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How to Create Nice Shadows in After Effects - Beginners AE Tutorial
Apr 17, 2023
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thank you
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hello guys of Tony here welcome to
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another video Lesson and in this
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tutorial we're going to create this cool
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shadow so stay with me until the end of
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this video also I want to thank you for
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okay let's see what we're going to
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create today
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[Music]
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foreign
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we're back here in After Effects and now
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it's time to create the two composition
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zip Control Plus and or go on this
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little icon here and for the first
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composition I will do
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final 90 20 by 1080 duration 6 seconds
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long and 30 frames per second hit OK and
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also we will create now another
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composition for composition name I will
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rename it to text or one also 9020 by
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1080 30 frames per second and duration 6
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seconds long okay hit here okay and then
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Control Plus t on your keyboard or go
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here on this little icon on this
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horizontal type tool and I will just
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type a random text
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creative alignment here to the center of
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our composition go here a line if you
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can't find a line go here on window and
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then you will find it here okay now it's
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time to animate this creative text open
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up this Little Triangle here go on text
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and then here animate find position
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okay go here on the Y parameter and type
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620
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like so maybe 630
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and also now it's time to animate this
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position open up this ranged selector
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one go to around 2 seconds and set up
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our first keyframe for the up offset go
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to around 100 and now go to the zero
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frames and type here minus 100 now when
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we hit zero we have this basic animation
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now it's time to do uh further
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adjustments here on our creative text
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open up this Advanced Tab and for the
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shape I choose from the square here ramp
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up also is high and is low check the
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change to 70.
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okay also grab our keyframes hit F9 on
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your keyboard and go to graph editor if
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you can't find curve like this right
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click and then hit here edit speed graph
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and draw a line like so and now when we
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hit zero we have this cool text
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animation in our text composition okay
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now it's time to bring our text or one
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composition into our final count drag
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and drop this text or one here in our
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finals like so and as you can see now we
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have this text animation here in our
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finals and now it's time to create our
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background go here in our final comp
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right click and then go to new find here
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solid I will rename it
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background 1920 by 1080 of course and
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find here in effects and presets of Four
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Color gradient effect drag and drop onto
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our background move the background ah
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here and also it's time to make a few
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adjustments here on our for color
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gradient for this 0.01 move it to around
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here 0.2 maybe to here uh I will just do
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random for this point for third one here
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and fourth one maybe like so for the
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first color I will do maybe this kind of
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green also you can use eyedropper also
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for the fourth color like so and for the
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second one and third one I will do this
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type of blue one also choose eyedropper
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and now in our finals we have this
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really cool looking color combination of
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our blues and our green and now when we
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hit zero we have something like this
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also what we can do is hit Ctrl D or go
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edit and then duplicate this background
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layer hit enter on your keyboard and I
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will rename it too
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dots
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okay delete this Four Color gradient
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effect and I will do fill
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drag and drop onto our dots layer and
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for the color choose to White and our
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next effect will be CC Ball action okay
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for the grid space and go to round 8 and
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for the ball size also 8. now as you can
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see we have this tiny Dots here in our
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finals and it's looking really cool also
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you can change blending mode from normal
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to Overlay
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duplicate it once again if you need and
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now as you can see this is looking
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really cool in our finals okay now it's
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time to create the cool shadows for our
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creative text I will close this effect
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control for now hit here on our text o1
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and I will type here first effect CC
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Radio uh blur drag and drop onto our
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text o1 and change our type from scratch
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to straight Zoom amount go to around 35
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or so and also for the center I do like
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so something like this okay now we will
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add our another effect go to effects and
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preset type fill drag and drop also here
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on our text or one and change the color
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from the red to our black color also our
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third effect will be curves effect drag
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and drop onto our text or one and from
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RGB change here to Alpha and then white
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parts of our creative text move all to
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the left like so and our fourth effect
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to bring our creative text originally
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and untouched here on the front is CC
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composite
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okay and make sure to move it uh below
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uh of our other effects and now as you
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can see when we hit zero in our finals
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we're getting this a really cool
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animation also what we can do next is to
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play around with our radio fast blur
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move our Center to the left or right
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according your needs I will do maybe
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here uh go to around maybe five or six
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seconds press here on our Center
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and go to around zero and move it to
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around here
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now when we hit zero we have also this
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Shadow animation and this is looking
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really cool
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also for the amount we can go maybe what
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maybe around 40
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like so and hit W and then j or k on
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your keyboard for our keyframes and also
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you can reposition a center if you need
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maybe to go around here or so also for
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the first frame
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move it to around here
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and now in our finals when we hit zero
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we have
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this really cool shadows and this is
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looking really creative
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alright guys our next step is to add our
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Spotlight effect right click here in our
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final go to new and find here adjustment
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layer I will rename it to CC spotlight
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and also find here in the fact effects
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and preset Spotlight the fact drag and
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drop onto our adjustment layer and also
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you can play around with the handles I
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will do something like this maybe height
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around 90 or so cone angle maybe to 12
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or 13 Edge softness to around 100
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intensity to maybe around 50 or so maybe
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60 and as you can see now we have this
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really cool looking scene in our finals
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also one last step what we can do for
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our text open up here go to uh this
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little triangle here and also we will
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animate tracking hit here on this
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triangle and find here tracking for
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tracking a mount go to around 0 frames a
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setup our first keyframe like so and
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then go to around 6 seconds and type
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here maybe 60 or so now when we hit 0 we
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have also a checking movement here for
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our creative text now we're back in our
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finals and when we hit zero we also have
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this Shadow movement and our text
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movement and this is looking really cool
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all right guys that was everything for
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this uh really cool tutorial hope you
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time stay creative and bye bye
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