This webinar even is free to whoever would like to attend, and if you are looking at learning more about Roto and tracking… this is probably one of the best places to get an introduction to that.  You might have seen in my article on AEtuts+ “28 Matchmoving and Tracking Tutorials” that Ben Heusner had a lot of the tuts in there on the Imagineer site… well he is going to be your presenter!  I think there may be limited space, so hit it up soon… its gonna be a hell of a webinar.

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In the first instance, he uses an image mask in Final Cut Pro to colour correct the image and applies a pitch shift to change the voice.

In the second instance he uses a blur filter and an 8-point garbage matte to blur out the characters voice. He then shows you how to use the ‘paste attributes’ setting in Final Cut Pro to apply an audio effect created on a previous clip to this new clip.

Finally, he uses After Effects to motion track a number of black bars across the distinguishing features of his witness under protection.

After you click through over to ProJuice.org’s website, you can watch the tutorial in standard definition or high definition.

Three different ways to render your character unrecognizable.

Related Tutorials

1. Rock Lighting
2. Heat Haze
3. Kung Fu Energy Ball
4. Building Effects
5. Knoll Light FX
6. Tracking Screens
7. Bleach Bypass

Hey everyone!  I have been hard at work, setting up a green screen studio in my basement so that I can up the production level of the VLOGs.  I have some great ideas in mind… and the VLOGs are hopefully going to be a weekly thing once i get a schedule down.  In the meantime, you can check out the rad array of tutorials that I have been collecting this week, as well as read my weekly articles over at AEtuts+, as well as my latest – “A Concise Guide To After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts“.

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fineCG.com, a new site from Maltaannon, and his buddies at Polygon Studio are bringing you tutorials from all kinds of different aspects in the Visual Effects realm.   The first tutorial, called 3D Sport Animation, takes a 3D low poly model of a human and makes the whole body particles using Pflow and animates while it kicks around a soccer ball (football).  Check out fineCG.com HERE and watch the tutorial HERE and download the project files HERE.

Create a Breakup into Particles Logo Transition
Apr 13th in Motion Graphics by Lloyd
A very popular request is how to make a logo breakup into particles and reform into another logo. There’s many ways to achieve this and most of them require a full 3D application, but in this tutorial we learn how to achieve it all in After Effects using a 3D particle systems and a few smoke and mirrors.
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In this tutorial, Nick takes a photo of a streetscape during the day and turns it into a night scene. He takes us through the steps of darkening and colouring the image to look like night, and then creates a light source to turn the street lamps on as well as giving the light a fall-off on the road below.
To download the project file for After Effects, click here. You will find an After Effects project file and a still image to work with.  LINK HERE

In this tutorial, Nick shows us how to use the ‘Corner Pin’ tool in After Effects to sit a piece of video in a billboard. He also demonstrates how to use motion tracking and masking techniques to successfully sit the new piece of footage on a moving billboard and behind tree branches.  It’s a versatile technique that can be applied to a range of uses including: replacing letters on number plates, putting signs on windows and replacing existing video footage on screens with other footage.  LINK HERE

How To Use After Effects Masks As Custom Splines For Text Extrusions With Boris Continuum Complete 6

A video by Michele Yamazaki

Download a free demo of BCC6 | Buy BCC 6 | Learn more about BCC 6 in Toolfarm’s Plug-in Finder

Create the self-filling cup effect in After Effects

This film editing video tutorial will show you how to create the self-filling cup effect in After Effects.
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Free RockGen Plugin for Cinema4D by Robert Hitzer
Via NinjaCrayon – RockGen is a free Plugin for Maxons Cinema 4D. With this plugin you can easily create random rocks.The process of creation is very in intuitive, controlled by a few parameters. Also, RockGen creates Materials automatically. Those contain one of three included textures in different channels for creating a maximum of realism.
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Upgrade any Trapcode product to the FULL SUITE for only $399, or upgrade any two products to the FULL SUITE for only $299! The full suite includes all 9 Trapcode plug-ins; Shine, Starglow, 3D Stroke, Soundkeys, Lux, Particular, Echospace, Horizon and Form!  Have SHINE?  Get ‘em ALL for only $399.  LINK HERE
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IPR in Maya vs. Render Region in XSI

In this lesson we will learn about the powerful and fast Render Region feature of XSI.

Uses XSI 5.0+  LINK HERE

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ASHLI Bump Mapping in Maya
In this lesson we will learn how to use ASHLI bump shaders to make a low polygon mesh look more detailed in real time. We will also learn how to use the Surface Sampler to generate a normal map from a high-poly mesh.  LINK HERE

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Inserting Joints in Maya
In this lesson we will learn how to insert joints within a bound joint chain without negatively affecting the bind.
Uses Autodesk Maya 2008+

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Maya and XSI Modules
Modules are groups of similar commands. For example, all of the modeling commands are under the modeling module. Try learning the shortcut keys of each module for a faster workflow inside XSI.

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Animating Water with Turbulence Displace in After Effects
In this lesson we will learn how to create a fake moving water effect using Turbulence Displace in After Effects.
Uses AE7+ 

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This is chapter 4 of the nuke training series video. Maya is used to break down this project into proper pass structures for nuke. 
LINK HERE
This is chapter 5 of the nuke training series video. Nuke is show in regards to the separations of multi-channel EXR sequences. 
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This video covers a couple of the more prevalent user errors and their solutions. These errors aren’t due to Mudbox, but due to what could be termed ‘Pilot Error’.
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In our latest 3dsmax video tutorial Michael Bauer shows us how to use wire parameters and limit controllers to rig lights in a scene.

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Sketch Car - NEW
Cinema 4D • After Effects
• Sketch & Toon
• AE Set Matte
• Track Mattes/Object Buffer

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Welcome to the second tutorial in the “the basics” series.  In the previous tutorial you have learned the basics of the Cinema 4D interface.

In this tutorial you will learn how to add primitives to your scene, how to move your primitive around and how to change the size.  You will also learn how to use the different views and the coordinate manager.

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119. Material mapping. NEW 4/9/2009 Vue 6 and 7
* Exporting terrain map.
* Creating map in photoshop.
* Importing map in to Vue. LINK HERE

In this tutorial we will review two Fusion plugins. One from Speedsix and the other from The Foundry. We will look at basic and advanced compositing techniques using BSplines, color matching and perspective matching. Using the amazing plugin, Tinderbox, we will replace the sky in our footage and composite it to look realistic. The example is unlike the result yielded from the tutorial, as the example is stylized while the result from the tutorial is photo realistic.  As always the tutorial is best viewed from the tutorials page. LINK HERE

n this PFlow training video we will learn to make a procedural dust cloud underneath of a helicopter as it lands. This tutorial was a welcomed request on the site, and it gives us a break from technical training in order to get into a more project based learning environment. This video is a real world challenge to which we are to find a solution, and we will yield some good results without using any third party plug ins.  LINK HERE

Episode 16: Better Compositing with Light Wraps By Aharon Rabinowitz

Software Used: 3ds Max & Mental Ray
LINK HERE PROJECT FILES

@ MaxAfter.com -28. The Tunnel

A quick technique of creating a cool futuristic tunnel in After Effects.  Use effects like CC Cylinder, CC Vector Blurr, Fractal Noise etc. to achieve it
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In this episode of Photoshop for Video, Richard Harrington takes a look at a new feature in Adobe Photoshop CS4 called content aware scaling. This feature allows a user to define a region or a graphic to scale or not to scale when the image is resized, giving tremendous flexibility to not have certain parts of a photo distorted when other parts are stretched.

LINK HERE

Having both FCP and Motion in Final Cut Studio means more options for effects creation with your video projects — and FCS integration makes it easy to work with them together. Having Motion projects sitting on your FCP timeline even helps keep your projects organized! Our man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, shows just how easy it can be to take advantage of it all.

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From Nick Campbell at Greyscalegorilla.com  – The first video in the CSTools series where I will go though how to use all of Chris Smith’s endlessly useful, CSTools. Today we talk about the 3D Stroke. A Cinema 4D Tool he developed to emulate the Trapcode After Effects Plugin, 3D Stroke.  LINK HERE.  The 2nd video in the series deals with CSTools -  Action Cam… LINK HERE
Download the CSTools Here

Watch all of the CS Tools Tutorials

Don’t forget about Nick Campbell’s aka The Gorilla’s 5 Second Weekly Projects over at GreyScaleGorilla.com.  Gives you a theme and sparks your imagination to MAKE COOL SHIT!

Apr 6th in Motion Graphics by Markus Gustafsson

For this tutorial you’ll need to start out with a panoramic image. They’re not hard to create, you can get professional lenses and tripods to make some killer panoramics. I created this image using a digital camera on a tripod, taking a picture each time I rotate the camera a few degrees. I then used Photoshop’s Photomerge feature to create the image below out of 25 individual pictures.

Morphing with Optical Flow in Apple Motion

In this tutorial, I show you how to track the position of a parented layer using expressions in Adobe After Effects. Special thanks to Michael Natkin and Dan Ebberts for sharing their knowledge.  To track the position of a child layer, use this expression on the layer you want to effect.
L = thisComp.layer(”child_layer”);
P = L.toWorld(L.anchorPoint); where P[0] gives x, P[1] gives y,  and P[2] gives z

Hey Everyone!  Sorry for the lameness this week… I have been freakin busy as hell shooting stock footage for VideoHive.net. I have tons of footage for sale over there, and am having a lot of fun.

Secondly, I have my second official blogging article published over at AE.tutsplus.com go check it out!  It is entitled “17 Amazing Inspirational Typography Peices.”

Evan Schaible has another 3Ds Max tutorial on making text turn to dust in using PFlow.

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Digital Tutors – Using Photomerge in Photoshop
In this lesson we will learn how to use the Photomerge command to create a panorama in Photoshop.

Uses Adobe Photoshop CS3+
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Digital Tutors – Creating an Artistic Look with Minimax and Overlay in After Effects
In this lesson we will learn how to use effects and blending modes to create an interesting artistic look in After Effects.
Uses After Effects CS3+
LINK HERE

Graymachine.com aka Harry Frank -

Using Trapcode Form, and some twist and color, we can create something that can be used as DNA strand. Download the project and take a look!

>Download the CS3 project

Creative Cow – In this After Effects tutorial podcast, Eran Stern will show you how to control the scattering of light in a composition using adjustment light.

Podcast Hosted by Eran Stern

LINK HERE

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Chris Meyer explains the new corrected pixel aspect ratios in After Effects CS4 and how you can deal with some of their ramifications in the New Pixel Aspect Ratios, a free video in the Lynda.com After Effects CS4 New Creative Techniques series.

LINK HERE

Todd Kopriva points the way to video tutorials in several languages in his recent post, After Effects video tutorials, esercitazioni, tutoriales, didacticiels, Lehrgänge, チュートリアル.

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From John Dickinson at Motionworks

In this 4 minute video tip learn about precomposing, versioning and the must-know shortcut for copying and pasting. No more pasting layers the hard way.

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Create an Ethereal Morphing Letter Canvas by Satya Meka

This tutorial is designed to show most of the UV mapping techniques and tricks that I use day-in, day-out. This is more of a brief case study rather than a step by step tutorial, but it will give you, the viewer, an idea of the work flow I use when UV mapping something tricky like a human skull. I hope you’ll enjoy it and learn something.  LINK HERE

The tutorial was aimed at showing a technique using 3DS Max to shatter text to give us the in-vogue look.  LINK HERE

Lastly, Nick Campbell’s Five Second Projects – Coffee And Triangles last week was a HUGE hit.  over 40 videos total, in one week!  Shows that people love to make cool shit.   Anyways, this weeks theme is Balloons in Black & White.  So go over to GreyScaleGorilla.com and check it out… and remember all you have to do is MAKE COOL SHIT.

Definition:

Bleach bypass, also known as skip bleach or silver retention, is an optical effect that entails either the partial or complete skipping of the bleaching function during the processing of a colour film. By doing this, the silver is retained in the emulsion along with the colour dyes.

Nick shows us two ways of making a bleach bypass. The first way can be done in AE or Final Cut Pro and involves using two layers. The second is a way he learnt from Creative Cow and can only be done in AE… well you can’t seem to do it in Final Cut anyway.

Related Tutorials

Knoll Light FX

I also found this article on 144 Plugins for After Effects.  It is really informative, it lists all of the plugin developers (except there’s no VideoCopilot.net) and lists what their plugins do, and all that good stuff… it is really informative, and worth checking out.

Lastly… here is a little preset for a Wiggle Loop Expression… DOWNLOAD, and HERE is the thread on VCP to check out what it does.