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Here’s a simple tutorial showing you how to create a festive-themed Christmas message in After Effects (no plug-ins required). Sharp-eyed viewers will probably notice that I forgot to add snow in the tutorial, but all you need to do is add the CC Snow effect to the Inner Text layer.
Alternatively, take the simple way out, and download the project that I’ve posted here.
Here’s a new two-part tute on how to create a laser effect that burns your text into a sheet of metal. While this can be achieved using CS3, it’s a lot easier with the Convert Text to Masks option in CS4 and CS5, so I’m using CS5 for this one.
I ran over a bit on part two and had to butcher it to fit into the 15-minute limit – so it’s a bit choppy, and I cut out the parts where I added a flicker to the laser highlight, masked the smoke layers, and re-adjusted the keyframe positions on the Opacity values.
The full project file is available from here – though it’s probably not that useful as you’ll need to manually keyframe the effect position to match the text you’re using.
And here’s part two:
