Password hacking is usually presented as a quite dull process in Hollywood visuals. It is even more dull in real life. In this tutorial I will show you my take on a HolOS password hacking interface – spicing it up with After Effects 2.5D crossword puzzle look.
The idea for this tutorial comes from one of the Video Bits projects published back in 2008: Crossword Hax. I think enough time has passed since I created that effect, so I decided to share it with the community.
Running time: 41min
Difficulty: Advanced
Required tools: After Effects
Optional tools: Trapcode Horizon
Preview video:
Tutorial:
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- Project File
http://downloads.qubahq.com/tutorials/QubaHQ_HolOS_PassHack.zip - Tutorial (138MB MP4)
http://video.qubahq.com/tutorials/QubaHQ_HolOS_PassHack.mp4
You may also download this tutorial from its Vimeo page. The preview video can also be watched on YouTube.
If you enjoyed this tutorial, have a look around the site. If you find something else you would like to see made into a tutorial, drop a comment and I’ll see what can be done.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
This has to be one of the lamest tutorials I’ve seen, the final result isn’t even close to being compelling yet nice effort for trying…
way too much glow, camera move is lame, and ayatoweb.com is over 6 years old.
but then again, maybe newbies could use it somehow
Nobody’s forcing you to do the tutorial, but feel free to troll around some more.
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wow, tuts very nice and good. you can upload more tutorials of After Effects to website? Thanks
Thanks luantran.. I will be publishing more tutorials, as I make them. It typically takes around one day of work to prepare the tutorial, record, edit publish it, so check back this address to see if something new is up:
http://tutorials.qubahq.com/
Very good, well presented and the end result is impressive. It would also be interesting to know your rendering time as this is a very heavy project and perhaps more thoughts on how to optimize the rendering time that you mention briefly at the end. I have no doubt these tutorials take allot of time to prepare, I for one really appreciate your hard work.
Hey Baldur, thanks for the kind words, and you are right – it takes quite special circumstances and time to get new tutorials out.
Currently I have two cool tuts planned, but just cannot find time away from work to prepare and record them.
As for the rendering times on this one… I cannot really tell you how long it took, but it was one of the heavier renders I put my aging computer through.
You could speed it up significantly in two ways:
1. Pre-compose and pre-render (create a proxy out of) the grids. At the moment AE needs to apply the grid effect three times per module, and that’s quite some wasted processing power.
2. Pre-compose and render the text layers as a single image. Again, why render 12 layers of vector text for each module, when you can make the same in photoshop and save the processing.
To think of that, in the future tutorials I should cover the proxy making and pre-renders. I do use them regularly in my commercial works, so why not put them in the tutorials as well :)
Nice one!!
I just had a quick look through the video and ..well, was happy to see how you achieved this 3d effect. I’ve seen a similar 3d before, and wondered how that was done, expecting a simple 3 clicks/one layer plug-in solution. And since I didn’t know that way I figured I won’t be able to achieve it. Sometime I just don’t allow myself to think of a 30 layer solution.
I’ll have to come back and do this video some time.
Like your ideas for speeding up the renders!
Thanks!
Quba, seni çok takdir ettim. Güzel tutorialını paylaştığın için teşekkür ederim.
Hey Quba, this is cool tutorial and i learned some great technics. Thank you for sharing. Please keep your great work! Thanks
Man, this is an awesome tutorial – well thought out, well presented and with a fantastic end result. What more could you ask for? Glowy Bowie you’re a knobhead. Quba …. you the man :D Thanks. I picked up a lot from this.
Its great! the one that wrote its lame :) hehe he is lame or meaby jelouse, good job and realy nice explenation and of course good alternative for Videocp.
Thanks for the great tutorial. just loved it..keep making new ones.
very nice tutorial. its a help to do semilar projects in AE. ignore the haters, there are too stupid to do such things. good luck for the future. greetz
Thank you for your tutorial Quba! I’ve learned a few thing:)
p.s. the “W” is missing lol
Are you Polish Quba ? ;)
– thank you for the tutorial, maybe it is too much glow Indeed..but who care? ;) grid technique is important for me now,
and i got it! thank you very much!
you saved me much time and stress
greetings from Warsaw mate
the script used in this tutorial is great, and i’m sure that i will use it many times, but this way in some situations generate hundreds of layers, specially in my example. Maybe someone have idea how to set-up particular to do the same thing? or you know some tutorials?
Very helpful. Thanks and much appreciated!