Make A Light Wall in After Effects
You know that in After Effects you can make great things. Quba Michalski has in his web Quba HQ a great tutorial for make a cool looking light wall. Quba also give you the chance to download his presets and the tutorial. The difficulty is Beginner to Advanced and is 70 min aprox long. So check it out here and enjoy with your After Effects!
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Exporting your videos for Vimeo
Vimeo has excellent video player quality and is the go to place for video artists. Here is a way to export from Adobe Premiere and After Effects.
Enjoy!
Free abstract background footage from Artbeats
This week’s Artbeats freebie is a 20 second abstract background HD clip. Remember, backgrounds don’t have to settle for just being backgrounds. They could be masked inside of text or used as a compositing layer with the right blending mode. And it’s always a good idea to have a collection of stock elements for times when time is short. Get the clip here.
Free Textures Pack to begin this week!
Take a look at this two free textures pack and level up your After Effects compositions.
This pack belongs to Jarlan Perez that wrote to Cgtuts+ to share it with the comunity. If you want to download it click here.
This second Pack is from abduzeedo a web page that have good stuff for motion graphics and desing. Download the entire pack here.
Hope that you enjoyed this free stuff!
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After Effects: Working with Illustrator CS5
In a whopping 50-minute On Demand E-Seminar, John Dickinson explains how you can integrate Illustrator CS5 into your After Effects workflow. He says that over the years some things have changed. Watch the show and find out about the powerful integration between these two applications and the possibilities it offers.
Create metallic text in After Effects
Hands up those of you who keep forgetting that After Effects has layer styles. Yeah, me too. Well, J. Schul has a quick tutorial over at LayersMagazine.com, which shows you how to make a polished metal text effect directly in After Effects… using layer styles.
Skin retouching with Colorista II
Stu Maschwitz is on a roll promoting the new Magic Bullet Colorista II plugin for After Effects. In his fifth tutorial he explains how to perform cosmetic skin retouching.
Compositing fog or mist the correct way
How many times have you added fog or mist footage to a comp and then reached for that Add or Screen blending mode? VFX blogger Daniel Broadway says don’t do it. After you read his After Effects tip you’ll know why. Daniel explains why real world fog doesn’t ‘add’ to the scene. Don’t worry, though. He’s got a great alternative and shows you how. I tried this in a mograph project and it worked brilliantly. Take a look at Daniel’s post VFX Tip #3 – Compositing Fog or Mist.
No fog footage?
Aetuts+ has a tutorial that shows how to create fog from scratch using Fractal Noise and CC Vector Blur. The tutorial is a bit of a chore to get through, but the end result is amazing. Watch Realistic Fog Without 3rd Party Plug-ins.
Sonicfire Pro 5 with After Effects CS5 Workflow
Do you make cool Motion graphics projects? Then you know that the audio is very important. At Pro Video Coalition you can find the Jeff Foster 3 in 1 tutorial, where explains: Sonicfire Pro 5 – Soundtrack Workflow with After Effects CS5, Sonicfire Pro 5 – Roundtrip Soundtrack Editing with After Effects CS5 and Sonicfire Pro 5 – Matching the Soundtrack to Motion Graphics Elements with After Effects CS5. Also you can find some tips to enhance your final product.
Below you can find the 3 tutorials, but if you want more information or a detailed explanation of the 3 tutorials you can find out here.
Free font: Titillium comes in many weights
I don’t know much about typography, but I know what I like. Titillium was created three years ago at the hands of type design students in Italy. Every year a new group comes in to make refinements and sometimes add new weights. The variety in this font family makes it even more useful. Spruce up your motion graphics with a new look and get Titillium. You can download it free here.
