• Adobe After Effects

  Paging Michael, Brian and Walter (About The Blueprint Thing)

  Posted by Brian Kaye on May 15, 2011 at 6:46 pm

  Hey guys,
  Well, I got what I was looking for and it’s pretty easy to do (isn’t everything once you’ve figured it out) and here is how I accomplished it. I need to fancy things up, but the basics are:

  Insert a text layer with kind of a bold font (Trajan Pro works) with any color at 72 pixels high.

  Next a solid layer with a blue color

  Then I Auto traced the text layer and added a Stroke effect, checked “all masks” box and set paint style to “On transparent” and the stroke color to white.

  I then duplicated the auto traced layer and added a “directional blur” with the direction set to 0 degrees and the blur length to 150. To that layer I also added “sharpen” and set the amount to 100.

  I then duplicated that auto traced layer three more times. In those layers I changed the directional value to 45, -45 and -90.

  I’ll probably need a little noise and some other jazz, but that is the look I’m after.

  Brian

  Michael Szalapski replied 15 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Walter Soyka

  May 16, 2011 at 1:08 am

  Nice, Brian — and thanks for posting back with your solution!

  Walter Soyka
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  Michael Szalapski

  May 16, 2011 at 3:31 pm

  Glad you were able to get it!

  – The Great Szalam
  (The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)

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