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AnimationPATTERNS. END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT This software ("the Software Product") and accompanying documentation is licensed and not sold.

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This Software Product is protected by copyright laws and treaties, as well as laws and treaties related to other forms of intellectual property. The author owns intellectual property rights in the Software Product. The Licensee's ("you" or "your") license to download, use, copy, or change the Software Product is subject to these rights and to all the terms and conditions of this End User License Agreement ("Agreement"). Acceptance YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT BY SELECTING THE "ACCEPT" OPTION AND DOWNLOADING THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT OR BY INSTALLING, USING, OR COPYING THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT. YOU MUST AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT BEFORE YOU WILL BE ALLOWED TO DOWNLOAD THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT. Close. RHED Pixel. The Motion League. Creating and Compositing a Meteor Strike. In this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to create a very basic “meteor” fireball effect and composite it into our shot.

Creating and Compositing a Meteor Strike

We’ll take a look at some basic compositing techniques such as fake shading, shadows, reflections, and other fine details that make the effect look more natural and dynamic. This is my first vfx tutorial so things may be kind of lacking, but feel free to tell me how I did in the comments below! Resources VideezyCloudlet Image from Video Copilot (Download the Project File)Download InstaFilm Tools from CreativeDojoOptical Flares from Video CopilotAction Essentials 2 from Video CopilotTrapcode Particular from Red Giant Preview Video Tips & Recommendations Carefully select the flame elements, the more dynamic and lively the better.

Meteors are hot, by adding heat wave distortion you can easily add more realism to your shot and also distort any of the imperfections with your asteroid. Trapcode Tutorials. Get Trapcode Particular 2 at: redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/trapcode-particular/ New Features in the Particular 2.2 Update: New Default “Still” mode in Layer Emitter Sampling to be used if a still image is used as a Layer Emitter.

Trapcode Tutorials

Newly Renamed Transform World controls as to differentiate them from the Emitter controls. Useful for writing expressions unique to this control. Unique Light Seeds also affects Streaklet random seed so that different lights get different Streaklet appearance. A new “Particle Amount” feature under Rending allows you to quickly change the amount of particles shown for previewing when Particles/sec is keyframed.

Pause Fest - Color Tutorial After Effects. Boujou. Home - Stefan Minning: CG Artist and Developer. Traduction noms effets anglais vers francais. AEFlame Official Home Page - Plugin for Adobe After Effects. After Effects CS5.5.

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Presets. Creative Workflow Hacks. I had an email conversation with Matt, who wanted to fetch some xml to play with the new E4X XML parsing in AE CS3.

Creative Workflow Hacks

We’re still waiting for the ExtendScript HttpConnection Object to show up in After Effects, but we do have access to the Socket Object. The Socket Object is a little low level, but if you are using web feeds and don’t need authentication it’s actually pretty easy. This code segment outlines the basics. webConnect = new Socket; response = new String; if(webConnect.open("feeds.feedburner.com:80","UTF-8")) { webConnect.write('GET /current/currentpicks? Format=xml HTTP/1.0nn'); response = webConnect.read(100000); response = response.toString(); var xmlStart = response.indexOf("<? We open a Socket and connect to, in this case, a feedburner feed.

A couple of gotchas in the code. 5DtoRGB by Rarevision. News: 2014/04/09 - RT @Rarevision: Rarevision is first with an app to resample Panasonic GH4 footage from 4K 4:2:0 to 2K 4:4:4, read more @EOSHD - RT @Rarevision: #5DtoRGB 1.5.18 update now available in the Mac App Store!

5DtoRGB by Rarevision

Upgrade your copy now! 2014/02/09 - RT @Rarevision: If anyone's got some 4K GH4 footage lying around, send it to us! We'll make sure #5DtoRGB can handle the GH4.2013/12/29 - RT @Rarevision: #5DtoRGB Batch 1.5.18 update available in the Mac App Store. ColorGHear. “I would say that wizardry is a craft.

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Learn it… and suddenly there’s no such thing as magic anymore, it’s just something you do. I am not special, I just know wizardry, so it looks to everyone around me like I’m performing magic. But I’m not. I’m just employing what I have learned.” - Shian Storm ColorGHear was developed by filmmaker and colorist, Shian Storm who cut his teeth in the image manipulation world as a Colorist and Restoration Specialist at the famed Lowry Digital (now Reliance Mediaworks) made most famous by their work on Avatar, Benjamin Button, The Social Network, and their stunning restorations of Star Wars, Citizen Kane, and the entire library of Disney Animated classics.

Initially designed for use on 35mm film, it is now optimized for use with RED, Alexa, Phantom, and HD cameras. The toolkit is NOT a collection of drag and drop “looks” like Magic Bullet. I also noticed that in executing these precision grades, I was performing the same operations over and over. Blog - Pimp Your After Effects. Adobe After Effects is my go-to tool for most homebrew VFX and finishing tasks.

Blog - Pimp Your After Effects

It has the perfect blend of powerful features and editorial, layer-based ease of use. Is it as fast as a dedicated color grading system, or as responsive and powerful as Nuke for VFX compositing? No, but it offers a flexible, creative environment that’s tough to beat for the kind of creative, rough-and-tumble cinematic problem-solving that comprises most of my work. Dan Ebberts's resource for AE scripting and expressions. Mattrunks - Tutoriaux Vidéos sur After Effects, Photoshop et Mocha pour le motion design, les vfx et la création vidéo numérique. After Effects tutorials by Eran Stern.

Tilt Shift / Effet de maquette miniature. Professional After Effects Tutorials, Plug-ins & Pre-Keyed Stock Footage. Resources for the motion design community. After Effects tutorials and more.