Free Plug-in: CrumplePop ShrinkRay for FCP
CrumplePop ShrinkRay gives your footage that tilt-shift miniaturization effect. Download it for free for 7 days, then its going in our store!
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Free Sample: AE Camera Training chapter 12: Auto Orient Layers to Camera
In Toolfarm Expert Series Professional Training for After Effects Camera, Rob Birnholz uncovers the mysteries of the After Effects camera, going through basics and moving quickly through the more advanced settings and controls.
Free Video Hive File of the Month: August 2009
Video hive file of the month august 2009
This gorgeous (and free!) After Effects project from our friends at Video Hive is titled Strange Dancing Lights created by an artist known as Generator!
Imagineer Launches Tutorial Contest
The challenge is to create tutorials for Imagineer products including mocha, monet, mokey, motor and others. The prize? The full kitty of Imagineer products! The deadline is September 15, 2009. Learn more here.
CG Pyrotechnics Contest
Check out the CG Pyrotechnics Contest at Vimeo. If you make any fire with plug-ins that we sell at Toolfarm, we’d love to see it. Trapcode Particular fire? Boris Continuum Complete generated flames? Digieffects Delirium file? Let’s see what you got!
If you’d like to upload any of your video samples to MyToolfarm, by all means, please do!
Move Projects from FCP to AE Seamlessly (and Free!)
Richard Harrington has a script up at ProVideo Coalition for After Effects that allows you to move projects from FCP to AE. Get the info here.
Note, Automatic Duck also makes great tools for this task. Check out Automatic Duck at Toolfarm too!
Photoshop Filter! Cartoon Bubble 1.0 from Digital Anarchy
Just got the Digital Anarchy newsletter and this one popped out at me. The Cartoon Bubble plug-in is designed to create basic speech bubbles to go along with ToonIt Photo or any time you need to make your photos talk! It creates simple ellipse and rectangular speech bubbles that can be any size. You can adjust colors, fonts, outline thickness, and position. It’s a great way to make your ToonIt images start speaking.
You don’t need to be an owner of ToonIt, anyone can download it free and use it. It works on Windows and Mac and any recent version of Photoshop.
Also, check out the interview with Jim Tierney, head anarchist at Digital Anarchy, over at Colorburned.com.
Tutorial: AE 3D arrows with Trapcode Particular v2
Twitter is such a great resource. This one popped up on my radar today. It’s from Being Studios and it’s really cool. Don’t have Particular v2 yet? Download a free demo here.
AE 3D arrow Tutorial from Being Studios on Vimeo.
Create a 3D arrow using Trapcode Particular within AE.
Digieffects FreeForm AE Terrain Tutorial
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Win $1,000+ Worth of Prizes in the Aetuts+ Logo Reveal Competition!
Toolfarm is sponsoring a great new contest with AETuts+, the Aetuts+ Logo Reveal Competition! You could win over $1,000 in Trapcode goodies from Toolfarm!
To win this competition you’ll need to create a unique and professional logo reveal using the Aetuts+ logo. We will be expecting you to think outside the box and delight us with your originality! We will choose one winner, judged by the Aetuts+ editor. This person will win a copy of Trapcode Suite 2009 and loads of Trapcode training, valued at over $1,000 – all supplied by our generous sponsor, Toolfarm! One other randomly selected entry will win a 1 year Plus membership, valued at $117.
So what are you waiting for? Go to AETuts+, download the logo and make something great. Enter and hopefully YOU will win!
