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Handwriting logo reveal in After Effects

John Stanowski — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:00:12 +0000

The folks at Imagination Creations just posted a great tutorial on making a write-on logo that fades into a finished logo. This one requires a hands-on approach including printing, drawing and scanning but the end result is worth it!

Get your AE layers swinging – and – CC Flo Motion exposed!

John Stanowski — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:52:34 +0000

Florian Füger of FloMotion.eu shows you how to get your After Effects layers swinging “in an organic way, and how to connect them so that it looks like they are interacting.”

Florian is also the latest guest host for Motionworks‘ After Effects A-Z series. Here he explains his website’s namesake the CC Flo Motion effect.

Continuous animation without keyframes

John Stanowski — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:01:33 +0000

EJ Hassenfratz shows you a few ways to gets things moving in After Effects and then Cinema 4D without the need for keyframes.

Build a satellite tracking display in After Effects

John Stanowski — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:41:03 +0000

ShortFormVideo.com has posted a new tutorial showing you how to create a game-style satellite tracking display. The project file is also available for download.

Maintain Velocity in After Effects

John Stanowski — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:39:56 +0000

Motionworks‘ John Dickinson shows you a couple of ways to stretch out your keyframes without slowing down the action!

Using displacement maps for glassy look transitions in After Effects

John Stanowski — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:13:42 +0000

Eran Stern‘s new Artbeats tutorial shows you how to use Displacement Maps in After Effects for “glassy look transitions”. In this tutorial he uses a logo created in Cinema 4D to drive the transition, but you can still use these techniques sans the 3D.

Watch it at Artbeats.com.

Making heat waves with Particular and Displacement Map

John Stanowski — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 21:26:23 +0000

Beam Effect Tutorial

John Stanowski — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:20:19 +0000

Michael Jones shows you the basics of After Effects‘ Beam Effect and how to incorporate parenting to make it more lively. This approach can also be used with track points and live footage as seen throughout his Gauntlet piece below.

From concept to creation

John Stanowski — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:04:52 +0000

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.

A first look at a new 3D plugin for After Effects

John Stanowski — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:55:18 +0000

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.