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12 New Effects in Adobe After Effects CS6

John P. Hess — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:20:42 +0000

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.

What’s new in After Effects CS6 in under 6 minutes

John P. Hess — Mon, 14 May 2012 21:10:54 +0000

VFXBro runs down what’s new in the latest iteration of the popular compositing software from Adobe.

Build a Planetary Scene inside After Effects

John P. Hess — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:00:35 +0000

VinhSon Nguyen walks through some basic tips on creating a earth or space scene using CC Sphere and a texture map.

Real Camera Shake: Free After Effects Preset

Dennis — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:43:16 +0000

“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.

Download Free!

Color Grading and finishing in Premiere Pro CS5.5

Dennis — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:42:35 +0000

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.

Also covered is how to fix moiré, blown-out highlights, blue sky fix, sharpening, letterboxing, noise reduction, stabilizing and scaling/crop.

Click here to download the free preset collection “Jarle’s Grading Tools” so you can speed up your own color grading workflow.

Evil Dead 2 Trailer – Rotoscoped!

Dennis — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:23:22 +0000

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.

Content Aware Wizardry in Photoshop CS6 (Sneak Peak)

John P. Hess — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:31:33 +0000

This new Content Aware Tool in Photoshop might as well be from the magicians at Hogwarts…

Create a Digital Media Player in AfterEffects

John P. Hess — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:10:03 +0000

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.

“Kara” – MoCap Rendered in Real Time on Sony PS3

John P. Hess — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:40:13 +0000

Are we crossing the Uncanny Valley?

The French Game Developer Quantic Dream revealed a 5 minute short demonstrating it’s new motion capture and rendering engine for the PS3. The following is rendered in real time on the common household gaming system:

Create Fisheye Cameras in After Effects

John P. Hess — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:38:56 +0000

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.

Download the Plugin here