A magic ball effect, i’d been aiming to one of these for some time. Hopefully i’ll be able to get a tonne more done in the future, including some more elaborate effects. At the moment it’s the old text tutorial, but i’ll be video-ising it as soon as i can.


After playing in Adobe After Effects with fractal noise for a while I eventually developed this plasma energy ball effect that I liked. Generally this is a simple effect that focuses around fractal noise plus a few adjustments, a clip of the ball in action can be seen below as well as a screenshot and a tutorial.


Download the clip here 400KB, right-click save as



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Tutorial

Required: Adobe After Effects

Optional: Trapcode’s particular and shine plugins

Open up your copy of Adobe After Effects.

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I made this in-depth tutorial with the intention of creating something without plug-ins in AE and, by-in-large, was successful, although the process is a little extensive, you can get some nice results. For the moment it’s in the ‘old’ format, so it doesn’t quite adhere to the new rhys-works.com design but hopefully i’ll be fixing that some time in the future.


So i hope this helps out some of you guys looking to make the popular matrix effect, if you have any trouble, drop me a line.


The font used can be found here