The Genesis Project: Another text example in AE – Happy Accidents
Dennis Radeke’s The Genesis Project has an interesting clip up about Another text example in AE – Happy Accidents.
Big Mike’s Super Text in Cinema 4D tutorial
Big Mike has a new tutorial on his site and it looks very cool. Super Text in Cinema 4D tutorial.
BIGMIKEDESIGN: Super Text Tutorial from Mike on Vimeo.
Jim Tierney of Digital Anarchy blogs
AnarchyJim: Wherein Jim Tierney rants and opines about After Effects, Photoshop, and other nonsense. His first big post is about Avid not attending NAB and he makes some good points.
Strange Planets revisited – After Effects Tutorial
Dennis Radeke’s The Genesis Project (Abacab?) has a fun new tutorial where he adds the moon to a rotating earth. Here is the movie:
Visit the site for the tutorial and project files.
I really need to show this to my students. I have two students working on an alien invasion of Earth. I know they would find this useful.
Open GL on After Effects Mac
Dennis Radeke’s The Genesis Project blog always has quality content. Today, he talks about Open GL on After Effects Mac.
After Effects and Leopard
From Michael Coleman’s ‘Keyframes‘ blog:
As outlined in Adobe FAQ (PDF) on Leopard support, After Effects CS3 is not fully compatible with Leopard. But I’m happy to say that we expect to release a free update in early December that will address key issues with After Effects on Leopard. If you decide to run with Leopard before this release, you may experience problems with various After Effects features such as the File > Import dialog and OpenGL hardware acceleration.
Free 3D Camera: XSI to AE Script
Byron Nash has updated the incredibly useful script for exporting 3D camera information from XSI to After Effects. Somehow I seemed to miss this in September.
Opening After Effects Projects in an Earlier Version
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.
Cinema 4D resources on the web
Jonas Hummelstrands blog, General Specialist, has a great list of Cinema 4D Links including links to Ko’s stuff and Chris Smith’s awesome free CSTools.
CE ShapeExtruder Video Tutorial
Maltaannon.com has a free project file that shows you how to create extruded text and shapes with AE CS3 without plug-ins and without duplicating 50 layers. Check out CE ShapeExtruder. It looks pretty great.
Via AE Portal
