Fucking Awesome.

That's really neat.

Very creative and nicely done. Those were some nice After Effects skills. Thanks for sharing!

That's great. I love it.. except the constant wobble that just gets on my nerves. Without that it'd be perfect.

it's really awesome :-)

like it a lot

typography FTW

Awesome ;)

The typos were a bit jarring, but overall, this is an absolutely amazing video! Just please proofread it next time.

Also, I love the wobble. =D

Fantastic work here.

Please tell us what you made it in AE?

Your = Your Car
You're = You are dead :)

Awesome video!!

+1

i want my cake

That freakin' cake, man...

Nice work. I love this song.

Great, really enjoyed that!

The "Pulp Fiction" video and this video showed me the beauty and flexibility that is typography.

If I could afford the Crazy Talk software, I'd show you my jaw dropping in awe and admiration!

I really enjoyed that a lot! Very well done and creative. Great use of type.

BUT
and Im saying this in a constructive fashion:

fix your mistakes! You have lots of masks that clip the letters and its painfully obvious especially in HD. Also for the cake scene when the you rotate around it you should really take an extra moment and vector that image to avoid that ugly pixelization.

This is a really amazing piece and I would love to see that extra bit.

I wish I could be as glowing as the rest of the reviews. I enjoy the song, but this animation wasn't much more than animated text, and camera effect tricks in After Effects. (And it was indeed AE; I can recognize the motion blur, depth of field and spot lighting on the stage/canvas a mile away.) I don't consider this "animated typography" or design at all. There appeared to be very little thought about the alignment and placement of text elements, no consideration for spacing, kerning, size, proximity; basically all first-year design tenets. (You had the "Contrast", and some poorly planned "Repetition", but without the "Alignment" and "Proximity", the design is still "CRAP") As an exercise in After Effects skills, it's not a bad piece. You obviously grasp the camera and 3D modes in AE. I thought you could do more with lighting, Z-axis transformations, shadows. You need to work on better masking, better timing, and just basic design. My opinion is that with the popularity of animated typography and motion design, most people are happy to see this kind of thing, especially with such a popular piece of gamer/geek pop culture, but I certainly think this could be done better. Another thing I thought was annoying is the use of the low-res imagery of the cake around the 1-minute mark. You could have just as easily made a vector version of that artwork. I'm not complaining about the blur, it's the obvious jaggies on that artwork. Stylistically, there wasn't anything remarkable. I thought the fire was a cheap effect. It would have been kind of cool if you had managed to do some fire animations as vector, or even in high-contrast black and white. The animations and speed of animations are inconsistent, and rely too heavily on motion blur. Here's an example of what I would consider very good animated typography: youtube.com/watch?v=WXxouXt5dz4 (Lots of style, great use of color, other imagery, consistent animation style, timing, etc.)

I love the song and I love this :)

What software did you make this with ?

That was awesome!

With all due admiration and respect...

Why didn't I think of that?

That was fantastic. Don't listen to Boober Woob. He has no videos on here so as far as I'm concerned he's just talking big game. Lulz!

Great intentions, ditto on Boober Woob, though. Constructive criticisms. I would have said it myself when I was forwarded this video a couple days ago, but I didn't want to seem like an a**hole, because most lay people don't seem to understand that there are certain design standards within each art.

My contributions: I enjoyed the graphic style, but felt there were a few things that were graphically inconsistent. In particular, you were using a very iconographic style throughout and then suddenly used realistic fire. This could be great - if you have some time, consult a design friend for help and make it so! ^_^

I really honestly agree to the criticism. It wasn't an actual typography because, honest to god I have no idea on the subject. Anything I learned was from watching other videos. No class, or book, nothing. To me it was just a test because I had just picked up After Effects and wanted to learn as much as I could about it. Best way was just a simple trial and error. I don't have any stock footage to mess with so I made this...

Fun Fact: The "Your" comes from finishing at 4 am and after realizing your mistake after a 2 hour render for the 3rd time. Laziness overwhelms the mind.

excellent, truly brought a smile to my face.

Fascinating

Listen to Boober Woob

I really love this music
I love the video
thanks

One of my favorite songs; and an absolutely great achievement in the typography there :) Its nice to see you put in all those little details from the game.

Great job Trickster!

It's a decent effort for a first go. You learned things and we get to watch something that's not totally horrible.

Is the camera shake/wobble an expression or did you just key it through the whole thing?

wow i'm impressed

awsome!

Great! Awesome! Amazing! Good job! :D

Awesome

Dude, thats beautifull! I LOVE IT!

I'll just finished that game a few months ago, amazing =D

woooooww :)

This is something I really want to be able to do someday ... I'm just getting started on all this Motion Graphics - After Effects stuff so .. we'll have to wait and see huh... BEAUTIFUL work man.

Featured/archived on here:

halflifelibrary.com/wiki/Portal_-_Still_Alive_typography

Awesome! Охуеть! XD

wow.... hahahah GREAT!!!

Great job! I like it!!

Cooooooool

Love it! :D

Very nice work, man! ;)

Absolutely great tribute. Many smiles here.

Glad you are.... still alive.

wow, I just got a computing eargasm!

Still alive!!!

Beautiful.

Totaly awesome
Good job Max.

Awesome!

Nice Job!

So creative! Love the song, love the game, love your tribute! :-)

verycool... except for the one part where the symbols which are very close to the camera pixelate ;)

oh my god

Man, I've watched this so many times I can sing along now. I love you man.

I simply adore this video. I am teaching an After Effects class and am trying to get hold of this 'Trickster' fellow. Any ideas of an email address for him? If not, he can try me at brian.wheeler@ppcc.edu. Many thanks.

Absolutely awesome, I'd like to hire you for a job. Do you do this professionally?

Афигенно!

This is awesome and well done! I love it.

I keep expecting the door in the house to shut when she sings "I think I prefer to stay inside."

Oh my god, this is fucking awesome

Am I the only one to read tiny text next to the huge letters ?
"Puckett loves the green tea"

I love it! Great video!!

You should vectorize some of those icons, or at least the one of the cake at 00:52 so you don't get those nasty blurry pixels when you zoom in.

love it! ♥

Gotta love it! I like it :)

Are the objects supposed to be pixellated though? I noticed it in the video and then saw Craig's comment... At first it looked unintentional, but when I watched it again I almost thought it was a nice artistic effect... perhaps making the pixels more intentional-looking would make it perfect!

This makes me want to play Portal.

Awesome job on the video.

For the sake of completeness, I thought I'd expand the "valve etc" you mention as copyright holders for the video. The song was written by Jonathan Coulton and was sung by Ellen McLain.

blackmesa

cool posted at the curious brain

i think there's a mistake there.

near the end, she says:
"and then your daughter will still be alive"
Not :
"and then you're dead still alive"

:)

I loved this!

refreshing

Exquisite... as a former Portal junkie, it captures the digital tenderness and synthetic passion of GlaDOS, who I believe is moonlighting at the ticket machines in my parking garage.

Niiiiiiiiceee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After Effects is such a pain just how long did that take to make including exporting!

lol omg that was AWESOME!!!! u shuld do another one soon :) portal's awesome hehe

Great video! Well done!

cakkkkkkkkkkkeeeeeeeee