NEW TUTORIAL: Seamlessly Looping Background
Added 2017-07-08 21:51:17 +0000 UTCHello!
Here's an EXCiting new motion graphics tutorial, which I have decided to release at a lower pledge level just because... I'm still being a bit slow with the behind-the-scenes content.
Hope those of you who work in After Effects find this 42-min step by step guide useful. Please let me know if I didn't cover something well enough or if you have any questions.
LEARNING!
Comments
I turned on depth of field on that first camera and turned up the aperture, but nothing happens for some reason. Although I did get inspiration from this so that's great :D
TecherZ
2017-09-24 15:11:10 +0000 UTCHa, if I got you into motion graphics design despite you not having any interest in it, I'd feel weirdly proud :P
Captain Disillusion
2017-07-10 00:00:19 +0000 UTCHmm, well if the particles had exactly the same fade in/out time, remained a solid color and weren't moving in a common direction, I guess you might be able to get away with it (still, I think everything suddenly reversing together would catch the eye). But the particles in my example fade in fast, fade out slow, turn from white to red and scroll to the left. Reversing that would be super obvious. Give it a try when you feel less lazy :)
Captain Disillusion
2017-07-09 23:55:57 +0000 UTCTo loop the particles, since their generation is fairly random and not entirely noticeable, couldn't you have split the footage in half and reversed the second clip to end up back at the front to make a loop as well? (I suppose I could just try it my damn self but boy am I lazy today)
Bizzaro.
2017-07-09 22:34:48 +0000 UTCHold shift as you scrub. Also, I believe pressing "i" and "o" jumps the playhead to the in/out point of the selected layer.
Captain Disillusion
2017-07-09 19:33:55 +0000 UTCHow did you scrub the playhead so that it snapped to the in/out of a clip? That would come in super handy for a production I'm doing right now.
Jasper
2017-07-09 19:30:46 +0000 UTCWell that was so interesting I wish I had a reason to use it.
2017-07-09 15:52:35 +0000 UTCYeah, the couple of times I've tried Lumetri, it was so incredibly slow, I just couldn't get anything done... When I have to do any detailed grading in AE, I kinda like Color Finesse. But for simple tweaks, Exposure, Hue and Curves can't be beat, IMO.
Captain Disillusion
2017-07-09 12:07:12 +0000 UTCEarly in the video you used hue and exposure separately. Why not use Lumetri Color which has all of that in one thing? Is it a rendering speed issue or just a personal preference?
Bizzaro.
2017-07-09 11:54:22 +0000 UTC
