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Zaxwerks Tutorial at Creative COW

Eran Stern
http://www.sternfx.com
Israel

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In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern designs a high impact motion graphics promo using Zaxwerks 3d serpentine plug-in.

Motion Design with Adobe After Effects by Eran Stern

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Comments

Didnt know seprentine was that intresting...
by Tielman Dewaele

Didnt know seprentine was that intresting... I will give it a try with the demo version.
Great tut

errors with project file
by yaniv sa

also, is someone know how to create stars with the wingdings font?

autumn leaves
by Howard Silby

the 3d serpentine project zip file won't open:says it is password protected and want a password. Any way to open it?

Thanks
by steve martin

Simply Awesome

Text stars worked like a charm!
by Tom Daigon

Text stars worked like a charm!

Hi Zax: Very sneaky that Eran.
by Tom Daigon

Hi Zax:
Very sneaky that Eran. I will try text stars.
Tom

Serpentine and Shape layers
by Zax Dow

Hi Tom,

AE doesn't give Serpentine the vectors from a shape layer. Text layers, vector masks, and imported Illustrator files work fine but not shape layers. In the tutorial Eran created his stars from the Webdings font. So even though they look like stars they are still text layers. (nice trick, huh?)

-Zax

Masterpiece
by Tom Daigon

Another masterpiece by Eran. Quick question. I am using CS3 and Serpentine doesnt seem to read the shape layers correctly. When I select a star layer the whole screen fills with a gradiated blue color. I then tried to precompose but got the same result. Any ideas?

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