Maxon (224 Tutorials)
How to create a lovable ogre in 7 easy steps
March 18, 2014
Ian Failes at fxguide.com put up an awesome tutorial on how to create a big, friendly, lovable ogre in The Foundry Nuke / Mari.
Track a 3D object into live footage with After Effects and Cinema 4D
March 11, 2014
Track a 3D object into live footage. Mike Griggs at Creative Bloq talks about working with a virtual camera between After Effects and Cinema 4D.
Create Water with Trapcode Particular
March 5, 2014
Dino Muhic creates a beautiful fluid looking water effect, inspired by a Beck’s commercial in Germany. Dino used a lime from Video Copilot 3D Model Pack – Fresh Food.
First, he builds it from scratch and then explains how to composite it. He also created a preparation video to show how the water looks on its own.
Chiseled Bevels in CINEMA 4D
March 5, 2014
Ben Watts has a new tutorial that shows how to make a chiseled bevel in CINEMA 4D on a complex letter. He covers a quick VRAY render setup too.
Burning Question: Mac vs Windows tutorials?
March 3, 2014
Check out our new column, Burning Questions, where we will answer questions from newer users that you may be afraid to ask!
Adobe After Effects Tilt Shift Tutorial
February 11, 2014
Tilt shift makes your video and images look miniature, like toys. In this project, they use Posterize time, Camera Lens Blur, CC Light Sweep and Fast Blur to create the effect.
Use CINEMA 4D as Poor Man’s Chrono Sculptor
February 11, 2014
Yader (aka Derya Öztürk) explains how to get a ChronoSculpt like workflow in CINEMA 4D. Very clever! LightWave ChronoSculpt from NewTek is a new standalone product that “revolutionizes working with animation and dynamic simulation cache files from any application by allowing you to use sculpting and transformation tools over time. ChronoSculpt also introduces a radical new geometry engine based on our 'Hydra' technology which allows the deformation and manipulation of 8 to 10 million polygon objects with ease.”
Yader gives a short demo on how you can bring this type of feature into CINEMA 4D using the Rate option on the Matrix Object and the Morph Motion Effect on the Inheritance Object. There's more to it but you'll have to watch the tutorial!
Waxy Shader in CINEMA 4D
February 11, 2014
Tim Clapham at HelloLuxx has a new tutorial on making waxy looking elements with metaball typography in CINEMA 4D with lights and shaders.
AE & C4D – AE & C4D – Abstract Particles Using Trapcode Form and OBJs
February 11, 2014
VinhSon Nguyen shows a cool, basic technique that you can use to create unique and interesting forms for titles, background elements and more.
Stylish 3D Wooden Text Structure with CINEMA 4D
February 11, 2014
Our Tutorial Tuesday Extravaganza continues with a tutorial from Rory at Rate My Funeral, which is a stack of wooden numbers created for Fortune Magazine’s 40 under 40.
In Depth: Optimizing After Effects for the Best Performance
February 4, 2014
If you've been using Adobe After Effects since early versions, as I have, you are familiar with the idea of optimizing your machine and settings for premium performance. Here are some tips and resources to help you create the fastest and most solid After Effects you can. If you don't have a big budget for optimizing your system, where do you put the money for upgrades? That's for you to decide, but here are some suggestions on how to optimize what you have, and about other ways to optimize. If this article can't help you with the speed of After Effects, it will hopefully explain why things aren't running as fast as you would like them to.
Apple FCP X 10.1, Plug-in Compatibility and Resources
February 4, 2014
FxPlug 3 is new with this release, and it allows custom plug-in interfaces and dual-GPU support. We will let you know if we learn of any incompatibility issues with plug-ins. We are requesting that you let us know if you encounter any problems with plug-in incompatiblity with the new version of FCP X 10.1 or Motion too. We can put together a nifty list if it's needed.Thanks!
In Depth: Keying: Pre-Processing Greenscreen Footage for Keying
February 4, 2014
If your greenscreen footage didn’t turn out as perfectly as you had hoped, here are some things that you can do to fix problems and not create new ones.
Crumpled Paper in After Effects
February 4, 2014
You know the open for the sitcom “Community”, with the crumpled paper? Trevor Penner explains how to do this effect.
Tutorial/Inspirations: Cutting Object into Fragments in CINEMA 4D
January 28, 2014
How about a little bit of CINEMA 4D on this Tutorial Tuesday? Philipp Pavlov explains some of the techniques he used in his vfx reel introduction, which is also really inspiring work!