Create a Doctor Who (2010) Time Vortex in After Effects

[ShiveringCactus]

Geronimo! Fly down the time tunnel as seen by Matt Smith's timelord. Avoid the storm clouds, lightning strikes and plunge into fire. This Adobe #AfterEffects #tutorial aims to recreate Framestore's iconic title sequence which reimagined the time #vortex. Part of the Makin' Wormhole series, I show how to adapt the Wormhole projects to by changing their textures. Then using a nifty expression covered in those tutorials, I show how to add lightning within the clouds and how to change the tunnel from the tornado to the flames.

Links mentioned:

• Making a Particle Tunnel using CC Particle World
• Making a Particle Tunnel using Trapcode Particular

Fonts:
Doctor Who fonts: https://twitter.com/claytonhickman/status/850657461761691648
Name Font: https://www.cufonfonts.com/font/matt-smith-doctor-who

Dan Ebbert's expression for altering the radius based on keyframes

fadetime = 0.1; 
dur = 0.2; 
p = effect("Tunnel Position (%)")("Slider"); 
val = 0; 
if(p.numKeys > 0){ 
    n = p.nearestKey(time).index;
    if(p.key(n).time GREATER_THAN time) { 
        n--; 
    } 
    if(n > 0){ 
        t = p.key(n).time; 
        if(time < t+dur){ 
            val = linear(time, t, t+fadetime, -70, 80); 
        } else { 
            val = linear(time, t+dur, t+dur+fadetime, 80, -70); 
        } 
    } 
} 
val

[Rameez_Khan]

Very nice, @ShiveringCactus 👏🏻

Thanks for sharing. 

Best,

Rameez