Ran Ben Avraham is post production artist working mainly in the fields of motion design and visual effects. He is a freelancer from Israel, and also runs tophateffects.com/, an AE templates website, designated for the visual effects industry.
In this tutorial I’ll show you a cool way to create your own economy show opening sequence. We’ll use Digieffects Freeform (bundled free with CS5) to create a single dollar bill flopping in the air. Then, using Trapcode Particular, we’ll emit hundreds of dollar bills to create a nice animation. Finally, we’ll add some nice Depth of Field using a custom build depth map and the Lens Blur plug-in.
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Have you ever wondered “What can I do to stay young?”… Well in this tutorial we are going to do the exact opposite – we are going to rapidly age a young woman using a footage courtesy of hollywoodcamerawork.us. Hopefully it won’t take you THIS long to get through the tutorial. :)
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Inspired by the opening sequence of one of my favorite cult movies of all times – “The Rocky Horror Picture Show“, I decided to share with you a great technique of recreating that effect. The original footage was a real person singing, so here I will give you a quick walkthrough to help you easily rig lips for a very precise lips sinking.
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In this tutorial we will discuss the proper use of the Key-light plug-in. Using time remapping, we will create the illusion of a hummingbird going from full speed to ultra slow motion (using a footage by Artbeats). a bit of Mesh Warp to gently move the branches.
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In this third and last part of the three parts tutorial on Sound Keys, I will guide you step by step (more or less…) through the process of creating that Celebration of Color with Sound Keys, Particular and Form.
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This is the second of three parts tutorial on one of the most useful plug-ins around when it comes to working with audio – “Sound Keys“.
In this part I will introduce you to some more advanced uses of Sound Keys such as integrating it with other effects, time remap, and the ever popular lips sinking.
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This is the first of a three part tutorial on one of the most useful plug-in around when it comes to working with audio – “Sound Keys“.
In this part I will introduce you to the sound keys interface with and we will take a look at the very basic ways you can apply it to your work .
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Either of two theories developed by Albert Einstein…
The Special Theory of Relativity, which requires that the laws of physics shall be the same as seen by any two different observers in uniform relative motion, or The General Theory of Relativity, which considers observers with relative acceleration and leads to a theory of gravitation….
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Have you ever wanted to animate a spider or crab walk cycle? In this tutorial you will learn a very useful and simple technique that will help you animate a walk cycle for creatures with anywhere from 2 to 200 limbs.
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Earth day is long gone now, but every day is a good day for earth day. In this tutorial you will learn how to simulate a water drop rolling down a leaf in a very convincing manner. With some nice depth of filed and time re-mapping to add a touch of realism, this should prove to be a very useful technique that can be used in numerous designs such as a beverage commercial, with a water drop rolling down the beverage bottle.
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