Create a carbon fiber texture in After Effects
Sydney-based motion graphics designer Laurence Grayson has a quick tutorial on creating a Super Quick Carbon Fibre Effect using nothing but AE’s built-in awesomeness. You can also download the project file here. It’s a simple technique which— with a little imagination—you can use over and over again for other textures as well.
Creating underwater explosions
Andrew Kramer‘s latest vfx tutorial Depth Charge! will show you how to composite underwater explosions using stock elements. You’ll also learn about simulating underwater volumetric lighting and shadows, bubbles and debris and a look at a typical 3D/AE workflow.
Red Giant Knoll Unmult: Free CS5-ready Plug-in
If you watched episode 47 of Red Giant TV, aside from being humbled by the amazingness of Tiny Inventions, you may also have caught a notation about Knoll Unmult – a free plug-in for removing black backgrounds and generating mattes. Here is a 3-minute excerpt from the tutorial that explains what it does and how it works:
How to use the FREE plug-in, Knoll Unmult from Red Giant Software on Vimeo.
Break the boundaries of 3D in After Effects with Steve Holmes
Steve Holmes is back with a new tutorial and he wants to show you how to “break the boundaries of 3D” in After Effects. He’ll remind you that in After Effects we’re really only dealing with 2.5D, but will show you how to “achieve that extra .5D” with techniques setting up and lighting your scene. This is a great primer (or reminder) for After Effects lights, shadows, material options, etc. Watch the tutorial at Artbeats.com.
If you like Steve’s style you can dig deeper into the Artbeats tutorial section for 15 more free, downloadable tutorials from his Real World Footage Effects series. You’ll also find videos from Eran Stern and more.
The techniques of Tiny Inventions
Episode 47 of Red Giant TV features the workflow used to create the animated short Something Left, Something Taken. Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata, the team at Brooklyn-based Tiny Inventions, reveal how they photographed puppets and models and animated them in After Effects. The video shows how they made extensive use of several Red Giant plugins and also a lot of general After Effects tricks and tips.
3-part CameraTracker tutorial
The Foundry‘s new CameraTracker plugin for After Effects lets you track and analyze the original camera used in a clip. It calculates the camera’s lens and motion allowing you to easily slip in new elements which will behave as if they were there. (Think Heroes and Fringe titles.) Marc R. Leonard has a 3-part tutorial over at AETuts+. View Part One, Part Two, Part Three.
FCP to AE
Last week at the DC After Effects User Group meeting, one of our fellow members presented us with a way to roundtrip from FCP to AE. I really enjoyed the demonstration and wanted to investigate further. I found this video. It shows you how to import into Premier. And then once you follow the steps in this video, you can simply just roundtrip your projects into AE, which is what the two programs are meant to do. Check it out and hopefully you’ll find yourself using this technique in your workflow:
I am an FCP editor. I love doing my effects in After Effects. Both are great pieces of software. They just have a hard time communicating with each other. Not anymore. You have to bring your FCP project into Premiere before going to AE, but it’s still better if you like to be organized and like to see all of your video layers. Fantastic.
40 Best Fonts for Better Typography Designs
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Boris 3D Objects webinar replay available
Did you miss it?
A couple of weeks ago Boris presented a free, live webinar on Continuum Complete‘s 3D Objects filters. The webinar is now available to watch anytime you like from the Boris FX website. You’ll also be able to download the media and AE CS5 project used in the video. Watch it here.
Make A Light Wall in After Effects
You know that in After Effects you can make great things. Quba Michalski has in his web Quba HQ a great tutorial for make a cool looking light wall. Quba also give you the chance to download his presets and the tutorial. The difficulty is Beginner to Advanced and is 70 min aprox long. So check it out here and enjoy with your After Effects!
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