HUGE Sales at Toolfarm
I try not to put to many sales related items at AE Freemart but I don’t want you to miss out. Because we distribute the plug-ins, we can give you better deals than the others.
- All Red Giant and Trapcode are 50% off today only. This includes full versions and bundles but not upgrades, crossgrades or academic. Use coupon code rg50.
- All Digieffects products are 50% off through Friday. This includes upgrades, all Buena and all Walker Effects. It does not include Digieffects Damage, which was released at midnight.
- Fear not… there’s a special offer for Digieffects Damage too. Buy Damage and get Digieffects Delirium for free through Friday.
- All Class on Demand training is 50% off through Sunday.
Visit Toolfarm.com for the sales!
MyToolfarm Beta Officially Launches with Red Giant Contest!
What is MyToolfarm?
MyToolfarm is a collaborative community for MoGraph and VFX Artists. Get inspired by and comment on the work of your peers, as well as receive feedback on your uploaded work. Explore the hottest trends and techniques and learn how plug-ins can expand your creativity.
We’re kicking off the launch with our first contest, a partnership with Red Giant Software. Submit video for the Red Giant/NAB Contest and the winning entry will receive a trip to NAB in April. View contest rules and prize information.
Happy Holidays from Toolfarm!
We have a special gift for you. View your card and download some free presets for After Effects and Motion!
Thank you, and have a wonderful holiday.
Trapcode: 3D Stars
Ko Maruyama has a nice tutorial movie on extruding shapes into Trapcode Particular at Digital Producer.
My Favorite Particular Things
I compiled my favorite Particular presets from the last year and stuck them right here!
There are 14 presets total, including a few never seen here or at Trapcode-people.net.
Alpha Emitter – Particular
This is a project based on a question over in the Toolfarm After Effects forum. The question was how to make keyed footage emit particles, specifically letter particles. I can’t think of a better use for Particular than this.
Particular can use any layer as an emitter, as long as its 3D switch is turned on. In this case, footage keyed with Keylight is in its own comp and serving as the particle emitter.
Particular can also use any layer as a particle. Also, that particle layer can be split up, so that Particular emits multiple particle types. In this project, there is a comp with the letter particles in it. There is an expression forcing the letters to increment once per frame as well as randomly capitalize. This way, the typeface is easily adjustable, as there is only one type layer. There’s actually two layers of particles, to get a little more scattered and layered look.
Free Comp from LME! Trapcode Particular Preset
LME has graciously provided a freebie that is an extra bonus file from each of their sets of gorgeous comp files. These are Toolfarm exclusives and we’ll be posting one per week until they’re gone. Here is the second in the series. This sample is not included in the Trapcode Particular Presets and Comps.
- Download the Free Comp (AE 6.5.1 and up)
- View sample movie
- View Amazing Video Walls & Photo Displays gallery – see what’s included in the full collection
- Buy Trapcode Particular Presets and Comps – Only $132 (Save 5%!). 100 presets and matching comps. The possibilities are only limited to your imagination. Works with After Effects 6.5 or higher for Mac and Win.
If you didn’t catch last weeks freebie, it’s here.
As an added bonus, Trapcode Suite is 20% off this week! Sale runs March 12-16. Trapcode Suite includes Particular, 3D Stroke, Shine, Lux, Starglow, Echospace and Soundkeys.
Lite Brite with Particular
Lite Brite.. I’m sure you had one. Now you can relive the good old days in After Effects using Particular.
This uses two Layer Grid emitters, each one producing ever other line and offset from each other in the X axis, to get the distinct pattern. Drop your own video in the “Source” comp and watch the Lite Brite magic.
Download the Lite Brite project
(AE 7)
Heart wipe with Particular
This project contains two comps. The first, called Heart, uses a heart shape mask layer in the precomp with Hue/Sat applied. There are wiggle expressions on the Hue and Saturation to give some variance in the color.
The second, which is the main comp, has some text that wipes on using a linear wipe. The heart effect is Trapcode Particular. I modified one of the presets quite a bit and used the heart layer as my image. I timed the linear wipe and the movement of the heart wipe and voila! Love is in the air.
If you do not have Trapcode Particular, download a free demo.
Today is also my cat Charlotte’s 15th birthday.
After Effects New York User Group’s First meeting Feb 22
Adobe After Effects New York (AENY) first meeting is set for February 22. There is no fee for this event, thanks to sponsorship from Adobe and Pratt Manhattan. They are covering Maxon Cinema 4D 10 and After Effects Integration, as well as Mograph, Stephen Neary will present "Bigfoot’s Eulogy" and Aharon Rabinowitz will be presenting some quick After Effects tips. I met Aharon at NAB NY.
They’re giving away LOADS of door prizes including Red Giant Software: Magic Bullet Suite, MB Colorista and Trapcode Suite (all Trapcode Plug-ins), three Wondertouch particleIllusion licenses, GridIron Nucleo and Nucleo Pro, Cinema 4D and Mograph, Sorenson Squeeze Power Pack, Automatic Duck, Digital Anarchy PlasmaFX, Cycore FX and more. Wow…. good stuff, indeed.
