My name is Ben Griggs, and I Click Stuff. I have been freelance After Effects artist, on set technical adviser and production consultant in the NYC area for 12 years.
Today we take a look at Newton in a Halloween themed Plinko-style project. As an added bonus there is a second short “Pumpkinapult” tutorial included. With the use of pre-comps you’ll be able to customize the included project files without any plug-ins. With Newton from MotionBoutique.com the customization possibilities are limitless.
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Today we’ll be making a displacement map for ShapeShifterAE that forms a “water box”. This type of project can be customized very quickly and easily with your own logo and/or text. The displacement map that is made can be used with FreeForm Pro or the CS5 bundled version of Freeform. We’ll also touch on a couple of the differences between the 3 plug-ins.
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In this Sneak Peek Ben Griggs shows the ShapeShifter plug-in soon to be released by Mettle.com. With amazing speed text, masks, shapes and imported vectors are transformed right in your AE composition into live 3D mesh. ShapeShifter runs ultra fast using the 3DNAE engine developed by Mettle. To receive a discount and to be notified when ShapeShifter ships sign up here.
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In today’s Quick Tip, we are teaming up with our sister site Audiotuts+ to learn how we can use Adobe Soundbooth to isolate the audio we want and replicate some of the functions that Trapcode Soundkeys offers. Anyone with the Adobe Master Collection or Production Premium can follow along.
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