| | | | News: Red Giant Software Introduces Trapcode Horizon
by Cow News Droid on May 28, 2008 at 4:49:09 pm
in the News & Press Releases Forum
virtual sphere, while line mode creates converging lines of colors that are perfect for generating a sky gradient. 3D Camera Integration Horizon ties automatically into the After Effects 3D camera, so that the background image is always correctly drawn from ... | | | | |
| | | | Pro Animator vs Invigorator Pro
by Jon Okerstrom on Sep 20, 2008 at 6:15:16 pm
in the Zaxwerks Forum
Hi Keith, When you use PA or IP inside of After Effects, you can tell either app to "use comp camera." Doing this allows the objects you're working on in PA or IP space to appear to be in After ... | | | | |
| | | | animating a music note
by yves groenen on Jun 6, 2008 at 10:38:49 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
is that my music note animation looks kinda cheap and unrealistic. I made a layer in photoshop cutting out the music note. Then I imported the note and the images in a after effects 3D project. I gave the note ... | | | | |
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Animating a Signature - Part 2
In this tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz revisits his earlier tutorial on animating a signature and shows you how to add a pen writing the signature in After Effects 3D.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Aharon Rabinowitz |
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| | | | Mixing the 3d worlds
by April Henderson on Mar 18, 2008 at 7:54:15 am
in the Zaxwerks Forum
I know when we use the "comp camera", we are able to retain the 3d quality of the imported objects or settings. However, how can we give the objects and actual space and location in the After Effects 3d environment? ... | | | | |
| | | | BIG SCREEN (24 x 80) - Video Production
by Bob Bonniol on Dec 28, 2007 at 4:00:57 am
in the Live & Stage Events Forum
type video, I would avoid wipes in transitions (like the plague), I find them to be big, pleasing, and architectural when you use them on a screen that big. Using After Effects 3D capabilities can have a huge payoff on ... | | | | |
| | | | 3d Channel Effects from C4D multipass in AE
by jkl_editor on Jun 30, 2007 at 11:23:53 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Hi All, Been racking my brains, a few tutorials and the forums trying to work this out. Can cinema 4d export 3d channel information for depth that can be utilized by the After Effects 3d Channel plugins - ie Fog3d, ... | | | | |
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Kurt Murphy looks at Zaxwerks Invigorator Training: Vol 1
Broadcast designer Kurt Murphy has been using After Effects since it went by the name of CoSA, but even then, Kurt found its one big drawback was the inability to create true 3D objects in 3D space. That is until Zaxwerks Invigorator came along. And now Zaxwerks Invigorator Training (Volume 1) by Serge Hamad is the perfect solution to get up to speed using this plug-in.
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| | | | Aspect Ratio Confusion
by Adam Duguay on Jan 17, 2007 at 12:36:38 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Hello all, I hope someone can shine some light on my dilemma. I'm going to compositing a project with green screen shot live action elements. These elements will be dropped in After Effects 3D space and animated in a 2D/3D ... | | | | |
| | | | flying flies
by Andrew Shanks on Apr 30, 2006 at 7:11:05 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
settings until i got the right feel. Although i have not used Particular, you would probably get an even more convincing feel with it (being that it can work with your after effects 3d camera to give a convincing 3d ... | | | | |
| | | | ae 3d scale / shadows
by Jorgen Follestad on Nov 20, 2007 at 3:53:04 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
any way to sort out my shadows so I dont have to setup my whole project over again? - are there other problems that might arise while working with such extreme scales in after effects 3d - how should I ... | | | | |
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Adobe After Effects
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Dressing Up a Scene With Shadows
Bill O'Neil has learned a lot from his gaffers over his years of live action shooting. Simply putting a tree branch in front of a light can create interesting and beautiful shadows on an otherwise plain wall. The trade name for this light obstruction material is cucoloris or ''cookies''. These same practical techniques can be applied in the After Effects 3D world. All we need are lights, obstruction layers (cucoloris) and surfaces to shadow. This tutorial is broken into two parts that highlight two examples of dressing up a scene with shadows. This is part 1.
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Author: Bill O'Neil |
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| | | | how to make a circus tent
by Ernie Geefay on Feb 13, 2007 at 7:06:15 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I'm trying to make a cirus tent using After Effects 3D feature, combined with corner pinning to make the big top meet in the center. I've started off with a 720x486 image I created of red and white stripes. and ... | | | | |
| | | | depth map
by Nicholastoth on May 26, 2005 at 4:03:00 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
hey guys i'm multipass rendering out of cinema 4d, and one of the maps is the depth map; a black and white animation indicating the depth (very self explanitory) How can i apply this to an after effects 3d channel? ... | | | | |
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Using Depth of Field to Create Flythroughs
Depth of field refers to the distance from camera where things will be in focus.This tutorial from Bill O'Neil offers tips for assembling 2D flat objects in 3D space with the most realism using depth of field in After Effects.
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Author: Bill O'Neil |
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Building a 3D World in After Effects
When a project requires a photo-realistic 3D world, After Effects isn't usually the first program that comes to mind. Typically a 3D modeling/animation program is necessary to create virtual 3D worlds, but in this article CreativeCOW contributing editor Bill O'Neil demonstrates creating a 3D world for a TV spot he was hired to direct and post for the Big Ten Basketball Conference.
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Author: Bill O'Neil |
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Shooting for 3D post
This tutorial from Bill O'Neil will focus on media acquisition for creating a 3D world in After Effects as well as offer tips for assembling 2D flat objects in 3D space with the most realism. Alright, how about realism in a surreal world? Read on...
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Rotoscoping with Vector Paint
Vector paint, introduced in Adobe After Effects 5.0 has many uses but most people don't think of it as a rotoscoping tool. In this tutorial, Bill O'Neil demonstrates how to rotoscope with Vector Paint to create a ''supercharged'' sports spot.
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Author: Bill O'Neil |
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Shine Video Wall in AE 5
In this tutorial, Jayse will show you how to use some of the cool new 3D features of After Effects 5 as well as using the new plug-in called Shine to liven up the scene.
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Author: Jayse Hansen |
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Animating a Butterfly
In this tutorial, Marek Doszla shows how to animate a butterfly in After Effects 5.5 starting from a digital picture. Marek puts it in the category of After Effects experiment, however he uses some sophisticated features of After Effects as 3D space, expressions and time remapping that could be useful to beginners or even advanced users in motion graphics.
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Author: Marek Doszla |
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Pseudo-3D Extrusion
Since few After Effects users can do classical cel animation and a lot of them do not have a chance to use a 3D packages cartoon shading, heres a technique from Mylenium that will allow you to create such effects with ease inside After Effects. While its quick and easy to setup and animate, it consumes a lot of time once its time to render for final output. It also requires some major steps in Illustrator or Photoshop.
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Author: Mylenium |
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Animating a Signature on Screen - Part 2
In this tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz revisits his earlier podcast on animating a signature and shows you how to add a pen writing the signature in After Effects 3D | | | | |
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