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Archives: August 2012

  1. Free Shatter Object Presets for Element 3D

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Aug 16, 2012

    Hey folks – so I’ve been Playing around with Videocopilot’s Element 3D, and really enjoying breaking objects apart. Since I realize that so many of the people getting started with Element are new to 3D, I wanted to give you all some fun stuff to shatter. These are just some basic primitives that I have [...]

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    Episode 84: Trapcode Mir – Amplitude Mapping

    In this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to take Trapcode Mir in a whole new direction using Amplitude Layers. You’ll learn to create looping animation, cityscapes, audio-triggered displacement and more.

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  3. Need for Speed

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Aug 09, 2012

    There’s a revolution in the After Effects world – a revolution of speed. Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you caught that VideoCopilot and Red Giant released some ridiculously fast OpenGL powered Plug-ins that promise to change the future for AE users. Moving from the CPU to the GPU is clearly the wave of [...]

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  4. New Film – Order Up

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Aug 07, 2012

    Hey folks – I’m proud to share ‘Order Up,’ a new short that I co-wrote with director Seth Worley. We also worked together on Plot Device and are working on a new film as well. The Plot: A pizza is delivered to a creepy, abandoned location. Then it gets weird. Made with Knoll Light Factory [...]

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    Red Giant QuickTip #68: Seamless Tunnels in Trapcode Mir

    In this QuickTip, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how close up the mesh to create a seamless tunnel in Trapcode Mir.

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