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Video Tip: Creating Holograms in After Effects

Posted By on April 15, 2010

The folks at North Point have a concept that we love.  And it’ll save you in a time-crunch sometimes.

It’s called the “backpocket file“.

If you’re ever short on time & “Sunday’s Coming”:

What interesting resources, effects, ideas, etc. do you have cataloged away that would save you time & work in this situation?

Well, although you may not use this tip today, store it away in your backpocket file.

You’ll never know when it’ll be useful to know how to: Create Holograms in After Effects.

Creative Cow has a great hologram tutorial if you’re going for a more “Star Wars” holographic look. There’s even a version of the same-style tutorial for Apple Motion.

What do you have in your “backpocket” file?

What useful resources, video effects, tutorials, etc. do you look to for when you get caught in a time-crunch?

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13 Responses to “Video Tip: Creating Holograms in After Effects”

  1. Michael Nichols
    April 15, 2010 at #

    Amazing! Thank you for this tip!

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  2. kylereed
    April 15, 2010 at #

    First off you have a perfect voice for video tuts.
    Second, that was just plain awesome.
    Thanks

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    • Andrew Mason
      April 15, 2010 at #

      Thanks :)

      Reply
    • Andrew Mason
      April 16, 2010 at #

      Thanks Kyle!

      Reply
  3. Stuart
    April 15, 2010 at #

    As ever – thank you for the tut and the inspiration.

    Reply
  4. greenhornet79
    April 16, 2010 at #

    Cool trick. I’ll definitely be filing this one away for future use.

    As far as my backpocket file, one thing I like to do is save cool presets in Particular that would be good for text or logo reveals. That way when I need a cool way to transition an element I don’t have to try and remember all the settings.

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  5. Jared Erickson
    April 16, 2010 at #

    great job man! it would look pretty cool if you kept the “transform Controls” on the image (like how it looks in the thumbnail.. ) like a hologram version of PS or AI

    Reply
  6. Travis Fish
    April 18, 2010 at #

    Thanks for the tutorial man! I will definitely be trying this!

    Reply
  7. PhillipGibb
    April 18, 2010 at #

    very cool.
    Some other places I enjoy tutorials for this sort of thing:
    AppleMotion.net
    Embryo Tutorials

    Reply
  8. Stephen
    April 19, 2010 at #

    Cool quick idea. I just started working in After Effects last year. Wish I had more time to spend with it!

    Reply

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