CreativMotion posts a look at building data glitch effects in After Effects from elements that are brought in from Adobe Illustrator. The technical data glitch effect give life to interface elements, especially when you are drawing them on or taking them off the screen. If glitches like this happened with equipment in real life, it most likely would be unacceptable. However on screen, it can bring the animation to life and also provide a visual cue for the viewers eye.
In this tutorial we will be creating some data glitch UI elements in Illustrator and and taking them into After Effects Then adding other effectsCole Wilson – CreativMotion
Here, CreativMotion’s Cole Wilson shows how to create all of the data glitch effects without the aid of any special or third party plugin in Ae. Even without the use of plugins, Cole is able to show how you can get effects like Chromatic Aberration, Time Displacements, Scale and Slide and Blur.
Further Reading on Data Glitch Effects
A while back Evan Abrams had a good look at using one of the lesser known effects in Ae, the Transform Effect to create the data glitch effect. The Transform Effect offered an easy way to key the types of attributes needed for that look. Using the After Effects Transform Effect and Expressions to Create Easy Glitches.
VinhSon Nguyen from CreativeDojo shows how to use the Expression engine in After Effects to automate twitches and glitches. This could easily be used for the data glitch effect. Creating a Glitch Effect in After Effects with Expressions.
In a related post, there was also a great tutorial from Stefan Surmabojov which showed how to create the Iron Man holographic user displays, many of which contained the data glitch effect. Creating Holographic Widgets in After Effects.
