Glossy Christmas Greeting Title in After Effects - After Effects Tutorial

this after effects tutorial is sponsored by actionvfx.com hey guys what's up i am nikhil from duomotions.com and in this after effects tutorial we will create a glossy christmas greeting animation inside of after effects without using any plugins it's going to be a super awesome tutorial covering a lot of different effects and techniques so make sure you watch the complete video till the end and i'm sure it will be super helpful to you so without any further ado let's jump into after effects and get started [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right so here we are in after effects let's start by creating a new composition called this render as our final render comp for the width i'll set this to 1920 and for the height let's go with 1080 full hd 30 fps and 10 seconds long hit okay let's create one more composition which is going to be our logo placeholder here you can use any logo or any image whatever that you want to use so i'll call this logo slash text so you can also add a text or a logo whatever that you want to use and finally i'll create one more composition which is going to be a reflection column i'm going to call this ref for reflection so first of all let's jump into our logo text and type in the text that we want so i'm going to type in merry christmas let's make this white and for the font i'm gonna go with the matchmaker font i have mentioned link in the description so you can download the same exact font if you want to all right so this is looking pretty nice let's add our subtext so i'll hit ctrl d to duplicate it so merry christmas and a happy new year all right i'm going to make this a bit smaller just like so and place it somewhere around there so looking good so our logo or text whatever that you want to call it is ready now let's go ahead and create a reflection for our text which is going to give that nice realism and shiny feel to it so i am in the reflection comp and let's drag and drop in the image that i have right over here i'm going to scale this down and by the way you can download the complete project file from the link in the description below it's absolutely free so we need to add quite a few of effects on this particular image to make it work so first effect that i will be using is cc repetitive so i'll go into effects and preset type in cc reptile and this is going to help us to animate this image so basically if i go right here in the image hit p to bring down the position properties create a keyframe let's go all the way up to 10 second and let's say if i move this something like that i want to increase the i want to expand the right side of this image so basically i'm going to go right here in the cc reptile and click on and select the expand right and increase this just like so so i can set this to around maybe 2000 all right and in the titling i'm going to set this from repeat to let's go with unfold so now you can see we have this very simple animation i think it's a bit too slow so maybe i can move this a bit more forward like that i guess and increase this to around 3 000 yep all right so that is okay we can change it later on if we need to the second effect that i will be adding is going to be a tint so i'll go into effects and preset type in tent and let's add it in let's bring down the 10 to around 75 percent i don't want to keep it completely black and white i want it to be subtle um you know subtle colors maybe around 70 is good and finally i'll add a curves to this and let's punch up the contrast so i can just click and drag this so it's going to increase the contrast and as you can see we get more of that black and white contrast in the image and finally now it's a bit too sharp as you can see i want to add some fast blur to this so i'll go and type in a fast blur you can add that and let's increase this to around um very subtle maybe around 10 so around 10 looks fine so there we have our reflection now i know it's not making sense at the moment but just wait just wait till we create the main reflection so let's jump into our render comp let me add the reflection composition and let's add the logo and the text composition on the top let's change the track matte of the reflection comp so hit f4 and change the track map to alpha on mac so it looks something like this which is still weird i know but now i'm going to select the reflection composition go into effects and preset and add cc blob lies all right i'm going to double click to apply still it looks weird so let's go into the blobbiness and set the blob layer from reference to a logo and text and now you can see we you get the idea of what we are going right here you can see we get this really nice kind of a reflection that we have here pretty cool now let's change the property from lightness to alpha bring down the softness to nine that works pretty good and let's set the cut away to around five so as you can see now it started to look very very nice so you can actually play around with the number of different settings you can play around with the softness you can keep it very tight if you want to so maybe something like around let's go with some like eight and you can play around with the cutaway so i can increase that and you know get the desired look five works pretty good and i think it's looking pretty nice so you can see right off the bat we get this very cool kind of a reflection for our text now we need to make it that nice gold color that we have in the previous example that i showed you so to do that i'm going to go into effects and preset and add a curves to this and with this effect we will try to achieve the yellow color now one thing i forgot to mention is i want to go into the light property and set the light intensity all the way down to zero and increase the light height all the way up to 100 all right so now it looks much more realistic you can play around with the light intensity if you want to so maybe zero is a way too much low so while it's on like 20 that is fine so now let's go into the curves and what i'm going to do first of all i'm going to set this to red and then let's drag this point all the way up just like so switch to green and let's increase the green point as well so something like that and then switch to blue and bring down the blues like so it's a bit too gold so something like that and you can obviously anytime just the main rgb depending on the look and yep there we go i think it worked out pretty well really quick this time now as you can see we get this very nice gold look to our text which looks pretty nice all right also make sure you're working on 16 bits per channel if you want to change it you can hold alt and just click on this so it's going to switch from 8 bits to 16 bit so also now let's go ahead and animate this so what i'm going to do is hit f4 and make both the layers into 3d layer so now let's go ahead and create a new um camera 50 millimeters is good here okay let's right click create a new null object as well and i'm going to align this into the center and now we can make this 3d and pattern the camera to the null object and animate the null so i'm going to hit p and let's go to around maybe three seconds is fine um create a keyframe on the position go back and let's scale it all the way up just like so all right i'm going to select the keyframes hit f9 and go into the graph editor right click and select edit speed graph select this point and drag it to the left and this one as well just like so so now we have this very nice animation as you can see all right pretty good we can also go ahead and add some motion blur to this so it looks much nicer all right let's select everything hit ctrl shift c to pre-compose it call this animation and i'm going to hit okay let's add a nice background to this so hit ctrl y to create a new solid call this bg for background hit ok drag it in the background go to effects and preset and let's add a full color gradient to this so we can nicely add some colors to this so i'm gonna select the yellow and copy paste this color code that i have you can use the same exact colors if you want i'm gonna hit okay let's select this one for all the other colors except i'm gonna make them a bit darker to get a little bit of variation in them so it looks something like that and i can just move this like so we can add some jitter of maybe 10 person just to avoid any kind of color bendings and that looks good that is looking pretty good as you can see so i'm going to select the animation layer going to fix in preset and add some glow on this so let's uh double click to apply the glow increase the radius really high and bring up the threshold just like so so around 90 would be a sweet spot and 1.5 of glow intensity and increase the radius to 200 so that is looking pretty nice as you can see and now one cool thing that we can do is duplicate this hit ctrl d select the second layer get rid of the glow and i'm gonna add cc radial blur on this all right and change the type from scratch to faded zoom or straight zoom i think it was straight zoom let's solo this up so i can just focus on this and let's increase this so yeah it was straight it was straight zoom i'm gonna unsolid this up so we get this really nice effect maybe i think it was fading zoom yeah fading zoom not straight zoom okay so as you can see it's looking pretty nice maybe i'll set this to 100 looks damn cool we can play around with the quality quality is 50 and i think um we don't need to increase this 50 is fine all right so let's go ahead and animate this so i'll go to three seconds select this hit t create a keyframe go at the very start and set this to and create a keyframe here as well and go to three seconds and set this to zero actually select the keyframes hit f9 graph editor and the same exact thing that we did before pretty easy peasy so you can see we have this very nice looking animation pretty nice maybe i'll increase this to four seconds because i think it looks pretty damn cool you can see it's pretty nice there we go now what i can do is add some elements to our background and give it a bit more professional and realism to the complete title animation so first thing that i'm going to use is some dust particles that i got from actionvfx.com and some fog footage as well that again again which i got from actionvfx.com now if you don't know about this website let me take a minute and tell you about them action vfx in my opinion offers some of the highest quality action stock footage that you can find on the market at the moment anything from explosions impacts energy effects particles smoke water splashes blood and so much more they also have some free stuffs on their website that is worth checking it out so go ahead and check out actionvfx.com the link is in the description below they have a special black friday offer going on where you can download everything at a discounted price of flat 50 off so now let's go back to our main comp and in the background i'm gonna add this nice fork that we have hit f4 and change the blend mode to um it was screen and let's go into effects and preset and type in tint and let's add a nice tint on this and in the white color i'm gonna select the color from background so it's gonna add some nice redness to this and you can see we have this really nice fog in the background which is looking pretty cool and also i can add some dust on the top set the blending mode to screen again and then what i can do is again add a tint this time i'm going to add this nice yellow color let's pick whip this from the text itself and let's add a glow on this so let's type in glow double click to apply that up and set the glow intensity to 10 so really high and let's increase the radius now just let's solo this up so we can just focus on this let's bring down the threshold and increase the radius really nice and high something like this bring down threshold like so trying to balance between them so basically we get this really nice um glowing particles and that is what i'm going for so i can unsolo this up and you can see we get this really nice particles if i just set this to full you can see the complete result maybe i can set this to around 30 and increase the radius a bit more all right so that is looking actually pretty cool now the animation can be a bit heavy as you can see because of the effects that we are using in such a way so let's go ahead and preview the complete animation so as you can see it's looking very nice very professional and i'm really loving the final result so that is all for today guys i hope you enjoyed this tutorial we covered various different effects and various different techniques of creating those cool reflections as well so i hope you enjoyed it if you did make sure you subscribe to the channel we are so close of reaching 300 000 subscribers which is absolutely mind blowing so please make it happen as soon as possible the aim is to reach 300 300 000 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Length: 16min 5sec (965 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 01 2020