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Archives: July 2009

  1. After Effects and Tron 1.0

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Jul 30, 2009

    Watching the promo for Tron Legacy got me all excited and a little nostalgic. So today I played around in After Effects with Trapcode Particular 2, and came up with this. I smell a tutorial. End of line.

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  2. Tron Legacy is Coming!

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Jul 29, 2009

    Damn! This trailer for Tron Legacy (AKA Tron 2.0) was released a few days ago, and I was too busy to notice. Why didn’t any of you tell me?! This is the sequal to a movie that got a generation of people buying computers, frisbees, and hockey equipment all at once (or was it just [...]

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  3. The NY Yankees and Mets Call in Crowd Control

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Jul 28, 2009

    I have founded my career and reputation on helping people. When we built the Crowd Control Library of Pre-keyd Alphastock Footage, it was an extension of that. It’s not something we can give away for free (except that we do), but we’ve tried our best to make it easy to buy and use so that [...]

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  4. 50% off Crowd Control

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Jul 21, 2009

    In honor of Harry Frank’s Particular 2 crowd scene tutorial, we’re giving 50% off Crowd Control so that you can re-create the effect. UPDATE: The sale is over. Use the code “particular2” when purchasing credits, and get half off the price. BTW – these are the 5 clips Harry used: # 00036_002_10 # 00155_001_58 # [...]

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    RGTV Ep 25: Creating a Crowd Scene with Particular 2

    In this rockin’ episode of Red Giant TV, Motion Designer Harry Frank shows you how to create a realistic crowd scene using Trapcode Particular 2. He’ll also create a similar scene using Trapcode Form. This tutorial is from Harry Frank,  a truly truly talented Motion Designer and teacher, but also a great guy we enjoy [...]

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  6. Eran Stern: Blast from the Past

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Jul 16, 2009

    A few days ago, my copy of “A New Solid” by Eran Stern arrived in the mail. It’s his new training DVD which includes nearly 8 hours of training. It includes all of his tutorials from the Creative Cow After Effects Podcast (including the project files), plus 2 hours of new training, unavailable anywhere else [...]

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  7. Crowd Tutorial Coming Soon!

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Jul 14, 2009

    …But not from me. This one is from my good friend, Harry Frank of GrayMachine.com. Next week’s episode of Red Giant TV promises to be an amazing one  – it covers creating a crowd with Trapcode Particular 2.0. Building off of Harry’s work in the tutorial, I created this scene: A still image doesn’t do [...]

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    RGTV Ep. 23: Peel-Away Vortex Transition

    In this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create an insanely cool transition for text and other elements. This tutorial builds on RGTV Episode 21, where Aharon covered a text-to-sand transition, so make sure to check it out.

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  9. Particular 2 Presentation + Tutorial

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Jul 06, 2009

    AENY Aharon Rabinowitz introduces the new features of Trapcode Particular 2 from AENY on Vimeo. On June 25, 2009, I gave a presentation at After Effects New York on Red Giant’s Software’s Trapcode Particular 2 (not yet released). It included a 20 minute overview of some of the new features, as well as a 20 [...]

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