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Sin City and The Spirit VFX Supervisor Stu Maschwitz shares a wealth of high end insider tips and tricks on how to achieve a hollywood blockbuster film look by using only after effects. He shows how to mimic the looks of this summer’s biggest blockbuster movies: Transformers 2, Terminator: Salvation, and The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3.
If you only watch one tutorial this summer, this has got to be it.
Nick goes though the process he used to create his Conform Non Conform piece using masks to animate simple shapes. Then, using precomping and simple plugins to warp and distort the simple shapes into the final animation.
Harry is back posting tutorials at his graymachine blog with this great tutorial that shows you how to create a reverse shatter effect without using plugins. The great thing about doing a shatter this way is you have complete control over every shattered piece so you can customize it exactly the way you want.
In this two part series, David Torno shows you how to track and composite a face onto another body using After Effects and Mocha AE. Learn some of the tricks and hurdles you may have to deal with when trying to produce this type of effect.
Awesome motion graphics usually have awesome typography so understanding typography is essential for anyone hoping to produce awesome motion graphics. Yves Peters from The Font Feed broke down Justice’s DVNO music video and identified all of the eighties influenced fonts. A great read.
Nick Campbell posted a new 2-part AE tutorial on his Greyscale Gorilla site where he goes though the process of making a stylized scene of cars racing down a road towards camera using only still images.
The render queue in After Effects is like a Blackberry. On the surface, it has a very basic and direct intention. Need to make a call? Dial a number and go. Need to render a composition? Add it to the queue and hit render. But just like a Blackberry, if you dig a little bit deeper the render queue in After Effects has a lot to offer the motion graphics artist. Over at the Mograph Blog, Chris Kelley gives a comprehensive overview on how to become a render queue power user.
We’ve been on a roll since we launched at the end of last year so for this friday we thought we’d take a short breather and showcase some of the great tutorials from around the web.
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Compositing fog elements seems like a pretty straightforward thing to do in After Effects. Shoot or render your fog element against black, and then Add or Screen it on top of your footage, right? Wrong. This method is incorrect. Daniel Broadway goes over why.
Nick Campbell’s presentation from MGFest 09 about how to get a job as a motion designer. The presentation is geared towards students trying to get into the industry, but the info is relevant to ALL creatives and creators.
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