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How To Edit Together Night Time-Lapsed Videos

How To Edit Together Night Time-Lapsed Videos

on Mar 9th 2012 with 11 comments

Time-Lapsed photography is gaining increasing popularity to the extent that this relatively novel technique is regularly appearing in various video production. It basically involves taking a series of photographs, maintaining the same interval between the shots, and compiling them into a movie clip. This technique is ideal to demonstrate events that take substantial time to develop in seconds. Today’s tutorial will introduce you to a simple and effective workflow concerning time-lapse photography.

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Make Your Own “Watchmen” Bleeding Ink Face – Tuts+ Premium
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Make Your Own “Watchmen” Bleeding Ink Face – Tuts+ Premium

on Mar 6th 2012 with 3 comments

This tutorial will cover how to set up Rorschach mask with tracking markers. These markers can then be used to generate a basic piece of geometry which will be tracked to the subjects face. Once tracked, a fractal noise “inkblot” can be UV mapped to the geometry. The last step will involve cleaning up the tracking markers for the final composite.

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How To Make The “Hypno Pre-Compulator”

How To Make The “Hypno Pre-Compulator”

on Mar 5th 2012 with 23 comments

Do you remember that “Hypno Pre-Compulator” alien gag from the Mettle tutorials? Personally – it blew my mind when I first saw it, and I still think it’s pretty amazing you can accomplish that all inside AE! Well, I’m very happy to tell you all that the good folks at Mettle where kind enough to share their techniques with us and in this tutorial I will rebuild the “Hypno Pre-Compulator” step by step.

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Create a Surprising Billowing Cloth Reveal

on Mar 2nd 2012 with 63 comments

It’s amazing how much pseudo-3D you can do in After Effects today. This tutorial will focus on using a new plugin that brings 3D bicubic deformations to layers that allows you to truly bend and twist layers in 3D space. If you are familiar with 3D packages, this is true displacement as opposed to just bump mapping.

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“Lens Whacking” To Get Light Blooms In Your Footage

“Lens Whacking” To Get Light Blooms In Your Footage

on Feb 29th 2012 with 17 comments

In this tutorial, you will learn the basics to Lens Whacking, a cool trick that can help give your videos a vintage, artistic feel by allowing excess light into the camera. You will learn how to hold the camera, how to best position your lens, and some extra tips for managing your shots. This technique is fairly simple to execute once you familiarize yourself with the basics, and will result in quite a unique, dream-like effect in your videos.

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Simulate A Glitchy Corrupted Text – Tuts+ Premium
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Simulate A Glitchy Corrupted Text – Tuts+ Premium

on Feb 28th 2012 with 14 comments

In this tutorial I show you how to create complex looking glitch effects that have a lot of texture. The textures are created using elements that we will put together and by the stacking of effects. We’ll cover some basic text animation, creating glitch elements, creating adjustment layers with multiple mattes, and more!

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Aetuts+ Hollywood Movie Title Series – Sherlock Holmes

Aetuts+ Hollywood Movie Title Series – Sherlock Holmes

on Feb 27th 2012 with 30 comments
This entry is part 26 of 30 in the series Hollywood Movie Titles

In today’s tutorial we’ll be making the Sherlock Holmes 2 intro title animation. In the first part, we’ll be in Cinema 4d where we’ll create and animate the logo, lights and materials. From there, our second part will be spent in After Effects compositing all the elements we’ve created together and doing a final color correction pass to complete our project.

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Create The Amazing Spider-Man Title Sequence Entirely In After Effects

Create The Amazing Spider-Man Title Sequence Entirely In After Effects

on Feb 23rd 2012 with 26 comments

Nancy will show us how to create the title sequence for the Amazing Spider-Man entirely in After Effects using ShapeShifter AE. She shows us how to combine Shape Layers + Layer Masks to model and animate Spidey’s symbol. Download the free project file and follow along. You’ll be amazed at how easy it is to create!

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Easily Switching Languages With Simple After Effect Expressions

Easily Switching Languages With Simple After Effect Expressions

on Feb 22nd 2012 with 3 comments

So you made a video and need to render it in different languages… Don’t duplicate your compositions. This tutorial will show you an easy way to switch the language of the texts inside of your compositions with some basic expressions and a slider control.

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How To Attach 3D Interconnected Titles
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How To Attach 3D Interconnected Titles

on Feb 21st 2012 with 3 comments

In this tutorial I will show you how to create lines connected to 3D points using the Beam plug-in inside of After Effects. We start with tracking a shot inside AE using Cameratracker. Then we export that data to Cinema 4d to create 3D text. After that, we move back into AE where we composite our 3D text into our tracked footage and use expressions with Beam to create lines in 3D space.

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