Splitting Liquid Shapes (like how cells divide) - Adobe After Effects tutorial
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- Watch solid shapes break apart like they're made of liquid gross crap. This is kind of how cells divide. But not really. Someone asked me about how to divide cells and after I told them what I read on wikipedia and they said they just needed to animate it I told them to just draw it. But really there is a simpler solution, with much much less drawing.
It uses the often overlooked roughen edges effect and it's pretty darn versatile. You'll be making cool stuff with this in no time... or space.
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I highly appreciate you took the time to elaborate what every effect is doing in general and not just what numbers to put in. This is SO important for the learning process and many tutorials skip that part. thank you very much for the video. I feel I am a better designer now.
At last a tutor that doesn't just march through a series of instructions and takes time to explain the theory behind the After Effects tools. Great tutorial, very helpful thank you : )
Seriously one of the best tutorials I've ever watched. High quality thorough, informative, entertaining. Thanks for contributing.
Thanks for the great tutorials. You're the only AfterEffects dude on CZcams that actually explains what things do, and it's awesome. Keep doin' what you're doin', Evan.
Love this tutorial. Doing great looking stuff by being smart with simple effects and keyframing. Every step is clear and it sparks a million ideas. Just how a tutorial should be!
+Alan Rudge glad you enjoy it.
I absolutely love you for this. I can't express enough how amazing you are as a teacher. To the point, easy to understand, concise and thorough and always entertaining (which makes 20 mins seem like 5). So glad you made the leap away from Premium Beat for your own following.
THANK YOU!!!!
OMG man! the way you explain all the effect properties is so clarifying. That video worth the subscription. CONGRATS FROM BARCELONA!
You make great tutorials brother, easy to follow, fun to watch, keep up the good work!
6 years later and still an AMAZING video! Thank you!
As always, great work. I've used all those filters before but never considered stacking them the way you have. Thank you for sharing.
Superb tutorials..Please never stop doing these :)
Pratik Jain I'll try. Eventually I will die in a horrible badger related accident as foretold by a roadside fortune teller. But until then I'll try.
Haha you won't we all need you and your tutorials :)
ECAbrams
This is great, thanks. I will be following more of your lessons. The fun level just went up a few notches because of your causal approach to teaching.
Exactly what I was after. New to using AE and this was a tutorial that helped me learn the tool better outside of just the one trick of the moment I was searching on- while still being succinct and pro and amusing. Many many thanks!!
This is a great tutorial. I really like how you explain the process in an open way rather then just making something and having to follow step by step. I feel like It's more open to interpretation of use rather then just a paint by numbers tutorial. great also fun hosting.
Excellent! Then that is a mission accomplished for this channel :)
Great tutorial- fun to listen to- Evan, I love how much fun you have with this and don't take yourself too seriously. I actually want to do a tutorial video on cell division, and this was (almost) just the thing. The problem is that I want to do this with a different fill color than the stroke color, and that creates problems. Instead of the cell dividing in the middle, one kind of hatches out of the other. I applied trim paths to each circle and then offset the start and end, adding keyframes in the process to tighten it up a bit (I was pretty proud of myself for figuring this out- I'm pretty much an AE beginner) but it doesn't look as good as I'd like. Any suggestions?
Evan! Your charisma and teaching skills are fascinating!
One of the best tutorials Ive seen on here. Thank you
your tuts are awesome! i try to catch them all. please keep doing them! would also love any kind of bigger package of tutorials you might make...
This i's literally the best tutorial I have ever watched
awesome tutorial, seriously man. fun and not alot of fluff. appreciate you putting this together!
ECAbrams, your tutorials and dialogue are the best!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TELLING ME ABOUT THE EDIT SPEED GRAPH. EVERY TUTORIAL MINE HAS BEEN DIFFERENT AND IVE BEEN SO CONFUSED. THANK YOU!!!
Good to see you again!... I've been waiting for a while.
Wonderful tutorial, can't wait to toy around with this! Thanks so much and keep up the great work! :)
This is the most amusing tutorial I've watched (funny and enjoyable) I am watching it again and enjoying every ridiculous fractal reference.
Thanks for making these tutorials! They have a really great balance of humor and useful information.
thewaffles There's information in here? News to me :) Glad you like them.
OMG I've been searching for this effect for a long time. I'll walk through all channel to learn more effects. (It's a little difficult to find the effects in my Chinese version of AE LOL it took me so long) Thanks for sharing.
THANK YOU! actually a great tutorial. I got everything, the result is great, voice is great, and it is even fun to watch
Amazing work! Really good tutorials, and the way you say «about» is part of the learning too.
+NonHelicoptere I believe I pronounce "about" much the same as everyone I am conversing with on a daily basis. It seems as normal to me as I am sure your pronunciation sounds normal to you.
Damn! Every time I look for a particular effect I need... BOOM there he is! Thanks so much.
hi Evan - great tutorial!
I wonder how would you achieve the same liquid effect but with the objects that have stroke?
Thanks!
this is great tutorial. The "give me your drugs" part had me rolling. Informative and funny. keep up the great work!
best tutorial ever...keep making such great stuff man...i really liked you way of presentation
Not only your tutorials are informative, they are also fun to watch!
I am laughing hard ... :D "if only i knew an effect ... ohhh wait I do" :D
Thanks for sharing!
Good to see ya back on CZcams!
***** It's nice to be back. Maybe I'll even post consistently this time?
Great tutorial, man. I'm sometimes tasked to do biological animations and this technique will come in super handy for animating bacteria multiplication.
welcome back bro!!!
This is the funniest tutorial I've ever seen with a lot of "Fractal wiiii"... ahahah! Cheers mate, awesome! Simply awesome!
I enjoy watching this. You're awesome. Thank you for making such a cool tutorial.
So flippin' good. Thanks ECAbrams!
Dude u are amazing... keep these videos coming man :)!!!
LeeToTheVi I'll try my best.
Really helpful thanks! Happy holidays! :D
Awesome, clear and very useful. Keep it up!
Tks ECAAbrams! its great and clear.
Excellent tutorial thank you for taking the time to do it!
It's helpful, it's easy to follow and it's FUN! Trillion thanks buddy!
thank you so much :D Very clear tutorial and I loved your funny comments during it :)
Thanks Mr. Abrams! awesome and also entertaining as always :)
Great video! I want to know if this would work as well with lower opacity settings... no overlapping?
I subbed because of his personality
Saved my work, man. Thanks
Best tutorial person ever!
Heyy welcome back. :)
Thanks for the tutorial, its perfect. :D
Malavika Srinivasan no worries. glad you enjoy it.
+ECAbrams your way of explaining thing is so much fun and informative, thank you for doing this.
to skip directly to the tutorial, start at 3:15.
Why on my sane mind would I ever want to skip anything the amazing ECAbrams has to say???
in case you're really pressed for time and zooming through several tutorials like i was when i made this comment. i had to make an effect similar to this and was feverishly searching YT for help. i know i'm not the only one who does this. plus - you can always come back to the video and watch the whole thing. i don't know why this comment was so controversial. i like ECAbrams and watch his vids all the way through as well, but sometimes you need those extra few minutes for your deadline! let those who have never scrambled for a solution at the last minute throw the first stone, jeez.
@Carla Young uh, that comment was 2 years ago. I think she finished the job by now...
Very nice tut. Thx!
Your tutorial is awesome！So much fun！
This is just amazing!! I'd love to know how to do the filling. Because I'm a mess and I can't figure it out as I'd like. Thank you for all your knowledge you are giving us !!!
you simply just press control D to duplicate each layer and just make each of the sizes smaller
always fun to watch your tutorials :)
Thanks! Glad you enjoy them.
You can do a effect like this more simple but with minor level of control. Just need to use a gaussian blur and level effect in a adjustment layer and boom!! you have liquid effect, precompose and change the color or whatever you want. :)
Great tutorial by the way. Thanks for the knowledge.
thanks Evan. Educational and entertaining
it is so much fun to learn after effects from a Canadian Seth Rogen. i hope im not the first one of tell you that. thank you for all the amazing and punny tutorials Evan. really appreciate it
+Dewang Trivedi Glad you enjoy the tutorials. Did you know that the celebrity Seth Rogen is also Canadian. He's from Vancouver on Canada's west coast.
Wow. I did not know that. Thanks for the info
So much fun...really enjoyed.!!
Another gem! Your tutorials are always extremely helpful. Thank you for explaining Roughen Edges so well -- I will be using those tricks for many many applications. Will also be using the dividing "cells" effect in my movie. I would like to suggest a tutorial: how to fake the "Hyperlapse" effect using video footage.
Hi Evan, loved this tutorial, keep up the great work! Very well explained and easy to understand and follow :)
Just one question, (a bit off topic), I was wondering what camera you used to record the introduction to this video. It looked very good quality and I'm looking into buying a decent camera for making videos and just wondering what sort of cameras other people use.
Thanks!
Stan's Tech Videos It's an old Canon 60d. Not much special about it. Lots of light, EF 35mm 1.2 lens. Not much to write home about.
Thank u so much! ♡
Great tutorial! Learned something and laughed a lot! Thank you :)
Great tutorial! Is there any chance you would be able to make a tutorial of an object being filled up with liquid?
You Rock Dude I like your way of description :)
LOL after effects-ing I like that :D
feels like seth rogan is teaching me fractals in after effects. i love it.
I love your humor, great tutorial!
ECA making hard things easy....or not but whatever...tutorials are great. Thank you from Argentina!
Excellent. I did the same thing with a blur and choke but it wasn’t sticky enough. Adding the middle rectangle makes all the difference. And wow... did roughen edges grow up or what. I remember it as some lame filter from photoshop 3.
Adjustment layer above your shapes + Fast box blur + Curves, Alpha, Hard graph - tone down adjustment layer transparency, tweak blur amount and curve graph till the liquid effect is crisp and keeping your shapes to the same size as originals. Turn up opacity to 100%. Throw in a Transform layer, play with scale, CC composite back original, to get little droplets behind your main shape movements. Also time echo can work.
Wondering how he did the fill up
best youtube tutorials!!!
finaly I've found a good tutorial! thank you
you're the best bro
Fantastic tutorial! Thanks
Thanks Evan!
Evan you are the best, nice sound by the way ;)
David Leonardo Carranza Muñoz well thanks. I've been working on it.
Thanks Evan! am a newbie to AE, I did the G R O S S Letter A and it looks pretty sleek ...hehe
Amazing work, really! Already a sub.
A question on the spliting 'A' how did you achive that shadow? Looks really nice ;)
Would also like to know! Thanks!
really nice,im learning a lot,thanks !!
Dude, you're a blessing
You're awesome! subbed
Awesome tutorial. Thanks !
YOU DID...THE THIIING! lol Abrams humor is awesome!
Thanks so much for a great tutorial.
You are so welcome!
I'm such a fan. your awesome
Love the tutorial. Thanks a million! What about if I wanted the result of my animation just being outlined white in the end? So no filling but only outline.
There are a few methods to get edges of things. You might use the find edges effect for example. But, depending on how clean of a look you're after, that might not work. You can put edges on any layer with the layer styles. You might even create this kind of effect entirely inside a shape layer using offsets that could have a stroke as the outline. Do those ideas get you started?
awesome, I really enjoyed and learned a lot
that video saved my day man! Thanks
Allways helping alot
loved the tutorial funny and entertaining! :D
Are you planning on doing the filling up tutorial any time soon? I would love to see that. Huge props!
Soon I think. There isn't much to it though. It's mostly about manipulating paths over time.
ECAbrams Thanks for the reply! Looking forward to see that, sounds quite interesting.
Thank you man, amazing work!
+Walter L'assainato glad you're into it.
Excellent!
Top notch buddy
Hi Evan! I'm your real fan..love every your tutorial and waiting for new ones! Can you please suggest me a tool for compressing AE projects(i mean videos) without losing a quality?
Thanks in advance.
Arslan.