Elegant Glass Text Reveal - After Effects tutorial
With the glass effect and some noise, we can create a glass looking text with glints and sparkles.
Hope you find this useful. Any comments and feedback are appreciated.
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As I was making this, I remembered a similar tutorial by Andrew Kramer, called fantasy titles, so I was probably subconsciously inspired by it. You can find it here:
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial...
STUFF I USED IN THIS TUTORIAL:
FREE "knoll unmult" plugin (To remove black color):
https://support.maxon.net/hc/en-us/ar...
EXPRESSIONS:
Applies an continuous animation to the first dimension in a property with multiple dimensions (E.g. Scale, position, etc) by linking the variable "A" to the Slider effect "Time Anim" on the layer "CTRL" in the composition "LogoAnim_Glass":
A = comp("LogoAnim_Glass").layer("CTRL").effect("Time Anim")(1);
[time*A, 0]
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:10 Creating the Text
01:20 Creating the texture
05:30 Applying Glass effect
07:10 Adjusting effect
07:45 Dissolve effect
09:05 Animating text properties
10:10 Glints
12:25 Depth of field/Blur effect
13:30 Soft reflection
14:30 Sparkles
16:25 Background flare and Final results
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