{"id":85692,"date":"2017-01-23T13:35:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T19:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=85692"},"modified":"2018-11-04T23:30:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T05:30:56","slug":"create-horror-titles-in-after-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/create-horror-titles-in-after-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Suspenseful “Split” Horror Titles in After Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learn how to design and animate split horror titles with custom shading and textures, inspired by M. Night Shyamalan’s Split.<\/h2>\n

Does your video project<\/strong>\u00a0require a serious suspense<\/strong> or horror feel<\/strong>? Creating custom horror titles<\/strong> can sometimes be a struggle \u2014 after all, there are a million ways to go about it.<\/p>\n

In this After Effects<\/strong> tutorial, we’ll take a look at recreating the main title from M. Night Shyamalan’s<\/a> new movie,\u00a0Split<\/a><\/em>. This tutorial covers basic principles of suspense design<\/strong> like\u00a0<\/strong>applying textures<\/strong>, splitting text<\/strong>, and adding shadows<\/strong> to separate the cuts.<\/p>\n

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\nImage:\u00a0James McAvoy<\/a>\u00a0in M. Night Shyamalan’s\u00a0Split via Universal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Suspenseful\/horror titles<\/strong> follow a general philosophy of design \u2014 they need to be eerie and unsettling\u00a0to your audience. The titles should represent what your story<\/strong> or message<\/strong> is about. The movie Split<\/strong> is based on an antagonizing multiple personality villain who abducts three women.<\/p>\n

The title design<\/strong> clearly represents the antagonist (or, really, in Split’s<\/em> case, antagonists)<\/em> and the theme of split personalities through the split-shadowed\u00a0ridges within the text. Furthermore,\u00a0the title design<\/strong> indicates the\u00a0genre<\/strong> of the\u00a0film. You’ll see in our tutorial<\/strong>\u00a0how to grab the audiences attention with your title by adding\u00a0a touch of distortion<\/strong> to the beginning of the animation in order to create a jarring offset.<\/p>\n

Here’s a quick preview of the final horror title<\/strong> result:<\/p>\n

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Here’s what\u00a0you’ll take away from this exciting Split Horror Text After Effects<\/strong> tutorial:<\/p>\n