Create A Gas Giant Planet Scene In After Effects
“In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a Gas Giant planet, moons, sun and starfield totally in After Effects. This tutorial makes extensive use of Fractal Noise which can be used to create a whole host of visuals, and some expressions to link the light direction on the different elements we create.”
5 Basic Ways To Populate Mass Groups Within After Effects – AE Basix
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“In this tutorial we look at 5 individual ways of duplicating crowds. These methods are:
- Simple Masking (garbage matting)
- Rotoscoping
- Difference Matting
- Chroma Keying
- Camera Technique
“The tutorial explains each of the methods, the pros and cons, and goes in depth to show how to create the final preview using the difference matting technique. The last part also contains some general compositing techniques that can be applied to each method.”
Focus On Making A Simulated Microscope Field of View
“I created this Microscope’s Field of View using 3 particle systems. The Base Layer is a water animation created using a fractal noise; the first level of particles is created using CC Particle World and it’s meant to look like quickly-moving bubbles. The Second Level of particles is created using Particular with a custom designed sprite, and is meant to look like a microscopic organism. The Third Set of particles are also created using Particular, and are added to mimic more floating debris. Finally, an arrow indicator is added to accurately simulate a microscope’s FOV.”
31 Absolutely Spectacular VFX Breakdowns
“I say it time and time again, these are seriously some of my favorite roundups to do. Watching these amazing making ofs, behind the scenes content, and VFX breakdowns really give you a look into how a shot was made, or what really goes into a production. You can take a lot away from just seeing a couple of shot breakdowns… so check em out!”
Program A Fallout 3 “Pipboy” Touch Screen – Day 2
“In Day 2 we’ll finish up the building of the pipboy screens. Then we’ll talk about how were going to transition between the first and second screen. We’ll animate and keyframe the layers. DON”T FORGET MOTION BLUR!!! Once we finally build the 2 screens and animate them, we’ll add some final detail to the screens like noise and grunge. And finally we’ll motion track the screen onto our live action footage. Thanks for watching guys.”
Program A Fallout 3 “Pipboy” Touch Screen – Day 1
“In Day 1 we’ll go over how to set up the shot to add a CG screen on a cell phone, GPS, or anything with a screen. It really looks cool when you do it on something portable though. We’re making a pipboy so we’ll go over how to mimick the pipboy look as far as style, color, and feel. So get ready to build build build!”
Put Together A “Transformer” Like Mustang Assembly
“Today we will create a cool reconstruction of a Mustang in 3D space with lights and a camera movement. This tutorial is about to learn how to animate the layers and how to generate an attractive, dynamic result.”
Quick Tip – Importing Edit Sequences Into AE
“This is just a Quick Tip showing how you can save your NLE edits with the *.aaf format which After Effects will recognize. This tip would probably apply across the board with most NLE’s.”
29 Facebook Pages That You Should Already “Like”
“For a lot of us, Facebook, like Twitter, is a part of our every day lives. We should be keeping tabs on our favorite sites, organizations and tutorial creators right? Check out this roundup of a ton of fan pages that you should ‘like’ if you aren’t already!”
