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Henry Mbata has free Adobe After Effects and 3D Max tutorials, including Light Stroke Animation and Rock Demolition in 3DS Max. Looks very cool. View the tutorials
Here’s an interesting tutorial from the Creating Digital Motion site on how to export a Vegas timeline into After Effects for finishing.
"Peter and I have been having a serious love-in with Sony’s Vegas Video editing software this year. I’m a long-time Premiere user, but it hasn’t been getting a look in since I realized just how much faster it is for me to edit video with Vegas. I’ve had my eyes opened to the flow. Vegas lets you make edits, rearrange, delete, fade, and layer clips without interrupting playback."
Intrigued about Vegas’s unique, on-the-fly workflow?
Learn more and purchase Sony Vegas here.
Computer Arts has a great article on motion tracking/matchmoving when you’re working with complex 3D compositing in After Effects and Cinema 4D.
LME 30 Super Card Dance Projects & Matching Presets is a set of presets and projects from LME for Adobe After Effects 7.0 and up and LME is giving away another freebie. This is not one from the set but similar to what you’d get in the package.
Buy LME 30 Super Card Dance Projects & Matching Presets.
Dennis Radeke’s Genesis Project has a new tutorial up called Using Text as a shape layer.
Here’s a sample:
That’s right, free pizza, sponsored by your good friends at Toolfarm!
This Wednesday, June 18th 6:30pm at Adobe in San Francisco.
Adobe
601 Townsend Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 (map)
415.832.2000
Entrance on Townsend Street. Reception is on the 1st floor.
Brian Diecks
A 16 year veteran of branding, strategic marketing + creative for the entertainment, lifestyle and the sports industries, Brian Diecks is an award-winning broadcast designer and creative director of television branding, motion graphics, promotion campaigns, main title design, show packaging, print collateral, packaging and interactive projects.
www.diecksgroup.com
Patrick Siemer
Former Directing Animator at the esteemed H-Gun Labs, and long time Pixar AE Animator Patrick Siemer walks us through his After Effects process in the creation of the Pixar short “Your Friend the Rat”
www.tapeandglue.com
RE:Vision Effects
Plug-ins of the month
Matt Silverman leads the meeting.
Colin Sharp of Toolfarm holds the box for the first version of After Effects.
The space at Adobe.
For a limited time, Boris offering a free, fully-licensed plug-in from Boris Continuum Complete 5 – Rays Cartoon, an innovative filter that creates light out of the user-defined ‘cartoon edges’ of an image. BCC Rays Cartoon is available for Adobe CS3, Apple Final Cut Studio 2, and Avid.
Download Rays Cartoon now! This free filter offer expires July 1, 2008.
In this tutorial, we will use BCC Rays Cartoon to generate a volumetric lighting effect on an animated text element; BCC Rays Carton will also give the text the appearance of being made of neon lights. Then, we will use BCC Light Sweep to add a light sweep across the face of the text. Finally, to complete the effect, we will use BCC Colorize Glow to provide a soft glowing look.
Hello Video, Film and Web guys and gals,
I thought I’d put up a few free After Effects Projects for download to help celebrate July 4th ( I’m a sucker for good fireworks ). They’re only up until July 4th.
You’ll find them on my website under the Ani Elements section labeled Ani Elements Batch 1. There are 20 assorted AEPs ranging from Flames, Bubbles, Water, Blood, Glows and a whole lot more.
As usually they are fully customizable and royalty free.Enjoy!
DeANVELez
Come meet me at the Motion Picture Collective NYC‘s meeting this Thursday, June 12. I’ll be presenting Boris Continuum Complete and possibly Boris Final Effects Complete at Pratt Manhattan, 2nd floor.
Thursday, 12 June 2008, 6:00-8:30pm at Pratt Manhattan, 2nd floor. Google Map
Seating is limited to first come, first serve, but the meeting is open to members, subscribers and their friends, so please join us.
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