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COW Tutorials: After Effects Creating a Flock of Birds - Part 2

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COW Tutorials: After Effects Creating a Flock of Birds - Part 2
by COW Articles on Jun 17, 2006 at 1:28:45 am

In part 2 of this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create and animate a flock of birds from the original bird.


Click on the link above to view Aharon's tutorial.

Don't forget, you can find this and other AE tutorials on our AE Podcast Show

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Re: COW Tutorials: After Effects Creating a Flock of Birds - Part 2
by yikesmikes on Jun 17, 2006 at 2:12:19 am

Very nice, thanks for sharing.

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Re: COW Tutorials: After Effects Creating a Flock of Birds - Part 2
by Justin Productions on Jun 17, 2006 at 2:55:18 am

Yeah, thx a lot Aharon, that was one great tutorial!

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Re: COW Tutorials: After Effects Creating a Flock of Birds - Part 2
by CaptainMench on Jun 18, 2006 at 12:59:57 am

hehe...

http://homepage.mac.com/captmench/BirdsMovie.mov


Thanks, Aharon!!

CaptM


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Re: COW Tutorials: After Effects Creating a Flock of Birds - Part 2
by Macio on Jun 18, 2006 at 9:12:22 pm

Nice tutorial! Thanks!

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Re: COW Tutorials: After Effects Creating a Flock of Birds - Part 2
by Aharon Rabinowitz on Jun 19, 2006 at 1:09:12 pm

Thanks for watching. i hope it helps you in your work...

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Great tips!
by Rhett Robinson on Jun 20, 2006 at 4:11:37 pm

Wow - Thanks!

I had actually done something similar with butterflies in the past, but the addition of wiggle, moving a second flock back in z space, and the time offset (I actually made 30 separate butterflies when I did my previous project) were very, very tasty tips. I added a tiny bit of rotation, and although the birds are flat, it really wowed me!

I also have to tell you, I've watched the "Super tight junk mattes" tutorial a number of times, and had a lot of success, as well as using it to help create the outline-flash appearace that you see sometimes.

I always have to play the "street slang" portion 3 or 4 times, it never fails to make me laugh out loud!

Thanks again for yet another fantastic, easy to understand tutorial that gives me a great base to build on in the future!

Rhett

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Re: Great tips!
by Aharon Rabinowitz on Jun 20, 2006 at 4:59:31 pm

what street slang, yo?

Glad it helped you. Just remember me when your rich and famous...

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Re: COW Tutorials: After Effects Creating a Flock of Birds - Part 2
by Macio on Jun 26, 2006 at 1:17:32 pm

Where can i set up my window just like in this example so that i will have a 3D space

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Re: COW Tutorials: After Effects Creating a Flock of Birds - Part 2
by Aharon Rabinowitz on Jun 26, 2006 at 3:05:05 pm

It's just a visualization.

I created 3 solids, and applied the effect called Generate > Grid

Then I rotated them in 3D space to look like that.

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Re: COW Tutorials: After Effects Creating a Flock of Birds - Part 2
by Macio on Jun 26, 2006 at 4:43:52 pm

Thanks! I got the setup, but i can save this layout so i can use it in future projects?

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Re: COW Tutorials: After Effects Creating a Flock of Birds - Part 2
by Aharon Rabinowitz on Jun 26, 2006 at 5:17:11 pm

save it as an aep, and then import it to any project - it will come in as a folder containing the 3D comp. If you want it in the comp for reference, drop it into your comp, and make sure to turn on Collapse Tranformations - it;s the layer button/switch that looks like a sun.

The bird tutorial (part 1, I think) explains how this works.



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Re: COW Tutorials: After Effects Creating a Flock of Birds - Part 2
by Macio on Jun 26, 2006 at 6:31:23 pm

Thanks Aharon you rock!

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