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.
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Getting started with Magic Bullet Cosmo
The Magic Bullet Cosmo plugin from Red Giant does a fantastic job of quickly covering up those unsightly laugh lines and crow’s feet on your talent. This plugin seeks out areas in your footage containing values found in skin and then gently blurs the area careful not to affect sharp details like eyes. Like Mojo, it’s a great way to get the job done quickly. Simon Walker takes you on a tour of this new tool.
Stop Motion Kit for After Effects
Quba Michalski‘s new tutorial shows you how to mimic the old look of stop motion with After Effects layers. He’s also created a free collection of presets which you can download at his site.
“This collection of presets will allow you to easily add subtle imperfections to the movement of objects in your scene, emulating animator errors that are a staple of stop motion animation. Using 6 different expression sets, you will be able to apply and control glitches in movement, rotation and timing of your objects as well as simulate changes in camera position and exposure.”
Environment Replacement in After Effects
In case you missed it: Harry Frank uses The Foundry‘s Camera Tracker, Primatte Keyer, Trapcode Horizon and Trapcode Particular to change the environment of a clip.
After Effects A-Z: Card Wipe
“Guest host James Zwadlo continues the After Effects: Effects A-Z series, demonstrating After Effects’ Card Wipe effect.”
I was pretty surprised to find out how robust this effect is… for a card wipe transition that is. Watch it a Motionworks.
Quick Sky Replacement using Mocha for After Effects
The guys over at Rampant Design Tools made this nice sky replacement tutorial but it doubles as a fantastic first introduction to using Mocha. If you haven’t bothered messing with Mocha yet, this video will definitely get you started.
Create Thor-like Titles in After Effects
This 30-minute tutorial recreates the titles from the Thor trailer. Create 3D text and use the Shatter, Advanced Lightning and CC Rain effects. There’s also bits on time stretching and color correction.
CC Ball Action
Adam Everett (from AE Tuts Plus) guest hosts Motionworks‘ After Effects A-Z tip series with a look at CC Ball Action. If, like me, you just keep forgetting that effect is even there, you’ll see plenty of potential – and diverse – uses from 3D effects, text transitions and background design. Click here to watch.
Adam also mentions two other places to go for more Ball Action. A previous tutorial he’d done called Give Your Type Some Ball Action, and Video Copilot‘s 3D Ball Dispersion.
