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Displacement and Deformation Techniques in Cinema 4D
April 27, 2013
In today’s tutorial, new Cgtuts+ author Mario Brajdic will introduce you to working with displacement and deformers in Cinema 4D and show you how this powerful combination can be used in conjunction with custom materials, lighting, and post effects to create some truly unique and visually stunning results.
Webinar: Motion Tracking & VFX Webinar – Learning mocha AE
April 26, 2013
Just in case you didn’t catch the mocha AE webinar for planar motion tracking and AE workflows, here is the recording! We hope you learn something!
Baking Textures in Cinema 4D for Element 3D
April 18, 2013
By Harry Frank: “CInema 4D has a couple ways of baking textures for your objects and this is one of them.”
Tutorial: MAXON and After Effects Integration using CINEWARE- Party Balloons
April 4, 2013
Check out these free new tutorials at Cineversity that explore upcoming C4D/ AE integration features.
Make a Chalkboard-Style Scribble and Smudge
April 2, 2013
By Jorrit Schulte at AEtuts+. “We’ll be looking at creating a chalk-style scribble based on an image. We’ll be creating masks to make the lines using both manual and automatic techniques. From there we’ll animate the drawing on, and create a wiping animation which leaves smudges on the screen.”
How to Animate Retro Pixel Art in After Effects
March 26, 2013
In this tutorial Nik Morris will show you how to take animated pixel art and incorporate it into large HD videos while retaining the original quality!
Stick Textures to Fallen Dynamic Clones In MAXON CINEMA 4D
March 26, 2013
In this tutorial, Nick Campbell shows you how to stick a texture to your dynamic objects so that when they fall to their resting place, their combined textures make an image.
Tutorial: Greyscalegorilla: Setting up CityKit to Work as a Holographic Interface
March 11, 2013
In this quick tutorial, Chris shows you how to add some effectors to City Kit so you can focus in on just a few buildings, and then zoom around the city. A similar effect was used to make part of Iron Man’s heads up display. Keep an eye out in the future for a follow up where we push this effect even further!
Digitally Iron Clothing in After Effects with Boris Continuum SmoothTone
February 27, 2013
Michele Yamazaki of Toolfarm takes you through a unique use of the Boris Continuum Complete BCC SmoothTone filter for Adobe After Effects, which is made for smoothing skin. She walks you step-by-step through how to make a wrinkled shirt appear smoother, while retaining the sharpness in other details. The tutorial explains PixelChooser.
Using RE:Vision Effects RE:Match:Pro; Matching Color From Separate Cameras/ Settings
February 19, 2013
RE:Match takes intuitive color and texture matching to a whole new level by addressing common problems on multiple shot, multicam and stereo shoots. RE:Match is a set of plug-ins to match one view of video or film to another so that it looks as if it was shot with the same camera and settings. RE:Match assumes that both image sequences are taken roughly at the same location but perhaps were not shot at the same time or from the same point-of-view.
Model, Light And Animate A Pin Sculpture In Cinema 4D
February 18, 2013
Post by Chris Schmidt at Greyscalegorilla: “In this two part tutorial, we show you how to model, rig, animate, light and render this Pin Sculpture Toy in Cinema 4D. Follow along as Chris shows you how to build the model and set up the Mograph and Shader Effectors to drive the pins using a depth pass. Then, in part 2, I will show you how to animate the pins using a video depth pass. Finally, we will light, texture, and render the sculpture for output to your compositing program.”
Create a Valentine’s Day Themed Animation in Cinema 4D & After Effects
February 14, 2013
Post by Stefan Surmabojov at CGtuts+ : “In this tutorial we are going to create a Valentine’s Day themed animation in Cinema 4D and After Effects…. Use particles and forces in Cinema 4D, as well as MoDynamics and Effectors to put everything together to create our final animation. Finally we’ll add materials, light and render the scene before finishing it up in After Effects with some compositing and post effects.”
Red Giant Holomatrix- Create a Holographic Look in After Effects
February 12, 2013
In this episode, 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.
Web Line Escape: Spider-Man Web-Slinging Effect
February 12, 2013
In this episode of Red Giant TV, director Seth Worley shows you how to create a Spider-Man Web Slinging Effect with Trapcode Particular.
CoreMelt SliceX Now with Shape Keyframing
February 4, 2013
SliceX lets you create instant Shape Masks to cut out layers or isolate effects directly in Final Cut Pro X without having to go into Motion or create the masks with an external program. SliceX includes nine motion templates for common tasks and you can also use the Shape Masks with built in effects, the built in color corrector or with third party plugins. In the latest free update you can now keyframe animate the shapes as well as the shapes position, rotation and scaling.
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