Tornado Text, part 1 : Adobe After Effects Tutorial

Tornado Text, part 1

A CreativeCOW After Effects Video Tutorial

Eran Stern
Israel

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In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern shows you a very cool way to create 3D ribbon text animation using After Effects CS3 Text tool.

Comments

Re: Tornado Text, part 1
by Paweł Słok

Question how did you manage to have the dancer as a separate footage? Was it done in after effects? I would appreciate being pointed in the right direction.

@Paweł Słok
by Eran Stern

The dancer was shot against a green screen background. I used the bundled keylight effect to remove the green screen color and then render a final clip to the Quicktime PNG + Alpha format. There are several articles and tutorials here which can help you to understand and practice the Color Keying process in After Effects.

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Tornado Text, part 1
by Raju Sachania

Eran,

Thanks for the wonderful tutorial! This really help us move forward in After Effects!

Tornado Text, part 1
by Travis Roop

Thanks for this informative tutorial! Eran you have great insight and skill that youre kind enough to share with others. Thanks again!

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