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The Ultimate Motion Graphics Tutorials Round-Up

The Ultimate Motion Graphics Tutorials Round-Up

Doc:2.6/Manual/Your First Animation/2.Animating the Gingerbread Man Effects and Post Processing Introduction Render Layers Render Passes Edges & Toon Stamp Color Management & Exposure Depth Of Field Motion Blur Render Performance Rendering Performance Distributed Rendering Netrender GPU Acceleration External Render Engines Introduction YafRay LuxRender Cycles Freestyle

A Poetic Film Fest Trailer with After Effects and Particular Pierre Michel was offered what most artists dream of from a client: carte blanche to create whatever he envisioned. The project was to create the opening for the French film festival "Polar dans la ville" ("Polar in the town"), which would be printed to 35mm film and projected at about 40 cinemas around Paris as well as on television. “As a digital artist I wanted to make something not common – a state between reality and dream,” states Michel. “The story and the visual universe should translate those feelings./ So The first thing to do was a storyboard with my ideas.” A Three-Week Plan With only three weeks to create the entire 40-second open, Michel decided to used Adobe After Effects as the main workhorse for the project, a decision that was not without some initial trepidation. “Even though I’ve been using this software for five years I thought it would be very hard to do all of this in After Effects because I had only 3 weeks of compositing to do it all," says Michel.

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