Visual Effects (921 Tutorials)
RenderTom Slice It Up Tutorial #gettingstarted
May 21, 2019
Learn how to use Slice It Up for After Effects as a procedural and non-destructive way to slice your footage in After Effects. Easily customize and randomize the slices.
RenderTom Roll It! Tutorial
May 21, 2019
Learn how to use Roll It! to easily roll any shape or mask in After Effects. It’s painless and lots of fun.
GOT-Inspired Flaming Sword with Boris FX Particle Illusion & VEGAS Pro
May 21, 2019
This is part 1 of 3 tutorials from Boris FX about creating a flaming sword with Particle Illusion. Particle Illusion was re-introduced recently…
Boris FX Particle Illusion: GOT-Inspired Flaming Sword Effect
May 14, 2019
Here’s a fun tutorial for all you Game of Throne fans. Learn how to create a GOT-inspired flaming sword effect using Particle Illusion in Vegas Pro 16, with this tutorial by Boris FX Product Speicalist Vin Morreale.
In Depth: Render Farms / Network Rendering / Distributed Rendering
May 10, 2019
The idea of network rendering is to distribute your render over a network, or farm, of computers, to speed up your render times.
Spicing up your Premiere Pro Timeline with Particle Illusion
April 30, 2019
Benjamin Eshagpoor shows you some slick tricks of Boris FX’s Particle Illusion, which comes with Boris Continuum and the Continuum Particles Unit.
Using FumeFX 5 VDB caches with V-Ray Next, Redshift renderers
April 30, 2019
Sitni Sati has a new FumeFX tutorial that came out yesterday about VDB caches. Centrally, they explain how to export cache files to OpenVDB (.vdb) format. These files include FumeFX grid transformations, and in the end, this information will be used by the VRayVolumeGrid and Redshift Volume to properly position volumetrics to the exact same…
6 Tutorials to Improve your Mocha Tracking Workflow
April 23, 2019
Mocha is currently on sale through April 28, 2019, so it seemed like a great time to share some cool Mocha tutorials. Today we’re focusing on Mocha Tracking Workflow Mocha works as a standalone or plug-in for several hosts and works pretty much the same between hosts, so if you see a tutorial for a software that you don’t use, know that it will translate easily to your host.
Shazam Transformation Effect from Film Riot
April 23, 2019
Ryan Connelly of Film Riot has a fun new tutorial about how to sort of transform into Shazam with After Effects and Tools from Video Copilot.
Blackmagic Design Fusion: Particle Tutorial : Text to 3D Butterflies
April 23, 2019
In this tutorial, VFX Generalist Chetal Gazdar shows you how to make text turn into 3d butterflies using an emitter source and the particle system within Blackmagic Design Fusion.
In Depth: 3D Renderers (Updated 16 May 2019) #3drenderer #redshift
April 22, 2019
There are so many renderers available out there, and how does an artist know what to choose? Although they really do the same thing, they work differently and have different results. Here is a breakdown of what the different renderers offer, not reviews, so you can decide which renderer is right for you.
Maya Monday: Destructing Elements with Pulldownit (Part 12 is New)
April 22, 2019
Envato’s CGI Tuts+ has a multi-part series from Uriel Deveaud named “Destructing Elements in Maya With PullDownIt”. Pulldownit is a dynamics solver which allows digital artists to quickly simulate fractures and cracks in models, as well as massive rigid bodies simulations.
Maxon Cinema 4D NAB 2019 Live Stream Videos
April 16, 2019
If you missed the Maxon Cinema 4D NAB 2019 live stream last week or you were at the show, watch it all now! There is loads of inspiring work and lots of great tips on improving your workflow.
Burning Question: What in the heck is OFX? #OFX #openfx
April 15, 2019
I was talking to someone at NAB who I would consider to be “in the know” for visual effects and was surprised that he had never heard of OpenFX. More and more developers are developing with OpenFX, or OFX, a standardized software interface supported by numerous hosts such as Nuke, DaVinci Resolve and Sony Vegas. Here’s a few things to know so you’re not caught off guard!
Maya Monday: Autodesk 2019 M&E Showreel
April 15, 2019
This week, we’re showing the most recent Autodesk 2019 M&E Showreel, instead of the usual tutorial or Maya feature walkthrough.