Trapcode Video Tutorials

Red Giant plug-ins Creating an Apparition Effect with Trapcode Particular In this tutorial, Michael Park shows you how to create an Apparition effect with Trapcode particular, as seen in a film that shall not be named. You'll learn how to create realistic shadows with Red Giant Warp. Also, you'll be introduced to color correction techniques using the After Effects standard toolset, as well as Magic Bullet Looks. In addition, you'll get a sneak peak at Michael Park's upcoming Creative Cow Master Series DVD: Practical Particles. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Michael Park Red Giant plug-ins Creating a Motion Graphics Film Title Treatment In this tutorial, Motion graphics designer and director Chad Bonanno helps you recreate the titles he designed for the feature film Dreamgirls. You'll learn how to create a cool shimmering confetti effect with Trapcode Particular, as well as how to reveal text with Knoll Light Factory Pro. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Chad Bonanno Red Giant plug-ins Creating an Animated 3D Motion Graphics Logo In this tutorial, Telescope Media Group's Carl Larsen shows you how to create a motion graphics logo using an array of 3D particles, built with Trapcode Form. He'll show you how you can do in After Effects what, under most circumstances, must be done in a 3D application. Get ready to learn the true power of 3D particle systems in AE. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Carl Larsen Trapcode Creating a Waterfall In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Michael Park demonstrates how to create a waterfall using After Effects and Trapcode Particular. This tutorial is in response to a couple of posts on the Trapcode Forum of CreativeCOW.net looking for this type of effect. This tutorial uses Particular 2.0, but the work flow and settings should work equally will with previous versions of Particular. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Michael Park Red Giant plug-ins Create Cool 3D Text with Trapcode Form In this Episode of Red Giant TV, Hypa TV's Tim Clapham shows you how to build and animate 3D text with Trapcode Form. He's also show you techniques for animating the text on and off - and while they're deceptively simple, they deliver in a really big way. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Tim Clapham Adobe After Effects Peel-Away Vortex Transition Effect In this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create an insanely cool transition for text and other elements using Trapcode Form and other effects in After Effects. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Aharon Rabinowitz Trapcode Creating a 3D picture Montage with Trapcode Particular In this Episode, Rob Birnholz shows you a great technique for quickly creating a 3D picture montage with Trapcode Particular. It takes just minutes to set up, but can save you hours of work. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Rob Birnholz Red Giant plug-ins Creating a Transporter Effect In this episode, Chief Engineer Eran Stern works furiously to get his Starship's transporters back on-line to rescue a fellow crew member trapped on a hostile planet. But time is running out. Will Eran be able to build the transporter in After Effects in time? Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Eran Stern Adobe After Effects Blowing Flowers In this video tutorial, CreativeCOW leader, Eran Stern demonstrates how to create flower trails using Trapcode Particular in this special holiday episode. You'll also work with the light emitter and use 3D layer to obscure particles. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Eran Stern Red Giant plug-ins Better Compositing with Particles In this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz will show you a technique for placing layers inside the middle of a particle system in After Effects - crucial to truly integrating your CGI effects with your live action footage or motion graphics. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Aharon Rabinowitz Red Giant plug-ins Binary Transition Part 1 This episode shows you how to use Trapcode Form to create a dramatic transition where footage breaks into binary code, and re-forms as different footage. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Aharon Rabinowitz Red Giant plug-ins Binary Transition Part 2 In this Episode, Aharon shows you how to improve on and finish the binary transition project by working with Time Remapping and Camera animation. Plus, see how Magic Bullet Looks and Trapcode Shine help add the finishing touches. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Aharon Rabinowitz Red Giant plug-ins Looping a Particle System In this Episode, you will learn how to set up a seamless looping particle system. We will be using Trapcode Particular and Starglow to create a stylized holiday snowstorm, but the concepts can be adapted for anything from backgrounds to lower 3rds. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Aharon Rabinowitz Red Giant plug-ins Controlling Time with Audio - Part 1 In this episode, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to use audio to control time. Youll learn how to make your video automatically move forward in time to the beat of the music - a technique used in tons of music videos and commercials. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Aharon Rabinowitz Red Giant plug-ins Getting Better Control of Emitter Position in Trapcode Particular In this Episode, we will look at some very useful techniques for Trapcode Particular that will give you better control of emitter position in 2D and 3D. You will also learn how to capture the motion of your mouse (or stylus) to control emitter position. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Aharon Rabinowitz Adobe After Effects Building a Cube World: Part 4 In this tutorial, Creative Cow Contributing Editor Carl Larsen shows you how to track a lens flare onto a 360 degree camera-aware environment using Trapcode Horizon. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Carl Larsen Adobe After Effects More Of The Same Thing - Part 5 In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Contributing Editor Eran Stern shows you how to duplicate elements in After Effects using Trapcode Echospace plug-in. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Eran Stern Trapcode Creating Advanced Glitter using Expressions with Trapcode Particular In this tutorial, Creative Cow leader, Michael Park, demonstrates another, more advanced method for creating shimmering glitter particles using Trapcodes Particular. The main advancement is the implementation of 3d rotation of the glitter particles, as well as using expressions to convert the rotation of the particles in all 3 axis to drive a greyscale map, which in turn is used to color the particle using colorama and create the shimmer effect when the particles face the camera. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Michael Park Trapcode Creating Shimmering Glitter using Trapcode Particular In this tutorial, Creative Cow leader, Michael Park, demonstrates how to simulate shimmering glitter particles using fractal noise, colorama effect and Trapcodes Particular plugin. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Michael Park

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