Category Archives: Video Tutorial

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After Effects: Cineware and Cinema 4D Lite

This tutorial from Sydney, Australia, motion graphics artist John Dickinson, aka Motionworks, gives you an up-close look at how the new Cineware effect will work with the next version of Adobe After Effects and its bundled Cinema 4D Lite application.

3D Morphing Superman Logo

Adobe After Effects user Maltaannon shows how to use Mettle ShapeShifter AE to incorporate a 3D logo in 2D stock footage from ArtBeats without leaving After Effects and without any existing 3D modeling skills.

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RED Epic Tips for DSLR Shooters

Here's an interesting collaborative tutorial/interview with Denver's Dave Dugdale, the creator of the site Learning DSLR Video and James Drake, owner of the Denver RED rental facility 5k Insight. Drake covers the similarities and differences between shooting video with a … more »

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Video Review of the Blackmagic Design Cinema Camera

DP, director, early adopter and prolific technology pundit Philip Bloom takes his turn reviewing the camera that has everyone plotzing with joy, even his cat.

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Kit Essentials for Shooting Time-Lapse

Preston Kanak walks you through his favorite equipment to use when shooting a time-lapse sequence on location. As Kanak says, "Shooting a time-lapse is not a science. There is no perfect formula to ensure you are successful every time. However, … more »

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What’s New in Mari 1.5

At SIGGRAPH today in Los Angeles, The Foundry announced the latest version of Mari, the company's 3D texture painting tool originally developed by Weta Digital. New features include realtime shadow casting, paint buffer symmetry, cube map and overlapping UV support, … more »

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Shotgun Announces Tank, a New Way to Manage VFX/Animation Assets

Shotgun Software has introduced Tank, a new asset management system built on top of its namesake production tracking system, Shotgun. Tank, which will automate and organize file-based workflows even as they evolve over time, is currently in private beta and … more »

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Create The Expendables 2 Trailer Title Sequence with ShapeShifter AE

The folks at Mettle recently posted this nice tutorial from Nancy Eperjesy, president of Mettle's Software and Creative Services divisions, on how to use Mettle's ShapeShifter AE plug-in to create the animated 3D skull and knife logo appearing at the … more »

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Create 3D Reflections with Trapcode Form or Particular

In a tutorial for AE Tuts+, Jorrit Schulte explains how to create full 3D reflections in After Effects, with falloff of transparency and blur, using either Trapcode Particular or its younger sibling, Form. The new lighting tools in Form 2 … more »

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True Comp Duplicator v3 Demo

This demo for Brennan Chapman's popular After Effects script, updated for CS6, explores expanded features for duplicating comp hierarchies, including sub-comps, and new in version 3, multiple comps at once.