Creating the Juno Opening Credits Look

The "Juno" Opening Credits Look

A CreativeCOW After Effects Video Tutorial

Simon Bonner
Liverpool, England UK

©2008 Simon Bonner and Creativecow.net. All rights reserved.

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The independent film "Juno" featured one of the most distincitive opening credit sequences in recent memory. It has a wonderful handmade look - which it turned out was created, painstakingly, by hand. Cow leader Simon Bonner shows a much easier way to get all the way there. Even if you haven't seen Juno, this is a great tutorial for creating unique, handcrafted looks, without the pain.

Comments

Re: Creating the Juno Opening Credits Look
by Jericho Barquez

i think i saw it last days.. either i saw on advertisements but i am not sure..real man but a sketch in background..

Re: Creating the Juno Opening Credits Look
by Jon Abramczyk

Wow!!! I really enjoyed this tut.
Very helpful!!!
I'm a rookie to AE, so this is HUGE!!!!

Re: Creating the Juno Opening Credits Look
by teresa lim

thanks for posting you are great

How Do You Key Out Completely???
by Connor Skeens

How do you key out the green screen and just leave the person there. i do not have final cut. only Adobe Photoshop and After Effects and Imovie.

fantastic
by Carrie Hawks

Thanks for the tutorial. There are so many effects I didn't realize existed in AE.
nice work

Creating the Juno Opening Credits Look
by dewan edwards

wow great, this forum has me spending more time infront of the computer then with my family, sad I know but what I am learning is great. Thank you

Creating the Juno Opening Credits Look
by David Basulto

Great tutorial! Very time efficient process. thanks!

Creating the Juno Opening Credits Look
by Murray Lunn

Wow!

I'm just getting into deeper detail into video editing, but now I want to start doing some effects as well!

I really enjoyed the video, very informative.

Creating the Juno Opening Credits Look
by Oliver Juric

thanks for the help,

i'll try it out ,

i was just wondering because clips from other tutorials are playing fine, it's just this particular one that won't play.

thanks again

Oliver, why videos are sometimes not seen...
by Ron Lindeboom

We have found that in our experience, some users use so many pop-up ad blockers and anti-spyware filtering software on their machines that it causes "pre-emptive" filtering on all kinds of content.

Also, in most all the other cases when this is not due to filters, it is a firewall problem.

Unfortunately, neither of these is in our control and so we can do nothing about them. The files are online and they are working as they should.

Creating the Juno Opening Credits Look
by Oliver Juric

is it me or did you take the clip down?

i can't see anything but [no video]

any plans to reup?

would apreciate it

thanks

Creating the Juno Opening Credits Look
by Michael Fitzer

Great tutorial. Just wondering the best way to export for use in FCP. Applying the effect to a broadcast spot with green footage shot in 1080i at 24p.

Thanks!

Creating the Juno Opening Credits Look
by John Webber

Capital!
One of you blokes across the pond... buy that man a pint!
Cheers!

Creating the Juno Opening Credits Look
by Steve Crow

Brilliant, well done!

Creating the Juno Opening Credits Look
by Colin Wiencek

Good tutorial but are you not giving files to try it out with?

Creating the Juno Opening Credits Look
by Scott Stroud

GREAT!!

Creating the Juno Opening Credits Look
by Christopher Loehrer

WICKED MATE! how about the scribble line effect in the credit text? Is there a simple way to do that as well?

Creating the Juno Opening Credits Look
by Simon Bonner

Thanks, Christopher!

The Shadowplay way to create that text (as far as I can gather) is to hand print the letters, photocopy them, trace the copy several times and colour in these tracings, and finally scan them back into the computer before compositing in AE. A quicker, though not as visually interesting, method is to use a similar typeface (like Agent Orange) and play around with the scribble effect. Aharon has a couple of tutorials on that effect here at the Cow.

Creating the Juno Opening Credits Look
by Eran Stern

Great tutorial Simon! cool look. loved the movie as well.

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