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Video Copilot - Sure Target 2
Now in plugin form, Andrew Kramer and the Video Copilot team have now transformed the amazing Sure Target Preset into a plugin that shows up in your Effects panel and is now way easier to use!
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Video Copilot - Smoke Trails
If you were paying attention to our Optical Flares Giveaway and Review, I am sure you saw this shot in Optical Flares in Action video. Anyways, using Particular and light emitters learn how to create some cool sprite particles and link the OF lens flare to the lights position in 3d space!
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Brad Chmielewski - Animated Cartoon Arrows
This is a sweet little tip that can save you time and lessen the layers in your comp. What Brad did was tweak the X rotation to make a layer move in Z Space behind the the green screened subject.
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Brad Chmielewski - Animation Presets in AE
Brad shows you some simple ways to save and use Animation Presets within After Effects. Simple but very, very useful if you have never done it before.
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Artbeats & Steve Holmes - Simply Colorful
From Energi Design, Steve Holmes makes appearances on Artbeats quite often, and this time he is showing you how to build a cool looking title design comp with a handful of elements and a bunch of easy tips.
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Artbeats & Eran Stern
In this tutorial, Eran uses some HD stock footage shot on RED to replace a screen with some custom interface elements and add some text treatment using Mocha and AE.
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CGtuts+ - Create a Jelly-like Text Animation in C4D and AE
Alexander Alexandrov shows you how to make a cool looking Jelly Text that comes into your scene. Do your initial modeling and such in Cinema 4D and then bring that into After Effects to finish off the animation.
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RGTV Episode 36 - Create a Psychedelic Background
Using some shape layers and Trapcode Shine to create a crazy hippie background, Aharon takes Shine in a new direction and throws some tips out there that you probably haven't seen before.
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HeadsNTails
It's been a big month for AEScripts, they have launched a ton of new scripts as well as updating lots of older ones. This script from David Torno lets you extend the head or tail of your script in either a specified amount of frames or seconds.
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Trajectory
Using two nulls named accordingly, after running the Trajectory script the layers in your comp will align to the invisible line between the two null objects, and stay in line wherever you move the two nulls around in 3d space. (Don't worry there's a demo video that explains it really well).
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Fit2Frame
Similar to the "fit to comp ______" functions in the Layer>Transform menu, this script will select multiple layers and resize them accordingly regardless of the pixel aspect ratios or sizes and fill the comp frame, giving you the choices of cropping or letterboxing.
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PhotoOrientationFixer
Ever have your photos come into AE sideways? Isn't that annoying? Well, now there is a script that will read the metatag in photos that the camera adds to it to rotate it correctly.
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DecomposeText
This is a pretty sweet little script and damn handy when you need to animate letters or words separately. All you do is run the script on your text layer and pick your appropriate break out settings.
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pt_TextEdit
Oh snap! This is exactly what we have needed for a LONG time. Use this dockable UI script to search for text layers to edit them within the box in the UI and change them without having to select the layer and use the type tool.
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TextReverser
A very simple script for if you have to write something in backwards. Just write it correctly and run this script and booya! Reversed text!
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RepositionAnchorPoint
This script is pretty rad. Instead of having to use the pan behind tool, you can actually use this Dockable UI script to position to the top, bottom, left, right, or corners of the layer.
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The LoopMaker
Brilliant! No more weird expressions and keyframing and all that jazz to loop a layer. Just apply this script and you are good to go!
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Create3DShapes
This is great, especially if you build faux-3d worlds and objects with basic shapes. There are a bunch of different shapes you can make, and each of them have their own demo video so you can learn exactly how to make them.
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Maltaannon LIVE - Cool 3D Stuff
Jerzy goes through some cool techniques on creating 3d looks in AE with and without the use of 3rd party plugins. Also, he shows how to make some cool Christmas trees Trapcode Particular and Zaxwerks Serpentine.
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MaxAfter.com - Running Man
Using Trapcode Form along with some real life footage, learn how to generate the Form particles to react along with the footage for an interesting effect.
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MaxAfter.com - Gold Cash
Where is M.C. Hammer when you need him? Oh well, using a gold bar as an emitter, generate dollar bills for unique transformation using Trapcode Particular.
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MaxAfter.com - AE Illustration
Usually you use Adobe Illustrator for this kind of thing, but why spend money on another program when you can do it right in AE? In this tutorial, learn how to create simple shapes out of solid layers with masks and use those to make a glossy menu item.
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MaxAfter.com - Flip Effect
Learn how to create a dynamic animation flip board effect with photos by manually flipping them and setting up the animation.
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MaxAfter.com - Coin Stack
Learn how to create the 3d coins directly in After Effects without a 3d program and use a simple technique to stack them on top of each other.
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Chris & Trish Meyer - Extended Vignette Techniques
Although this isn't the entire set from Lynda.com (they gotta make money somehow, right?) You can get the Introduction and the "Approaches to Creating Vignettes - Masks" taste to see if you wanna try this series out. You guessed it, its on making better vignettes.
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Imagineer Systems - Top 5 Mocha Workflow Tips
Martin Brennard of Imagineer gives you 5 awesome tips to improve your workflow as well as probably saving you a bit of time.
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Imagineer Systems - Roto Workflow Creating 2D to 3D
Chris Huer of Free Fall FX uses Mocha and Mocha to take the ancient Nosferatu film and turn it into an anaglyph 3D movie.
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Deeper Modes of Expression - #1 Useful Math Expressions
From Chris and Trish Meyer's book "Creating Motion Graphics with AE" they have an extra chapter called Deeper Modes of Expression based on advanced expression functions. This part of it goes into some of the more useful math equations that you can use in building expressions.
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Deeper Modes of Expression - #2 Interpolation Methods
Same story as the last entry, except this entry is all about interpolation methods and how you can modify them with expressions to do what you need.
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Masters of VFX
Not really an After Effects tutorial, but well worth the watch, nonetheless. Matt Silverman took it upon himself to find this old series not available anymore, and upload it to Vimeo for all of of us to check out! (Find the other videos in the sidebar)
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Aharon Rabinowitz - Adding Motion Blur to Video
Using a fantastic new service, Screenr.com, Aharon shows us an easy way to add motion blur to your live action video after filming, or for adding to 3d renders or pretty much anything with motion!
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Creative Cow - AE to Blender Exporter
Paolo Ciccone has a sweet little tool to make bringing your Blender animations into After Effects quite a bit easier.
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Creative Cow - Reverse Stabilization
A lot of people know how to work reverse stabilization from Andrew Kramer's famous Demon Face tutorial, but a lot of people might be in the dark as to how and why it works. Roland Kahlenberg is here to explain the fuzziness.
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Motionworks - Spray Paint and Bullet Holes
John Dickinson has a new recorded E-Seminar for Adobe where he uses Photoshop alongside of After Effects to create a grungy, bullet-riddled wall with spray painted on text.
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Robert Leger - Unplugged Making Of
After winning the Unplugged Title Challenge, Robert Leger decided to provide us with a thorough walkthough of how he created his awesome winning animation.
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Greyscale Gorilla - Camera Projection and GI with C4D & AE
Camera projection is such an awesome technique, and Nick Campbell has a 2 parter on it with C4D, but the second actually deals in compositing in After Effects... check em both out!
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Greyscale Gorilla - How to Make 3D Text and Use 3D Stroke
The very first episode of GSG LIVE based on tutorials on Ustream, this tutorial Nick shows us some interesting techniques on creating 3d text in After Effects as well as some fun uses with Trapcode 3d Stroke.
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Andrew Murchie - Basic Stereoscopic 3D in AE
This two part tutorial walks you through making your own stereoscopic 3D anaglyph (red/blue glasses) videos from scratch right from your own home!
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Lester Banks - How to Suck Less in Vanishing Point
Vanishing Point has always been a little hazy for me, as well as a lot of other people... well Lester is doing a service and helping you suck a little less while working with this highly resourceful feature.
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Justin Young - Render Templates in After Effects
If you have ever wanted to create your own render templates in After Effects instead of having to switch up your setting every time you render, this is the tutorial for you.
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Brad Zimmerman - Match Moving
Matchmoving is a hot subject right now, and Brad Zimmerman from ChurchMediaDesign.tv has a great tutorial taking you through using PFHoe and After Effects to composite 3d objects into your footage.
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Brad Zimmerman - Magazine Page Flip
Brad takes you through a cool animation he created simulating a magazine flipping through pages. Flipping it on the rotational axis, and using CC Bend creates a realistic looking flip.
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Brad Zimmerman - Looping Backgrounds: Wiggle Effect
In this basic tutorial, Brad shows you how to use the wiggle expression to create some awesome looking backgrounds in your projects.
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Garus Booth - Nissan Reveal Part 2
Last roundup we gave you a taste of what Garus had in store, and now finally the second part of his Nissan Reveal tutorial is complete!
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TraptCG - Person Disintegrating into Particles
Learn how to create an effect where a person disintegrates into particles. Use 3ds Max to create the particles and finish off the composite in After Effects.
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Tutorial Clarity - Audio Particle Spray
Learn how to spray particles out of an emitter dependent upon the frequency and sound of an audio file.
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Tutorial Clarity - Custom Particles In AE
Learn how to set up custom particles for use in Trapcode Particular or Trapcode Form.
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Tutorial Clarity - Digital Effect
Learn how to create a plane of particles inside of Trapcode Form and animate those based upon the audio levels with the Fractal Field options.
It's been about a month since the last tutorial roundup, so I figure we are due to get our fix. Although we have had some killer contributions the last few weeks... it's always good to get some more places to bookmark and check up on, so I present to you 48 new tutorials to hone your AE senses!
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