This AE project working with effects was really interesting. Firstly, I had no idea the render times would take so long, but man do things really start looking nice when you add multiple effects to achieve one goal. Everything with the tutorials was pretty time/labor extensive and kinda gives you a headache sitting here so long listening to a 25 minute tutorial that takes 2 hours to get through due to annoying speakers, but overall it was worth it. I really like what I ended up with as far as aesthetics go, too. It has a nice clean image quality that I really enjoy and havent really seen in my other pieces thus far.
Detailed Account of AE Effects Process:
Main Video:
Effects Used: On the marble.
[All of the effects listed below were just messing around with how the marble looked in the finish. Most of them were used to acheive a glowing, meshy looking object.]
-Gaussian blur
-CC Glass
-Glow
-Color Emboss
-Lens blur
-Dust & Scratches
-CC Scatterize
[For the scatterize option i only set key frames for the left and right twist as the marble moved along a set path. These allowed the shape to look as if it were 3dimensional in the space.]
Effects Used: To achieve the light/particle scatter in background
-Particle World
[I started with one particle world generator and changed typical things like the birth rate, velocity, and birth size as well as the color. I proceeded to duplicate this layer 2 more times and changed the aspects slightly to show up behind the first particle world as smaller and more blurry to create a sense of depth.]
-Slider Control
[To control all of the particle world generators, i added an adjustment layer. To the adjustment layer I added a slider control that allowed me to whip-pick the other particles to it and control their movement and placement.]
Effects Used: On background moving video
-Glow
-CC Glass
-Color Emboss
-Dust & Scratches
-Turbulent Displace
[Turbulent Displace was probably the most prominent effect seen in the final render. The other effects were kinda steps in progress leading up to the final becuase in the end you actually didnt see the other effects. I used a luma matt under the track pad options over the original video i had that allowed it to have the displacement effect and not look like the original video.]
Explosive Text Video:
Effects used:
-Pixel polly
[The pixel polly was applied to preset text and it pretty much did the work all for itself as far as the effect goes. There was some general tweaking in areas like the gravity, randomness, speed and force to achieve the effect.]
-Forced Motion blurr
[The forced motion blue was applied on top of the pixel polly and left in its original settings.
Tutorial Sources:
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/particle_explosion/
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/3d_stroke_effect/
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