Visual Effects (1140 Tutorials)

Wireframe Renders in Cinema 4D

January 29, 2015

In this tutorial from the Pixl Blog, you will learn how to make wireframes of your objects using the Proximal Shader.

Classic Car 3D Text

January 29, 2015

Andrew Kramer shows you how to make some really cool 3D texts and emblems similar to those found on classic cars. And do it all in Element 3D V2.

Tips in this Tutorial:

Extruding Text & Adjusting Bevels
Outline Bevel mode for creating Emblems
Dynamic Reflection Modes
Create fake car paint flake material.
Tips for adjust render quality

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Animated Polygon in After Effects

January 29, 2015

Video Copilot's Andrew Kramer shows you how to create fun, animating polygons that you can easily customize using time displacement, scale wipes and other neat animation tricks.

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Create a Paper Airplane in After Effects.

January 13, 2015

Create and animate your own Paper Airplanes in After Effects. This tutorial will show you how with out any 3rd party plugins, plus it only uses the classic 3D engine and not the ray traced.

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Hand Drawn, Old Film Animation Look in After Effects

December 30, 2014

Daniel Brodesky shows how to create a hand crafted old time film feel to animation in Adobe After Effects.

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Re-creating the Lost Smoke Monster

December 19, 2014

In this Episode of Red Giant TV, Filmmaker/Motion Graphics artist Seth Worley will show you how to re-create the look of the Lost Smoke monster. Covered: Compositing, Masking, 3D tracking, Color Correction and some really cool Trapcode Particular techniques.

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Aurora Effect with Adobe After Effects and Trapcode Particular

December 19, 2014

Learn how to create an aurora effect using Trapcode Particular in AE.

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Creative Type with Cinema 4D Hair, MoGraph & X-Particles

December 14, 2014

Follow along in this great tutorial from helloluxx and you will learn how to make all sorts of beautiful new type in Cinema 4D!

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After Effects (Trapcode Form) 3D Hologram Effect

December 9, 2014

In this tutorial TunnelvizionTV will teach you how to create a 3D Hologram Effect using After Effects and Trapcode Form. Trapcode form can be used to import 3D objects such as OBJ files into After Effects.

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Trapcode Form City with Displacement Maps

December 8, 2014

In this Quicktip, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how using Depth Maps to displace Trapcode Form particles can be used to create a 3D Point Cloud Representation of a city. This tutorial was inspired by the brilliant Trapcode Form work of Jeremy Cox at Imaginary Forces, for the film “Terminator: Salvation.”

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Creating a Particle Christmas Tree with Trapcode Particular

December 8, 2014

Since have a 2 day Red Giant and Trapcode Year End Sale starting tomorrow, I thought we’d bring you a few fun and useful tutorials for the products on sale. Here’s one from Premium Beat that will make your holiday spirits twinkle!

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Pixologic ZBrush – using the ZTree plug-in

November 17, 2014

ZTree is a plug-in for ZBrush that provides some extra tools that can be useful when working with ZBrush. It does the tedious, repetitive steps for you.This next tutorial goes into much more depth including hotkeys, polygroups, sculpting, adaptive skin and more. Both of these tutorials were created by Dargelos Nezumi, the creator of the ZTree plug-in. Check out his YouTube page for more great ZTree tutorials.

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Workflow between LightWave and After Effects #lightwave3d

November 17, 2014

If you work with both Adobe After Effects and Newtek LightWave, here are a few tutorials that may help with your workflow between the two programs.

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Tiffen Dfx v4 – Using DFX in Video Applications

November 17, 2014

The focus is on the video and film plug-ins in Adobe After Effects (but the plug-in works in other video hosts as well). Lens distortion, color grades and blurs are covered, and a lot more.

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