I had the pleasure of meeting Harry Frank, the founder of Graymachine a resourceful website filled with various tutorials and many articles related to the industry. He is a popular freelancer and a veteran in Motion Graphics and is extremely popular for his training series “After Effects Expressions” and his training series on Trapcode products.
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Posts by Satya Meka
The Best Sound You’ll Ever See!
Sep 16th in Motion Graphics by Satya MekaSatya is back with a new tutorial that will help you look as good as you sound. This technique has many options so sit back and learn how to create an attractive visual generated from your audio spectrum.
Create Mac OSX Intro Video with C4D – Day 2
Aug 21st in Motion Graphics by Satya MekaIn day 2 of this tutorial, we will finish up in Cinema 4D, then head over into After Effects and see how to put all the pieces together.
Create Mac OSX Intro Video with C4D – Day 1
Aug 20th in Motion Graphics by Satya MekaAs the penultimate nugget of goodness in our Mac Lover’s Week, Satya created a 2 day tutorial that everybody will enjoy! In day 1, he will walk us through Cinema 4D and how to create the 3d text in this effect.
Bad TV Plugin
Aug 17th in Plugins by Satya MekaCreate a Bad TV Distortion with this quick, simple plugin for After Effects.
Free to use for private and commercial projects
Requires:
Mac OS X 10.4+ and AE 7+
File Type: Plugin
Separate RGB Channels Pixel Bender Plugin
Jul 13th in Plugins by Satya MekaThis plugin allows you to quickly and easily offset the RGB channels separately to create the popular chromatic aberration effect.
File Type: Plugin
Create Procedurally Animated Rhythmic Dancing Marbles
Jul 13th in Motion Graphics by Satya MekaBy now you should expect nothing less than amazing procedural animations from Satya and this tutorial is no exception. Inspired by this piece by Eamae Mirkin which was originally created using the processing programming language, Satya explains the required math background and shows you how to replicate this beautiful animation in After Effects.
Also check out Satya’s new free “Separate RGB” pixel bender plugin.
Create an Elegant Concentric Rings Animation
Jun 17th in Motion Graphics by Satya MekaInspired by the work of Mark Coleran. Satya shows us how to use iterations of simple shape layers to create some beautiful procedural art.
UPDATE: Responding to readers requests, Satya recreated the effect in Cinema 4D and has create a bonus addendum tutorial which in true Satya style is full of XPresso goodness.
Create a Sound Reacting 3D Waveform Animation without 3rd Party Plugins
Apr 20th in Motion Graphics by Satya MekaSatya has done it again. He’s managed to re-wire and re-invent tools that we’ve had for a long time to create what would normally only be possible with third party plugins. For all of you that ask for tutorials that only use built-in plugins, this one is for you. Satya has even created a free preset so you don’t have to re-create the effect from scratch every time.
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Create an Ethereal Morphing Letter Canvas
Mar 18th in Motion Graphics by Satya MekaOnce in a while a new (or in this case very rarely used) technique appears on the scene and suddenly you start seeing it everywhere. Well we have a feeling that this is going to be one of those. In this tutorial Satya shows us how to use the built-in radio waves plugin to create an incredibly beautiful and ethereal animation of morphing letters.
