Preparation before class
Today we will use AE to make a motion effect about a music app. It took 3 nights to design this motion effect file, and then spent 5 hours writing this tutorial. Since this article is a graphic description, so Beginners may encounter problems at some point that I did not consider.
Materials that must be downloaded
Materials needed for this article
Network disk download: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1vLNAnalWpwing9whetI_vQ
Plugin download
Particular particle plugin
WIN download: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1Jl_RHw1saRXpOF-Oj-EO8w%20target=#list/path=%2F
MAC download: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1Z-zz3cFVCAo-ZYu2M5JVTw%20target=#list/path=%2F
1. Determine what needs to be done
1. Dynamic background of starry sky
2. The dynamic effect of spectrum jitter
3. Circular time progress
4. The dynamic effect of time
5. Overall interface design
2. How to set up a new project file
Let's set up a new document for our project (Composition > New Composition) with the following settings:
width: 750px;
height: 1334px;
Frame rate: 25 frames/sec
Background color: #151422
3. Introduction to plug-in Particular
"Layer - New - Solid Color" creates a solid color layer
After installing the plug-in, select Particular in RG Trapcode in "Effect" to open the particle plug-in, and you can see the style of the effect control on the left.
Press the "spacebar" to browse the initial particle styles.
Translation of the main functions of the Particle part:
Particle (Master): Particle (Master)
Life [sec]: particle lifetime (seconds)
Life Random [%]: Particle existence time jitter (percentage)
Particle Type: particle type
Sprite: Child screen
Sphere Feather: Particle Feather
Texture: structure
Layer: layer
Time Sampling: Time sampling
Random Seed: random number
Number of Clips: Number of clips
Subframe Sampline: Subframe sampling
Rotation: Rotation
Aspect Ratio: ratio
Size: size
Size Random [%]: Size jitter
Size over Life: The way to change
Opacity: Transparency
Opacity Random [%]: Transparency jitter (percentage)
Opacity over Life: Transparency property changes
Set Color: set color
Color: color
Color Random [%]: Color jitter (percent)
Color over Life: Color property changes
Blend Mode: Blend Mode
Unmult: plugin
Blend Mode over Life: Blend Mode Changes
Glow: Particle glow
Feather: the degree of edge feathering
Streaklet: Showcase
Number of Streak: The number of impressions
Streak Size: Display size
4. How to set the starry sky background
1. Modify the Particle
life is modified to: 10 (to make the particles last longer}
The size is modified to 1.5 (to make the particle size smaller)
Opacity over life choice
Can make the particles not particularly dense, and can weaken part of the starlight
Set Color opens Over Life so that you can set the color
Open Color Over Life and set the gradient color #00B4FF - #0000FF
2. Modify the Spherical Field under AIR in Physics
Strength：100px；
Radius: 970px; (Strength is similar to Radius, one is the strength of diffusion and the other is the range of diffusion)
After adjusting this step, the starlight will be very weak. For the time being, you don't need to continue to adjust one.
3. The last step
Since the starlight in the middle is too weak, change the Positions of the Sphere Position to [960,540,0] and the Positions of the Emitter to [960,540,0] to move the overall coordinates to the edge
Note: The first 6 seconds is the particle appearance time, so you can click the timeline to move the time forward
Five, how to set the sound spectrum sound wave
There are three lines of sound spectrum, inner and outer, the outer side is the sound spectrum, the middle layer is the progress, and the inner layer is a fixed stroke.
1. First download a piece of audio into the project
Drag and drop mp4 files from a folder directly into the composition
2. Create sound waves
Again "Layer - New - Solid Color" to create a solid color layer, open "Effects - Generate - Audio Spectrum"
Select the audio layer in the upper left corner and change the file to a music file
Then choose "Effect - Distort - Polar Coordinates"
Change the interpolation to: 100
Conversion type changed to: Rectangle to Epipolar
3. The last step
Next, modify the spectrum parameters
Start point changed to: 0,400
End point changed to: 750, 400
End frequency changed to: 300
Change the frequency band to: 80
Thickness changed to: 5
Softness changed to: 0
Side option changed to: B Side
6. How to set the circular time progress
Next, create the middle progress and the inner stroke
Right-click Mask on this layer - New Mask,
And click the small arrow on the left to open the mask and modify the blending mode to add to none
Click on the shape in the mask path and modify the right and bottom to 330px
Check Reset to Ellipse and click OK
Then place the mask path in the middle of the score
After selecting the mask CTRL+D, you can copy a layer, then double-click the circular mask of the artboard, Ctrl+Shift reduces the copied circular mask
Next open "Effects - Generate - Stroke"
Click the stroke on the upper left to modify the path to mask 1 (this mask is the middle progress)
After Ctrl+D, modify the path to mask 2 (this mask is the inner stroke)
Next, modify the stroke parameters
Stroke 2:
The brush size is: 10px
Brush Hardness: 100
You can slide the "start" data, you can see the change of the stroke, if you can't do animation, it is recommended to watch the "AE Dynamic Effect Basics" released before
Stroke:
The brush size is: 2px
Brush Hardness: 100
Change the opacity to 20%
7. How to set the dynamic effect of text time
Create an empty text layer
Hold Alt and click the time icon in front of the source file and paste the script below to create a walkable time
Copy the code in the comments below
You can modify the data of the characters on the right to 24px and change the font to Impact
Eight, put the dynamic effect into the overall interface to modify the color
Put the cut graph into the project in ae, drag it into the composition for typesetting, as shown below:
Next, I will use the spectrum waveform to do a demonstration of adjusting the color:
Adjust color and add texture
add sequentially
"Effects - Generate - Four Color Gradient" to adjust the color to your liking (adjustable overall layer color)
"Effects - Generate - Lens Flare" adjusts the blending level (allows the overall layer to be light and dark)
"Effects - Stylize - Glow (makes the overall layer brighter)
Follow the previous steps to add to
The effect after finishing adjusting the color
This tutorial is also what I am learning and selling now, I hope everyone can make progress together