Create a Sizzling Title Intro

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Discover how to create a memorable title intro. Perfect for company logos.

Length:
50 minutes
Software:
Blender 2.57
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Rate:
VN:F [1.9.17_1161]
Rating: 4.7/5 (99 votes cast)

In this tutorial you will discover:

  • The basics of keyframe animation
  • How to quickly add smoke
  • How to use the video sequencer to add sound effects

I’ve been feeling that I don’t do enough typography tutorials of late, so this week I’m honing in on that much needed skill if you want to work in the real world. It’s time for title intros!

Finished Result

 

At a Glance

Screenshots from the video:


Further Inspiration

Not sure where to go with this tutorial? Check out these links for some motiongraphics inspiration:

Got a tutorial request? Drop a comment below!

Download finished .blend Create a Sizzling Title Intro, 4.7 out of 5 based on 99 ratings

About Andrew Price

User of Blender for 9+ years. I've written tutorials for 3d World Magazine and spoken at three Blender conferences. My goal is to help artists get employed in the industry by making training accessible and easy to understand. I'm an Aussie and I live in South Korea ;)
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  • Craig Wessel

    Will definitely try this.

  • http://www.facebook.com/sebastien.landry.545 Sebastien Landry

    Here is my result.

  • Brandon chow

    Can You do a tutorial on how to make a wolf I love to see how it is done

  • sharaahu

    when i render it its all black ,the text is!!!! YYYY??? i cant get it to fix

  • remo conan

    I spoke too early, after about an hour I was able to troubleshoot that my render layer with the particle emitter was not added to the main scene and so when I animated, the glass particle shatter would only start and stop at frame 10…for some reason the lifetime of the particles only lasted for that 1 frame. Anyway thanks its a relief to finally complete one of your tuts! 50 mins of your tut really did push me to the limit for in real time i think i spent 5 hours on this over 2 days!

  • remo conan

    Pricey! What you doing to me?! When I follow your settING up scene (AT 37MINS) for the domain and the smoke, I lose my glass particles? When I scrub the animation my particles do not appear at all, where did they go? I have checked that the scene is in the SCENE LAYER AND NOT IN SMOKE LAYER. Please help, this fracking tut has taken me almost 1 day and then some. the tut was good, and could do with more structure as far as length of time and also the haphazard approach is very confusing especially when u need to follow everything verbatim!!

  • Ed

    Thank’s for share your knowledge, and your tips!

  • Kartikey

    Smoke is not visible even if i have exactly followed your steps

  • Chris

    Hey Andrew may i post your blender file to my site
    http://www.freeintrotemplates.hostei.com

  • CHRIS

    hey andrew i was watching your title animation video (the green one) and when i go to render the final result it says “invalid number of channels 6, must be <=2" please help!!!!

    • Gerald

      I had the same problem. Changed Audio Codec from MP3 to AC3 and render worked.

  • Matthias

    can i buy a intro?

  • Kevin

    Hey Andrew thanks for the tutorial! Check out what I came up with! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GizfnEnRyJo&feature=youtu.be

  • Alexis

    hey Adrew ,here is mine . hope you like it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN-JSPVx1ak&feature=g-upl

  • Jamell

    my layers render separably why is that?

  • http://www.facebook.com/ratonbat Martin Batalla

    When I try to make the smoke, it isn’t as big as the on you do… :/

  • Mike

    Hey Andrew,
    Great tutorial! I have watched almost all of your tutorials and have no idea where to start on them. I downloaded the finished blend and changed the text and color. Thanks for the vids!

  • Alfie

    I have a really annoying problem, when I move an object the camera moves, and when I move the camera the objects move, thus causing the two texts to unalign (despite being parented…)
    what have I done wrong?
    Thanks, and I’m glad I’ve found your website

  • Ryan

    Hi Andrew,
    Every time I try to make the smoke, it is very small and is more like a little ‘puff’ than a ‘gush’ of smoke like yours appears. I am not sure what I have done wrong?
    Any help is appreciated,
    Thanks :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/jacob.hanafin Jacob Hanafin

    I am trying to change some of the effects on this blend file, and i downloaded the one you provide just because it is better then mine. So now that i have changed some effects and so forth i realized the smoke is still green but i have searched everywhere for the emitter and i cant find it. Help please.

  • HeyItsKD123

    Silly Andrew, “fac” is short for factor. :D (10:20)

  • Brendan

    your Download button want work.Please fix it.the site will never load.

    • alfi

      Just follow the tutorial then XD

  • ranx

    Hi Andrew was trying your tutorial but stuck at particles colision. It still goes through plane can’t get it to work.I’m using blender 2.63

    • NomoGenal / WhiteQerl

      1. go to plane giv it collision particle damping
      2. factor .7 random .5
      3 Particle Friction
      4 factor .7 random .5

      if that doznt work select particle sistem go to physics and select “Size deflect”

      i think that if you dont select size deflect in 2,63 particle in collision are going on the botom some bug or somting :)

      • ranx

        thanx for reply tried your suggestion it didn’t work don’t know what else to do

        • ranx

          Figured out what was wrong. I had the plane on layer two, it has to be on same layer as emitter. SMH :-[

          thanx NomoGenal for your help !

          Great tutorial Andrew keep it up!!!

          • NomoGenal / WhiteQerl

            hehehe :)

  • http://Lujan,BuenosAires,Argentina Walter

    Hola Andrew, No se si hablas español, pero por suerte hoy existe “google translate”, solo quería dejarte mi profundo agradecimiento a tu dedicación en todos tus tutoriales, ya que yo, como seguramente otros principiantes, emos podido absorber todo tu conocimiento y simplesa. Creo que la facilidad con la que explicas y resuelves tus trabajos hace que nuestra experiencia en blender sea mas facil. Sos un punto de inflexion en el aprendizaje de este genial programa que sigue sorprendiendome dia a dia. Gracias por todo.

  • NomoGenal / WhiteQerl

    hi Andrew i just wona say tnx this is myfrst animation ever :) i m happy with result and chek it outh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAEmAmZz8F0&feature=plcp

    by the way i didnt wat to do partic.. that way you did but i get trepe render time when ther is 3 sphere’s and this with smoke ind background :)

  • http://none dan

    I somehow cant get the animation to render all of the scenes. when I click on animation in the render tab, it only renders the only frame i’m on (which is the first one)
    does anyone know what I’m doing wrong?

    • NomoGenal / WhiteQerl

      1.go to compositing andd new render layer change his scene to smoke scene
      2.add a mix node put it to “add”
      3.combine smoke render leyer on secund and your last mix node from non smoke scene on first
      4.and on last combine those 2 with viwer and compositing node

      to get more better smoke result on my video blow i did a blur node of 5-5 and geted better results with youst smoke hd of 2

      and by the way dont use so much of point lamps in smoke scene it will yous be to high color as you can se in my video

  • Andrew

    When I change the color of one of the two texts (the regular and the outline) It changes them both at the same time so i cannot add a white outline and a green regular text.

    • Andrew

      Anyone know how to fix that?

      • http://none dan

        you need to make a new material or you hit Alt-D to make it a linked duplicate, which is different from SHIFT-D.

  • http://www.royaltyfreeaudiologo.com Jan

    Good summary post,

    If you need some intro melody for your video blog posts please check out our website http://www.royaltyfreeaudiologo.com/

    We have one of the best prices on the web and can support some good projects even for free.

    Jan

  • http://derekprinzi.weebly.com Derek

    Great tutorial Andrew!

    I did this for a friend who requested a intro movie for a game he is making.
    Feel free to comment on it!

    Thanks!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krIbVnDFjwk

  • http://www.unity-projects.co.uk Chris

    Another Great tutorial, thanks.

    Only been using blender for a few weeks and i’m learning so much from your tutorials

    anyway here’s my effort

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfOM-ejjZ1s&feature=youtu.be

  • William

    Intro Music Download Link Please :)

  • gearsofdesign

    I really enjoyed this tutorial; I’ve been using Blender for a couple of days now.

    Please tell me what you think…

    http://www.gearsofdesign.co.uk/webdisk/blender_title_blendergurututorial_gears.mp4

    • Matthew

      thats cool bro!

  • Demetrius

    lol could render out smoke so i had to take it out

  • Thomas

    Hey! I’ve made the intro with my own name instead of “blenderguru”, but do i need to credit this site if i use it on youtube?

  • Zasek Xynanthum

    When I try to combine the text and the rim, I get a “loop in parents” error. Can someone please help? Thanks!

    • http://none dan

      you have probably created a parent with one of them. you can select one of them and hit Alt-P to cleat parent. do not worry about the options:just hit keep trans

  • Sergio

    Hey!

    I have a problem with sound….
    i tried in all formats and nothing.
    i get this….”Error initializing audio stream” when i render!

    Help Me Please!
    Thanks!

    • Ach Hadda

      me to :(

    • Kevin

      Yea I was getting that too. It would work sometimes for me, but I eventually moved the project to Adobe Premier which works great.

  • Memborg

    Hey, Andrew.
    - I know this is somewhat an old tutorial, but as I went through the tutorial I noticed how some of my particles (or all of them) suddenly “stood up” after they had landed.
    - I figured out how to solve this problem though:

    In the Particles pannel under the Rotation settings you have to set the Angular Velocity to “None” instead of “Spin”.
    - I made this in the 2.62 version, so I do not know if it was the answer you were looking for back then, but I figured I might as well post it. :)

    • Memborg

      My post above left me with another that did not occur until I restarted Blender today. The particles just behave weirdly if the angular velocity is set to “None”.
      - However, and I don’t know just how exactly that works, but I changed the angular velocity to “Spin” and turned up the value to 0.2.
      I noticed how the particles started spinning so I turned it back down to zero and only after I had done that my particles behaved as they were supposed to in the first place.
      - Probably a few bugs, which I am hoping they will fix.

      • http://victorhckinthefreeworld.wordpress.com/ victorhck

        Hi !
        You are a really guru for begginers like me!
        Thank’s for share your knowledge, and your tips!
        Bye!

    • NL

      I can’t find the spin option… where it is ? thank memborg ;)

  • Motty

    How can you use big letters like p & y?

  • Bundysale

    Please Can anyone help me?
    i’ve downloaded the finished title intro.blend and i have downloaded blender, but how can i get this intro TO ( in ) Blender?
    thanks

    • Abhimanyu Deora

      You open up blender, and then open the file in Blender.

  • upriser

    looks here my attempt ( without smoke)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSV_dm6NE7I

  • upriser

    hi ,

    I just had tried this tutorial, but I have a problem with my smoke.. everything is fine, bur when i render it, my smoke starts at the top of the animation..

    please help me

  • Nabeel

    for creating the vid from the PNGs WindowsMovieMaker does a pretty good job if you leave each frame on for around 0.25 seconds and dont use transitions- and you can add sound etc. but mainly the exporting of the video is much simpler

  • sharif

    Many thanks for this…….i will request please more video tutorial upload.

  • Dan

    45 minutes to get through 8 minutes of your video. No disrespect it’s great you took the time to do this but its impossible to follow you as you are going so quick and using so many keyboard short-cuts. Great video but not a great tutorial!

    • Ach Hadda

      you just need to know the baseces

  • http://mdkieran.com mdk

    Awesome tutorial!! I followed it putting my own spin on things as I went along, It’s almost finished but there is just one problem, the particles all jitter around and I don’t know how to fix it, any ideas? http://youtu.be/M4juEBDfO80

    • http://mdkieran.com mdk

      Had to change ‘Angular Velocity’ to ‘None’ under rotation in the particle emitter, I noticed this ‘bug’/oddity in other peoples animations on here, just looks kind of weird, but sorted it now! Hope that helps someone else, but anyway, here is my final intro http://youtu.be/YAv3UEb8OCI Thanks for the tutorial mate, enjoyed it.

  • EvenTarash

    This is my result…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QWOcTHB0gA
    I KNOW THAT I NEED A MORE PRACTICE………..

  • McMuza

    http://youtu.be/5EE3Yod6a4k

    sory for 2′nd message.

  • McMuza

    Very nice tutorial Andrew, I have done it,, here it’s my results.

  • Leo

    First of all, Awsom tutorial. But I have a problem, every time i try to do the last render either blender crashes or it stands that the file couldn’t be read. what should i do?

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