Secret Santa Freebie: Logo Reveal Tutorial by Rob Birnholtz
Dec. 10th: Logo Reveal Tutorial by Rob Birnholtz
Author: Rob Birnholtz, Absolute Motion Graphics
Hosts: After Effects (project files use AE CS4)
Plug-ins Used: Knoll Light Factory, GenArts Sapphire (Get free trials of Knoll Light Factory and Sapphire here.)
Project Files: Download Project files (right click/option click to save. Format: .zip)
Other: Dust footage courtesy of Pond5.com. The clip can be purchased and downloaded here. A low-res comp is included with the project files.
Create an Animated Logo Reveal with a Stroke Wipe in After Effects from Toolfarm on Vimeo.
Rob Birnholz shows you how to create an animated logo reveal with Adobe After Effects. He uses a couple of great plug-ins, Knoll Light Factory from Red Giant and Sapphire from GenArts (both free demos available here).
Rob gives you several interesting techniques in this one tutorial.
This tutorial video is part of Day 3 of Toolfarm’s Secret Santa Holiday Giveaways. Enjoy and thanks to Rob Birnholz for his fantastic contribution!
Rob Birnholz
Rob Birnholz is owner of Absolute Motion Graphics, Inc., near Orlando, FL. With more than three decades of production and post experience, he’s not only older but hopefully wiser.
Rob graduated from The University of Florida with a degree in Broadcast Production, then began his career freelancing in the South Florida film industry, working on major features and commercial shoots. In the early 1980′s he formed his own video production company shooting, directing and editing high-end corporate projects for clients including PepsiCo and the Knight-Ridder Newspaper chain.
After relocating to Central Florida in the late 1980′s, Rob continued as a freelance Lighting-Cameraman and Editor working on projects ranging from Disney’s “Mickey Mouse Club” to cutting Super Bowl highlight packages for ESPN.
With the advent of desktop editing Rob discovered After Effects (version 1!) and his life changed forever. Shooting and directing faded into the background as Rob focused on new digital postproduction solutions, and his company, Absolute Motion Graphics, was formed.
Working largely in the non-broadcast arena, Rob loves recreating high-end looks and effects without having the same big-time budgets. He is a frequent guest speaker at user groups around the country, and many of his After Effects tutorials were distributed on the Digital Production Buzz newsletter.
Recent projects have been completed for T•Mobile, Walt Disney World, Kodak, General Motors, Long John Silvers, KFC, Subway, Cricket Communications and The Palm Springs International Film Festival. Rob’s website is at absolutemotiongraphics.com
New Photoshop Tutorials from Digital Anarchy
Digital Anarchy is fully focused on their Photoshop plug-ins and have some new tutorials on their site which use Knoll Light Factory for Photoshop.
Creating Volumetric Light – We all know the look of a beam of light bursting through the clouds or coming from the top of a dusty (and otherwise dark) cave. Usie Knoll Light Factory in conjunction with some of Photoshop’s built-in filters to create this look very easily.
Blurring Elements – On high resolution images, Knoll’s light flares sometimes show thin lines that don’t look realistic. This tutorial talks about ways to deal with this problem and produce natural looking lens flares. This movie may take a few minutes to load.
Tutorial: Getting Started with the 3D Camera and Layers- 2
I’ve recently uploaded a tutorial to Toolfarm: Getting Started with the 3D Camera and Layers- 2. It’s for After Effects 7.0 and higher. I go into a little more detail about camera blur and depth of field, as well as other ideas for bringing life to still images. If you haven’t viewed the first tutorial, you can find it here.
If you have any questions about the projects and the technique, please post to Toolfarm’s Expert Forums and I’ll do my best to help.
Nightclub Lights
This is a spinning nightclub style element I came up with for a project using 4 Color Gradient, Trapcode Shine, and Knoll Light Factory. Pacifier not included. Project is 720p.
Knoll Lens/Particular, Knoll Light Factory Presets
Toolfarm and Ko Maruyama and team, are partnering to bring you a series of presets for Red Giant’s Knoll Light Factory.
Download the free Knoll Lens Flare presets, hosted at Toolfarm.
Check out the tutorial by Steve Tomaya, Using Knoll Light Factory as particles in Trapcode Particular. It’s magical, and great to know just as the glut of the holiday commercials you’re working on come through your shop.
Learn more about Knoll Light Factory and Trapcode Particular.
Evil Eyes
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Dr. Dreadful is a scary guy with blinking red eyes. I used Knoll Light Factory to make the glow with a fade in+out behavior. You could easily track the ‘Light Source Location’ for moving video, but I just used a still.
Download GlowingEyes.ffx.zip (AE 7)
