Expecto Patronum - After Effects Tutorial

This is my first tutorial, and I teach how to create the patronus effect that many of you have seen in my video, "Expecto Patronum", using only free or built-in Adobe After Effects plug-ins! I'm new at the whole tutorial thing, so the next one will be much better (ex: no random mouse spazzing!).

There are ways to create a more realistic patronus, but you'd have to stray from After Effects' free or built-in plug-ins. My patronus at the end included smoke stock footage from Andrew Kramer's Action Essentials. I hope this video can put you in the right direction when it comes to making this particular effect. Tutorials aren't easy to make! Kudos to those who make them on a regular basis.

Rising Game Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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• expecto patronum
• patronus
• adobe after effects
• tutorial
• how-to
• effectsmagician
• jeff hoffman
• harry potter
• spell
• effect

[enzyme30]

Why is cc light rays in generate in my after effects instead of render?

[EffectsMagician]

@enzyme30 Do you have a different version of After Effects? I'm using 7.0.

[DorianMusik]

where do you have affter effects from? did you really buy it?

[EffectsMagician]

@DorianMusik I bought it used on amazon.com. You can find it much cheaper there, depending on which version you buy.

[011thejazz]

dark mark tutorial?

[TheDangerousHacker]

thank you sooo much, I subbed to you like four weeks ago. I was wondering if you could do a tutorial on the Protego spell and the dark mark like the seen seen in you Harry Potter Effects Tests video.

It would be great if you make these tutorials.

[2011Priyansh]

@EffectsMagician Where To download the cat from ???

[TheTardis99]

is that how you do lumos as well? (what you were doing at the start?) :)

[IKsoft2]

@enzyme30 Maybe u have newer version

[cosmicstarfighter]

@EffectsMagician so what tool exactly did you use?

[talen8888]

seeing this i just say you should do the fiend fire tutorial

[S2gleelover]

every time you say "it's not that bad" i go like "shut up, it's freaking awesome, ur a genious"

[Frostygirl5]

can anyone give me the link to download after effects 0.7?