Red Giant Complete (160 Tutorials)

After Effects: Large Scale Explosions in AE

May 15, 2018

ActionVFX’s Alan Fire has two tutorials explaining how to create a composite using their explosion stock footage in After Effects.

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Cheap Tricks – It’s Wrinklin’ Time (VFX tutorial)

April 30, 2018

Daniel Hashimoto (creator of Action Movie Kid) walks through how to re-create some of the VFX and motion graphics from “A Wrinkle In Time, with special guest Lyric Wilson, who played Young Meg in the film.

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Red Giant Universe: Getting Started with Universe VHS

April 24, 2018

Harry Frank walks you through the new features and UI changes in Universe 2.2 VHS.

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Animating Graphs in After Effects

December 26, 2017

Have you tried the new chart and data animating tools that were introduced in After Effects in CC 2018? Bring in your spreadsheet data to create animated charts and graphs and wow your corporate clients or make detailed graphs for a documentary.

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Trapcode Mir: Seamless Tunnels

December 5, 2017

Learn how to create seamless tunnels using Mir in this tutorial from Aharon Rabinowitz.

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In depth LUTS: Image credit: Thomas Lefebvre @imthebear

In Depth: Color Grading is a LUT Easier with LUTs!

October 17, 2017

A LUT, or Look Up Table, is used in the film industry as an easy method of color grading. It’s an array of numbers to control the color of an image, by mapping one color space to another. Simple enough at the surface, but here’s more than you probably want to know about LUTs.

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Create a Tunnel with Trapcode Mir

September 5, 2017

This is an oldie but a useful tutorial from Aharon Rabinowitz at Red Giant. He explains how to shut the mesh to create a seamless wormhole in Trapcode Mir. Use it on your next time travel journey!

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Red Giant: Holomatrix: Creating a Holographic Interface in After Effects

July 29, 2017

Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create the look of a holographic interface, using Red Giant Software’s Holomatrix. He’ll also use Magic Bullet Looks for color grading, and footage from Digital Juice’s Motion Designer’s Toolkit, in this “classic tutorial.”

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Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite Tutorial Roundup

July 18, 2017

Get up and running quickly with all the products in the Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite, when you watch this batch of Quickstart Guides from director Stu Maschwitz.

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Red Giant | DOCTOR STRANGE Portal Effect with Trapcode Particular

December 20, 2016

Daniel Hashimoto (also know as Action Movie Dad) shows you how to create the DOCTOR STRANGE portal effect with Trapcode Particular.

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After Effects: Create a Space Scene in Trapcode Particular

November 29, 2016

Learn how to make a cool nebula-esque space scene in After Effects using Trapcode Particular.

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Magic Bullet Suite 13 Tutorials

November 22, 2016

Stu Maschwitz, Creative Director for Red Giant’s Magic Bullet line, has made many walkthrough tutorials on the new Magic Bullet Suite 13. Here he goes a bit more in depth on several different features.

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Case Study: The Cleansing Hour Main Title Design – Sapphire for Motion Graphics Designers

November 2, 2016

John Dickinson from Motionworks has a walk-through tutorial breaking down how he made the main titles for the short horror film “The Cleansing Hour.”

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Michele Learns Cinema 4D: Episode 6: Toolfarm’s NAB Survival Video Open

October 12, 2016

If you’ve had a chance to check out our NAB Survival Video, you should! It’s lots of fun. I dove back into Cinema 4D to create the open animation. Here’s how I did it.

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Create Ghostbusters Style Visual Effects

October 11, 2016

Director Seth Worley takes you behind the scenes and shows you how he created the visual effects in “Busted,” his Red Giant Film Team Experiment. Watch “Busted” here and follow the link to the tutorial.

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