The first one I created was made by grabbing any kind of audio and import it into after effects and then add a solid layer and place an effect called 'audio spectrum' which creates a kind of audio wave and then I just experimented with the different display options which were Analog dots, Analog Lines, and Digital so that it will give me different visuals. After I got what I wanted I duplicated the audio spectrum two more times so that I can change the effects on them and just increase the visual appearance. This is what I ended up with.
For the second one I created I used the same effects from above but I changed it slightly, with the Analog lines display I placed an effect called 'CC Focus Motion Blur' which made the analog lines blurry when they moved about giving off a web like effect. I then just changes round some of the orders of the layers so that it didn't look exactly like the first one.
After doing these I then moved on to creating curved lines which moved around one another, which would create a more of a hud effect. I did this using a mask tool and then adding an effect called 'Vegas' which created lines that I could manipulate, then I just added an expression on the rotation so that it would go round in a circle. After doing this I then duplicated the lines and changed the settings on them so the it would look more random. This looked something like this.
I then went on to creating another one of these but with more detail so I did the exact same thing as before but just increased the amounts of lines in there and I also added in a dotted line just to spice things up a bit. This was the out come to that.
Before I put all of the above together I also created a square that was exactly a fourth of the composition size and then made the opacity flicker on and off using the expression wiggle. I then duplicated the square three more times so that there are four altogether and lined them up in the centre so that I could place an effect called 'pola coordinates' so that the four square would curl round and create a circle, then I added another expression so the the squares that are now in a circle could spin around.
At this point I could now start merging all of the above together to create a hud effect. This was quite simple enough to do because all I had to do was experiment around with the scale tool and the position tool to get them in the right place. I then added an adjustment layer to the composition so that I could change the colour of the huds to a blue. After changing the colour I then added another adjustment layer and placed an effect called 'bulge' so that I could animate all the huds expanding and been pulled in, but I also duplicated this adjustment layer and mover it lower down the other layers so that I would only change a few of the huds. Lastly I placed another adjustment layer so that I could change the colour of one on the huds to make it red just so there is a bit more contrast in the whole effect.
This was the final outcome of my experiment, I feel like I've done a good job of it and I'll be able to use different assets of this to help me out in another video I'm working on. I'm very pleased with the outcome of this because it's done what I've wanted it to do and it looks like a projected hologram, I also like how the hud come out and looks 3D which increases the quality of this effect. What I'd like to do with this next is make this an asset for another project where my face has been motion tracked so that I can place this round my eye and make it look like I'm searching for something and make me look a bit like Iron Man.
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