I apologize, I didn’t receive an email from the Layers server telling me of your problems on this tutorial… I only just saw your comment now.

The background, you can always find free backgrounds online, just do a search for something like blurry city lights, or out of focus night lights or something, I am sure you’ll find an image. The one we used, despite coming from iStockphoto, could (and was, by the creator) be entirely created inside Illustrator… A gradient mesh backdrop, a series of circles with Blur filters applied… Would take a little time, but would get the same result.

As for the camera moves and sentence timing, I am not sure what the problem is from your description as there are any number of steps which could affect the outcome. If you wish to shoot me over your AE project file to info (at) clickenergi.com, I’d be happy to take a look for you?

Hope this helps,

Steve

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Thank you again, and I must say that I really love the BG you used to create this tutorial. That’s pity – I can’t afford myself to buy this one on istockphoto so I wanted to ask, maybe you know different sites where I could get something like this for free? Besides my video doesn’t look like yours My camera zooms after 4-5 seconds only and all that flying sentences are so far in the beggining. I don’t know what I have done wrong, ’cause I checked all steps of your tutorial and made it twice, but still, I can’t get that awesome result you did. Please help.

Thanks. Erika

Thank you so much for such compliments, and I’m glad that tutorials such as these can assist you in learning After Effects (and well done in your achievements in one day!!), and energize you to take your static work to the next level.

I’ve also got a selection of video tutorials and podcasts over on the Artbeats site, and just did a written tutorial PDF file for them (titled “Simply Colorful”) which you can get from the link on our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/energidesign, and there will be more.

Thank you again for writing, very much appreciated

All the best,

Steve

I have just completed this one for the first time very quickly and without issues in undertsanding the process and I have only started using AE yesterday!. This has brought a whole new world to my photoshop work and I cant wait to get on and try your other tutorials.

keep up the good work and all the best to you

Kind regards Cal

Steve

Jack Isaacs
Newbie After Effects geek

The main line of type (the readable black words) are a layer in 3D space which the camera is animating towards. To introduce new sentences, all you need are new lines positioned further away down the Z axis away from the camera, and then animate your camera to keep moving forward on the Z axis (through the current text until it disappears behind you) until you get closer to the next line of type and it comes into focus.

Does that make sense in a nutshell-kind-of-way? Let me know. Hope it helps.

Steve

Steve

This tutorial (with the exception of the background, which is only there for aesthetics) doesn’t have or require a project file. It’s a single line of text being animated, so hopefully you can follow the steps above to recreate it. By all means, if you have any questions, please feel free to post them here and I’ll get back to you as quickly as I can.

Steve