Wow... there was a lot to cover this past month... Motionworks really stepped up and Video Copilot's Blog Show packed full of tips and tricks, along with all the newcomers to the tutorial scene these guys are going to make sure you don't get any work done today!
Video Copilot - Submerged
Andrew is back with tutorial number #96, in which you create that effect where you are going underground, like on that show Cities Of The Underground on History Channel. This uses camera mapping techniques and lots of textures to create and awesome looking camera move through the earth.
Video Copilot Tip: Mask Transition
In this quick little tip in Andrew's Vlog he shows you how create a really quick transition that follows someone that walks past the camera, and gives you a wipe into the next shot in your comp. Tip starts at 1:22.
Video Copilot Tip: Paint a Punch
Another tip from Andrew in the next Vlog features Sam Loya, a guy we haven't seen in a while. In this tip, the choreography for a fight scene slips a little bit, and you can see there is no impact with the punch. Learn how to use the Clone Stamp tool in AE to fix this. Tip starts at 3:08.
Video Copilot Optical Flares Preview
This isn't much of a tutorial, rather than a preview of what is to come. Andrew has been giving us some glimpses of the new Optical Flares plugin from Video Copilot. The first preview is a video dedicated to it, and the second starts at 10:50
Graymachine's Favorite 5 Expressions
Again, not much of a tutorial but Harry Frank, the master of expressions, had some time to write us his favorite five expressions, explain them, and also provide them as a download.
Creative Cow & Eran Stern - The Pusher
Eran uses the Wave World, Caustics, and Color Finesse to create an effect that is similar to one of the abilities from "Push", kind of like making the space around you act like rippling water.
Creative Cow & Gyorfi Szilard - Shortcuts Part 2
This is the second part to last month's Shortcuts Part 1 tutorial over at the COW where Gyorfi gives you some navigation tips to utilize a better workflow.
Multi-Camera Synchronization
This is a really simple technique that teaches you how to make a timecode counter, so that if you are on a multi-camera shoot, everyone points their cameras to the comp on a laptop to sync them up in post.
Introduction to Programmatic Animations in AE
Here is a huge set of videos from MAX 2009 of Michael Coleman, the product manager of After Effects teaching you how to use javascript-based expressions to increase your workflow.
How to Remove Banding Artifacts in AE
Nick Campbell takes you through some handy technique to keep you videos from coming out with banding when rendering or compressing, and also some background information on why this happens.
How To Export Your Scene From C4D to AE Full Version
A bit back, I featured Nick's tutorial he hosted on Maxon for the release of C4D R11.5 on how to bring scenes into AE from C4D. Nick has the full version on his site now, with a ton of handy tips that weren't in the previous version.
Motionworks - Rotoscoping Fields
John Dickinson has a ton of tutorials this month, this one deals in working with rotoscoping interlaced footage, and the troubles you may encounter when doing so.
Motionworks - Motion Sketch
A little known function in After Effects, at least to me is Motion Sketch. John shows you were to find this panel, and how to utilize it in your workflow.
Motionworks - A Workflow With Soundkeys
Learn how John used Trapcode Soundkeys to control the look and feel of a boxing promo for Foxtel in this e-seminar for Adobe.
Motionworks - Explosive TV Promo Graphics
John shows us how he takes rendered 3d text from C4D and brings that into AE, adds motion blur, and composites it all together to make some killer looking promos for the release of Fast and Furious on DVD and Blu-Ray.
Motionworks - Simplify Your Workflow
John demonstrates some simple techniques to speed up your workflow with a few expressions and the Source Text parameter.
Motionworks - AE and ProAnimator
Another e-seminar that John hosted the other day showed you a new workflow with ProAnimator inside of AE to make a Sopranos-style 3d text look.
Motionworks Effects A-Z: Maltaannon - Audio Spectrum
In the A-Z Effects rundown, Maltaannon covers the Audio Spectrum effect and shows you a few uses and what the parameters do.
Motionworks Effects A-Z: John Dickinson - Beam
Not many people use the Beam effect, but hopefully after this tutorial you can find a few uses for it.
Motionworks Effects A-Z: Topher Welsh - The Bevel Effects
2 in 1! I demonstrate the differences between Bevel Edges and Bevel Alpha, and how you can use them in your workflow efficiently.
CGtuts+ & Chris Martin - Create an Amazing Liquid Apple Effect
Using RealFlow, Cinema 4D, and After Effects, Chris Martin takes you through three different tutorials to create this awesome looking liquid apple simulation.
CGtuts+ & Amilcar De Carvalho - Create a Cool Looking Molecule Effect in Maya and AE
Modeling the molecule object in Maya, bring that into After Effects, create a camera movement and set up a particle system to finish it all off.
RGTV Ep.31 Chad Perkins - Creating an Old-School Sci-Fi TV Opening
Chad Perkins does a lot of After Effects training on Lynda.com, and now in his first Red Giant TV episode, he teaches you how to make an awesome looking Twilight Zone show open with Trapcode 3D Stroke, Echospace and some other Trapcode plugins.
RGTV Ep. 32 Chan Bonanno - Feature Film Title Treatment
Chan Bonanno teaches you how to recreate the title treatment he made for the movie "Dreamgirls" using Trapcode Particular and Knoll Light Factory.
After Effects Apprentice - Render Queue
In the monthly tutorials from Chris and Trish Meyer from their book After Effects Apprentice, they teach you how to use the Render Queue thoroughly within After Effects.
Big Mike Design - Spider Web Animation
Learn how to use Illustrator and After Effects to create a spider web that animates and catches text that flies into it.
Garus Booth - CC Cylinder Effect
There aren't many tutorials that deal with CC Cylinder, and this one takes an intermediate look into utilizing it to create some cool effects mixed with 3d renders.
Garus Booth - Trapcode 3D Stroke
In this tutorial you can go from story boards to the final AE composition using 3d Stroke to achieve a killer result.
Hologram Preset Tutorial
This has been a long time coming tutorial from Chad Castleberry using his hologram preset on some footage in After Effects.
Superperson Opening Titles
This is an updated version of Chad Castelberry's Superperson video that was hosted on Youtube back in the day. This is an effect similar to the title effects in Superman or The Last Starfighter.
Creating Smoke/Fog in AE
This effect's tutorial has been made a few times, but there are a ton of different ways to do it. This way uses CC Particle World to create fog on some existing footage.
ProJuice.org - Virtual Backgrounds
Nick and Arlo from ProJuice.org show you how to take some green screen footage of Arlo, and create some curved screen backgrounds.
VideoHive and Topher Welsh - Paint Panel Explained
In this tutorial, I show you what the options actually are inside the Paint Panel in After Effects, how they work, and what exactly they do.
VideoHive and Topher Welsh - Forcing Motion Blur
With some help from John Dickinson, we outline thrree different ways to force motion blur onto your layers using either AE's built in motion blur, CC Force Motion Blur or the Timewarp effect.
CGPOV.com My Fave Things Part 2 - Max2AE
Chad Smashley outlines his favorite things on his blog CGPOV.com and he shows how to setup and use the plugin for 3ds Max, Max2AE.
AEScripts - AudioToMarkers
Lloyd Alvarez's newest script, AudioToMarkers will add markers, split a layer or add a new text layer with incrementing numbers based on audio intensity. Make sure you hit the Demo Video button for the tutorial.
AEScripts - SpellCheck
This is perhaps the script I have been waiting for my whole AE career. Kind of obvious how it works... it spell check s things for you in your comp. Hit the Demo Video button for all the details on how to use this script.
AEScripts - Chameleon
This is an awesome script from Mathias Möhl that assists you to browse through color themes obtained from Adobe Kuler.
Zola Media - Flame Vortex
In Zola Media's first tutorial they show you how to create what they call a "Flame Vortex" effect, like those seen in video games. Check out the tutorial for a preview of the effect.
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( ADD YOURS )David Kenny November 6th
Spell check! Finally
( )minju November 6th
wow~ thank you!
( )Billy November 6th
Great stuff as always Topher. I don’t know why I bother to scour the internet for tutorials. You always put ‘em up…and always seem to find several I have missed. Thanks!
( )Topher Welsh November 9th
It really is crazy how much stuff gets posted every month… really helps when you want to keep your skills fresh… glad you like it Billy!
( )Daniel K Johnson November 6th
Wow, great stuff as always Topher.
( )Graphicmas November 6th
we are so great!!!!
( )SpaZZ November 7th
WOWWW. I can’t beleive Zola got featured. He does his tutorials great so he deserves it.
( )M.j November 7th
Thanks for sharing !
( )BILL November 7th
i like turtles
( )Willz November 7th
thanks for these tutorials
( )Ben Morgan November 8th
I hate being one to complain – but i decided to go PLUS about a week ago, and since forkin out (i know its only $9!) I have had nothing worth while from here. I took advantage of the other plus stuff on offer from pstuts and nettuts but where’s the good stuff gone from here?
I know it takes time and effort to make good content, but there is a huge drop in traffic on this site recently, and it seems that the quality of tuts on here has also dropped considerably. I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, i just want to know if this was a worthwhile thing for me to pay for, it certainly doesn’t feel like it right now?
please get something decent on here soon, its not good at all as my main interest is actual AEtuts, but like i said – it’s the one i use least on the Plus site, so where and when will there be some regular and decent aetuts ‘plus’ content!?
( )Ben Morgan November 8th
By the way, this article was cool! thanks again for rounding up some sweet tuts.
( )Billy November 9th
I hardly had a hard time believing that. The quality of the tutorials on this site has dropped off drastically from the beginning. To launch the pay side of this site at a time when the tutorials are not only few….but hardly even good…was a curious business decision. $9 a month ain’t much if you are getting a lot for it. If you are a PSD user it seems to be worth it…but if you are paying $9 for only the AE side you are going to be simply getting ripped off.
( )Ben Morgan November 9th
I have to agree with you mate, I was in two minds about doing it for a while, but luckily there were a few things over on the other tuts sites which pulled me in, but like i said, i feel pretty skanked over here at my main interest. Great After effects tuts are easy to come by for free nowadays online, but i was expecting something of some sort of decent standard when i payed to join this site. i hope their saving something epic for this weeks release….
ah well
Hans Kleinman November 9th
Wow, I can’t believe you actually went to all those sites and just listed the tutorials they have. Thanks. Wow. Amazing work, that must have taken a lot of time and effort to type in all those URLs.
( )Topher Welsh November 9th
Hey mate, sorry if you don’t like the work that I put into my roundups, but others do, and that’s who I do it for. These actually take a lot of time to put together, believe it or not, and it is the best way to keep everyone on the up-n-up on what’s happening off-site from AEtuts+.
We only do them once a month, so check back next and every other friday for my other roundups of inspiration and freebies from around the web! Hope you enjoy your visit, and I hope you learn at least **something** new from this article
( )Diego Delanoe November 10th
I kind of agree with the comment of Hans K., sometimes there´s many obvious tutorials on your monthly post, too many does n´t strictly means better, and if you try to put a lot of tutorials from around the web every month, you end up with some that are really not worth it, or some other that many already know (who does n´t checks out videocopilot or creative cow tutorials once in a while).
( )My suggestion, keep doing it, but just post when you have found something really rare, or unknown or spectacular.
Diego Delanoe November 10th
PD. The Chamaleon Script was already posted in AE Tuts…
( )Lawrence November 23rd
cool push effect
( )http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvNtxeLGbhI
xg90115578 November 28th
we are so great!!!!
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