Optical Flares gets native Motion Blur
This just in: Video Copilot‘s Optical Flares plugin for After Effects now supports native motion blur! If you already own Optical Flares you can get a FREE update to version 1.2.132 here. The update also has a few minor bug fixes.
Aged Film look with Particular
Here is a nice tutorial on creating that aged film look using Trapcode’s Particular. Save it as a preset and reuse it over and over again. Here
Now that I’ve spread the love a little bit, I will introduce myself. My name is Cameron King. I love After Effects and all the things it brings to the storytelling process. I love it so much, I started an After Effects group in Washington DC. I will be posting tips, new tricks, old tricks, and basic AE knowledge on this site from time to time. I come from a video editing background, so I will approach my posts from a motion picture editor’s view. I hope you enjoy and use After Effects to it’s greatest potential.
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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.
Stu’s two new tuts
Stu Maschwitz released two more tutorials for the newly released Colorista II plugin explaining the Keyer and Power Masks.
New After Effects Script: Matrix
Aescripts has released a new cool script for After Effects. With this script you’ll can break into pieces your comp randomly or with controlled parameters.
Matrix also runs in CS5, so If you want more information and test it, go to the page of the script
Here leave a quick tutorial.
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Rendering in Cinema 4D for After Effects
Rob Garrett has posted the final installment of his 8-part Cinema 4D tutorial series Cinema 4D, Parenting 101. The last two installments are solely focused on getting the project out of C4D and into After Effects for more work. We pick up here with part 7 and 8. To view the entire series, visit Rob’s Vimeo channel here. And once again, if the missing right sides of the videos are bothering you, hit the Full Screen buttons on the players.
Deeper Modes of Expression, Part 8 posted
If you wanna be an AE Pro, dive into expressions!
Trish and Chris Meyer have been releasing a special chapter of their book Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects in what will ultimately be twelve installments of Deeper Modes of Expression. You can find these at their blog CMG Keyframes on the Pro Video Coalition. As the name implies this series really digs in deep and explores ways to help you make your comps dance in ways mere keyframes aren’t apt to allow easily. The eighth installment, Deeper Modes of Expression, Part 8: Going for a Loop, was posted yesterday.
Creating worlds
A new tutorial, free planet texture maps and a crazy new plugin from Subblue
Chris Johnson-Standley’s new written tutorial, Create a Gas Giant Planet Scene in After Effects, over at Aetuts+ shows you how to make and texture your own planet scene using nothing more than After Effects. It’s a nice introduction to what’s possible using Fractal Noise to create textures from scratch.
