09Mar2009
Monday Goodness…
Video Copilot's Action Essentials 2 HD is COMING! * From Andrew Kramer - "Over 90% of elements are live action shots, like explosions and blood etc... 100% NEW Footage and Tutorials; NOT an upgrade or anything like that... Yes there is some high speed stuff... I'll explain more later...
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No Name Post #2
Ever worked with Adobe Kuler? Ever wanted to use it’s color schemes in After Effects? Now you can. It’s fast, it’s easy, it’s simple, and it’s free!
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Monday Madhouse… I’m running out of Alliterative Titles…
3D Frozen Text In this tutorial we'll create cool 3d text without using the boring technique of positioning the Z value "manually" layer by layer. We'll use some expressions to extrude the text "automatically" by duplicating the layer. We'll also create some cool reflections and shadows.
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Saturday… Start of the Weekend… PARTY!
Damn... well it is Saturday night... what the hell are you doing on the net? Get out there and PARTY! No really... hahaha anyways, if any of you like Digital Tutors, I found their tutorial library, and have the last like... 10 tuts that they have put out, but there is a hell of a lot more where that came from. OH! Just an FYI, AEtuts.com has changed their URL to AE.tutsplus.com as with a
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NUKE and AE MADNESS!!!!
In honor of Oscar's week we have another movie VFX shot inspired tutorial. A frequently requested theme is the effect of something being frozen very quickly. This tutorial will explain how to achieve this effect as well as a cool camera lens frost over and crack.
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Mondays Suck… it is a fact of life.
You don’t have to be Steven Spielberg, you don’t need millions of dollars, you don’t even need more than one actor to make your own war movie (well, one shot anyway). In this two day tutorial series, Michal will show you how to create a realistic war movie shot using only one actor
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17Feb2009
Took A Break… sorry bout the 4 days no posts…
had an awesome Valentine's Day, if any of you cared... haha... that and I have been working on some pretty intensive projects... but back to it!
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Friday Massive Overload – No not Massive the program…
Create a “Light-tastic” Logo Reveal Animation - Lloyd Alvarez In part 2 Lloyd shows us how to use 32-bit compositing with custom particle shapes to create the "light-tastical" light streaking logo reveal animation.
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Early Thursday
Here’s a fun project file that adds an anamorphic stripe and star around the standard AE lens flare. The layers are linked to the position of the Flare, so everything moves together. You can change the color from the “FLARE” solid effects control to create a golden sun or even a red sun.
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