I know some of you are using FCP X and Motion and here’s a nice freebie that Peter Wiggins of idustrial revolution pointed me to.
More info here: Beautiful free photo album effect for FCPX and Motion
Free FCP X Photo Album Effect example from robbert-jan van der does on Vimeo.
Paulo Nogueira Duarte Costa has a new open source project for After Effects, After Effects Sequence Browser. He explains, “This script as an alternative to the standard way of opening sequences in After Effects, which can be time consuming when there are multiple sequences in a folder.”
Visit the project page to find out more about After Effects Sequence Browser.
John Dickinson of Motionworks recently tweeted about not having seen much buzz about the new physics engine plugin for After Effects called Newton. We’ve been wondering the same thing. What’s going on? Are you daunted by Newton? Or do you feel you’d get better results from your 3D application? Leave a comment and let us know.
Have you experimented with Newton yourself? Let us see what you’ve done by posting your links in the comments. In the mean time, here’s a few of the scant resources and inspirations that have popped up. First up are a couple of experiments from Mike Afford.
And here are a few of the first Newton tutorials to surface. There’s no voice over or music and can be a chore to watch at first but soon become enlightening as to how easy it is to use Newton.
Need Harry Potter effects but pressed for time? Maybe you’ve just picked up After Effects and you need something easy. The Film Riot crew has the answer!
Yowza! Nick Campbell just added a new preset for Trapcode Particular over at RedGiantPeople. Sign up and download it for free!
Eran Stern has a two-part tutorial on Artbeats.com; the second of which is now available. These tutorials are a bit unique as they go through the design process starting with the idea and storyboards. Eran then goes on to employ masks, shadows, the new Warp Stabilizer effect in CS5.5, zooming effects and a touch of Mocca. View Part One and Part Two.
It seems the competition to bring 3D to After Effects is about to increase with the upcoming release of a new plugin from Video Copilot called Element 3D. It’s a particle system which uses 3D geometry. With it you can bring in any .obj file and convert it into particles with amazing material options. In Andrew Kramer‘s first demo he shows us how we can create clusters of… asteroids, molecules, … abstract thingys. But as Andrew said himself, he’s only just scratched the surface with this first look. It’s somewhat been proven with Optical Flares, that when VCP puts out a plugin, they put it out right. There’s likely to be a ton of as yet unseen applications for Element 3D. (My prediction: Imagine buying a plane model from Turbo Squid, popping it into After Effects and making a particle stream set to orient to path. You’ve got a fleet of aircraft ready to interact with AE’s camera and lights!) Watch the demo here.
Rampant Design Tools has a new tutorial showing you how to reveal a 3D logo tornado fashion. This video has quite a few clever techniques using Adobe Illustrator 3D text, Shatter and CC Force Motion Blur.
The hosts of Film Riot provide a walk-through of how to shoot and composite someone getting kicked clear across town. Even if you have no interest in this sort of effect, you should have a look anyway. It’s a riot.
Mathias Möhl from Mamoworld shows you how to create a monstrously huge mouth on a moving target. After seeing the preview you may think: “Oh, just like the Demon Face Warp from Video Copilot.” Nope, this is a completely different technique. You can download Mathias’ project file at Mamoworld.com.
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