Bessie Potter : Adobe After Effects Tutorial

A CreativeCOW After Effects Video Tutorial

CreativeCOW presents Bessie Potter--Video Training by Michael Park

Michael Park
Tampa Bay, Florida

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

Article Focus:
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.

Comments

Excellent tutorial
by Michael Folorunsho on Nov 3, 2009

Thanks for sharing. Learned a lot.

nice
by Mike Cohen on Oct 24, 2009

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

When I watch the COW's AE
by Rafael Amador on Oct 4, 2009

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

Future tutorial suggestions?
by tuan dang on Sep 30, 2009

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

1. HP out of the picture commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9vXoWIKpRY

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!

Future tutorial suggestions?
by Mike Park on Sep 30, 2009

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

Pixilation
by Mike Park on Sep 30, 2009

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

Illustrator?
by Zak Ray on Sep 30, 2009

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?

title effects tut
by Luis Cosme on Sep 30, 2009

Great tutorial, great job! Thank you very much!

Terrific
by Dave Grover on Sep 29, 2009

Thanks Michael,

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

Love the cow!!!

re: bessie potter
by teresa lim on Sep 27, 2009

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

Great job!
by tuan dang on Sep 22, 2009

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!