Money Makes The Word Go Round

Money Makes The Word Go Round

on Jan 3rd 2011 with 9 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: After Effects and Trapcode Particular
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Run Time: 33:24min
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

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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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.  

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Discussion 9 Comments

  1. Hicham says:
    January 3, 2011 at 9:37 am

    Very Nice, does Digieffects Freeform have a CS4 package?

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  2. sebastian says:
    January 3, 2011 at 6:40 pm

    Love this tutorial! The bounce of the globe is so easy but very convincing. You know what you’re talking about. Great job man!

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  3. Shawn says:
    January 3, 2011 at 8:18 pm

    Does anyone have a link for an image of the planet with a transparent background

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  4. jink says:
    January 3, 2011 at 10:27 pm

    digifect freeform came with my production premium, but it’s only a trial version. Is this the case for everyone else?

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  5. Ran Ben Avraham says:
    January 4, 2011 at 7:14 am
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    Hey folks,

    I got one more suggestion i forgot to add to the tutorial -

    1. when you create the dollar bill using Digieffects Freeform, add to the composition one front light (preferably parallel, but you can experiment with other light sorts) in front of the bill layer (front in 3D space), that will add shadows to the bill in the places where it folds and creases over itself.

    2. Add another, weaker light (preferably parallel or ambient, but you can experiment with other light sorts), call it back or rather fill light, and place it behind the bill layer (again, behind – in 3D space).
    that way you wont get entirely black bill frames, when the bill is facing you at around 90 degrees.

    I will use this technique ones again in a new tutorial I’m working on, so you will have a chance to see what I’m talking about.

    see you then
    Ran Ben Avraham.

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  6. Chris says:
    January 4, 2011 at 11:18 pm

    Great job but one mistake though… like all other 3D plug-ins for AE you should not apply FreeForm to a 3D layer, but rather a 2D layer. This is the reason why you got the impression that it is a 2.5 D effect. I can assure you like Particular and Form, FreeForm is a 3D plug-in.

    Cheers,
    Chris
    mettle.com

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