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How to Create OUTSTANDING LIQUID Text or Logo Animations in After Effects Tutorial
Oct 19, 2023
This tutorial was contributed by creator Softoni! Subscribe to their channel: https://www.youtube.com/@softonimotion
Here's more from the creator: 'Hey everyone, in this after effects tutorial I will show you how to create awesome and creative liquid logo or text reveal. Step by step we will be creating a this beautiful animation. This technique is a cool way to make your content looking even better and to impress your audience. Very easy to make, just follow my steps!'
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hello guys soft Tony here and welcome to
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this brand new After Effects tutorial in
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today's video we will be creating an
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outstanding liquid logo reveal without
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using any third party plugins by the end
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of this video you will be able to create
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your own animation using some really
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interesting techniques and cool steps so
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without wasting any more time let's jump
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into after effects and get started
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[Music]
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all right we're here in After Effects
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and first like always let's create a new
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composition hit on this little icon or
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control+ n this is going to be final of
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course you can type your own text here
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9020 x 1080 30 frames per seconds and
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duration 7 Seconds long now let's create
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the background go right click find here
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new solid layer I will rename this one
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to background hit okay and then go here
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in the facts and pres it and if you can
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find this option just go window and you
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will find effects and PR it here let's
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type fractal Noise Okay drag and drop
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onto the layer and here let's make a few
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adjustments for the contrast let's type
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105 for the brightness 35 complexity
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lower down 5.5 okay now open up this
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transform option instead of 100 let's
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type
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200 okay and now let's add our next
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effect here in the facts and preset this
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is going to be ambass effect Dragon drop
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here on the layer and Here Also let's
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make a few adjustments for the direction
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let's type 90 relief 5 okay and let's
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add third effect this is going to be
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Triton drag and drop also on the layer
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and here for the highlights let's change
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this to maybe San blue color you can
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play around also with your colors for
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the mid Stones lets change to dark blue
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color and then hit okay now close this
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effects control for now you can
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duplicate now this background layer hit
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control+ D or go edit and then duplicate
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hit F3 again to show this effect control
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delete the emboss effect for the fractal
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noise let's also make a few adjustments
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now for the contrast for the second
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layer let's type here
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950 for the brightness let's type here
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minus 100 flexity lower down to two Okay
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open up this transform option again
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instead of 200 let's type here 40 okay
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now this is looking cool and also let's
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change mid tones and highlights here in
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Triton option Triton effect now for the
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midtones let's change color to this San
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blue color you can use ey dropper and
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for the highlights let's find here
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darker blue color something like this
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hit okay and let's add third effect find
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here caution blur okay drag and drop
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here on the first layer and for the blur
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let's type here 10 and now let's also
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change blending mode from normal to add
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if you can find blending modes hit here
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toggle switches and modes and let's find
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here add blending mode this is our base
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background and now let's add more
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effects on the next layers okay now
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let's duplicate this first background
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layer hit control+ D again move it above
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this one and and let's rename this one
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to animation BG animation background
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okay make sure that blending mode is set
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to normal and now let's make also a few
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adjustments here on the fractal noise
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but before that let's delete OSS effect
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again for the fractal type let's go find
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here Dynamic for the noise type let's
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find here linear for the contrast let's
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type here 800 brightness - 210
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complexity lower down to four okay open
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up this transform option instead of 200
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now let's type 100 cool and also for the
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highlights and midtones let's change
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highlights again let's find this shade
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of blue color or green color for the
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midtones let's find Canan color
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something like this and then hit okay
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now let's add our next effect this is
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going to be glow effect drag and drop
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onto the first animation background and
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for the glow threshold let's type here
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75 glow radius let let go to around 200
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now let's duplicate this glow effect hit
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control+ D cool okay and now let's set
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our final effect this is going to be CC
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Mr Mercury drag and drop onto the first
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layer and also let's make a few
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adjustments for the radius SE let's type
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here 200 also for the radius Y and also
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for the birth rate instead of one let's
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type here maybe 40 and now as you can
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see we have cool scene of our blobs here
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in the finals for the next step let's
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hit s for animation background and go to
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around
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102 and now when we hit zero in the
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finals this is looking really awesome
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also what we can do is to grab animation
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background go to around maybe 2 seconds
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and move it all the way to the left so
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our animation starts immediately hit
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zero on your keyboard and as you can see
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we have our cool liquid background here
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in our final
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scene okay for the final step let's also
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animate evolution of the fractal noise
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effect hold alt on your keyboard and
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then left Mouse click let's type here
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time asterisk 100 and now we have also
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animation of the fractal noise effect
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here in the scene now let's close this
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effects control for now and let's create
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two new composition Hit control+ N this
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first is going to be Text Plus elements
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okay 9020 x 10 80 hit okay and let's
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also create another composition this is
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going to be text composition 9020 by 300
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okay also 30 frames per second 7 Seconds
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long and let's create our text here in
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text composition hit Control Plus t or
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go on this horizontal type tool I will
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just type random text liquid okay I'm
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using this monster R font for the font
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size
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250 okay now let's align this to the
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center
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and make sure that in paragraph option
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our text is centered like so if you can
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find aligned in paragraph option just go
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window and you will find align and
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paragraph options here okay now go here
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at zero frames open up this Little
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Triangle find here on animate tracking
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option and for the tracking I will do
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100 for the first key frame you can also
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type other numbers it depends on your
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text size I will set up my first key
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frame here here at zero frames then go
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to around 7 seconds and type here zero
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and now as you can see we have this
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basic animation of the liquid text now
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hit W on your keyboard to show all of
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the key frames grab them and hit F9 to
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easy ease them on our keyboard okay now
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let's open this text plus elements
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composition again and from Project
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window let's drag and drop text
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composition inside okay this is looking
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cool and now go in the final composition
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copy this animation background hit
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control+ C and paste it here in the text
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plus elements composition move it below
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the text composition and for the track
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mat let's find here Alpha mat and now as
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you can see we already have this cool
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looking liquid text okay if you can find
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track mats just go right click columns
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and find here modes okay now hit here on
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the background again or animation
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background hit F3 on your keyboard and
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for the contrast let's type here
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2,000 and also for the highlights let's
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change Sten from this color maybe to
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dark dark gray or pure black color hit
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okay let's close this effects control
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for now and also let's find here text
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plus elements in the project window and
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drag and drop here in the final
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composition and now as you can see we
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have this cool animation of our liquid
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text okay now let's duplicate this text
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plus element composition hit control
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plus d and move this composition to
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maybe two frames ahead like so you can
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also change composition color go right
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click find suitable color and now let's
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go here in the facts and preset find try
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it and effect again drag and drop onto
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the text plus elements first composition
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for the midtones let's change to pure
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white color hit okay now hit control+ D
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once again to duplicate this okay for
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for the Triton let's find here maybe s
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blue color again something like this hit
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okay you can also change composition
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color I will do random colors now hit
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control+ D again move this one to six
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frames ahead delete this Triton effect
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and now let's add here another effect
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first effect that we're going to use is
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exposure effect drag and drop onto the
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first composition I will change this
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again to random color for the exposure
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let's type here too okay now let's add
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another effect this is going to be bevel
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Alpha drag and drop onto the first
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composition and now let's animate here
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also this bevel Alpha effect set up the
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first key frame here at six frames okay
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now type here for the edge thickness
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zero set up the first key frame go to
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around four or 5 Seconds according your
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needs I will do maybe to around 5
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seconds and let's type here five okay
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now as you can see we have this uh cool
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outlines of our liquid text okay now
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let's add next effect this is going to
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be glow effect drag and drop onto the
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also first composition for the glow
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threshold let's type here 100 glow
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radius
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115 and for the glow intensity let's
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type here to now hit control+ D for the
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glow effect to duplicate this once okay
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and now in the finals we have this cool
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animation so what we can do is to
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duplicate these text plus elements once
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again hit control+ D move this to around
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eight frames ahead change random color
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and now hit F3 to show effect control
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and for the exposure instead of two
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let's do four okay and now in the finals
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when we hit zero we have this really
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cool and awesome animation of our liquid
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text now what we can do is to create
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adjustment layer go right click find
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here new adjust layer this is going to
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be lens flare okay go here in the effect
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and pres it again find lens flare effect
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drag and drop on the adjustment layer
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and here for the flare brightness let's
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type here 110 blend with the original
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maybe 50% for the lens type change here
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105 mm Prime and for the flare Center
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you can play around I will do upper left
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corner somewhere like here and now this
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is looking awesome in the final scene
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okay for the final step we can also
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create another light go right click find
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here new solid layer this is going to be
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light O2 hit okay now left click on this
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light O2 to select it again hit Q on
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your keyboard for a few times or go here
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on this icons hold left Mouse click find
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ellipse tool and then hold control and
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shift on your keyboard make sure that
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this light to2 is selected and let's
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draw a perfect circle like this
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open up this mask property and for the
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mask feather let's type here 400 now
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select this light O2 again go into
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effects and pres it find fill effect
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okay and here you can play around with
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the colors I will do maybe this San one
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hit okay and now hit T4 opacity I lo to
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around 25 and as you can see you can
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move it up or down here in the final
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scene to make this scene even better
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looking also what you can do is to
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duplicate this light O2 this is going to
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be light 03 move it maybe on the
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opposite side of the scene you can also
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change the color maybe this one
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something like this play around until
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you're satisfied with the results can
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also hit T and lower down or up the
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opacity of the lights okay now hit zero
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in the finals and for me this is looking
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really cool and really really
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awesome okay all right guys that was
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everything for today's tutorial like
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always I hope you learned something new
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tell you that you can also import your
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logo here just go inside this text plus
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elements and text and import your logo
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here and it will show up here here in
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the final composition also take a look
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and until next time stay creative and
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[Music]
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bye-bye
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