DIY – Create Your Own White Box
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: A Cardboard Box, Window Film, Poster Board, 3 Lights, Knife, Tape, and a Small Subject.
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Run Time: 12 min
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
In this tutorial we’ll be creating a White Box which will allow you to take awesome close up photos in a seamless “Matrix-like” space. There is plenty of information on the web on how to create a White Box so I don’t claim to have “come up with” this idea. All that’s important to me is that it’s in front of your eyes now so this can be an option for your future projects. Enjoy!
Tutorial
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File size 133MB
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Looks awesome!!
I’ve always wanted to have my own white box. Thanks guys!
Rik de Vos
Great! I was waiting for something like this for a long time. Thanks for sharing! Also it will be great if you make a tutorial about how to create home made DSLR rig with follow focus. This will be amazing!
Great! Just perfect! Like Stefan said it would be great to make a tutorial about DSLR rig!
P.S.
I fell of my chair when you read the fortune cookie xD
Good Tutorial! Thank you! Real words of wisdom..Always cut towards the intern
Great DIY, not really the usually tut for ae but still very helpful.I kind of like the variety
Hilarious! Before I opened up this tutorial I was thinking….isn’t it great when the editor himself of AETUTS.com can’t figure out that this is a tutorial for phototuts! Then I open it up and figure out that he did figure this out….but then went ahead and posted it on AETUTS anyway.
Good photo tut Adam….you know I love ya man….but c’mon! Why can’t we have AEtuts here….and AEtuts only? If I want a phototut (and I’m a photographer and I frequent phototuts all the time) I will go to phototuts.
nice, but, if i need to take a picture of a man?
Really cool and helpful tutorial!
Thank you.
This is awesome… I actually saw some gigs on Craigslist asking for product shots with white boxes… now I can take them on! haha
I love it when you do your video tuts with you in them, because, well… it just shows that you go the extra mile for your stuff.
AWESOME.
haha and I actually LOL’d at the end.
Awesome information! Throughout the tut I was really diggin all the Ocean’s music.
Good stuff Adam. Really like the way this tut is cut and presented. High-Quality work.
Oh and just noticed your new name.. congrats on getting married.
Great stuff Adam! This tip can be used for a wide variety of subjects so it is definitely a good asset to hold on to.
Thanks for sharing!
jajaj great
saludos de Chile!
Great one. Cool to see whats going on the other Platforms. But I didn´t like the Dell productplacement
Hi Adam, or anyone actually… (firstly i apologise because this is totally unrelated to the post above) but I was hoping someone could help me out!
I’m an experienced After Effects user (5 and a bit years) and have been working in a studio for the past 3 years but basically, my parent controls have disappeared from my Timeline window in After Effects. I’ve been searching forums all morning trying to get it back, i’ve tried resetting window positions, emptying the cache, opening autosave versions, everything but there doesn’t seem to be anything on there to bring them back.
I think what i probably did was have the cursor at around 11/12 seconds in the timeline, then accidently hit B instead of V for selction tool. This caused the first 11 seconds to grey out and the Time Ruler moved up to my cursor position. I assume that as pulled the time ruler back to the start that it affected my parent controls, but i’ve no idea how.
I’m running CS3 on an intel Mac Pro, in the Timeline window it has all the icons (show/hide video, audio, lock etc), then Source/Layer Name, then a vertical line and Mode and Track Mat. When i hit toggle this changes to show continuous rasterization, motion blur, 3d layer etc controls. Then there is another vertical line, the parent controls should be after that but as i pull it either to the left or right, it stays the same distance from the Timeline.
This is about as much info as i can give without posting a screengrab.
In relation to the post – i like the box!!
Please help me!
Regards,
Adam
this is the dumbest tutorial ive ever seen!
Thanks guys. First time doing this and it was fun! I exchanged the window film ($18 at Lowes) for regular parchment paper ($2ish at Hobby Lobby) Other than that things look great!
check it out here: http://twitpic.com/247tpo
Cool…. Who rides the unicycle?
haha, I bought it with good intentions… yeah, haven’t found the time! one of these days….
nice tutorial! thanks!
btw, did i hear a fart at 1:35-1:37?
It was the box lid… but it did sound like it….
ahhhhh……did i hear a fart at 1:35-1:37?
WHY DOES EVERYBODY SAY “TUHTS”?? It’s a “TOOT”ORIAL SITE!
AE “TOOTS”! Tut Tut…
Oh, and thanks
Will go watch the rest now.
thanks adam,thats what we call tutorial…..thanks man
I followed the instructions but I did not make a fortune cookie like the photo promises. Oh well.