Just made my first promo vid in After Effects, check er out.



Way better than expected. I go to school for media arts and animation, constantly dealing with after effects. My suggestion would be to make the red arrow at the end do a zig zag to the logo/link. It just dropping down and skewing kinda got boring wheneverything else was action packed.
 
That newbie shit you made is better than anything i came up with after 4 years in film school.....


How many plugins did you work with? There's no way you made that with out of the box AFX - if you did you got skills.
 
barman said:
That newbie shit you made is better than anything i came up with after 4 years in film school.....


How many plugins did you work with? There's no way you made that with out of the box AFX - if you did you got skills.
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lol, yeah, everything I used is 100% default / standard in After Effects (CS4). I used 1 expression when the screen would "shake" during the bass, at 2 or 3 different moments. An expression though is just after effects scripting.. It was the "wiggle" expression
 
Looks good. I'm going to need a 1 min vid for a sales page soon. I'll hit you up for rates.
 
Just angered I didn't start the composition in 1080p for DVD output. I'm upscaling it now though and re-rendering just to see what it'll look like on my flat screen, though I know it'll probably be pixelated.

Seriously though, videocopilot is all I used to learn, followed like 8 of his 100+ video tuts. Definitely check it out, awesome site.
 
Corey said:
Me :(.

How long did it take you to make?
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Couple days, probably 10-15 hours.. a lot of the time was spent google'ing and figuring out shit.

Best thing I learned and used the most was linking the camera to a nullobject, and keyframing around in 3d space. Combine that with motion blur on each layer and things start looking cool.
 
Damn.. that is awesome man.

And I agree on zig zagin' the red line, was waiting for it to do something instead of going straight down for the 4-6 seconds.
 
Good job, and thanks for the link, I've been thinking about getting After Effects for awhile now, it looks cool.
 
dreamache said:
Just angered I didn't start the composition in 1080p for DVD output. I'm upscaling it now though and re-rendering just to see what it'll look like on my flat screen, though I know it'll probably be pixelated.

Seriously though, videocopilot is all I used to learn, followed like 8 of his 100+ video tuts. Definitely check it out, awesome site.
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Thanks for the tip. And really, really nice work man. Impressive. I've been meaning to try and learn After Effects forever, just never gotten around to it.
 
Shit I clicked this thinking it said you made your first porno. This doesn't live up to my expectations.
 
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