Archives: May 2010
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Free Preset: Sepia Comic Misprint
1 commentA sepia-ish comic look with halftone pattern, and some misprinted edges. I find that ToonIt stuff looks best when I lower the frame rate to 10 FPS. Often adding Magic Bullet Looks (or some other color treatment) can enhance it, as well. You can get this preset at RedGiantPeople.com.
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Interview with John Knoll: Bonus Material
4 commentsRGTV Episode 44: Bonus Material – John Knoll on Realism in VFX In this bonus section of the John Knoll interview, John talks about his approach to realism in visual effects, and how that impacted his groundbreaking work on The Abyss and for his personal project turned gig: visual effects for Magnificent Desolation. Watch the [...]
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Free Project File: Text and the City
1 commentA project file that re-creates the look of the graphics in “Sex and The City: The Movie.” Been meaning to do this as a tutorial for about 2 years and never got around to it. You can download it at Red Giant People
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Free Project File: Text and the City 2
2 commentsMotion Graphics animation inspired by the artwork from the Movie “Sex and the City 2.” Just swap out the text. Perhaps a tutorials some day. Free Project file is available at RedGiantPeople.com.
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Plastic Bullet – New iPhone App from Red Giant
1 commentiPod/iPad friendly version on Vimeo. My Description: This iPhone app makes your iPhone (and other) pictures look really awesome. I have been playing with it for weeks and love to Plastic Bullet-ize my images. It can totally bring my below amateur photography to artistic level. Yeah I work for RG, but here are my Plastic [...]
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Interview with John Knoll: Part 2
No commentsIn this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz interviews ILM Visual Effects Supervisor, John Knoll. They’ll talk about the downsides of working in VFX, his history as a commercial software designer, the future of lens flare generation, what he looks for in a project, and what it takes to get a gig at ILM. [...]
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Red Giant Quicktip # 13: Create an iPhone UI Animation with Inverse Scaling
- By Aharon Rabinowitz May 17, 2010
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2 commentsIn this QuickTip, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to apply information from Episode 39 of Red Giant TV (Creating a 1980′s Retro Video Game Look) for use in a much more modern project. The After Effects expression user here was: s = 100*transform.scale[0]/parent.transform.scale[0]; [s,s,s]
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Interview with John Knoll: Part 1
1 commentIn this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz interviews ILM Visual Effects Supervisor, John Knoll. They’ll talk about John’s work, how he got into VFX, skills VFX artists need to create realism in their work, starting the Rebel Unit at ILM, and the daunting challenges faced in working on films like ‘Pirates of the [...]
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Crowd Control Site Going Down for Maintenance
61 commentsA little more than a year ago, we brought you Crowd Control, the world’s largest library of Pre-keyed Alpha stock footage. We’ve been proud to see the product used in live events, broadcast and the web. One of the biggest challenges we’ve faced with Crowd Control has been delivery. The download speed is slow. We [...]