EASY Blur Reveal Text Animation (After Effects Tutorial)

Inspired by a fantastic effect from designer Tim Hosqo, I show how to make a procedural blur title text reveal animation. Plus some fun techniques sprinkled in (as always)

Other tutorials mentioned in this video:
Colorama tutorial:    • Gradient Maps In After Effects! (+ Fr...  
Keyframe Velocity/Pass-Through Keyframes tutorial:    • A BETTER Way to Animate With Keyframe...  

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► TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro (what are we making?)
0:17 Setting up the project in AE
0:35 Making the text
0:48 Blur map
1:32 Adding the blur
1:55 Adding color and grain
2:53 Animating the blur map
3:56 Animating the text
5:06 Setting up the displacement (fractal noise)
7:12 Glow
7:29 Animating overlay speckles
8:05 Final stylizing effects
8:58 The final result!



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