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Adobe After Effects
Working in 3D Part 4: Finessing Camera Animation
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In this final tutorial in a set of four on working in 3D space in After Effects, Andrew Devis builds on the quick and simple camera animation technique demonstrated in the previous tutorial by showing how to finesse your camera animation with various techniques so that you can end up with a professional result very quickly and with very little effort.
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Andrew Devis |
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Adobe After Effects
Working in 3D Part 3: Simple & Fast Camera Animation
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In this third tutorial in a set of four on working in 3D space in After Effects, Andrew Devis demonstrates a very quick and simple camera animation technique which ensures that your camera will always animate toward your layers in 3D space no matter where you have placed them. In the last tutorial in this series, Andrew will show how to finesse that camera animation for excellent results.
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Andrew Devis |
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Adobe After Effects
Working in 3D Part 2: Setting up a Static 3D Particle System
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In this second tutorial in a set of 4 on working in 3D space in After Effects, Andrew Devis shows how to set up a 3D particle system so that all the particles are static for the whole of the composition. The reason why this is done is that as the camera passes the static particles, it helps to enhance or volumize the 3D space adding both interest and parallax into your scene. In the last 2 tutorials, Andrew will show how to set up a very quick and simple camera animation technique and then show how to finesse the animation of that camera for excellent results.
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Andrew Devis |
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Adobe After Effects
Working in 3D Part 1: Setting up a 3D Scene
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In this first tutorial in a set of 4 on working in 3D space in After Effects, Andrew Devis shows how to set up your layers in 3D space and how to view all the layers without ruining your camera view. Andrew sets up 4 layers in 3D space, moving both their positions and rotations. In the next tutorial, Andrew will show how to set up a static 3D particle system which will enhance the 3D effect as the camera eventually animates through 3D space. In the last 2 tutorials, Andrew will show how to use a very quick and simple technique to animate the camera and then how to finesse the animation of that camera for excellent results.
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Andrew Devis |
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Adobe After Effects
Animating a Camera 3: Controllers & Point of View
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In his third tutorial on animating cameras in After Effects, Andrew Devis shows how to build a controller layer to simplify the process of animating the camera rig and what happens when you have the right settings but the wrong layer order. Lastly, Andrew shows how to use the controller layer itself as a way of changing and animating the point of view of the whole camera rig.
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Andrew Devis |
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Adobe After Effects
Animating a Camera 1: Camera Difficulties
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Cameras are notoriously difficult to get to grips with in After Effects. In this tutorial, Andrew Devis explains some of the behaviors and problems that are common to camera animation and then shows how to do a simple one dimensional animation, while pointing out why that solution cannot be used for more than one dimension (x,y or z rotation).
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Andrew Devis |
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Adobe After Effects
Camera Tracker Review
Bill O'Neil offers his insight into The Foundry's CameraTracker, a powerful tool which allows the user to pull 3D motion tracks and matchmoves -- all inside of AE. Read as Bill dips his toes into the water and begins to experience the possibilities available. He includes three movie samples and screenshots.
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Bill O'Neil |
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Adobe After Effects
3D from 2D Image Using Displacement Maps
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In this video tutorial Tudor "Ted" Jelescu shows how to create 3D / 2.5D movement from a 2D image using displacement maps in Adobe After Effects. He uses similar techniques as Mathew Fuller's "Advanced 2.5D Animation in AE" tutorial to pull depth from 2D images. Tudor uses FreeForm and displacement maps to be able to have a different camera move, one that rotates around the subject.
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Tudor Jelescu |
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Boris FX
Save the Shot by Removing Unwanted Objects
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You have a perfect clip for the project. The scene is right, the weather is perfect, the camera move is nice, but there is a clearly-recognizable person walking across the street. And you do not have a release from that person or time to ask for one. Not to fear: you can still save the shot with Boris Continuum Complete's Motion Key tool.
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Kevin P McAuliffe |
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Boris FX
Creating Transitions with BCC 6 AE's Swish Pan Filter
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Editors use transitions as a way to cut between scenes, typically creating an animated effect such as a dissolve or blur at the end of the outgoing clip and the beginning of the incoming clip. While most modern NLE systems ship with standard wipe transitions, there are some transition styles that are more of an in-camera effect rather than a synthesized gradient wipe or block dissolve. One of these effects, known as a Swish Pan, is created by panning the camera very quickly in a 180 degree arc, creating the look of a fast blur between the outgoing and incoming clips. Continuing in the tradition of making visual effects easy to create, Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE now includes a Swish Pan transition filter which is available free for registered BCC 6 AE users. In this video tutorial, we'll use the new BCC 6 Swish Pan filter to transition between a pair of clips.
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Paul Ezzy |
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Adobe After Effects
Creating a Shotgun Blast using 3ds Max and AE: Part 2
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In part two of his shotgun tutorial, Michael Park will demonstrate how to incorporate the 3d footage together with 2d footage in After effects and use different filters to create the distortion surrounding the blast from the barrel of the shotgun and the air distortion trailing the individual shotgun pellets as they race towards the camera. He will also cover some time remapping techniques to add some more interest to your shot.
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Michael Park |
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Adobe Photoshop | Stabilizing Video Footage
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In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington gives a few free tips on how to stabalize your video footage directly in Photoshop CS3. Sometimes you might have a shakey camera shot where these techniques will come in very handy. Some of the tools covered in this tutorial are video import, the auto-align tools, pixel aspect ratio and auto-align layers. Finishing this tutorial, the psd file is imported into After Effects and adjusted.
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Richard Harrington |
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Adobe After Effects | A Quick Tip for Creating an Animation
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In this quick tip for after effects users, CreativeCOW contributing editor, Bob Thompson creates a complex looking animation using only a camera, 3d layer, null object, and some duplicated layers. In only minutes, you can get an animated look with only one layer to worry about to control the motion. Its a quick fix to let you spend more time on other facets of your project workflow.
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Bob Thompson |
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Adobe After Effects
Cool 3D Room
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In this video tutorial from Creative COW you will learn how to create a 3D room entirely in Adobe After Effects. Where once it was thought this could only be done using a 3D program like 3ds Max, it can now be done completely in AE.
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Andrew Kramer |
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Adobe After Effects
How To Use Light Spill for Better Composites Without Plug-ins
The key to a good composite is successful integration into the background image. Sometimes you may have a very bright background or be keying from a DV camera, which nearly always results in imperfections because of the choke or screen blur effects that are necessary to achieve good edges. Light wrap, or light spill, is a very handy in these situations. In this tutorial, John Starr Dewar demonstrates an easy way to achieve light spill with a little bit of pre-composing.
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John Starr Dewar |
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Adobe After Effects basics | Maya Camera Import into After Effects
It makes sense to use a 3D program to create a 3D scene; but what if you need to re-use the camera motion info from that scene for advanced compositing? In this tutorial, Ren de la Fuente and Will Scates walk through the basic steps needed to accomplish this using Alias|Wavefronts Maya 4 and Adobe After Effects v 5.5.
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Rene de la Fuente |
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Adobe After Effects basics
A Beginners course in 3D in AE 5.5
If you have very little knowledge about animating the camera and building a 3D comp, this tutorial is for you. In this tutorial, Bjorn Sjostrom tries to remove any fear toward the 3D tools in After Effects 5.5. He hopes it will give you an relaxed attitude towards animating the camera, and building a 3D corridor where only your imagination can stop you, the sky is not the limit but space is.
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Bjorn Sjostrom |
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