Effects (387 Tutorials)
Digieffects: Destabilize from Damage #digieffects
November 1, 2014
Learn how to emulate a practical camera shake or a more conceptual feed twitch using Destabilize, one of the tools included with Damage.
Create Water Drops With Splash Ripples MAXON Cinema 4D
September 30, 2014
Learn how to make water drops with splash ripples using C4D. No additional 3rd party plugins required.
Back to the Future Time Slice Effect #tbt
September 25, 2014
Shanks FX and PBS Digital Studios recreates the lightning effect with practical effects, and composited them in After Effects. I had no idea they did the effects this way. Genius!
How to dent a Garage Door VFX with Mettle FreeForm Pro
September 23, 2014
Mettle offers up this tutorial regarding real-world 3D displacement with Freeform Pro. Mike Sevigny explains how to track the footage with Adobe After Effects and project it back onto a plane. He then shows you how to align the FreeForm Pro layer to that geometry and displace it in 3D space. Using these techinques allows you to “dent” any footage, not just a garage door.
Broken Glass in Adobe After Effects
September 23, 2014
Learn how to make floating glass shards with After Effects to create a unique looking title sequence.
Boris Red Advanced Text Fill Options
September 16, 2014
Originally posted by BorisFX, this tutorial for Boris RED is “based on an inquiry regarding gradient on text in the Avid forum. Senior Product Manager, Dirk deJong, shows you how to add gradient with bevel and 3D looks across entire words using a texture track.”
Top 5 3D Camera Tips for Adobe After Effects
September 16, 2014
Get tips and techiniques from Sean Frangella for “working with 3D cameras in After Effects, including changing focal length, parenting cameras to nulls, cutting between multiple cameras, roving keyframes, and linking depth of field.”
Animated Cartoon Roto Shapes with mocha and After Effects
September 14, 2014
Mary Poplin, the Imagineer Product Specialist, shows how to make a cool animated cartoon look with Roto Shapes in mocha and After Effects. The tutorial uses a free script and the download link is below the video.
Benefits of Morph-O-Matic over 3ds max’s Morpher
September 14, 2014
Discover the benefits of Morph-O-Matic. This was included in the article In Depth: The Morph – Elastic Reality, Old School Examples, Plug-ins
After Effects Liquify Morph
September 14, 2014
In the tutorial below, Mikey Borup explains how to create a morph with the After Effects Liquify tool and no other third-party plug-ins.
Morphing with RE:Vision Effects RE:Flex
September 14, 2014
RE:Flex creates visually stunning morphs and warps with an easy-to-use interface RE:Flex is also available for Shake, Fusion and Autodesk Sparks. Download a free trial of RE:Flex.
SilhouetteFX Morphing Overview
September 14, 2014
SilhouetteFX was created by the developer of Elastic Reality, Perry Kivolowitz. Mr. Kivolowitz contacted me a few days after this article was first published, thanking me for the shout out. He is a Faculty Associate in the computer sciences department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison as well as a partner at SilhouetteFX and was the cofounder and president at both Profound Effects, Inc. and Elastic Reality. I asked him if he would mind elaborating on morphing in SilhouetteFX.
Topographic Images using Hair in MAXON Cinema 4D
September 9, 2014
Chris Schmidt from Greyscale Gorilla, was inspired by some gorgeous renders by Lee Griggs, and attempted to recreate rolling hills of geometry in C4D. He didn't want to use MoGraph clones as the shear number needed would be overwelming. So he set out to create a more procedural technique and came up with using the Hair Module.
After Effects Video Tutorial: 3D Corner Text
September 2, 2014
Follow the technique in this After Effects tutorial to animate text around the edges of a 3D object.
The tutorial covers:
- 3D Anchor Points
- Easy-Ease Keyframes
- Key-framing Cameras
- Snapping Vertexes Together
Adobe After Effects Sci-Fi Effects
September 2, 2014
Want to create cool looking Sci-Fi effects in AE? Then check out this tutorial from Matthew Pearce as he explains how he created some of his favorite effects.
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