Cool After Effects Tutorial: Distorted Type & Data Glitch

Give your text a grungy tech look by creating distorted digital type and video in After Effects.

Lloyd Alvarez over at AEScripts.com presents two great tutorials for giving any text or video element a glitched-out tech look.  Using the Data Glitch 2.0 plugin for After Effects, you can create a distorted digital studder effect that’s perfect for a movie trailer or title sequence.  This edgy look works well for any project dealing with technology, computers or the future (think: Inception).  Take a peek at examples of this effect:

Lloyd lays out the process to achieve this contorted high-tech animation style in 2 detailed video tutorials.  One quick note, these tutorials aren’t for the After Effects newbie.  Like many of the high-quality tutorials over at AEScripts, a familiarization and prior experience with After Effects is highly recommended before jumping in.

Simulate realistic digital image distortion with Data Glitch 2.0, currently avaliable for $79.99.  A free trial is also avaliable to try before you buy.