Disco Tunnel Effect Using Form
by Eran Stern
October 1st, 2009
Category: After Effects, training
A month ago, in cooperation with Creative COW, I published the Color Link tutorial. This tutorial has 2 purposes. The first is, of course, to show you the use of the color link effect to match colors between shots, but what seems to catch most viewers eyes is the Disco Tunnel effect I’ve set up, using the new Wiggle Transform operator, available in CS4.
Since then, I’ve received many requests from people still using CS3 or even AE7, asking how to recreate the same effect without the Wiggle Transform operator.
I thought about it and couldn’t come up with a simple way to achieve the same look using only the built in features of the After Effects. However, if you own Trapcode Form, it’s a matter of minutes to recreate it. Well, this was my answer to most of you guys, but it seems that people can’t figure what to do even if they have all the ingredients on the table, so for all of the frustrated dancers out there – here’s my recipe for the Disco Tunnel effect using trapcode form.
I’ve also uploaded both projects (CS3 and CS4) for you to explore.
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Tags: After Effects, Creative COW, Form, Plug in, Project, Tips, Tutorials
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October 31st, 2009
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October 31st, 2009
It was a nice tutorial but please can you please give me a hint from where i can get those vedios with persons so i edit them in my video.
thanks and it was really an intresting tutorial
October 22nd, 2009
Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?
October 21st, 2009
I express my deep gratitude for your hard work
October 3rd, 2009
Thanks. You are the most wonderful teacher.
October 1st, 2009
Wonderful Eran ! So happy you made this for us! I could of never figured this out on my own ! Thanks Teacher !
October 1st, 2009
Thanks Eran, I one of those folks that figured out CS3 a while ago
October 1st, 2009
Nice solution for Cs3 users like me. I really like the endless possibilities with the form plugin. Thanks for showing up another technique.