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Living By The Spirit Tutorial

After six months away from making tutorials for the sake of our rapidly growing family, it’s time for a comeback.

So, in this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create some great looking titles using Trapcode Particular, depth of field rendering, and some free live-action footage based on a recent project I completed for Calvary Community Church.

I also switched things up a little bit and recorded this pretty much on the fly – so if you pay attention, you’ll probably catch me calling five sided objects hexagons instead of pentagons – but I left some of those in there for entertainment value. Don’t hesitate to rib me in the comments below if you feel the need to further pick on me.

I’ve also included a link to the project file and footage from the tutorial so you can play with the content yourself. Feel free to use the smoke and dust loops in your own work – in fact, I’d encourage it.

The font used in the tutorial is Quicksand and available as a free download.

DOWNLOAD: PROJECT FILES AND FOOTAGE

 

  1. Juan Urquhart May 15th 2010

    Glad to see you back,Carl…really enjoyed the “cube world” series in creative cow…keep them coming and congratulations for your growing family…
    All the best from Uruguay!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHhceC0zu2w

  2. Carl May 15th 2010

    Juan –

    Thanks for the comment. I’m glad you’ve enjoyed the tutorials. I’ll do my best to keep ‘em coming.

  3. Loay Emad May 15th 2010

    Oh My GOD Carl Larsson is Back!
    Finally, I can’t believe my eyes!
    Please Carl make more tutorials for your fans. At least one per two weeks (Weekly preferred :) )
    Thanks for this and hope to see more.

  4. Loay Emad May 15th 2010

    oh I forgot. Greetings from Egypt. :D

  5. Eran Stern May 15th 2010

    Good to have you back #1, Great Tutorial.

  6. Cody Redmer May 15th 2010

    You’re welcome Carl! Good tutorial, and glad I could help with the smoke tip.

  7. Carl May 15th 2010

    @Eran. I’ve always appreciated your encouragement and inspiration along the way. #1 is probably a huge overstatement, but I’ll take it as a great compliment. Thanks!

    @Cody You work hard and take creative risks. I like that. Imitation is a high form of flattery, right? :)

    @Loay I work well under deadlines, but I’m not committing to anything quite yet. Thanks for the comments.

  8. Eran Stern May 16th 2010

    As long as I’m still your captain,
    Make it so :-)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jd1Ih8EUmw

  9. Danny G May 18th 2010

    Great tutorial. Thanks!

  10. Snake Plissken Jun 6th 2010

    Hi Carl, cool work, very smooth.
    But wouldn’t it have been easier to use A.Kramer’s plugin “SureTarget” which is planned for that king of stuff ? There’s also a “3DFalloff” plugin which allows layers to fade away in the distance …
    For sure the aim of a tutorial is to do it from scratch, so thanks for the lesson. I just find a little boring to adjust the focal distance on each layer, that’s why I thought to another way of doing things.
    Once again welcome back & greetings for all your “little family”.
    Cheers from France.

  11. Dan Peters Jul 4th 2010

    Looks really good Carl! The extra time you spent tweaking the particles makes a big difference I think.

  12. Carl Jul 5th 2010

    Thanks, Dan. We miss you out at IPS ;)

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