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Creating a Summer Blockbuster Film Look

Stu Maschwitz — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:18:15 +0000

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.

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How To Use Simple Shapes and Masks to Make an Entire Animation

Nick Campbell — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:04:17 +0000

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.

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Reverse Shatter

Harry Frank — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:00:14 +0000

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.

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Build a Car Racing Scene from Photographs

Nick Campbell — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:00:23 +0000

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.

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“How to be a motion designer and GET PAID” Presentation

Nick Campbell — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:00:13 +0000

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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The Droste Effect

Lloyd — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:41:50 +0000

In this video tutorial from CreativeCow, Carl Larsen demonstrates the new pixel bender “Droste Effect” plugin. Pixel Bender is a new plugin technology introduced by Adobe in CS4 that works across all the adobe CS4 apps. This means the same plugin can be used in After Effects, Photoshop and Flash. And they are installed and used just like any other plugins. You can get the Droste Effect plugin for free from subblue.

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Bourne Ultimatum Flashback Effect

Collis Ta'eed — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:03:02 +0000

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create the flashback look as seen in the film The Bourne Ultimatum with some extra touches and hints.

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Making Design Elements Grow

Collis Ta'eed — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:01:36 +0000

In this video tutorial from CreativeCow, Jayse Hansen demonstrates how to create graphic elements that will grow in After Effects. This question comes up in the forums all the time. Now we have a step by step tutorial. More experienced users are welcome to skip around using the included menu.

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Audio to Animation

Collis Ta'eed — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:59:24 +0000

In this tutorial from VideoCopilot’s Andrew Kramer, you’ll learn how to convert music amplitude to drive particle animation and use particular to generate a custom “waveform”.

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Create the ‘Juno’ Opening Credits Look

Collis Ta'eed — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:56:21 +0000

“The independent film “Juno” featured one of the most distinctive opening credit sequences in recent memory. It has a wonderful handmade look – which it turned out was created, painstakingly, by hand. Cow leader Simon Bonner shows a much easier way to get all the way there. Even if you haven’t seen Juno, this is a great tutorial for creating unique, handcrafted looks, without the pain.” — Simon Bonner from CreativeCow

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