This is pretty awesome and your key frame copy paste idea is such a massive time saver. Ty for doing this and sharing it. I look forward to learning more from you.
Super Underrated bro! I'm going to sit down tonight and finish my logo and I have to say by far, this look to be the best explained so far. More views and Subs to this man!
I scaled my artwork down 50% after pasting my vector file in. When I copy the mask path and paste it on the sparks position it pastes the artwork mask before I scaled it down. Resulting in the sparks to follow a scaled up version of my art. Do you know how to fix that issue?
Brilliant tutorial man! Thank you so much. I'm trying to recreate this but with a very complex logo from Illustrator. I copied the path from Illustrator and pasted into AE and I can see the logo as a path (outline) with no fill or outline, although the fill and outline are showing red and white colors on the toolbar. That's one problem. But the one I can't figure out is how to convert this complex logo shape/path into a mask? There's no right-click option to 'create mask' from shape layer as you did with the text layer. Could you please guide me? I'm a novice at this.
If I'm understanding correctly, your path should already be a mask, so you don't need to do any conversion. Like when you copy paths over from illustrator they should paste in as masks by default
@@Beta-1Studios Thanks for the reply man. Yes, you're right but since my path is extremely complex, there are too many masks 😁 Anyways I figured out the "Auto-trace" feature under 'Layer' if it will help anyone else with complex shapes. I pre-composed the Logo and Autotraced it to create an acceptable mask. It's not perfect but it should do for now. Thanks so much once again. I have so much to learn 😉
Been a while since I've done it, but you should be able to copy paste after you've expanded the object in Illustrator (Object > Expand) and it will turn into a mask once you paste it in After Effects. Made this a very long time ago perhaps it might help indirectly: ua-cam.com/video/30i6Ck2vfTk/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared&t=172
Yep so there are a couple ways to do it. The simplest is to type your text as a text layer, then create a new solid, add saber, go to customize core, and under core type, select text layer and choose the text you made. Alternatively if you don't want the text layer hanging around, you can do what I did in the tutorial, right click > create masks from text, then in the new solid it creates, you can apply saber and choose layer masks under customize core. However, for both of these methods, it will treat your entire text as a single object. So the appearance is applied uniformly, and animating on/offset will animate all the letters at once. If you want to control each letter of your text individually (which is what I think you are asking?), you will need to make individual text layers for each letter and repeat the entire saber application process for each one.
Yeah so I think after you copied all the position keyframes over, you probably pulled them out the wrong way, so they're all in backwards order. You should be able to fix it just by selecting all the keyframes, holding alt, clicking and dragging the last keyframe all the way to the left until it becomes the first keyframe. (basically flipping it around)
Beta-1 Studios I fixed it! Turns out i had to select all the keyframes, right click, select keyframe assistant, and click time-reverse keyframes. Thanks a ton! Amazing video.
This is pretty awesome and your key frame copy paste idea is such a massive time saver. Ty for doing this and sharing it. I look forward to learning more from you.
Super Underrated bro! I'm going to sit down tonight and finish my logo and I have to say by far, this look to be the best explained so far. More views and Subs to this man!
What an amazing tutorial, my logo looks so much better now! Thank you!
that just what i was looking for...thanks👍👍❗
I scaled my artwork down 50% after pasting my vector file in. When I copy the mask path and paste it on the sparks position it pastes the artwork mask before I scaled it down. Resulting in the sparks to follow a scaled up version of my art. Do you know how to fix that issue?
Brilliant tutorial man! Thank you so much. I'm trying to recreate this but with a very complex logo from Illustrator. I copied the path from Illustrator and pasted into AE and I can see the logo as a path (outline) with no fill or outline, although the fill and outline are showing red and white colors on the toolbar. That's one problem. But the one I can't figure out is how to convert this complex logo shape/path into a mask? There's no right-click option to 'create mask' from shape layer as you did with the text layer. Could you please guide me? I'm a novice at this.
If I'm understanding correctly, your path should already be a mask, so you don't need to do any conversion. Like when you copy paths over from illustrator they should paste in as masks by default
@@Beta-1Studios Thanks for the reply man. Yes, you're right but since my path is extremely complex, there are too many masks 😁 Anyways I figured out the "Auto-trace" feature under 'Layer' if it will help anyone else with complex shapes. I pre-composed the Logo and Autotraced it to create an acceptable mask. It's not perfect but it should do for now. Thanks so much once again. I have so much to learn 😉
thx
How do you import a non-text item from illustrator and make it a mask? I have paths in illustrator.
Been a while since I've done it, but you should be able to copy paste after you've expanded the object in Illustrator (Object > Expand) and it will turn into a mask once you paste it in After Effects.
Made this a very long time ago perhaps it might help indirectly: ua-cam.com/video/30i6Ck2vfTk/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared&t=172
How do I make the letter R? (two layers are formed)
As far as I know you would have to just do it as two separate masks. If you put both masks on the same layer they should animate on concurrently
how can i do it for a word ?
like shold i copy paste each mask ???
Yep so there are a couple ways to do it. The simplest is to type your text as a text layer, then create a new solid, add saber, go to customize core, and under core type, select text layer and choose the text you made. Alternatively if you don't want the text layer hanging around, you can do what I did in the tutorial, right click > create masks from text, then in the new solid it creates, you can apply saber and choose layer masks under customize core.
However, for both of these methods, it will treat your entire text as a single object. So the appearance is applied uniformly, and animating on/offset will animate all the letters at once. If you want to control each letter of your text individually (which is what I think you are asking?), you will need to make individual text layers for each letter and repeat the entire saber application process for each one.
@@Beta-1Studios yep
thanks a lot broo !
which software do you use for the desktop background huh bro?
Rainmeter!
My sparks are going the opposite direction as my saber layer. How can I fix this?
By that do you mean that the sparks start from the end point and run backwards to the start?
Beta-1 Studios exactly! Its like a mirrored image.
Yeah so I think after you copied all the position keyframes over, you probably pulled them out the wrong way, so they're all in backwards order. You should be able to fix it just by selecting all the keyframes, holding alt, clicking and dragging the last keyframe all the way to the left until it becomes the first keyframe. (basically flipping it around)
Beta-1 Studios I fixed it! Turns out i had to select all the keyframes, right click, select keyframe assistant, and click time-reverse keyframes. Thanks a ton! Amazing video.
Nice, glad you found it helpful 👍
thank you / ^_^ first like
Awesome! Glad you liked it 😄