Create a Leaf Growing Network TV Commercial - Tutorial

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Create a Leaf Growing Network TV ID

Bryan Clark on Jul 15th 2009 with 135 comments

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Network TV ID’s are usually a 5 or 10 second piece that pleasantly announces the channel’s logo. In this tutorial you will learn how to create this real-world, network ID-style scene for your logo or type treatment using After Effects, Trapcode Particular, and stock images.

Some techniques covered will be:

• using the layer emitter and custom particles in Particular to create growing leaves
• using “wiggle” and “random” expressions to create wind movement in leaves
• simple 3D AE camera use with Depth of Field (DOF) and wiggle for handheld feel.
• using a “length” expression to tie the DOF Focus point to a NULL for easy animation
• color grading with blend modes and overlay effects

Requirement: Trapcode Particular Plugin (download free trial here)

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