Liquid Splash Transition | After Effects Tutorial

[@noisydoll168]

I'm probably too new to AE to be trying this, but I'm trying to add motion design to some Illustrator artwork that a friend did. I thought "I have no idea how to get these brush strokes to move anywhere!" because the previous artist had used a lot of art brush strokes on her paths, but now I can see that tapered edges for strokes in AE and Roughen Edges will allow me to recreate the look of the more wet brushes that she used. Thanks so much!

[@ManueldoesMotion]

You’re so welcome! It is possible to create animated brush strokes in After Effects.

[@chessidychess]

That was a great tutorial man! Not easy for beginners. Took quite a long time to do. And in very very few instances it didnt turn out exactly like yours, but I am really glad with the result and managed to make some variations which I am proud of and happy with Thanks for that!

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Hey thanks so much! That’s so great to hear! So glad you pushed through and ended up with a great result! Keep it up!

[@chessidychess]

yeah definitely! if i may suggest feedback: I am currently looking through your 180 video playlist and am only picking out transitions. Mainly, transitions that arent glitchy or zoomy, but rather transitions that have an overlay feeling to them. Like liquid transitions but not necessarily only liquid. Important is that you COULD put text or a logo on top of that middle of the transition. I kno you have lots of these. I just noticed, you do quite fancy ones. Which isnt bad. However, they are probably very hard to come up with AND produce. And definitely not easy to replicate. My suggestion would be to do transitions, but VERY easy ones. I know you have multiple videos on them already, but I personally would love even more. Just to have that variation. I sometimes see a video where I like the mechanics used, but the end form doesnt appeal to me personally, so I just completely disregard the entire video. Even though if you made the SAME video with only slight changes at the end, I would use a lot of them. I would even watch a video where you only changed one tiny thing which might be the angle or something. Simply because my head is all over the place rn and coming up with slight variations...1) I just dont come up with them and 2) I dont know what is even possible with AE even though I replicated some of these. I have no idea what I am doing there. Meaning, I am not really able to do much on my own with AE And I dont even want to learn AE. I just want to get these transitions, overlays, backgrounds and stuff for my video templates done and then ideally not use AE except when I need more of these which wont be daily, not even weekly. Probably monthly or every 1-3 months. Which is ok. But for that reason, you would be able to "get away" or attract people (like me), who really just need about 90% the same tutorial with 10% variation in it. People who, when they need something, they need to work on BULK. (hence, multiple variations with only slight changes would IMMENSELY speed up my own workflow here and the results I could get from your youtube channel!) And after having like 10 of these videos, you can do one "Compilation" video where essentially you show the 90% part only once and then quickly go through the 10% 10 times so I can quickly get 10 different variations while the knowledge is still fresh instead of watching one tutorial and then in 1 week watching another which is very similar just to get that slight variation done which might be squares instead of circles in the background or whatever I dont know if that helps you. I am currently working on a template for a chess channel. The content will be basically of the same type over and over again. But I would like to have a great style to keep the videos engaging and also have multiple variations of templates, so the videos dont get boring, but so I can also pump out much because I have multiple variations ready before starting and can just randomly pick one when creating a video. Just to have a quick workflow you know Its a very specific type of youtubers (mostly faceless channels. mostly those, who have clear formats like top 10 formats or some other repeatable content of that sort. In my case, I want to show chess puzzles. If that tells you anything. Quiz channels are basically of the very same type that my videos will be modelled after at least for the start. "donki anime", "great quiz" and basically typing in "quiz" in the search bar and picking the bigger channels...these are channels I am modelling for now. They might give you some inspiration for AE tutorials) I am quite sure you could go into that niche and give some deep value for "faceless youtube channels". I wouldnt put myself necessarily in that category because I might also show my face in them later on, but for now its basically that and I feel the problems that come with that decision. Which is: Since you dont show your face, you have to use editing (mostly AE templates) to give a unique branding experience to it. If you dont show your face, these AE transitions and backgrounds (and soon maybe I also look for other stuff) are the way to go from my point of view Hope that helps you in targeting your videos towards hopefully an untapped niche/audience Anyways, subbed to you. Appreciate your videos! Have a good one @@ManueldoesMotion

[@yohanapais9287]

Love that you're mentioning even the text size, great tutorial!!

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Thx very much! So glad you like it!

[@HowToAnimateTutorial]

It's so beautiful transition. I always waiting your tutorial. Thanh you so much handsome man

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Thx very much! I really appreciate it! So glad you like my tuts!

[@VictoriaWaldhuberMattsson]

thank you so much for this tutorial, manuel! this helped me a lot :)

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Awesome! So glad it helped!

[@NaveedKhan-ft2qh]

Hello sir I really appreciate your content. Learning alot from you. can you please explain your videos next time like why to link 2 colors of layer styles, why to add gradient during this process etc things in this tutorials are of expert level that makes it confusing for beginners like us. please dont mind me its so that beginners like me can learn alot more. This way we may become able to apply our own creativity to other things instead of copy pasting. thanks alot again for your efforts

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Hi! Thanks very much for your feedback! Glad you like my tutorials. I will try and explain more in my new videos.

[@viktory1473]

Thanks very very much!

[@ManueldoesMotion]

You’re very welcome!

[@vertsabre]

Awesome tutorials! Really appreciate your methodology. It's very concise and easy to follow.

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Thanks so much! That’s great to hear!

[@larabeglitsa8983]

Manuel, thank you for the clarification. Excellent tutorial. This is the solution for my task. That's what I need. Thank you so much for the clear and brief explanation. Now I'm your subscriber.

[@ManueldoesMotion]

That's awesome! You're so welcome! :)

[@shokota7851]

Thanks for the great tutorial!!!🙌 from Japan

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Hi! You’re so welcome! Happy you like it!

[@mariavazquezteles8625]

Awesome tutorial, thank you so much!

[@ManueldoesMotion]

You're so welcome!

[@violettagordeeva363]

I am always waiting for your lessons

[@ManueldoesMotion]

That’s great to hear. So happy you like my stuff!

[@dualmediatrends]

really awesome simple n perfect

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Thanks a lot! 😊

[@nicolenwaywah919]

That's amazing! Thank you! Subscribed!

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Awesome! You’re so welcome!

[@thedelaneydiaries]

I've been trying to do this now for 7 consecutive hours.

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Hey! Wow! How is it going?

[@kanosana5663]

thank you very much your tutorials

[@ManueldoesMotion]

You are welcome!

[@Babyayasofiya]

Thank you for tutorial

[@ManueldoesMotion]

You're very welcome!

[@laena5842]

you're the bestttt!!!

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Thanks so much!

[@CodyLeslieDesign]

My M2 Macbook Pro couldn't handle this, good job. Ffs.

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Yeah I don't think the Macbook is the problem. Maybe you should empty your After Effects cache.

[@CodyLeslieDesign]

Good shout. Seemed to work fine after a restart, couldn't understand why it was struggling so much lol@@ManueldoesMotion

[@ChaskaVIR]

May I use this transition in my KZbin videos if I do it from the scratch with this tutorial? 🥺🥺 Thanks a lot, you're the best 😊😊

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Of course! Go for it!

[@ChaskaVIR]

@@ManueldoesMotion, thank you so much ☺️☺️

[@shivamkumargupta4065]

First like the video, then watch the video💯

[@ManueldoesMotion]

😆😀 Exactly!

[@violettagordeeva363]

Super- Thank you

[@ManueldoesMotion]

You’re very welcome! 😊

[@mannafahmed7419]

Love you Man

[@ManueldoesMotion]

♥️

[@420shin6]

awesome✨from Japan

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Hi! Thanks very much!😊

[@natanaelmaha7417]

Um great tutorial sir, but i dont have the taper settings at the first part, why is that sir? I use AE CC 2019

[@ManueldoesMotion]

It should be available in your version.

[@judicerocha5114]

Thanks bro

[@ManueldoesMotion]

You're welcome!

[@TheInterestingInformer]

Too good

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Thanks!!!

[@negarkhosh]

This looks awsome. Can a beginner do it? Like to try it but don't want to get stock in the middle?

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Thanks very much! It's probably too difficult if you just started with After Effects... I mean you could try if you don't mind getting stuck?

[@rykstudio]

Nice Tut

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Thx very much!

[@anjanikumar1500]

Can you make a tutorial in parts how u made your intro...reply if possible...

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Animating my 2021 KZbin Intro kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZLbd59tiNNki6c

[@umi4443]

new sub thank you

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Thanks for the sub!

[@baileythompson6003]

my splash wont splash :(

[@ManueldoesMotion]

But why?

[@baileythompson6003]

@@ManueldoesMotion I think it was something to do with the path keyframe of the splash, I ended up rewatching the tutorial and fixed it and it works 🙂 Thank you very much!

[@rainbowstarks]

@@ManueldoesMotion me too - for some reason my path keyframe set at 25frames wont stay big. When i go to 14 frames and shrink it, the keyframe at 25 shrinks too. Please help

[@MEILITARK]

@@rainbowstarks I'm having the same problem. I've followed the tutorial exactly but the path keyframes keep shifting when I make other changes to the shape.

[@rainbowstarks]

​@@MEILITARK i ended up fixing this! what happened was I was selecting both the shape AND path when creating both of those keyframes. so go back and check you are only selecting "path" when you create the keyframes. I hope that makes sense!

[@desigr.__]

Love from India

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Hi! 👋🏻 ❤️

[@soufiane_allali]

So this will not work with transparency background. It must edit in softwares so it can work?

[@ManueldoesMotion]

It works with transparent background. If you want to use it in Premiere Pro you have to render out the "splash mask" layer to reveal the footage.

[@atlegangmosetlhi9644]

I hope you can help me rectify the problem because I don't know where I went wrong.

[@donnarovito9663]

I am unable to select only the Path 1 and Path for Shape 2 while animating the splash. No matter what I try it selects the shape as well. Am I missing a step?

[@ManueldoesMotion]

You have to make sure you select the path property of the shape. Maybe open it and select it directly.

[@donnarovito9663]

@@ManueldoesMotion I did! When I select the path property it automatically selects the shape as well. Even if i ctrl click :(

[@xania9641]

Why are comments missing?

[@dracoslythe]

way too advanced for me. Having trouble with the graph. I don't get the two humps like you do. I wish you guys would go slower on this.

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Hey! Sorry it is too fast for you. The graph editor is a quite important tool to make your animations more smooth. Maybe you should spend some time and play around with it to get used to it. In the bottom menu, you can choose between the value graph and the speed graph to influence the speed of an animation.

[@ZyberOne]

Thank you so much for this liquid. I have got it in gumroad for 1.50$ and now i can use project. it is only footage1 can transparency, but i want to transparency footage2 too, so how can i do that ? Please help me!

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Hi! Thx very much for getting the project file! You want to fade away the second footage as well? I would duplicate the transition solids below footage 2 and paste them above footage 2, so that the transition starts again at the time you want to and covers footage 2.

[@ZyberOne]

@@ManueldoesMotion Hello! Thank you very much! yes i want to remove or fade away the footage2 to transparency background for liquid splash. How can i do that brother?

[@ImAdamRyan]

So I bought the project file hoping that I could use this as a stinger transition for my streams, but the end screen isnt transparent. Any ideas on how to make the transition end completely transparent?

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Hi Adam. You split the "splash main" layer at 24 frames. Then you move the second part of the layer up, below "splash mask". Then delete the "footage_2 comp" and set track matte of the splash main layer below the mask to "luma inverted matte".

[@ImAdamRyan]

@@ManueldoesMotion you're my literal hero

[@s-ho2166]

It's make 2 videos that I watched, but i these 2 cases I don't have the Taper effect, How can I fix this please ?

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Tapered shape strokes are included since After Effects 17.1. If you don't have that feature you should probably update your After Effects...

[@hudaalaa3470]

Can u please help me shape 2 doesnt move when i put the path on it 🌻

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Which shape 2 do you mean?

[@atlegangmosetlhi9644]

Heyy Manuel I'm having a problem with your tutorial, it seems that from the splash part, my splash moves to the left and I don't know what's the problem, I even redid that section and it still moves my splash to the right.

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Hi! Did you maybe set position keyframes by accident? Can u tell me exactly where in the tutorial this happens? And which layer it is?

[@atlegangmosetlhi9644]

@@ManueldoesMotion oh I found it what the problem is, I actually linked my trim paths to the second shape by mistake. 😭😭 But now it's working thank you. 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 Also love your channel. 🤲🏽😫❤️

[@ManueldoesMotion]

@@atlegangmosetlhi9644 That's awesome you made it work! 👍🏻 Thx very much! So happy you like my stuff! 😊

[@Deleted-ql4fr]

why do i not have the vertex tool stuff

[@ManueldoesMotion]

What’s your AE version?

[@Deleted-ql4fr]

@@ManueldoesMotion 2023 😶

[@mysteriumxarxes3990]

where can I download it for free?

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Why?

[@mysteriumxarxes3990]

@@ManueldoesMotion because the link the author provided only has a paid download

[@ManueldoesMotion]

@@mysteriumxarxes3990 Yeah because it took me a lot of time to create it. Not everything is for free. You could follow the tutorial instead

[@vibemoztybt4426]

i cant see taper

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Taper is included since After Effects 17

[@488steven]

kind of a confusing tutorial tbh

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Hi! So sorry. What could I do better? Is it too fast?