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Adobe After Effects
Virtual 3D Sets with After Effects Play Video Rob Mize demonstrates techniques for creating a virtual set in 3D space. He shows how you can build sophisticated, detailed environments, where your actors appear to interact with their 3 dimensional surroundings. Build the set of your dreams using nothing more than After Effects, a few textures and your creativity.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial Rob Mize |
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Boris FX
Create a Realistic 3D End Tag in Adobe After Effects Play Video In this Boris video tutorial, Kevin P. McAuliffe creates an end tag with Boris Continuum Complete 8 AE's new Stage Light effect. BCC Stage Light lets you create volumetric lighting from any light that you add to your After Effects composition. What would normally take a high-end 3D application to create can now be done in minutes inside of AE!
Tutorial, Video Tutorial Kevin P. McAuliffe |
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RE:Vision Effects
Better Retiming using a Matte Play Video This Tutorial shows how to get better tracking using a matte to separate your footage into multiple layers. Multiple layers are available in Twixtor Pro for AE, FCP, Premiere Pro, and Twixtor for Smoke, Flame, Fusion, Nuke & OFX hosts such as Scratch & Composite.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial Lori Freitag |
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Trapcode
Particular Basic Training Session THREE: The 3D Starfield Play Video In this third installment of the Particular Basic Training series, Michael Park will show how to use Particular to create a realistic 3d star field for all of your animation needs. Along the way, he will use and explore some features of Particular including motion blue, high dynamic range, and the physics time factor. As always, the project is available for free download.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial Michael Park |
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Adobe After Effects basics
AE Basics 32: Creating a Motion Background with Shapes Layers Play Video AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 32: In this tutorial Andrew Devis takes some of what has been learnt over the previous AE Basics tutorials on shape layers and puts them together to create a motion background for text. In this tutorial Andrew covers shape creation, shape duplication, working with multiple shape layers at a time, pre-composing multiple shape layers etc. Andrew also introduces "Adjustment Layers" to create a blurred vignette and to use as a color adjustment layer while showing how to move between comps to get the best possible look.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial Andrew Devis |
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Adobe After Effects basics
AE Basics 31: Brainstorm & Shape Layers Play Video AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 31: In this tutorial, Andrew Devis demonstrates the "Brainstorm" function with shape layers. The "Brainstorm" function is a tool to give creative ideas based on your own selection of properties to be randomized for creative effect. As long as you select more than one property you can get a stream of creative ideas through Brainstorm that will fuel your imagination and help in the creative process.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial Andrew Devis |
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Adobe After Effects
Using the Scribble & Stroke Effects Play Video The "Scribble" and the "Stroke" effects are often overlooked due to the fact that it isn't immediately obvious how they work as they won't work unless applied in a very particular way. In this in-depth tutorial, Andrew Devis explains how to apply these effects and then goes through the many options in each effect which can make them very powerful and able to produce a surprisingly large variety of results.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial Andrew Devis |
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Adobe After Effects basics
AE Basics 30: The Write-on Effect Play Video AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 30: In this tutorial, Andrew Devis demonstrates the "Write-on" Effect in After Effects showing how it works and how paths created in After Effects and other programs can be used to create higher quality animations with the "Write-on" effects than might be produced by simply animating the various properties of the effect. Although not strictly one of the shape layer series, this tutorial does follow on from the previous tutorial looking at creating true spirals in After Effects.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial Andrew Devis |
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Adobe After Effects
Adobe Creative Cloud Offers Applications, Services, Community
With Creative Cloud, Adobe is switching from a model of software as a product to Software as a Service (SaS). By early 2012, Adobe Creative Cloud is expected to include such applications as After Effects, Premiere and Photoshop. Creative Cloud includes a hub for viewing, sharing and syncing of files, and a subscription with 20GB of cloud storage.
Feature, People / Interview Debra Kaufman |
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