving objects, and animate type in Z space.
Along the way, Eran demos a handful of advanced techniques, from tracking, rotoscoping, and particles to distortion and camera effects. After watching this course, you'll be able to create impressive promos, trailers, and openers that will stand out from the rest.
Learning objectives
Dandelion type: exploding text into dozens of seeds
Time remapping
Tracking text
Rotoscoping with Roto Brush
Floating type: creating a liquid text simulation
Designing with shape layers
Creating water effects with caustics
Perspective type: attaching type to moving guitar neck
Planner tracking with mocha AE
Pasting tracing data
Matching focus
Hot spot type: adding motion graphics to a runner's steps
Camera tracking
Adding titles
Creating a pulse effect
Along the way, Eran demos a handful of advanced techniques, from tracking, rotoscoping, and particles to distortion and camera effects. After watching this course, you'll be able to create impressive promos, trailers, and openers that will stand out from the rest.
Learning objectives
Dandelion type: exploding text into dozens of seeds
Time remapping
Tracking text
Rotoscoping with Roto Brush
Floating type: creating a liquid text simulation
Designing with shape layers
Creating water effects with caustics
Perspective type: attaching type to moving guitar neck
Planner tracking with mocha AE
Pasting tracing data
Matching focus
Hot spot type: adding motion graphics to a runner's steps
Camera tracking
Adding titles
Creating a pulse effect
Skills covered
Motion GraphicsAfter EffectsRenderingMotion Graphics and VFXVisualization and Real-TimeLimited SeriesAdobeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and Illustration
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - What you should know before watching this course
- 03 - Using the exercise files
1. Dandelion Type Effect - Explode Text into Dozens of Seeds
- 04 - Deciding on mood, story, and typeface
- 05 - Modifying the timing with time remap
- 06 - Tracking the text to the motion of the video
- 07 - Animating the text using offset
- 08 - Scattering the type with Pixel Polly
- 09 - Adding glow
- 10 - Duplicating a second title
- 11 - Rotoscoping with the Roto Brush
2. Floating Type - Create a Liquid Text Simulation
- 12 - Studying the footage and planning the animation
- 13 - Designing a title using text and shape layers
- 14 - Designing the title using shape layers
- 15 - Creating a displace source
- 16 - Creating a water effect with caustics
- 17 - Moderating the distortion
- 18 - Isolating the bottle using color range
- 19 - Ripple effect transition
3. Perspective Match - Attach Type to Guitar Neck
- 20 - Analyzing the shot and designing the titles
- 21 - Planar tracking using mocha AE
- 22 - Pasting the tracking data
- 23 - Creating a fluorescent blinking effect
- 24 - Preparing a blur map
- 25 - Matching the focus with Camera Lens Blur
- 26 - Rotoscoping fingers using masks
4. Hot Spot Type - Add Graphics to Runner Steps
- 27 - Examining the footage and planning the animation
- 28 - Camera tracking preparations setup
- 29 - Adding titles across Z space
- 30 - Animating titles and setting timing
- 31 - Adding contact shadows and light
- 32 - Creating the pulse effect using radio waves
- 33 - Placing pulses under a runner's steps
- 34 - Masking the runner using Color Range
Conclusion
- 35 - What's next