Retro Style Graphics
Learn how to create a vintage retro style. Use the graymachine 3D preset to create 3D extruded text and apply the BadTV preset. Create lens flares using standard AE shape layers and effects.
29 Responses to “Retro Style Graphics”
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love the tut. was wondering if there are any shortcut or quick ways to get old vintage 3d shapes ie pyramids or cubes? wireframe status
Quick? Not that I know of. The pyramid is just 4 triangles shapes in AE. BUT, that is exactly what the upcoming library is going to be jam packed with. It’s good to hear what people want. More wireframes coming up!
cool thanks!!! I love this site has some great tuts and files on it. I just recently made an old hi8/vhs look on a video loved the badtv plugin so much wish i had it for the project. thanks again for everything. im a fan of the site now
When I duplicate the font layer – they don’t move back in the z index, the text stays 2D, rather than becoming 3D no matter how many times I duplicate the layer?
What might cause this?
Two things come to mind… the expression is not applied, or the layer’s 3D switch has not been turned on.
Hey when i click on the gray machine preset 3d it brings me to a text site and it shows me this
RIFX
Right click…save as….
Amazing tutorial !
Thrash the look of work !
Thanks.
I can’t download the 3d preset. All I get is a new page with some text on it.
That is the preset. Right click and save the file.
Hi fellow!
A have a question, where i can download de 80′s layer, that you use in the amazing retro motion?
Very thanks, you inspired me!
I am not sure which layer you mean. What element are you talking about? There’s a lot of that stuff in the Video Rock library:
http://www.graymachine.com/videorock/
Hi Harry. Nice work, smart ideas, great tutorials. I’ll be soon a customer of you
I have the same problem as Brian and Joe; copied the text, pasted in different
texteditors, named the ending as .ffx but it’s not working on mac… Thanks for your help in advance.
Just right-click and save the file. Safari tends to open FFX files as a text file in the browser.
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Great tutorials, a little questions though, I am probably being completely dumb, but I can’t seem to see the 3d preset file to download, I have also looked elsewhere on the site.
Click where it says “Use the graymachine 3D preset to create 3D…”.
It’s a link.
here is a weird question, how did you modify your finder sidebar to include “Media”
Hmm.. not sure.. in Finder>Preferences perhaps?
Inspiring work
Love the retro look using the 3d glasses technique.
Could of come in handy for when we had to create a B-movie style-esque music video. Still running that video through to VHS and then repeatedly re-recorded it over and over till it ACTUALLY got damaged worked :/… just took a million times longer.
Your link for the ‘graymachine 3D preset’ is out of commission.. also could of been handy.
Keep up the great work
Thanks Dave!
I keep getting emails that the preset link “doesn’t work” but every time I check it, it is working. I think the problem is that some browsers simply try to open the FFX file. So, I’ve zipped it and changed the link. Should work for everyone now.
I’m new to After Effects so maybe this is a dumb question, but when I export the animation the glow effects disappear. I’m guessing this is happening because I’m working in 32bpc in AE and when I export it it gets bumped down to 8bpc. (Apparently not many video formats can maintain 32bpc if I’m not mistaken?)
So my question is, how do I make it so that I don’t lose the glow effects?!
This shouldn’t be the case… are you perhaps rendering with an alpha? The transparency and interpretation by be occluding the effect. But, it does not need to render in 32 bpc at all.
I believe I figured it out. Before I was simply exporting it as a Quicktime movie from the file menu, but it works now when I add the Composition to the render queue and then render it from there. Although I don’t know exactly what the difference is between the two I’m glad I was able to figure it out. Thanks.
Where do I drop the file in the Ae preset folder?
really really great tutorial! exactly what i was looking for
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