MotionScript.com - main page AE Portal by Rich Young Rich Young is a long-time After Effects user from the San Francisco Bay Area. His After Effects and Premiere Pro round-ups provide viewers with an easy-to-digest summary of developments. He also supplies info and links for tutorials that allow users to do things in After Effects they never thought were possible.... Read More The Making of ‘Adobe and the Frog’ By Rich Young | April 03, 2014 Film Riot and Adobe have a slick little web ad for the new Creative Cloud NAB 2014 reveal. Read More 0 Comments Creative Cloud NAB 2014 Reveal After Effects, Premiere, & the other video apps By Rich Young | April 01, 2014 Adobe revealed new features in the video apps in Creative Cloud and will showcase these next versions at the NAB 2014 show in Las Vegas next week (schedule). Read More 0 Comments Halftone techniques for After Effects By Rich Young | March 30, 2014 Read More 0 Comments Long shadows: adding body to flat design in After Effects By Rich Young | March 18, 2014 Read More 0 Comments 0 Comments
Flowseeker Cinema 4D And After Effects Training, Tutorials, and Plugins for Motion Graphic Designers Congratulations to Michael Rinnan for winning the Five Second Project for March. His entry had a great concept and was outfitted with excellent lighting, atmosphere, camera movements and sound design. We wanted to know a little bit more about Michael’s entry, so we asked him a few questions regarding his workflow and the process for creating his winning piece. Where do you work? What is your title? I am a 3D generalist at NFL films in Mt. How did you come up with your concept for the Bright Lights Five Second Project? For my concept, my goal was to come up with a quick story I could tell in 5 seconds. What was the most challenging thing about your project? The most challenging part of this project was honestly the lighting. Tell us a little about how you achieved the zolly (push-pull zoom) effect. To achieve the zolly, I initially mapped out the motion of the motorcycles with a spline and then dropped a camera onto that motion path. What renderer was used?
VFX - AFX MATRIX RAINING CODERecreate the Matrix Raining Code effect with no pluginsMore Info VideoHive VIDEO COPILOT | After Effects Tutorials, Plug-ins and Stock Footage for Post Production Professionals When Fast & Furious star Paul Walker passed recently, the film sequel was put on hold. Now that producers are moving forward, and the question is how should they finish a film that is already more than half-way done filming? There has been talk of rewriting, re-editing or even using stand-ins to film the remaining scenes. But one suggestion has stirred a lot of controversy: Use a CGI Paul Walker! (Basically a computer generated likeness) Some people have suggested this is bad taste, disrespectful, creepy. BUT… I personally think they SHOULD use CGI Paul Walker. His Real Performances! Typically, I’m against bringing back actors but the movie was already at least half-way done filming before Paul Walker passed. Now since movies are typically filmed out-of-order, it’s possible these finished scenes are missing important connecting moments that are needed to tell the story and maintain continuity. So producers have to choose: 1. END RESULT: No Real Paul & No CGI Paul. 2.
optimizing for performance: Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects | After Effects region of interest This post collects resources relating to optimizing your computer system and After Effects and Premiere Pro so that you can get the most done in the least time with these applications. If you have any questions, please bring them to the After Effects forum or the Premiere Pro forum. It’s much harder to have a conversation in the comments of a blog post than on the forum. We recently released a white paper about configuring or upgrading a workstation for video software, including After Effects, Premiere Pro, SpeedGrade, and Photoshop Extended. The most comprehensive place to find information on improving performance in After Effects is the “Improving performance” page in After Effects Help. I recently recorded a series of videos for video2brain that you can get for free on their website:After Effects & Premiere Pro performance workshop. I recorded additional videos for After Effects CS6 to update the information given in the above videos:
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