Bessie Potter : Adobe After Effects Tutorial

Bessie Potter

A CreativeCOW After Effects Video Tutorial

Michael Park
Tampa Bay, Florida

©2009 Michael Park and Creativecow.net. All rights reserved.

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In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Michael Park demonstrates how to make a dark, cloudy title reveal similar to the one seen in the "Movie Which Must Not Be Named." All textures and fonts are available in the project download as well as the final CS4 project file.

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Answers...
by Mike Park

@Kuro...I LOVE Stargate SG1. Is that the opening you were talking about?
@Pervez...Not sure what your problem is. Is you caps lock on or do you have the small caps toggle on in the character rollout? Those would be my 2 guesses.
@Owen...Never saw couples retreat. Can you send me a link to a video of the opening? If I like it and think it would make a good tutorial and show some new techniques, I may give it a go.

Thanks to everyone for watching and the great comments.

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harry P Lower case font
by pervez shah

As am a newer to after effects.....I dont get how to type harry p font In Small Letters(Lower case)...

Will you please guide me on this matter....

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next
by Kuro Syamito

any chance someone will do stargate after this? i mean when the gate dialing

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Nice tutorial!
by Diego Daly

Thank you and keep it up! :)

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A1 lessons
by Luis Enrique Pacheco Flores

great teacher michael!
Keep makin' it

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Amazing
by Owen Nicol

Thanks Mike for this brilliant tutorial - I've learned a lot from it.

One thing I'd like to see would be the opening titles for Couple's Retreat. I know, it's a chick flick, but I like the titles!

Thanks again!

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Excellent tutorial
by Michael Folorunsho

Thanks for sharing. Learned a lot.

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nice
by Mike Cohen

Just getting into AE. Will have to find a way to use this - maybe instead of clouds I'll do it with guts.

Mike Cohen

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When I watch the COW's AE
by Rafael Amador

When I watch the COW's AE tutorials i wish my job would involve more After Effects.
Great tutorial.
rafael

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Future tutorial suggestions?
by tuan dang

Here are 2 requested tutorials from me, only if you are interested and have time:

1. HP out of the picture commercial:

2. Adding fantasy digital matte painting to a footage in after effect just like you are in a fantasy world although you are just in your back yard.

Thanks!

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Future tutorial suggestions?
by Mike Park

Do you have any other effects, movie or tv, you would like to see in upcoming tutorials? I am always looking for new ideas.

Mike

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Pixilation
by Mike Park

I think the pixilation has more to do with the resolution of the texture applied to the text than the text itself. The text is already vector as it is a font, not an image. I have not looked at this too deeply, but that is my first thought. Apply a larger texture to the text in the precomp and see if that fixes the problem.

Best,

Mike

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Illustrator?
by Zak Ray

Total AE newb, but could you have avoided the pixelation on the text by using a vectored Illustrator file? Or at the very least, building the text in an oversize comp?

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title effects tut
by Luis Cosme

Great tutorial, great job! Thank you very much!

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Terrific
by Dave Grover

Thanks Michael,

This was just what I needed for an intro to a piece I'm working on!!!

Love the cow!!!

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re: bessie potter
by teresa lim

thank you.you have saved my grades in motion graphics class.

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Great job!
by tuan dang

thanks for you tutorial. learn more about your camera techniques and other cool and simple effects. keep up with the works! looking forward for more. thanks!

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