Kinetic Type Techniques with Tina Touli

[Music] on this tutorial we are gonna explore how we could actually create some kinetic typography using simple type and after effects we are gonna use different effects and techniques in order to make our typography looks three-dimensional added some motion and make it even more engaging we are gonna start by creating a new composition on our file and call it part one i'm gonna keep the classic dimensions 1920 by 1080 and i'm gonna go ahead and press okay 10 seconds duration is enough for this little experimentation the first thing that i'm going to need is to bring in my type so i'm going to use the type tool to type in the word hello and i'm going to keep the phone the suzy international block which is one of my favorite ones but what i'm gonna do is duplicate this word a few times so i can actually use it as a texture to apply it to a 3d shape which is going to be a cylinder in this case so i'm gonna right click in order to align my anchor point to the center of the layer and then once again in order to center the object in view i'm going to rotate it using the shortcut of the w letter and scale it up to cover the full space of the composition if i'm going to go to the effects and type in cylinder i can just drag and drop the perspective cc cylinder effect either to the layer on the layers panel here or on my composition itself at the object that i wanted to which is in this case my typography on the rotation part i'm going to go ahead and rotate my cylinder in order to have it horizontal parallel to my canvas i'm gonna use also the rotation x in order to get some interesting perspective you can use the radius in order to increase and decrease the radius of the cylinder and further adjust it that feels already quite interesting we have the perspective so i'm going to go ahead and animate the y-axis so i'm going to put a keyframe which you can see if you press a u letter on your keyboard at the beginning and another one at the end of my timeline having a circle of number one so if i'm gonna press the spacebar you see how it actually rolls around itself which is an interesting graphic so i'm going to save my file it's quite important to save your file just in case that something crushes and so on what i'm going to do now is separate the front side with the back side of the cylinder so i can have full control of the lighting on them so i'm going to go ahead and switch the render to outside i'm going to duplicate the layer and i'm going to switch the bottom one to the inside so this way i have two layers with the two different parts of the cylinder i'm gonna grab the top one and go to the light in order to adjust my lighting so i probably need it from the right side so from somewhere here so it's nice and bright and i'm gonna increase also the intensity of the light and i'm gonna go ahead and add another layer between them a shape layer which i'm gonna create a rectangle in grayish tones and then i'm gonna apply a blending mode to it something like stencil luna which is going to color the back side of the cylinder even darker so you can see the difference by turning it on and off and that helps a lot in order to make the typography a bit more readable and yeah here we go so the first graphic is already done let's go ahead and move to part two on this part we're gonna create a new composition and try another experimentation we're gonna use exactly the same um format for a file press ok and we are going to start again by bringing in subtypography i'm going to type again hello but in this case here i'm going to keep the same font and the same weight for it but in this time i'm not gonna duplicate it just vertically but i'm gonna create three clones horizontally and few lines vertically so we need a kind of a rectangle long landscape graphic instead of the previous one so something like this can work pretty well i'm going to right click in order again to center the anchor point to the layer and you can also see the shortcuts if you want to use them and then center and view the whole composition scale it up again to make it nice and big to cover the full space so now we have our texture ready and the next step will be to create a cylinder again so on the effects i still have my previous surge of the cylinder so i'm going to go ahead and apply it to my composition i just want to see the outside so the front part so i'm gonna hide the other part i'm gonna make it a bit wider i think something like this works pretty well and i'm gonna go ahead and create a composition of that so i'm gonna pre-compose this um composition or actually let's firstly work a bit on the lighting so i think the direction was quite well just let's change a bit the brightness of it so something like this can be interesting or even the shading a bit so let's see the ambient so i think that works pretty well so i'm gonna right click to pre-compose and call it part two and what i'm gonna do next will be duplicating that part i'm gonna duplicate it so i can move it and position it on the left and duplicate it once again and position it on the right and this is a really interesting composition and what i want to achieve is also some movement on that so i'm gonna double click to get within the composition of part two and apply some rotation so again i can quickly test it's the y-axis what we want to use so i'm gonna add the keyframe the beginning of my timeline and i'm gonna move the handle in the end and add another keyframe with one round and you can quickly preview your cylinder rotating so i'm going to go ahead and go back to my composition and press the spacebar so it feels like the one continues to the next one and so on and that makes it like a nice continuous image something that we could work a bit farther could be the lighting which i'm not hundred percent happy with yet so perhaps the ambient is a bit too much and the direction should be from one side that creates a bit of extra contrast and of course you can play a bit farther and explore everything in detail before you export your file so let's move forward to our third part where we are going to create a kind of a ribbon turning around itself so a spiral could be described something like that so let's get started by creating a new composition again the same settings as before and starting with some type so let's bring in again our word which is just a hello and i'm gonna duplicate it this time just three times horizontally i'm gonna put the anchor point at the center and i'm gonna also center my object to the composition i'm gonna scale it up a bit and i'm gonna right click and then pre-compose call it again part three and i'm gonna get within this composition in order to scale down a bit the box so it perfectly fits our typography so i'm gonna press command k which is a shortcut in order to access the composition settings and i'm gonna go ahead and reduce the widths just by i think 20 and the height i think it should be around 250 so let's have a look or even less so 230 or even 200 or even less so 170 so it just needs a bit of play i think that's good i'm going to create a new layer a shape layer and i'm going to color the rectangle that i'm going to create within it white i'm going to bring it right underneath my typography and color my typography block from the character panel and go back to the composition layer where you will see the updated graphic appearing so i'm going to access my effects and apply again the cylinder that we just learned and i'm gonna increase a bit the size of the cylinder so something like there perhaps or yeah so that's quite good and then i'm gonna add another effect uh the transform one so it's always quite easy to just type in what you are looking for and the transform effect allows me to use this skew option which is revealing a kind of a ribbon so it's making your object being shifted in a way and after effect it really matters also the order that you place the effects so if i'm going to grab the transform and place it just above the cylinder you see that it actually creates a nice ribbon out of the graphic and that is actually what i wanted to achieve i'm gonna go ahead and scale up the word hello so i don't see the edges of this ribbon here and what i want to do next is create some kind of animation on my ribbon in order to do so i will need to access on the cylinder the rotation again and i'm going to use the y axis which makes it feel like it's moving around itself so again i'm going to go at the beginning and add a keyframe take my pointer and the very end of the timeline and the number one and the y axis rotation and job done so if i'm gonna press play you will see the low line wobbling around so turning around itself at this part we are going to explore how we can use the typography to turn it to a spherical 3d looking light composition so i'm going to go ahead and create a new composition with our standard presets press ok and start with the typography i'm going to type in again the word hello i'm going to color it white so it's gonna be visible and just duplicate it so we have double the word in a horizontal way i'm gonna go ahead and duplicate the word again a few times so like five times or something center the anchor point to the content and center it as well to the view go ahead and scale up my typography so it covers the full space i'm gonna select the whole composition and press enter and duplicate the typography so i'm just gonna clone it here even if you can see that and do that once again so i have multiple lines now with my typography and what i can do is zoom out in order to see like the red box which includes all the word hello multiple times and i'm gonna add a keyframe in the beginning with the position and a keyframe in the end with the new position that i'm gonna arrange firstly i'm gonna reveal my rulers by pressing command nr and bringing one here at the top of my typography i'm gonna add another keyframe and i'm gonna drag this box at that part where the last hello is still at the bottom of the composition and i'm gonna press play just have a look that feels good and what i'm gonna do now is pre-compose this graphic here so right click pre-compose and then call it part four now what we need to do next is to apply this graphic on a sphere so i'm going to go on the effects panel and type in sphere i'm going to drag and drop it to my composition and you see how immediately it applied my graphic on a sphere what i need to do though is to adjust few of the parameters of my sphere here in order to make it as engaging as possible firstly let's have a look at the radius so let's make it a nice and big sphere then i'm gonna go ahead and change the rotation so i can actually rotate it from a bit more interesting perspective that feels already nice to see the top of the sphere and what is going on there change perhaps that doesn't need to be changed so let's work with the rotation set and that starts getting quite quite engaging i just want to see the front so i'm going to put outside because i think it's getting quite confusing to see both the sides so at this part here i'm gonna also rotate it so i can see the full hello at the front so something like this i bet again like playing a bit around with the perspective to try to figure out where is the nicest possible angle to see the sphere from so something like this is getting there i feel like a bit up and i'm gonna go ahead and change the light so i'm gonna change the intensity to a higher one and perhaps something like this in terms of direction or even the shading let's go with the ambient like in full i don't really want the shade on that composition i'm gonna go ahead and press the spacebar in order to see the animation which is quite interesting to see all the hello moving towards the inside but i think it will be more engaging the opposite so i'm gonna revisit this words i'm going to press the u letter in order to reveal my key frames and switch the order of them and let's go back to our composition and see how it's looking like when you're starting from the center and going towards the outside of the circle into instead of the opposite and here we go so i think like that works pretty well so that's really interesting as an outcome in this part we are gonna start from the previous part where we created a sphere with the word hello and we are gonna work a bit further on the specific graphic so let's explore a bit further the sphere i'm going to go ahead and rotate it in a different perspective so we just see the front of it so i only need to adjust one of the axes which is the x one so minus 90 so i can see the very top of my shape i'm gonna go and select the invert option on my effects so i can make the typography the opposite color i'm gonna go within my composition here and create a new layer a shape layer and create a black rectangle which i'm gonna place just behind my typography so when i'm gonna invert it in this case here i will have a white lovely background here so what i'm gonna do next is turning the shape to a taurus and i'm gonna kind of fake it so i'm gonna go ahead and create a new layer a shape layer grab a circle and draw it right in the middle of my shape and right click to transform and align it to the center which we didn't align yet the anchor point so it feels a bit off so let's go ahead and do that again perfect and that already feels like a taurus and if i'm gonna press play as well you will see this lovely motion going on like how the layers are going out perhaps in this case i would prefer them the other way around so i'm going to access again the composition with the typography and swap the order of the keyframes of the position and press play again and yeah i think it works pretty well when they are going towards the center i'm going to scale this a bit and make it smaller and what i'm going to do next is right click layer styles and add an outer glow so i will need a glue in order to bring a kind of a gradient that will help me make it look more three-dimensional so i switch the color and i'm gonna also change the spread and the size so we can have it nice and big and visible there and what we perhaps also need to change is the blend mode from screen to something like multiply so now it's also visible so the spread is a bit too much we just need a tiny bit so we can still leave the size a bit bigger and you already see that it feels like it has some extra depth at the moment and you can play around and adjust those parameters so it gets as realistic as possible another thing that they can do is duplicate the shape here and make it nice and big so it's the same with my taurus i'm gonna color it white instead and remove the layer style so right click layer styles and then inner glow i'm gonna change from the inner glow panel from yellow to black and press ok and then i'm going to switch also the size so i'm going to make it way bigger and of course i need to adjust again from screen to multiply in order to have the shade a bit more visible what i need to also do is change the blending mode from normal to multiply in order to be able to see through i'm going to reduce a bit of this size of this inner glow i feel like is it getting a bit too much so something like 60 i think would be good and i'm gonna do the same with the shape underneath and i'm gonna read use it from 125 to just hundred and here you go it already feels like a bit more of a three-dimensional shape so if i'm gonna press play you will be able to see this lovely motion of the torus and the typography rolling around it we're gonna go ahead and explore a new tool in after effects which is the effect of warp i'm gonna create a new composition again and start with my typography so i'm gonna go ahead and type in the word hello and this time cloning just few times in a horizontal axis so one two and i'm gonna scale it up and center it as we usually do so transform center anchor point and then transform center and view and of course we'll need to press command k in order to adjust our composition or actually i'm not gonna adjust the composition i'm gonna pre-compose it and call it part six and then go ahead and adjust the composition of the typography itself and i think we need something like 230 let's have a look yes that perfectly works and i'm gonna go ahead and select all the wording press space paste it press paste and paste it so i made six hello and a horizontal line instead of just two that we had in the beginning i'm gonna add a keyframe on the position part at the beginning and another keyframe at the end and i'm gonna use my rulers in order to grab the typography and scroll it on the side somewhere like there perfect and let's have a look on what we created great so it's lovely line moving on the side i'm going to go ahead and color my typography block and create a new shape layer which is going to be not a circle so a rectangle a white rectangle which i'm going to bring behind my typography and i'm going to switch back to the composition the initial composition in order to apply some effects so i'm going to go to effect and select the work it's a lovely effect that allows you to distort your typography in multiple different ways so you can see arc lower arc or bulge and flag wave and so on so i'm going to go ahead and select the fish which is a lovely distortion from a thicker to thinner part change the blend to a bit more intense so something like 17. i'm gonna duplicate this layer and i'm gonna select the flag option and i'm going to drag it a bit farther down so the edge match the edge of the other layer and i'm going to duplicate it once again and i'm going to put -70 instead so it takes the opposite direction the wave bring it at the top tile it up with the rest and duplicate again the first layer which i'm going to mark with the blue color so i can differentiate it i'm gonna paste it at the top and put -70 so we have the opposite distortion from the previous one place it at the top duplicate it again to place it at the bottom and create a little puzzle with the different distortions i'm going to duplicate those two layers as well so i'm going to bring them here at the very top graph it and place it at the bottom to cover this little part here that is remained black make sure that you are working in detail and i'm going to grab also that part to bring it at the top and cover that part there and if you press play you will be able to see the type moving lovely on the side and creating this little waves that make it look quite engaging let's see in this part we are going to start with the composition that we created on part 6 and we are going to go ahead and remove all of the parts except from one we are going to start again by changing the effect from the effect control panel instead of the fish one i'm gonna go and select the rice and that's just a different one that i feel like it's quite engaging i'm gonna make it minus and let's make it a bit like off a bigger wave so something like 100 place it at the bottom and duplicate it in order to get another wave that has the opposite direction so plus 100 and tile them up together and tile them up together so they perfectly match the beginning of one with the beginning of the other i'm gonna grab both now and bring them a bit more centered and i'm gonna duplicate them and drag them up this way we have a kind of a thicker ribbon in a way i'm gonna go ahead and select the two that they have the same direction in the wave and mark them both let's say green now i'm gonna make the other ones visible too and i'm gonna bring them behind i'm gonna select all of them and place them at the center of my composition and press play to preview what we created so it feels quite interesting one thing that i feel like we are still missing is the sense of depth so i'm gonna create a new layer shape layer which is gonna have a gray tone and i'm gonna use it in order to create a shadow at the layer behind so i'm gonna use from the blending mode the option stencil luna which is gonna color the hello ribbon which is placed at the back of the composition and if you press the spacebar you'll be able to preview your graphic starting from part seven i'm gonna grab those lines and i'm gonna move ahead by creating another graphic based on the warp effect so i'm gonna delete most of them and i'm just gonna keep one of the stripes i'm gonna duplicate it and remove from the effect controllers the work and place the line at the very top of my composition duplicate it again to place it at the very bottom and work a bit farther on how i could use those stripes to create a nice engaging result i'm gonna even like rotate it perhaps one of them so it feels like it's connecting the two stripes together so i'm gonna play a bit with which one is gonna be the front and which one at the back i feel like this should be at the very back and since it's shifted i'm gonna color it green so you can easily recognize it again and i'm gonna grab also this wobbly one and bring it at the very top so it's kind of the hero of the composition so purple so we can actually see that and what i'm going to do next is create a shape layer and add that so we can create some kind of tones and show the idea of depth in our composition so stencil luna and i'm gonna duplicate it and add another one like somewhere like there or even like i'm gonna be brave and go at the very top make it a bit brighter i feel like it's a bit too dark and create some kind of depth by using the different shades of gray on the different ribbons different parts of this composition here just tiny bit darker perhaps that one so you can play around till you get a nice balance another tool that i'm using quite often when it comes to kinetic typography is the mess work so i'm going to create a new composition and i'm going to start with our classic typography so type in the word hello i'm gonna multiply this word so i'm gonna make four clones and again i'm gonna adjust the anchor point to center it and center the composition and view i'm gonna scale it up to cover the full space and i'm gonna pre-compose it by right-clicking pre-compose and call it part nine i'm gonna go within this composition and adjust my canvas so it's a square canvas and that feels quite good perhaps we need to add a tiny bit of extra width so something like 200 yes 1200 that feels quite good and i'm gonna color it black i'm gonna create a new shape behind which is gonna be white for the background and of course i'm gonna bring it underneath my type just by dragging and leaving the layer there i'm gonna go ahead and animate this layer so i'm gonna add a keyframe on the transform on the position and another one in the end where i'm gonna drag the typography up so it goes outside the canvas i'll need to duplicate it so it fills the full space here and leave it somewhere like there would say and yeah we just have our typography moving towards up i'm gonna go back to the composition layer where you can see our type and i'm gonna go ahead and apply the mess work so type in warp and you'll get the mess work effect so i'm gonna reduce the rows to one and the columns two and perhaps let's increase just the rows you will see that you get some rows that allow you to just click on the edges grab the anchor points and move them around in order to adjust the mesh and that is really handy when you want to create your kind of fake 3d effect and have full control of how the surface is going to look like and by applying this mess wrap and to a composition that allows you to animate what is within the mesh wrap without affecting the mesh itself so something like this feels quite interesting it feels like a page that comes at the bottom and it starts rolling and falling uh down on the floor or something like that so if i'm gonna press play i will be able to see something like that i feel like the direction is a bit wrong so we need to go ahead and swap the position keyframes since we wanted to roll towards the bottom not uh to have it rolling up and if you press the spacebar you get this lovely animation of a paper rolling in this last part we are going to explore how we could make our typography looking like a bit more liquid so i'm going to create again a new composition and i'm going to start with our classic word hello i'm gonna color it white so we can actually see that and just multiply it i think three times could be enough and what i'm gonna do is again like adjusting my anchor at the center and centering view the typography itself scale it up and create a new composition out of it so right click pre-compose and then call it part 10. so i'm gonna go to the effects panel and pick one of my favorite effects which is the mr mercury so this effect allows you to create a kind of water effect so drops coming out and you see that the distortions are applied also the typography itself so i'm going to go ahead and adjust some of the different properties that i can from this panel here so change it but the velocity and perhaps also the global size i feel like it's a bit too small so i want to see more of this typography so something like there it's feels pretty good and the depth size as well i'm gonna go ahead and increase it a bit and press play to have a look on what we created so it's a really simple effect which looks great it looks so nice like without really doing a lot of stuff but of course you can explore it more like define what it could be in the background how exactly you're gonna make these drops moving and so on and what i usually do is crop this very beginning of this effect so i can start straight away with this distortions and just leaving it to play around with this wobbly waves over the typography hope you enjoyed those quick tutorials in after effects and looking forward to see what you're gonna come up with how you're gonna use the skills of kinetic typography and your imagination to create your very own graphics

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Keywords: Kinetic Typography, Type Tutorial, Graphic Design, Design Tutorial

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Length: 36min 16sec (2176 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 10 2020