In this tutorial we're going to be using the Atomic Particles effect to recreate the titles
from the Venom trailers.
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Lets go ahead and get started.
Let's begin by creating a new composite shot and naming it Text.
Make a new text layer the width of your comp.
This makes it easier to center.
Come up and select the Text tool, click inside the box, and type your title.
Highlight the title, and come over to the Text panel.
You can find a link to the free font I used in the description.
Select the middle paragraph button to center-align the title.
I'll make a few adjustments here- mostly just making the middle letters smaller and bringing
them closer together.
You can select individual letters and adjust the character spacing to fine tune how it
looks.
I'll keep the color of the text white.
With the title set I'll make a new main composite shot.
Keeping the text comp and the main comp separate allows you to make changes to the text later,
and have all the effects update in the main.
Drag in the title composite.
This will form the base of the final text.
Add on the Fractal Noise effect.
Drop down the settings and under Type, select Emboss.
Under Transform, lower the Scale to 100.
Finally, in the Appearance section, raise the Offset and lower the Exposure to make
the texture flatter.
To make the title less clean-cut, add Heat Distortion.
In the settings, increase the Diffusion Strength so that more of the text gets blurry.
Duplicate this text composite and change the name to Large Smoke.
Drop on the Atomic Particles effect.
In Particle Placement, Number of Particles, set the X and Y values to 900.
Come down to Fractal and change the Displace Strength to 65, and the wavelength to 2.5%.
Under Particle Appearance, raise the size to around 25.
Increase the Size Random and Opacity Random to 1, so that the scale and transparency of
each particle is varied.
Lower the Opacity until it takes on a smoky look.
For more fine detail, we're going to use Atomic Particles again, so just duplicate the smoke
layer.
Under Number of Particles, lower the X to around 200.
Right click on Particle Appearance and reset the settings.
Change them to fit your scene- I'll increase the Random values again.
When you're done, add a Blur effect to soften the particles.
I'll just keep it at 1.
Now I'm going to use the Neon Path effect.
To do this, I'll have to copy the original text layer over from it's composite.
This is because the Neon Path effect needs the actual text layer- it can't read from
a comp.
Create a new Plane and add that effect to it.
In the settings, set the Path From to Text and select the title layer.
Down in the Inner Glow settings, change the Width and Alpha to 0.
Under Core, raise the Distortion to your liking.
I'll change the Type to Energy to get a different look.
Copy the Heat Distortion from the title layer and apply it to this Neon Path layer.
Right click and set the Blend to Add.
Now create a Grade layer.
The first effect I'll add is Curves to give it a slightly blue color.
Lower the Red channel first.
Then, depending on what shade of blue you want, lower the Green channel and/or raise
the Blue.
Let's add a Glow effect to create some hotspots.
I'll increase the Threshold, so that only the brighter spots are affected, and change
the Blend to Add.
Lower the Intensity to avoid them getting blown out.
Depending on how conservative you were with your shadows, you may need another Curves
effect to brighten everything up.
You can use a Hue, Saturation & Lightness effect to adjust the color without having
to go back into each layer.
The cool thing about putting your text into a separate composite is that you can go back
to it and update the text.
I'll just change this to something else.
Back in the main comp everything except the Neon Path layer will reflect the changes.
You just have to manually sort out that text layer.
For another tutorial on creating movie title trailers, click the card on screen.
Thanks for watching and I'll see you all in the next video.