How to design and animate an intro like Vox (After Effects + Photoshop Tutorial)

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In this video we take a look at some super simple title animations to spice up your projects. Best thing about most of them are that you can turn them into mogrts, which makes it super easy to reuse the animations on various projects. As always, thank you for watching!
Feel free to skip around:
00:00 Intro
00:02 Example
00:09 Project File
00:13 Overview of the steps
00:57 Step 1 - Ideation & Concept
01:02 Why this process is important
01:11 Questions to ask yourself
01:38 My goal for the animation
02:04 Step 2 - Asset Prep & Collection
02:21 The secret to better assets
02:51 Custom textures
03:00 Goated websites for free textures
03:14 Best websites to get free fonts
03:36 Best place to get photos and illustrations
04:26 Designing the scenes
05:19 How to get good at designing
06:53 start designing
20:45 Getting started in After Effects
21:13 Main characteristics of the Vox style
21:30 Animating Scene 1
30:47 Animating scene 2
41:22 Animating scene 3
45:05 Adding the sauce
52:05 Final adjustments
52:54 Result
53:05 Project file on patreon
The equipment:
Sony FX3
Tamron 28-75
Cinebloom 10%
Tascam DR-10L
Peak Design Travel Tripod - Aluminium
Neewer C-Stand
Amaran 100D + Neewer Softbox
Mac Studio Max M1 64gb Ram
Asus ProArt 27” Monitor
Music Used:
Ziv Moran - Easy-Peasy
Kyle Cox - Worth the Squeeze - Instrumental
Anthony Lazaro - Cold - Instrumental
Yoav Ilan - Lilac
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Glad you like them! Short and condensed tutorials have their place but I hope with these longer ones to show more of the process as well as give a better understanding of how to actually create pieces from scratch

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I have a Huion tablet I use from time to time! Depends on what I need but it’s hard to beat scanned assets and the texture they have haha

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It’s from artlist! I forget the name but it’s probably something along the lines of ticking or winding

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Thank you! Nah I’ve never touched it in my life

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Knocking on wood that that day is still far away

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do you know how to get good at texturing , idk what is the right effects to use to get the texture i want , do you recommend watching a lot of tutorials ?

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Ben Marriott is great. I’d highly recommend watching how other people use textures. Go on Pinterest, behance, or social media and see how others use texture and what types of texture.

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Hi Fantastic Mapal, You’re a huge source of inspiration for me especially in creating collage animation and vox style and these animation. I need an advice from you please. I have MacBook Pro M2 | 8 Ram | 512 SSD and I want to upgrade to something help me in collage animation because I will create a lot for my clients and for personal work. one of my friends suggested to buy M1 Max 32 RAM. what do you thing the best Mac version I should get for this type of animation, all my work on Adobe program and I'm a Video editor and motion designer. (Budget under 2100$)

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Get as much ram as you can. Probably be more worth it to get an M1 with maxed out ram than a newer one with less ram.

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@@mapal ok thanks

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hi bro ,can i use the knowledge of the video above to do the animated history video like vox

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I get them all from Artlist!

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The 3 Ps = The Sauce. Practice, planning, perseverance