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After Effects Tutorial: X-ray Vision

Posted on May 14, 2009 in Digital Effects | No Comments

Waywardson256 continues his series of basic superhero effects using Adobe AE with this X-ray Vision Tutorial.

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After Effects Tutorial: Underwater Composite

Posted on May 14, 2009 in Digital Effects | 1 Comment

In this tutorial “firechildc” shows you a very simple, very basic way of adding a title card, or logo to a shot of water, making that text appear on the bottom of the ocean. Nothing too advanced this time around, but still an cool technique with many uses.

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Sony Vegas: CloverField Tutorial

Posted on April 6, 2009 in Digital Effects | No Comments

In this video tutorial Reelizee shows you how to create a Cloverfield effect using Sony Vegas Pro 8.0. You can download the Project Files: HERE
Please Note: Only Works With Sony Vegas Pro 8.0

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Nailin’ Adobe After Effects’ Cartoon Filter

Posted on April 1, 2009 in Digital Effects | No Comments

Gospel John demonstrates Adobe After Effects CS4’s Cartoon filter using the art house classic, Nailin’ Paylin.

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1001 Adobe After Effects Tutorials

Posted on March 27, 2009 in Digital Effects, Featured | 71 Comments

Last time we featured “144 After Effects Plug-Ins,” we now continue with the industry standard for special effects and compositing. This time we out did ourself buy providing you no less than 1001 AE tutorials from around the internets.
Also check out these great feature articles:
202 Adobe Premiere Pro Tutorials
144 After Effects Plug-Ins
202 Final [...]

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The Digital Effects of “In the Dark”

Posted on March 25, 2009 in Digital Effects | 2 Comments

IQ forum member Enrique shows us in this video some of the special effects he used for his latest award winning short, “In The Dark”

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Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin Button got his face

Posted on March 7, 2009 in Digital Effects | No Comments

Ed Ulbrich, the digital-effects guru from Digital Domain, explains the Oscar-winning technology that allowed his team to digitally create the older versions of Brad Pitt’s face for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”

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Interactive Video Object Manipulation

Posted on December 5, 2008 in Digital Effects | No Comments

This demo illustrates some of the neat capabilities of a joint research project of Adobe and the University of Washington to bring interactive to video editing. Let’s hope we see this in After Effects really soon.
Interactive Video Object Manipulation from Dan Goldman on Vimeo. ,

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How to Create a Portal in After Effects

Posted on November 18, 2008 in Digital Effects | 1 Comment

Based from the game portal by valve of course! Learn to create portals and you’ll be flinging yourself around in no time!
NOTE: Head on over to http://clubhouseinc.blogspot.com/ to get the portal photoshop files!!!

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Unlocking Chroma Keys

Posted on November 9, 2008 in Digital Effects | No Comments

A look at chroma keying and some things that it allows you to do in the edit bay.

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Head Explosion After Effects Tutorial

Posted on October 10, 2008 in Digital Effects | 3 Comments

From: movieguy101 – In this tutorial he will show you how to make a head explosion effect in Adobe After Effects.
Download link (to files needed for tutorial):
http://www.uploading.com/files/16EVLFPQ/Blood_Splat_Files.zip.html
Part 1:

In the second part of the head explosion tutorial he will show you how to make a muzzle flash effect for the weapon used to blow [...]

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Mario Fireball Tutorial using Adobe After Effects

Posted on October 6, 2008 in Digital Effects | No Comments

From: Waywardson256 – Using Adobe After Effects 7.0, I show you how to dish out fireballs like a true plumber!

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Hit by car effect using Sony Vegas

Posted on September 29, 2008 in Digital Effects | 1 Comment

From: dillonp23.net – This video tutorial shows you how to use Sony Vegas 7 or 8 to archive the effect of have an actor hit by a car. Blood is found at www.videocopilot.net and its the ‘action movie essentials.’

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Bullet Holes & Muzzle Flashes with After Effects

Posted on September 15, 2008 in Digital Effects | 1 Comment

From: dillonp23 This is an easy effect but for the best result you will NEED Action Movie Essentials from videocopilot.net. You will also briefly learn how to add muzzle flash/muzzle fire too. I hope this tutorial helps.
http://www.dillonp23.net

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Ground Breaking Video Editing Technology

Posted on August 25, 2008 in Digital Effects | 8 Comments

The University of Washington who’s computer technology team recently developed Photosynth now has a group of graduate students showing the potential of technology to enhance digital video in amazing ways.
Video and Descriptions From: Pravin Bhat
Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene from pro on Vimeo.
The work presents a system for automatically producing [...]

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