I know it's probably been said 100 times before, but you are the Bob Ross of AE tutorials. I've always wondered how to replicate the very beginning to the Futurama opening and this seems like a start.

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

It may be said many times, but I never tire of hearing it. Bob Ross is one of my inspirations. I watched his show a lot on PBS when I was very little.

Thanks Evan.. this is a good one! You are still very relevant in the age of AI

The importance of making sound effects while animating is highly underrated. So glad Im not the only one who does this. Pew pew. Wwwweeeeeeeeee! 😂

@ECAbrams

2 жыл бұрын

It's essential really.

As usually very interesting and also a lot of fun, having also the possibility to extrapolate ! Thank you very much for sharing with us!

Best AE tutorials on KZread by a margin

by far the best AfterEffects Tutorial I've seen so far! Love how you explain, little bit of whoopee in there :D Keep up the good work, Cheers

You are so great at your creative work (Y) Really got a lot of things to learn from you.

I'm not really a motion designer but here for the sarcastic-whatever-realism. Great content!

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

"If they don't find you helpful, they should at least find you humorous." - Misremembered Canadian Proverb.

Been trying to figure this out for ages. Kept getting something that was way too computationally intensive. Great job :D - Mike from MOBOX

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Sometimes the simplest solution is the one you want right?

Thanks so much for all your tutorials! I was wondering if you have a tut on the ball movement and explosion animation?

@ECAbrams

5 жыл бұрын

I have not. Maybe I should. It's just some random keyframes and a sudden hard cut really.

Really nice tutorial. Would be a great short intro to any youtube channel by just adding a logo to the last circle zooming in

Just love you mate. Awesome tutorials

Great tut! Keep up the great work Abrams, love your videos.

Love this look! Need to go through the tutorial sometime.

Another unique tutorial, thanks Evan!

one of your better tutorials..still waiting on the following the line across the screen, believe it is with a camera

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

following lines across the screen in which way? can you show an example of what your'e looking to see?

@RichardMillerMMVVIDEO

6 жыл бұрын

Animated Tron Lines Tutorial for After Effects some thing like this but adding the movement to get close to the lines and almost like your following them along, I know not great explanation but have seen it in commercials

Another cool tut! Loved how the ball exploded and you transitioned that to some kind of a warp drive effect

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

That's no ball...

ECAbrams - The AE tutorial GOAT!! Thank you :)

Hello. I'd love to know the answer to this too: "One question; how did you achieve those subtle yet effective shading effects on the lines in the final version @11:36? I noticed the gradient follows the edge of the line (looks really good)." Great tuts, thanks a bunch!

@jaiminsharma

5 жыл бұрын

Use an effect called alpha bevel or use layer styles...

Excellent tutorial! Thanks!

That was pretty great. Thanks for that!

One question; how did you achieve those subtle yet effective shading effects on the lines in the final version @11:36? I noticed the gradient follows the edge of the line (looks really good).

@Gamix3ON

3 жыл бұрын

Use classic 3D renderer, add gradient ramp to whichever circle you want, set the colors and the points and play with the blend with original/ blend modes

@jaiminsharma

2 жыл бұрын

Layer styles

Thanks a lot

@ECAbrams

5 ай бұрын

Happy to help

Thank you!

This is so good :) Thanks a lot

Very nice. Thank you!

Great, as usual!

Literally an AE saint

very nice

Evan, thank u!

Awesome

genius tutorial.....

awesome!

this one effect sounds like a name a local paper gave a mass murderer: _The Mad Choker_

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

Or someone who scams restaurants by getting angry about his meal, faking a choking reaction to the food, and skipping on the bill in the confusion.

@Grasslehoff

6 жыл бұрын

wow.. just wow

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

It seems strange, but someone in Montreal did exactly that scam.

@Grasslehoff

6 жыл бұрын

ECAbrams what a brilliant twisted mind

@AlexanDrMoskalenko

6 жыл бұрын

almost like in Chuck Palahniuk's Choke

Thanks !!!

you are amazing :)

Thank u! I did it!)

@ecabrams Awesome tutorials as always...Any chance you could make one on the sphere with motion inside? Thanks!

Awesome Stuff

One of the few Tuts I don’t watch in 2x!

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

I was mostly joking. Do people really listen to tutorials on fast mode?

nice!!

Great stuff man! Learning all sorts of stuff from you. Awesome to see someone sharing their knowledge like this! I was wondering, do you have any problems with previewing your footage or rendering? I just bought a really nice machine with 64GB of RAM and a Threadripper CPU and it doesn't flow half as good as it does on your machine it seems. Really unhappy with how poor AE seems to use the power of my computer.

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

Well, I do edit the boring parts out of a tutorial. So I wouldn't judge machine performance based on tutorial content. But I keep a clean machine over here. Limit my background processes and give most of the resources over to the active application. Also when I'm doing intense work I'm previewing at 1/4 or 1/3 res to speed it along.

sweet!

Your SFX is cool :D

how did you make those exploding balls wobble in the ending part of the design? can you type the expressions here in the comments? thank you!

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

At which part? I don't think I use any kind of wobbling expression in the whole thing. I do some keyframes on the planet before it explodes, but that's about it.

@mikmikcortez426

6 жыл бұрын

the end part of your tutorial with many colors and the big circle with 3 colors after the explosions.... 11:23

My computer can't handle this ahhhh!

good my friend

Hi, I love this animation ... could you maybe show the whole process? also how you created the colored circle with moving colors, the wiggle and the burst?

@MohntageDIYPartyFood

6 жыл бұрын

Or is this also simply a liquid circle fill? If so, that I can do ... I think :D

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

Not much more to it. The coloured circle is just a shape layer as matte for some moving other shape layers in a precomp. The explosion we pretty much do in this tut. And the shake is just position keys. C’est tout.

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

Not much more to it. The coloured circle is just a shape layer as matte for some moving other shape layers in a precomp. The explosion we pretty much do in this tut. And the shake is just position keys. C’est tout.

Great for starter (me)

wow this is EXACTLY what I am doing right now. #mindreading

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

It's amazing what we're doing with audience research these days ;)

Loved the tutorial. Still couldnt understand how linking the amount of radial blur keeps the hard edges. I hope you help me out. Thank you for the amazing tutorials!

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

So, linking the radial blue is not what makes the edges hard. The curves effect makes the edges hard. Then the matte choker makes the edges a little less hard. Does that make sense? We link the radial blur of the individual layers to the radial blur of the adjustment layer only so we do not have keyframes on each individual layer.

thank you ! one question, how did you do the texture? is it made with layer style?

How about some VR tuts, please? Great content!

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

Maybe. I don't know much about VR though to be honest. It's not a thing that has really captured my attention.

Love the tutorial! This is probably a simple question, but how did you duplicate the circle layer while keeping the starting point the same and changing the end point?

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

I think this may be a few things. Duplicating layers is as easy as command+d. everything about the layer would be the same if you duplicate it. And I change the endpoints by just clicking and dragging them around. Maybe I skipped over the stuff that wasn't germane to the technique we were covering?

@philipjhorton

6 жыл бұрын

The start and end position keyframes will be duplicated with the layer. The important thing is to keep the playhead on second keyframe before duplicating, then when you move the newly duplicated layer, the final position will change but the start position will stay the same. If that makes sense...

I love this video & effect! However, when I put the 3D camera on & start changing the depth for each object, the original start point ( centre all together so it looks like 1 round circle ) has been effected, if i shift this all in together then it effects the way it looks once burst, do you have an idea on what I'm doing wrong?

@ECAbrams

5 жыл бұрын

are you setting keyframes for the position?

hey i have a question, how can i make shape layers obey certain position constraints ( keeping them in a container or making them move if hit by an other shape layer) ?

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

sounds like we're talking about a physics simulation right? You'll need a plugin like Newton to make that happen I believe.

why is it that the active camera is not applying even if i have my shape layers in 3d :(

@ECAbrams

3 жыл бұрын

What is happening instead?

@skydmnq

2 жыл бұрын

@@ECAbrams Thanks so much for replying! what was happening was I was not focused hehe. It was on front camera, not active camera. Sorry for bothering! Excellent tutorial!

How do you make those circles in the beginning of the animation to move like that? And also the circle at the end of the animation

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

the movement of the circles is just a positional change with the speed graph altered as we do in the tutorial. Acceleration is high right away then slows to almost nothing over time. The shakey planet is just a change of position and rotation every few frames.

How to copy and paste like in 12:13 I stuck in there some one reading the comments can help me out please

HI! I´m rookie on this soft. How do u duplicate the circles keeping the properties like position? What shortcuts did you use?

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

I'm just hitting command+d (ctrl+d on windows). That duplicates a layer and anything about it. Just makes a duplicate of that layer as it is presently.

Your sound effect is funny around 08:45

@ECAbrams

4 жыл бұрын

Lot's of that on this channel. It's 50% after effects, 50% face noises.

can this be done with animate cc?

How do you move circles from the camera view ? I don't find the right cursor..

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

I just click on them with the selection tool (shortcut v on the keyboard.)

I'm doing something wrong here. when i try the step in the 2 views window the shapes don't move forwards or backwards in the plane. instead it's adding more movement after the initial burst. i've restarted the tutorial from scratch twice now and keep having the same problem.

@ECAbrams

5 жыл бұрын

could it be that you are causing more keyframes to happen because you don't have the playhead in the right place?

@sergeantsnickers3360

5 жыл бұрын

That was it. Ty

how do you do your intro with the letters?

What keyboard shortcut are you using to reveal Shape Layer properties? Are you hitting UU?

@ECAbrams

4 жыл бұрын

That's likely what I'm hitting. U U will call up anything that has been changed about the layer from the default or baseline.

This would be cool too use as a transition. Would you mind doing a video on transparent background (.WebM) format without a black background? I know that is very specific, but it is wracking my brain as to why when I convert the video to WebM, there's a black background.

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

I'll be honest, I had to look up what .webM is. Are you rendering out of the media encoder for that? I'm not even sure how we get from Ae to WebM specifically. Is there a plugin required?

@psiops277

6 жыл бұрын

No, I'm not rendering out of media encoder. .webM is a format that is suppose to keep transparency and have a smaller file size. I render the file out of AE in a quicktime format to get RGB+Alpha. That part works great, but it gives a huge file size. 1GB for like 30 seconds of video. The transparency is there, but I'll convert to .webM and things go wrong from there. The file size is made smaller, but there's a black background in place of the transparency. I use Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate to convert to .webM. One I convert the file in the program it spits it out with a black background. That is where the file dies for me. I would love too keep the transparency with a small file size, but with all I've read I don't know if that can be done yet. There are free online converters, but I don't want to go that route. Sorry for the long comment. Thanks for responding back too.

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

So, what are you doing with the .webM later on? Are you dropping it into Premiere or using it somewhere else? I guess my first question needs to be "why webM and nothing else?"

@psiops277

6 жыл бұрын

The file will be used in a program called OBS. .mov can work as well, but it's just too large. the .webM will make the file smaller, while keeping transparency. That is why I'd prefer .webM. Smaller file size.

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

I would suggest looking deeper into the thing that is doing the converting. Likely there is an advanced setting or a check box. I don't know anything about the program you're using though. If you need a video format with transparency for OBS and streaming needs, maybe some of these are suitable: www.digitalrebellion.com/blog/posts/list_of_video_formats_supporting_alpha_channels.html, however, most formats that allow for alpha channels are also larger than those that do not. It's a whole other channel so we can expect there will be more data right?

nice work man you've just helped me in my interview but can you do me a favor can you give me the music that you used to introduce the project at 00:00 or the intro music and thanks

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

The music I'm using is from the KZread creator studio. So I'm good to use it on youtube content, but that's about it.

@yessineketata3709

6 жыл бұрын

can you give me the name plz because i need a song to my project and this song fits perfectly in it

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

The track is called Majikk.

Is this a common technique? I saw this used in school of motions $7 vs $1000 article. (Used by the designer that charged $1000)

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if it's a common technique, but it's a common look people try to achieve. There are many techniques to achieve this motion and look though.

im struggling, my graph editor doesnt look like like yours!

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

are you looking at a speed graph or a value graph?

@FrazNinja

6 жыл бұрын

i was looking at a value graph, but ive now changed it to speed graph and voila! Thank you!! :D

Do you use any scripts / plugins ? What are your favs?

@ECAbrams

6 жыл бұрын

Not many. Mostly it's for automation of tasks that would be unpleasant to repeat for an hour. So I like Rift and Lazy for that I suppose. Joysticks and sliders are neat. Overlord is really the only one that gets the ECAbrams fav button for being a daily use.

I am adding the curves to the adjustment layer and it is not giving the hard edges when adjusting the curves alpha AE 2019 any ideas what’s going wrong

@ECAbrams

5 жыл бұрын

Hard to say. Are all the dimensions the same?

@johnsoreilly

5 жыл бұрын

ECAbrams yes the dimensions are the same, I apply the centres zoom at 250 and then apply the curves, when I pull over the handle on the alpha channel nothing really changes, it just looks slightly darker and not affected by the curves at all

@ryanowen9317

5 жыл бұрын

@@johnsoreilly Hey! I was having the same issue. I realized it was because I was working with a solid in my comp.

@johnsoreilly

5 жыл бұрын

Ryan Owen thanks for the tip, I removed the solid layer but I am still having the same problem, the curves layer is not clamping on the radial blur and they stay almost transparent

how to get such gradient font?

@ECAbrams

4 жыл бұрын

I'm not totally sure which font we're talking about. But in Ae you can apply a gradient effect to any layer you like, even text layers. Does that help?

woo... wee

i am not being able to duplicate the images ;-;

@ECAbrams

4 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry to hear that. Your keyboard shortcut for duplicate may be different from mine.

@souju8755

4 жыл бұрын

@@ECAbrams every time i try to duplicate the circles, the path of the duplicated one goes through the first shape as well. btw your projects are FREAKING AMAZING

I love you?

Great tutorial - I only found you recently but am so glad I did. Your videos are f-ing hilarious and a joy to watch and follow along to. So I added an extra circle with the Star burst effect which had the effect of creating a bunch more 'stars' to the warp. I think it looks pretty cool: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qmt4lMt9ccyxd7g.html. But when I animated the radial blur back to zero when the new planet comes into view of course all the stars appear to shoot back into the centre rather than towards the outside, if that makes sense. Any suggestions?

But,we dont need this

Amazing tutorial! Thanks!