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Upcoming Webinar: Creating FOX’s Fringe 3D Text Effect and the TRON Legacy Title Animation Effect

Published by Michele Yamazaki on February 29th, 2012 - in Adobe, Boris, Continuum Complete, Toolfarm

Free live webinar presented by Michele Yamazaki, VP Marketing & Plug-inologist for Toolfarm

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Thursday, March 22, 2012 @ 1:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time

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Join Michele Yamazaki as she teaches you how to create the following effects…

FOX's Fringe 3D Text Effect

J. J. Abrams' science fiction television series Fringe revitalized the old-school technique of incorporating 3D text in video. Now, numerous shows are creating their own spin on this same concept. Learn how you can easily create this unique 3D text effect combining Boris Continuum Complete with Adobe After Effects' 3D cameras and lights. Then, get ready to put it into practice in your next creation.

TRON Legacy Title Animation Effect

TRON Legacy puts a modern twist on the classic TRON title design, keeping the retro tech feel. While it looks complicated, you’ll learn how you can easily create this amazing title effect in Adobe After Effects with the help of Boris Continuum Complete's 3D Objects and After Effects’ built-in camera and lights.

About Michele Yamazaki
Michele YamazakiMichele Yamazaki is VP Marketing & Pluginologist for Toolfarm, a value added reseller and distributor of visual effects software. She recently wrote Plug-in with After Effects: Third Party Plug-in Mastery, published by Focal Press. In 2009, she co-authored Greenscreen Made Easy: Keying and Compositing Techniques for Indie Filmmakers with Jeremy Hanke. Michele started at Postworks as a motion graphics artist in 1995 and worked there for a decade before joining Toolfarm. She also taught Adobe After Effects and Photoshop at Kendall College of Art & Design. In 2001 she launched AEFreemart.com and in 2002 co-founded the West Michigan Animation and Effects User Group.

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Michele Learns Cinema 4D: Episode 2: Training, Wacom & Shortcuts

Published by Michele Yamazaki on January 30th, 2012 - in Maxon Cinema 4D, Toolfarm, Video

Michele talks about getting started with Cineversity, 1on1 Training with a Maxon Trainer, setting up a Wacom tablet and the Help Menus.

There are sync problems that I was trying to fix. After some research, it seems that the problem is from the USB mic and iSight – so it's right at the source. I'm not rerecording this video, so you'll have to just ignore the sync problem. Next time I guess I will just use the built in mic. Oddly, in Screenflow the problem was not at all obvious and I wasn't aware of the issue while previewing. It only shows up after exporting.

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Michele Yamazaki of AE Freemart on Digital Production Buzz Last Week

Published by Michele Yamazaki on December 21st, 2011 - in Audio, Toolfarm

Michele Yamazaki on Digital Production Buzz

Michele Yamazaki, VP Marketing & Pluginologist at Toolfarm (that’s me!), talked to Larry Jordan at Digital Production Buzz last Thursday about why editors need plugins, what new and what’s a must have in the plug-in scene.

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Michele is scheduled to be a regular on the Digital Production Buzz every couple of weeks so tune in. You can also get the podcast on iTunes.

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Have you seen the new Toolfarm.com??

Published by Michele Yamazaki on September 19th, 2011 - in Toolfarm

We’re very pleased to announce the new Toolfarm website! A press release explaining the new features and benefits will be out on Thursday, as well as a video which will walk you through some of the new features.

Here’s a brief overview of what’s in store for you at Toolfarm.com.

  1. One log-in for the store, forum, demo downloads, posting comments and more. Register today for access to these areas. Its fast and free and your information is safe with us. (Note: register in the first 2 days of our launch and receive a coupon code to save on everything in our store!)
  2. A complete overhaul of the store – shopping and finding what you need is much easier. Information is more cohesive and consistent throughout the store. For example, find the system requirements link for each product in the store.
  3. Demo Downloads – we’ve updated and added many new demos. There are a couple of ways you can find them. First, you can click the link and search by host, or find the item in our store that you’d like to try and click the download demo link. Once you are registered and signed in, you will not have to fill in your information each time you want to try something new.
  4. The Toolfarm Forum – the new forum could use some posts! The functionality and style of the forum are easy for users.
  5. Tutorials are now linked to products through our store as well as through the tutorials link. The tutorials database is still being filled in and styled. We will continue to add to the tutorials daily.

There are many more new features of the new Toolfarm site which will be covered in the upcoming video. Please stop by and checking out our new digs!

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A Conversation with Evan Sussman

Published by Michele Yamazaki on April 2nd, 2009 - in Adobe, After Effects, Inspiration, Toolfarm

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We don’t often post this type of thing here, but you could help a young filmmaker win the contest of a lifetime… and he’s EXTREMELY talented. Evan Sussman’s film short, Escape, is a fantastic voyage into a freedom from the stresses of modern life. It is a contender for a $30,000 prize from The Doorpost Film Project. If you like the film, please vote for it!

Evan talks about how he created the film, including the special effects, working with expressions in After Effects and using Trapcode plugins. Read the full interview here

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Plug-ins for $99 and under for After Effects/Premiere Pro & Final Cut Pro/Motion

Published by Michele Yamazaki on February 3rd, 2009 - in Adobe, After Effects, Apple, Digieffects, Final Cut Pro, FxPlug, Motion, Noise Industries, Premiere Pro, RE:Vision Effects, Red Giant Software, Toolfarm, Trapcode Shine, Zaxwerks

$99 deals

I’m sure most of you are starting to feel the economic crunch, so we’ve put together a section for plug-ins that are $99 and under. These are useful plug-ins by well known plug-in developers like Red Giant, Trapcode, Digieffects, Noise Industries, Nattress and others.

Plug-ins for $99 and under

If you’d like to take the plug-in for a test drive before you buy it, most of the plug-ins are available for download on our demos/trial page: http://www.toolfarm.com/demo/demo.php

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12 Days of Freebies: Toolfarm’s Holiday Gift to our Loyal Customers

Published by Michele Yamazaki on December 12th, 2008 - in After Effects, Conoa, Eyescream Factory, LME, Preset, Professional Video Templates, Project, Template, Toolfarm

Happy Holidays from ToolfarmIf you haven’t stopped by Toolfarm in a few days, you’re missing The 12 Days of Freebies, our gift to our dear customers. We want to know how much we have appreciated your business in 2008 and we hope that our relationship will continue long into the Millennium.

Toolfarm will be unlocking a new freebie each weekday until December 24th, kind of like an Advent Calendar, minus the chocolate all over your fingers.

arrow Download some free holiday schwag here!

Freebies will include templates, project files, stock footage, and more; stay tuned!

  • Day 1 – an After Effects CS3 template for a 3D Greeting Card
  • Day 2 – a fantastic holiday tree template from LME.
  • Day 3 – a gorgeous tree ornament created with Conoa 3D.
  • Day 4 – Eye Scream Factory Binary Code DVD Template.

We will have lots of other goodies lined up, including freebies from Pond5, Professional Video Templates, free presets for plug-ins and more. Day 5 will be uploaded on Monday. What will it be? Is the suspense killing you?

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Toolfarm Needs Your Opinions! Win Free Stuff!

Published by Michele Yamazaki on June 30th, 2008 - in After Effects, Poll, Toolfarm

surveyWe strive to be a useful resource for the mograph community from initial purchase through end support. We’re in the process of redoing our site, and would like your input! Your responses will not be shared with anyone and will directly impact our future site- and your online experience with us. Your opinions matter!

and you’ll be entered in a drawing to win a free copy of Red Giant’s new plugin, Radium Glow!

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FMC Review: Trapcode Form Training with Harry Frank

Published by Michele Yamazaki on February 17th, 2008 - in Adobe, After Effects, Review, Toolfarm, Training, Trapcode Form

Trapcode Form TrainingDave Basulto of Filmmaking Central reviews Trapcode Form Training with Harry Frank and gives it a perfect score.

I give Trapcode Form Training with Harry Frank a whopping 5/5 stars for well explained training and ROI. You can pick up the training at ToolFarm.com. I highly recommend Trapcode Form Training with Harry Frank for anyone wanting to get going with Form fast.

Congratulations on the great review, Harry. Trapcode has also endorsed the training. It is really excellent training.

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AE Training Round-Up, Free After Effects Comps from The Anvel

Published by Michele Yamazaki on May 16th, 2007 - in Adobe, After Effects, Dean Velez, Expressions, John Dickinson, Ko Maruyama, Project, Toolfarm

Ko Maruyama has posted a blog entry at Ninja Crayon about the training that is available for After Effects and happens to mention three of our Forum Experts, Harry J. Frank, John Dickinson and Dean Velez.

Harry J. FrankHarry’s training is available just this week and to say it’s selling well would be an understatement! After Effects Expressions hits a niche where there is really not a lot of training and Harry’s training is fun to watch and easy to absorb. It’s downloadable immediately and is affordable at just $29 for 60 minutes of Expressions training. It is designed for the designer, not the programmer, and it will take your Expressiophobia away.

John DickinsonJohn Dickinson’s Creative Background Design Series has also been very popular. John currently has six modules in his series and he uses some innovative techniques and explains several shortcuts that will help your workflow. John’s training is just $5 a pop and great for the beginner or seasoned veteran.

Dean VelezDean Velez puts out training through his company, The Anvel. His training, The Anvel Industry Training for AE is incredible. I showed my class some of the training last semester and they were completely into it. People actually stuck around until the end of class instead of bagging class after an hour ;-)

Just yesterday, Dean posted the following to our Expert Forum:

Hello Video, Film and Web guys and gals,

The Anvel has just posted 29 new royalty free and fully customizable After Effects 7.0 Professional projects ready for download.

The Projects all deal with Text and adding effects to text. They cover the letters A-Z ( Aura, Balls, Cosmic, Destroy, Electric, Extrude, Fire, Glimmer, Hose, Ice, Join, Killer, Laser, Magnify, Nature, Odor, Paint, Quartz, Road, Strange, Tear, Universe, Vile, Web, Wind, X-Ray, Yank, Zoom )

Some are render intensive…so prerender when you can.

Hope you enjoy them! and drop me a line to let me know which one is your favorite…mine is Killer.

Dean is always posting awesome free stuff every month or two, so you’d be doing yourself a big service to go to our forum and hang out. Ask some questions while you’re there and guys like Harry and John will answer your questions.

Ko also mentions Aharon Rabinowitz’s quality training. Aharon runs After Effects NY user group, which met last night and Toolfarm gave away Harry’s new training at the meeting. I hear the meeting was great, with Curious Pictures showing their Disney Channel program, Little Einsteins ("Come on! Wave your arms to make our ship fly faster!" and so you can hear some Vivaldi… oh, I’m sure you’ve seen it!)

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