A way to make Stereoscopic-3D videos with After Effects
Some days I wrote a post that also talk about this fantastic technique. If you want to remember, you can find out here.
Goran Kraljevic Koehler has posted in AEtusts+ this easy way to make 3D videos with After Effects and 3D Glasses effect. In his tutorial explains a Step by Step way to make a nice Stereoscopic-3D video from an animation in a 3D software. The method that use Goran also can be due entirely with After Effects, but this method works fine. You can find the tutorial here.
So, put your Blue/Red sunglasses and enjoy!
This is that Goran will teach you
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Connect Your Scale Relative To The Camera’s Position
What do you think If I say that when you move your After Effects camera closer to your solid or move the camera away of it, the solid change the scale relatively? Well, let’s cut the suspense, Ran Ben explains in AEtuts+ how to do that. So If you are interested, you can check it out here.
The preview of the tutorial
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Mini-tutorial: Two new CS5 features
John Dickinson posted an excerpt from his last Adobe E-seminar revealing how After Effects’ Align Panel has been upgraded to include the ability to align something in reference to the comp itself. He also shows some surprising ways to take advantage of the new feature. He then explains another new feature: the ability to Orient Each Character Independently when using Per-character 3D. Click to watch.
John Dickinson’s latest tutorial packed with tips
John Dickinson‘s new tutorial for Digital Juice looks, on the outside, to be a how-to for their line of stock After Effects elements Motion Designer’s Toolkit 2. It is, in fact, packed with After Effects tips and tricks, standard effects, blend modes and techniques. He also shows a number of ways how precomps make working on complicated projects so much easier. This 30+ minute tutorial is definitely not to be missed. Click here to view.
Creating Lightning: How RISE Visual Effects Brought Flash to Zeus’ Bolt
Studio Daily is providing a complimentary webinar on Thursday, August 5 from 12pm to 1pm ET. VFX supervisor Florian Gellinger will deconstruct a scene from Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
Tools used are Nuke and Sapphire plugins. Nevermind a lot of AE folk don’t use Nuke, this is an opportunity to see technique which could easily be reproduced using After Effects. And if you use Sapphire plugins all the better.
Some of the tasks to be examined involve an actor interacting with a lightning bolt and include:
- show Zeus catching the CG lightning bolt
- integrate the bolt in his hand
- add chromatic aberration
- add a plasma core
- make its edges wobble
- add a lightning “back bone”
- add a huge variety of smaller and bigger, high-energy arcs on its surface
- add heat distortion
- add photographic glow and light interaction on Zeus
Tutorial: Make a large crowd in your videos – AE Basix
In this tutorial from AEtuts+, James Whiffin explains 5 different basic ways to create a large crowd in your videos. Yes this is a 5 in1 tutorial!
The methods that explain James there are:
- Simple Masking: It’s a tedious technique but is good for short clips.
- Rotoscoping: With CS5 It’s a nice technique, but you will need a good Hardware for medium-large clips
- Difference Matting: Good technique but you can find a good place to shot and control the Matte effects
- Chroma Keying: I love this technique, although you will be more accurate than others is really amazing. Light is the Key, you get it?
- Camera Technique: This is really powerfull with a good use of the Tracker and Stabilize Motion.
Enjoy duplicating friends and If you have free time you’ll can make a video like this.
You can see the preview below; also you can find the tutorial 5 in 1 here.
Preview of the final result
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Make 3D videos in After Effects
This is my first post in Aefreemart, I’m Victor Hernandez and I’m going to bring cool stuff about Motion graphics,After Effects, visual effects, also tutorials and much more. Now, the post.
Christoph Keller explains in this video how to work in After Effects with his script Stereo-3D. This script let you make 3D stereoscopic videos that you can see with 3D regular glasses (blue,red). Chris has more videos about his script and work flow in After Effects. (more…)
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
Tutorial: Fractal Noise Fade in AE
Harry J. Frank has created a great new tutorial called Fractal Noise Fade. I always learn so much from Harry. Also, if you haven’t seen it, check out Harry’s new Video Rock, an awesome new DVD library of pre-rendered QuickTime elements and still images set in a vintage style.
Fractal Noise Fade from graymachine on Vimeo.
Learn how to use Fractal Noise to create a textured fade on a layer in After Effects. Then add some more effects and elements to finish up the title effect.
Tutorial: 3D Paper Crumple with Freeform AE
Rob Birnholz has a fantastic new tutorial out about making a 3D wad of paper in Digieffects FreeForm AE. He says “Next time you get a frustrating assignment that you didn’t ask for, don’t crumple it up and throw it at your boss’s face. Now you can easily call it quits within After Effects! Rob uses the example of creating a paper crumple transition to show off the Digieffects plugin Freeform AE. Who knows… this tutorial might just save your job.”
- Check out the tutorial at AE Tuts+
- Download a free demo of Digieffects FreeForm AE
- More on FreeForm AE in our Plug-in Finder
- Buy Digieffects FreeForm AE
Rob released Professional Training for the After Effects Camera Toolfarm Expert Series a month ago and it has been getting rave reviews:
Very, very nice tutorial – great projects, great teaching – Mark Spencer
Just saw the After Effects Camera Training video from Rob Birnholz and it’s outstanding. I thought I was pretty good with the old AE camera, having used it for many years, but Rob made me aware of several new techniques and tricks I had not encountered before. Way to go, Rob. – Jack Tunnicliffe, Visual Effects Artist and Owner of Java Post Production, Regina, Saskatchewan
And here’s a free chapter of AE Camera Training: Auto Orient Layers to Camera.
