Archive for January, 2009

AENY presents Lloyd Alvarez’s After Effects Scripting Presentation

Published by Michele Yamazaki on January 31st, 2009 - in After Effects, Scripts, User Group

My friend Jim sent me the link to the AENY presentation this week by Lloyd Alvarez.


AENY presents Lloyd Alvarez’s After Effects Scripting Presentation from AENY on Vimeo.

This is a screen capture video from the Jan 29 , 2009 AENY meeting in NYC with Lloyd Alvarez of aescripts.com/ speaking about using Scripts in After Effects to improve your workflow. Lloyd gives some good references to sites like his own aescripts.com and aenhancers.com/ where you can find Paul Tuersley’s Scripts .

You can also find out more information about AE scripts from these links.
redefinery.com
motionscript.com/
mographwiki.net/After_Effects_scripting

You can also find out more about the AENY meetings by going to the page and signing up for the newsletter.We meet every month so sign up to get the info on who is coming in the meetings to follow.
http://www.aeny.org/maillist/?p=subscribe

Enjoy,
Jim

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Petition to stimulate adoption of Blu-ray Disc publishing

Published by Michele Yamazaki on January 30th, 2009 - in Adobe, Apple, Encore DVD

My friend Matt of WMAEUG.net sent me this. I don’t think he’s talking about pirating, but about being able to get Blu-Ray support in Pro Apps and other software.

I would like to recommend anyone interested in being able to author ‘replicatable’ Blu-Ray titles to sign this petition that hopes to simplify the licensing and especially reduce the cost of AACS copy protection implementation. It’s the only way we’ll ever see Blu-Ray support ‘officially’ in Apple’s Pro Apps, or in Adobe Encore DVD.

http://www.dvda.org/petition/

I’m behind disk authoring because I’m a movie lover who eats up the hours of extras on special edition releases – the same documentaries that are glaringly missing from digital downloads.

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Free CS4 Update to Meyer’s Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects

Published by Michele Yamazaki on January 28th, 2009 - in After Effects, Chris & Trish Meyer, Free

creating motion graphicsCreating Motion Graphics with After Effects by Chris and Trish Meyer is pretty much the bible of After Effects. They’ve written a 48 page update to the book that covers new features in AE CS4. The book is published on Focal Press.

This update covers:

  • The new User Interface
  • Independent X, Y and Z keyframing and 3D camera updates
  • Composition Navigator and Mini-Flowchart
  • Bilateral Blur & Turbulent & Noise
  • Color management.
  • Much more…

Download CS4 Bonus Chapter | Download project files

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New Red Giant Tutorial by Aharon Rabinowitz

Red Giant Software: Episode 06: Controling Time with Sound By Aharon Rabinowitz came out a few days ago.

In this episode, Aharon continues to explore how audio can be used to control time, but he expands on that by showing you how it can be used to change the look of the footage as well.

Watch | Download Project Files | Example Video

Products Used: Magic Bullet Looks, Trapcode Sound Keys

Try a free demo of Looks and Sound Keys here: Free trial of plug-ins.

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The Digimation Suite. Free power tools for 3ds Max.

Published by Michele Yamazaki on January 6th, 2009 - in 3ds Max

digimation

Digimation pioneered the plug-in business for 3ds Max. To date, we’ve released over 50 products and now we’re offering a collection of twelve tried and true favorites to the 3D community for free! The suite comes with all of these products;

Atomizer
Allows any 3ds Max particle system to use any object as a particle object.

Bones Pro
A powerful, easy to use skeletal deformation system. With it you can quickly rig and animate detailed characters.

Chameleon
Texture placement based on the location of a gizmo, instead of an objects sub-material ID. This allows the user to place materials at very specific locations in the scene, and to animate certain effects without having to paint complex animated maps.

Clay Studio
Advanced metaball modeling for 3ds Max.

DigiPeople
A collection of procedural, low-resolution mannequins that can be quickly inserted into your 3D scenes to help create crowds. DigiPeople will give your architectural models an understandable visual scale and otherwise populate your scenes.

Fractal Flow
Allows you to warp any image, video, or 3d scene to create water ripple effects, heat distortions, and much more.

Glider
Allows you to animate any object or particle system along the surface of another object.

Lightning
A procedural electric arc generator. Lightning creates true 3D geometry right in your viewports.

MaxSculpt
Advanced mesh sculpting with full support for pressure sensitive tablets, tessellation and optimization as you sculpt.

SandBlaster
Combines flexible particles with a powerful and unique emitter and target system. Build or tear down objects in particles.

Spray Master
Allows users to spray geometry, both 2D and 3D, as particles on or around other objects with an easy-to-use freehand brush or spline-based control.

Tree Factory
Generate a wide variety of trees and ground foliage to add that extra touch of realism to your 3D scenes.

The Digimation Suite FREE

Single license of The Essential Textures. Electronic delivery only. Download here.

System Requirements

3ds Max version 4 or higher
32-bit only

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Generate a Volumetric Light Effect on Animated Text

In the latest Boris FX podcast, learn how to use Boris Continuum Complete’s Rays Cartoon filter in Apple Final Cut Pro to generate a volumetric lighting effect on an animated text element. The BCC Rays Cartoon filter will also give the text the appearance of being made of neon lights. We’ll complete the effect by using the BCC Light Sweep to add a light sweep across the face of the text element and then we’ll use the BCC Colorize Glow filter to provide a soft glowing look.

If you don’t have Boris Continuum Complete, you can download a free demo here. BCC works in a whole slew of hosts, so check it out, even if you’re not a FCP user.

And if you’re loving it, buy BCC here.

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