I’ve been working on this tutorial for a week but stuff keeps coming at me – email problems, quick sales (speaking of which, the Wondertouch sale expires in an hour!) but I’ve finally gotten it done.
I show you how to make a skeleton dance with the Puppet Tool in AE CS3. It’s fun stuff and you’ll be surprised at how easy it is.
Dave Basulto talks to Harry Frank, Toolfarm Expert Series trainer for After Effects Expressions Series 1 bundle and they’re discussing Expressions!
Harry will have Series 2 out sometime soon, so if you haven’t checked out Series 1, you’ll want to do that first. It’s like the show Heroes. If you start watching at Episode 10, you’ll have no idea what’s going on.
wondertouch President, Alan Lorence, to Present at Motion Graphics Los Angeles (MGLA) Monthly Meeting, November 20, 2007
WHO:
Alan Lorence, president of wondertouch, the developers of the award-winning particleIllusion particle effects application, will be a featured speaker at the MGLA monthly meeting on November 20, 2007.
WHAT:
Lorence will give a "sneak peek" of the long-awaited particleIllusion plug-in for Adobe After Effects: pIllusion AE. The plug-in will afford motion graphics and visual effects professionals to easily access the powerful and highly-acclaimed particleIllusion 3.0 engine from directly within the After Effects environment to efficiently add and modify spectacular particle effects from the huge particleIllusion library.
Lorence will also include a brief overview of particleIllusion 3.0 (the standalone application), compare it to pIllusion AE, and show how the two products complement each other. Calling on his many years of experience as an industry-leading particle effects designer he will also demonstrate several particle emitter creation tips that can be applied to almost any particle system – not just particleIllusion – resulting in more realism, more complexity, and better performance.
WHERE:
Gallery Theater
Barnsdall Art Park
4800 Hollywood Blvd
Hollywood, CA 90027-5390
View Map: http://www.laparks.com/locator/maps/barnsdallartPk.htm
WHEN:
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. (Lorence presentation 8:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
HOW:
The event is open to members of the press, MGLA members and the public. Admission to the event is free-of-charge. For media inquiries regarding wondertouch please contact Vicky Gray-Clark, 408-243-8880, vicky@ambientpr.com.
About Motion Graphics Los Angeles
Motion Graphics Los Angeles is an association for professionals creating imagery for video, film, and other media using desktop tools. Formed in August 1997 through the merger of several previously-existing groups, MGLA’s area of discussions are not restricted to a specific hardware or software solution, understanding that an artist often has to employ 2D, 3D, and editing tools to realize their vision – and that artistic inspiration can be universal.
Additional information on MGLA is available on the web at: www.mgla.org
About wondertouch
wondertouch, headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., is an award-winning software developer specializing in particle effects for the visual effects industry. The company’s flagship product particleIllusion, a sprite-based particle effects application, is designed to provide the most comprehensive effects creation tool and efficient workflow. Considered one of the most popular solutions for effects creation, particleIllusion is now used worldwide by creative professionals working in film post-production and pre-visualization, standard and HD video, commercial broadcast, motion graphics and game content creation. Additional information on wondertouch is available on the web at www.wondertouch.com.
John Dickinson shows you how to use Trapcode Starglow and Shine in Final Cut Pro. He shows you some tricks about managing presets in Final Cut Pro.
Learn more about Trapcode Starglow and Trapcode Shine in our Plug-in Finder. These are multi-installer plug-ins meaning that you get the AE, Premiere Pro, FCP, Motion and Avid installers and your serial number works in all of them. How cool is that!
Dennis Radeke’s The Genesis Project has a new tutorial Tracking 101 in After Effects.
For some odd reason, tracking has come up in conversation about 6 times today. We were talking about the best trackers out there. What do you think? Leave a comment and tell us!
Ko has updated a cool old tutorial about how to make a pumpkin in C4D… both the modeling and texturing. View the tutorial.
Hey, did you hear that Maxon Cinema 4D r10.5 came out a couple of weeks ago? It’s a great upgrade.
LME is kindly giving away seven free presets for Adobe After Effects from their LME Treasure Chest Of 121 Transitions.
Jonas Hummelstrand’s Blog, General Specialist, always has good content for AE users. His post today is on a topic that most of you have run into Opening After Effects Projects in an Earlier Version. Before you get all excited, it’s not magically going show you how to open a new project in AE 5.0. Nope. It’s a not quite that easy. Jonas explains how you might be able to do it. There is hope, my friend.
Alicia VanHeulen, the newest Toolfarm employee, has produced her first tutorial with us Getting Started with the 3D Camera and Layers. It’s for After Effects 7.0 and higher. She explains, "In this tutorial, I’ll explore how to arrange the layers and add a simple camera move to your composition. In the next tutorial I’ll go into more detail about camera motion, adding depth of field, and other ideas to add life to static images."
The photography is beautiful and from her recent trip to Sedona, Arizona. If you have any questions about the project and the technique, please post to Toolfarm’s Expert Forums and Alicia can help.
Back to the basic basics. If you are overwhelmed with all this talk about expressions, but don’t want too get too far to fast, watch this tutorial. This lesson discusses how to use those expressions you’ve found on the internet, what to do when you get errors, how to save and organize them for later.
When you are ready for the next step, check out the Toolfarm Expert Series: After Effects Expressions.
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