NEW TUTORIAL: Blueprint Reveal

July 6th, 2009

Now that we have released our new compositing collection Action Essentials 2, we can finally go back to sleeping every day and making tutorials.

In this new tutorial, we'll combine several techniques to self-animate a blueprint style logo right before your eyes. This fun technique uses basic built-in tools and can be used to 'reveal' a logo, a product or possibly a power tool.

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Andrew Kramer

POSTED:

16 years ago

111 Comments

Samantha Lee

14 years ago

The tutorial was splendid! Thanks for sharing

Tom

14 years ago

Cool Tutorial, thx Andrew!
Helps me a lot!

Mirko

14 years ago

Very good post.
vg from Germany

Oscar

16 years ago

Here is my take: http://vimeo.com/5560158

DarkEntity

16 years ago

This is the one that i want to see..it's like logo or title of a film co.G.I Joe title from the trailer's pretty awesome!thanks a lot Sir Andrew!!!!

Frank

16 years ago

Andrew,
I have been religiously watching this site for quite some time now and the sheer idea that you can do just about anything your twisted imagination comes up with is truly a gift. Since I am a beginning VFX artist I have read a lot of books and watched a lot of tutorials but I worry that there is no way to remember all of these tips and tricks. How long did it take you to become proficient in after effects? I have been using it for about 6 mos now and i still struggle with anything that is not a basic title. I doubt you keep a notebook next to your workstation like I do, but what tips could you give us newbies to learn and retain these tips? Great TUT by the way.

Dawson

16 years ago

Awesome!! thanks!

Eres un genio Andrew!

GBU!

Morten Enoksen

16 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYkiAL1QrUs&feature=channel_page
What do you guys think about my filmtrailer? It's kind of like James Bond, Johnny English, Austin Powers, and Cops

Thank you kindly.
(The tut above helped me out recently, btw)

Peter Somers (TC-Productions)

16 years ago

Excellent tutorial !

Explosions are nice to look at, but for people working in broadcast graphics (like me), these are the kind of tuts that are really useful!

THANKS!!!

Johan

16 years ago

Great tutorial!
It will be great for my new logo. But where do you get the writing sounds from? (I'm just a hobbyist and I want to impress my friends

).

Greetings from Holland!

Otavio

16 years ago

Really great tutorial! But I got a problem on it. When I apply the "paper_03" texture on the text and lines, the half up of the texturized part stays really odd. But half down of the drawning stays perfect!

Thank you! (:

C.S.McNABB Productions

16 years ago

Great tutorial. Perfect timing for a promo video I am doing. changed it up a bit and it looks awesome.
Thanks heaps for all the tuts and tips Andrew.
From Aus.

P.S. Cant wait till me AE II gets here hope it doesn't take long to cross the sea.

MitchK

16 years ago

Wow that looks so amazing thanks so much!

Sandy

16 years ago

Amazing amazing, just amazing. Thanks Andrew!!!!!

Sandy

Scott

16 years ago

Thanks, looks very nice! I had a go at it this morning and here is the result: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW-2kjEU74I

eldaville

16 years ago

Hey nice tut andrew! , i've made something similar like two weeks ago, here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpZAnySCBKE

I used the same technics for revealing and creating the grids and that, but I used glow enstead of track mate the lines.

I would love to read some comments.

Bernie

16 years ago

Thx Andrew,
Once again looks like a great tutorial.
WHERE'S THE MUSIC FROM?
I've been wanting to get something similar for a while.
Thanks

Alexsey

16 years ago

Thanks!

btw I've asked for it at forums long time ago

MELLE

16 years ago

same problem...sometimes i post comments and they are not published....I don't know why

Roy

16 years ago

Andrew u r the best thanks for all.if there's a god for visual fx i think it should be u.

Clinton Jones

16 years ago

Hey Andrew. Can you PLEASE HELP ME!!! When I bust out the text tool and start typing. Nothing appears! I made sure that the color wasnt the same as the BG. I cheecked everything. When I click and drag I can see the text, but when I drop it I can't see it again. Any way of fixing this? Oh and it acts like this on my prfile, but when i go to another user name and open up AE it doesnt do it. Ive even reset the windows and everything.

David

16 years ago

Nice tut.

By the way, are you still working on the Short-Film, as you posted here: http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2009/03/filmin/ ?

Gian

16 years ago

incredible o.o

Matthew Sabia

16 years ago

Wow that looks amazing! Great job! And great to see your using vista, I find that vistas much better for working with visual effects and after effects myself

Matthew Sabia
Sabia Productions

FedeGomez

16 years ago

Nice, clean, Great!

Irfan

16 years ago

OMG! THANK YOU SO MUCH ANDREW! I am an architectural engineering student, and this tutorial really helped me make a EXTREMELY impressive presentation for my professors. Dude, you made my career with this one! A Million thanks my friend!!!!!!

Matthew Sabia

16 years ago

Wow that looks amazing! Great job! And great to see your using vista, I find that vistas much better for working with visual effects and after effects myself

Matthew Sabia
Sabia Productions

Stephen

16 years ago

If only the iPhone could see the sample video...

BESTIA94

16 years ago

Awesome.

Matthew Park

16 years ago

AWSOME! COOL!

ÃšÂ¯Ã˜Â±Ã˜Â§Ã™ÂÃ›Å’Ã˜Â³Ã˜Âª

16 years ago

I LOVE YOU!

Jeroen

16 years ago

Man! how do you come up with this stuff? it's great! and the yokes you make... if they are jokes... spy....

Thank you very much for making this tut's

greetings from the netherlands. (Thats in europe...)

Richard

16 years ago

Muchas gracias, excelente tutorial
Thanks a lot, excellent tutorial

Kai

16 years ago

cool!

leith G

16 years ago

I commented here last 7 hours, where is it? gone! LOL
Anyway awesome tutorial like always.

MELLE

16 years ago

I always like when Andrew is with us on the comment site. Very helpful to his fans. It's not like hes somewhere in California and doing his thing. He trys to be with the fans....sorry so hard to describe when you are not a native speaker but i hope you got what i mean..melle (germany)

Doug

16 years ago

looks very cool!

Chad

16 years ago

i must be getting quarter timers... and a little bit of glucoma.. looked and didnt see thanks ANDREW!

ÃƒÂ¶mer tatlÃ„Â±sÃƒÂ¶z

16 years ago

thanks Andrew

Andrew Kramer

16 years ago

Chad, it does, just check the "Apply to new layer".

Anonym

16 years ago

Hello Andrew! I like your tutorials!this tutorial very cool, but i don't have the song. Where can I get the song ?
Thanks

Chad

16 years ago

When you autotrace the title layer in CS4 it does not create a new layer?

Jedi99

16 years ago

is that music from FRINGE ?

Marek

DDVP

16 years ago

How can I get the song Andrew?

lost-soul

16 years ago

P E R F E C T

Ray burton

16 years ago

Thanks Andrew for all your works. You and your Team are the greatest. Bit thanks from germany!

John

16 years ago

Aweosme tutorial as always! Seriously, where would any of us be without AK?
Boss I have a question about the new website, though. How come it takes 4 clicks for me to watch this tutorial?

Drysten

16 years ago

The only thing this tutorial is missing is a reference to "The Aviator" with Leo Dicaprio.

"Show me the blueprints Show me the blueprints Show me the blueprints Show me the blueprints Show me the blueprints Show me the blueprints"

Thanks for the awesome tutorials man.

Ryan

16 years ago

Nice tutorial, man
i've been trying but failing for a few months

Scott kope

16 years ago

nice homie...p.s. your wife is smokin'!!!!

NicolÃƒÂ² Rebughini

16 years ago

Really cool tutorial Andrew!

For some inspiration I recommend to search for the Home Remedy font, which gives some hints about lines to be drawn and where, and by the way, it's a cool font, but surely overtaken by this techinque when doing computer animation.

Keep on rocking!

Rafael

16 years ago

WOW! Cool and unexpected.

Jody Cochran

16 years ago

Looks nice, I really appreciated the power tool link. Perfect inspiration for a project I am working on. Thanks for the tutorial.

Jack Peirson

16 years ago

http://www.uncommongoods.com/item/item.jsp?itemId=11659

Enjoy

frig2

16 years ago

Hey Andrew, just a question. Wouldn't it have been easier to use a 3d camera instead of all the 2d animation? Awesome tutorial anyway!

Lawrence

16 years ago

This looks brilliant, it will be awesome if I can figure out how to then match this with some cinema 4d stuff to get some extrusions coming out once the blueprint is finished. Nice work... Thanks!

Alcides Urrutia

16 years ago

Nice tutorial Andrew. You.??´re the best.

Idan91

16 years ago

Great effect Andrew!

I was always wondering how to make this effect after seeing this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3A7s2Gqt5I

your version looks even better.

Kaneleus

16 years ago

You guys are always making my day !

Vladimir from Russia

16 years ago

Andrew, you work in XP or Vista (32 or 64)?

David W.

16 years ago

AWESOME! And you didn't let on about it.

MELLE

16 years ago

I do agree, too, saxon..and I guess the quality of the elements is much better. I think no one would buy After Effect 6.5 when there is CS4 for the same price....Makes sense to take it out....greetings from sunny Germany

Oliiz

16 years ago

That is in my opinion one of, no.. THE funniest tutorial you've ever made. And yes, I do believe I have watched them all.

Also, great effect, you somehow always manage to come up with something new.

Dave Smith

16 years ago

AWESOME! As ever!

And i used to LOVE home improvement! Where h as it dissapeared to?!?

Thanks Andrew!

jim hines

16 years ago

You're a trip bro. Love the section in the middle about baking a cake. LOL. Great tutorial. Thanks a million.

Saxon

16 years ago

thanks MELLE. I agree with that decision, because AEII is bigger (in frame size as well as content size) and therefore better.

Vladimir from Russia

16 years ago

Andrew, why you work in AE CS3?

Hugo Tromp

16 years ago

What I don't understand is that Andrew said that most of the elements are shot in 4K from Action Movie Essentials 2. But the Red One can't shoot 4K size at 120 fps. Now is my question, has the team of Videocopilot used a real 35mm filmcamera?

MELLE

16 years ago

Yeah Saxon...Andrew said it somewhere...AE1 has been taken out because AE2 gives you all you need 100 times better.

MELLE

16 years ago

reall ygreat tutorial Andrew. keep it up

Saxon

16 years ago

looks awesome andrew

. Looking forward to the Video-Blog too.

PS: Action Essentials II = THE BOMB! (pardon the pun).
Iv noticed that Action Movie Essentials isnt in the shop anymore, is this simply because you think AEII is all you need?

Adam Sklar

16 years ago

Looks awesome. Will be watching!

And what!?
AE2 is released?

Alj

16 years ago

Looks nice,

thanks!

Falcon80

16 years ago

awesome

Dave Vegas

16 years ago

Where are my blueprints!!!????

slize

16 years ago

great outcome

David_97

16 years ago

Awesome! NEW TUTS! (sorry for caps; I am just excited)
-David

Gianni

16 years ago

E' semplicemente fantastico...opss I wrote in italian!!!

It's fantastic!!!

Bye Andrew.
Gianni

Qw3rtium

16 years ago

Wow, I just got one of my title sections ready and I thought I don't wanna see anything related to AE but then I had to watch this and now I got even more inspiration and... arrgh!

japanguy

16 years ago

Hey andrew !
Thanks for this very helpful and inspirational tutoriel !
Keep up the good work as always !

Vladimir

16 years ago

Thank you Andrew!

Will Townsend

16 years ago

Looks nice,

thanks!

Timinator

16 years ago

Very well done! I love the 3D look that you seem to favor now for the Video Copilot text.

Awesome stuff man, I don't know how you manage to do so much. Maybe you are Superman...

Mariano

16 years ago

Great!!!
yes, this is amazing!

thank you andrew

However

16 years ago

Cool tool andrew! Thanks lol

Gage

16 years ago

Sweet! Where is that background music from?

resident

16 years ago

Nice tutorial!

Shafeek

16 years ago

Thanx Andrew Kramer,,,,

Franky

16 years ago

I`ve been after this effects for so long!!!
thank you Andrew!!!

Wesley

16 years ago

awesome !! going to try it

Daveblueband

16 years ago

Nice one. Will come in handy seeing as I am studying Mechanical Engineering besides Computer Animation. Will definitely have to use! Thanks!

Amir

16 years ago

nice nice andrew

Asllan

16 years ago

thnx andrew i need this im architect thnx again..

Dark Messiah

16 years ago

sweet

Shehabart

16 years ago

good tutorial but i'think it's wonderful if find more details about zoom, like go right and go lift then up up

Jason

16 years ago

looks so cool

Ryan S.

16 years ago

Awesome!!! thanks!

Digi

16 years ago

This looks like a fun tutorial.

Can't wait to take a crack at it.

monroe

16 years ago

hey andrew thanks for the next greatest tutorial! i personally cant wait for a tutorial that utilizes your newest product so I can be sufficiently influenced to purchase..

Lumbajac

16 years ago

Cool. Thanks

Tron

16 years ago

not awesome...but cool anyway (...kidding!). Just encouraging you for the tutorial N??º100!!!!

Nick

16 years ago

Andrew, what are you planning on doing for your 100th tutorial? Any hints?

Alex

16 years ago

Sweet, I've always wanted to know how to do something like this, it'll definitely come in handy!

Infaas

16 years ago

Cool effect, thanks AK

Asllan

16 years ago

Cool...

Nick

16 years ago

Awesome! JUST WOW!

16 years ago

Really cool effect! I can't wait to see what other great things videocopilot has in store for us!

Clinton Jones

16 years ago

dang like comment number 4. Cant wait to watch

Zach

16 years ago

very cool

KKGProductions

16 years ago

Omg This looks really cool!!!

Luantran

16 years ago

thank. tutorial Nice and good....

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