Posted on May 23, 2012 in Digital Effects, Editing | No Comments
Review some of the fun new effects available in AE CS6 including the Cycore HD effects and other built in plug-ins. Along the way, you’ll discover why updating many of these effects to 32-bit in this version of After Effects is so important.
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Posted on May 14, 2012 in Digital Effects | No Comments
VFXBro runs down what’s new in the latest iteration of the popular compositing software from Adobe.
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Posted on April 25, 2012 in 3D Graphics, Digital Effects | No Comments
VinhSon Nguyen walks through some basic tips on creating a earth or space scene using CC Sphere and a texture map.
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Posted on April 19, 2012 in Digital Effects | 2 Comments
“Real Camera Shake,” by VFX BRO, is a preset unlike your traditional camera shake because it uses real world physics rather than a wiggle simulation in After Effects. Use this preset to add shake to your still shots.
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Posted on April 17, 2012 in Digital Effects, Editing | 3 Comments
This video tutorial, by Jarle Leirpoll, teaches how to do primary, secondary and some pretty advanced color correction in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5. You’ll learn how to create masks for color correction inside of Premiere Pro, and to tweak parts of the image without affecting others.
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Posted on April 13, 2012 in Digital Effects, Trailers | 2 Comments
The Trailer for Evil Dead 2 rotoscoped by “Pretend For Real.” Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame, for use in animated films. It’s an extremely tedious process that took these creators 3 years to complete.
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Posted on April 4, 2012 in Digital Effects | No Comments
This new Content Aware Tool in Photoshop might as well be from the magicians at Hogwarts…
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Posted on March 28, 2012 in Digital Effects | No Comments
Sure you could set your camera to black and white, but you could potentially loose a lot of creative control if you don’t shoot in color for Black and White Conversion in post. Mark Wallace demonstrates specific techniques that can be applied in Lightroom or similar editing software to make your black and white images more impactful.
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Posted on March 21, 2012 in Digital Effects, Editing | No Comments
Using the standard tools in After Effects Shortformvideos creates a slightly retro-looking LCD display like the ones you’ll find on older MP3 players. No plug-ins required.
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Posted on March 9, 2012 in Digital Effects | 3 Comments
Are we crossing the Uncanny Valley?
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Posted on March 2, 2012 in Digital Effects | 1 Comment
After Effects’ 3d camera doesn’t do a very good job of simulating the distortion when using extremely wide lenses like a Fish-Eye Lens. Dan Stevers demonstrates how to overcome this with a “name your own price” plugin from AE Scripts.
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Posted on February 23, 2012 in 3D Graphics, Credits, Digital Effects, Editing | 1 Comment
Need some inspiration? South by Southwest Film and Music Festival released a list of the finalists in the Title Sequence Category from Film and Television productions. The final awards will be present on Tuesday, March 13 at 8pm.
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Posted on February 9, 2012 in Digital Effects | 1 Comment
In this tutorial, VinhSon Nguyen will be taking a look at how to build this 3D transforming text animation using Mettle’s ShapeShifter AE plug-in.
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Posted on February 3, 2012 in Digital Effects | No Comments
This tutorial by ShortFormVidoes demonstrates how to create a Compass Gimbal that you would find in an aircraft using After Effect’s built in effects.
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Posted on January 31, 2012 in Digital Effects | 1 Comment
Vimeo user Peter Bohush demonstrates how he uses the Pro version of Mocha to track and rotoscope an actor for a special effects shot in his film, Broken Spirits.
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