Main Concepts:

These are the features and concepts we will be focusing on in this project:

• Spotting music

• Vector Paint effect (PB)

• Anchor Points

• Slam down text animation

• Continuous rasterization

• Hold keyframes

• Masking in the Comp window

• 3D rotation

• Adjustment layers

• Transfer modes

• Tinderbox T_LensBlur effect*

Requirements:

After Effects 5.0 Production Bundle (required for Vector Paint effect); all other aspects of the tutorial could be completed with the 5.0 Standard version.

Getting Started:

* Be sure to install the Lens Blur effect from The Foundry (www.thefoundry.co.uk), included on the accompanying CD in the Free Plug-ins folder.

Inside the Tutorials master folder on the accompanying CD, locate and copy the folder 03_HotCool to your hard drive.

In the folder Final Movie inside this main folder, double-click and play HotCool.mov.

Inside the Project folder you ll find the finished After Effects project file HotCool_5PB.aep. Open the project file this is your starting point. We suggest you save under a new name after each major section.

(Note: If you don t have the Production Bundle, the Vector Paint effect will simply be removed from the project; you can still use this project to complete the other tasks.)

Overview

This breezy tutorial shares three ideas for animating the words in the title Hot but Cool: jerkily slamming the word Hot into place, rotating but into position in 3D, and using the Production Bundle s Vector Paint effect to reveal Cool one...