Posts by: Aharon Rabinowitz
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Film Flash: New FREE Preset For After Effects
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 01, 2010
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Views: 25121
20 commentsPlain and simple, Film Flash is an automated, dynamic preset for After Effects that bumps up the exposure of the footage to create a cool transition effects between two video clips. All you have to do is add a layer marker right at the point of transition, and Film Flash does the rest. The effect [...]
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Do you choose the people you work with?
3 commentsHey folks – I’m at the point in may career where I get to choose a lot of the people I work with on projects, but that wasn’t always the case. I’m interested in finding out your situation. It will really help me in creating some new content for my site, and may even allow [...]
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FREE Template Project: Movie Magic
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Nov 09, 2010
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Views: 12113
13 commentsA template project I’ve been working on with 3D text and cool light-based transitions. Has a bit of a movie theater messaging vibe (like “please turn your cell phones off” and “Buy Popcorn”), or maybe a futuristic holiday feel. Uses Trapcode Form, Knoll Light Factory and Magic Bullet Looks. Get it for FREE at Red [...]
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How to Start a Software User Group (or Die Trying)
7 commentsGiven that I co-founded After Effects New York, the worlds largest software user group, I get asked this question a lot: How does one start a user group? In the interest of full disclosure, I need to say that it didn’t hurt that by the time I co-founded AENY with Denis Radeke, I’d already put [...]
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I Wish Someone Would Make one of These About After Effects
8 commentsThe title of this post pretty much says it. This is pure awesomeness. Come one people – someone must have enough free time to do something this cool about After Effects!
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Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Plagiarism
34 commentsIf you follow my blog, you probably know that I’m working with Red Giant Software these days. That was a choice I didn’t even have to think hard about. The opportunity to work with guys like Peder Norrby and Stu Maschwitz, the creative geniuses behind Trapcode and Magic Bullet respectively, was just too good to [...]
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How I See the World, Once a Month
17 commentsAbout once a month I suffer from a condition called Ocular Migraines. Scientifically, it is essentially the same as a standard migraine but, in addition to the headache, it makes me temporarily blind for about 20 minutes. It starts off as a small shimmer of geometric shapes in the corner of my eye, and within [...]
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Tron 2.5D
3 commentsMore than ayear ago (wow has it been that long) I made a blog post called After Effects and Tron 1.0 where I showed a project I was playing around with. Well, I left it alone for a long time because I wasn’t having a lot of luck. But then friday I had some ideas, [...]
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Adventure Now!
1 commentI just watched part of a web series from Seth Worley, called “Adventure Now” and I really enjoyed it. While the series has religious undertones, which is not generally something I’m a fan of, it’s truly well written and well filmed. Also, it’s funny, smart, and original which is something you don’t see too often [...]
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Red Giant Quicktip #20: Sharing Custom Flares Across Apps
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Sep 28, 2010
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Views: 6563
2 commentsRed Giant Quicktip #20: Sharing Custom Flares Across Apps In this Quicktip, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how you can easily share Lens Flares/Custom Lenses you Create in Knoll Light Factory between After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop (and more) – and how you can share them from user to user. This allows you to quickly [...]
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Layers Magazine Gives Holomatrix a 5/5 Rating
6 commentsSome of you might not know this, but Dan Ebberts and I created Red Giant Holomatrix, a plug-in for creating the look and feel of a Sci-Fi hologram. We spent months agonizing over how it would look and behave. People seem to love it, so I know we did OK, but I was really happy [...]
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Crowd Control is Back!
19 commentsCrowd Control is back, baby! It took a lot longer than we wanted, but it’s working even better than we’d hoped! You can now get Crowd Control clips at http://footage.toolfarm.com/. You’ve probably noticed that it’s now hosted and operated by ToolFarm.com. First off, I wanted to let you know that if you previously purchased credits, [...]
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I am an Unfunny Sellout Turd
49 commentsHey folks – every once in a while I get a really nice thank you letter. I thought I’d share this one: Message: If you’re going to be such a little sellout turd and throw products in my face all the time, could you at least please like, TRY to be funny. “Im this guy [...]
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Update on Crowd Control
6 commentsHi Folks – The Crowd Control site is finally progressing very quickly. I gave a customer access to the new site to test for the user experience and there are still a few minor kinks (it charged him 3 times for 1 purchase, some timeout issues for larger files – which I think we may [...]
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Quicktip: Old Film Look with Light Leaks
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Aug 12, 2010
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Views: 12681
10 commentsRed Giant Quicktip #17: Old Film Look In this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create an old film look with light leaks. He’ll be using Trapcode Particular to create the light leaks, and the tools in Magic Bullet Looks to create the look of old damaged footage. iPod/iPad-Freindly Version on Vimeo.
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Update on Crowd Control
12 commentsJust wanted to give a quick update on Crowd Control. There appears to be a light at the end of the tunnel. This week we shipped off all of our drives to a new facility in Silicone Valley. It has been a tough process to find a good place, and to get the 32 TB [...]
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Tutorials vs. Art
20 commentsI have heard a lot of talk lately about the misuse of tutorials. A lot of people have the same stuff in their reels because they are all following the same tutorials. Some feel it is the demise of an art-form, once everyone can do it. Bullshit. When it comes to art, the question is [...]
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Best. Fortune. Cookie. Ever.
6 commentsSome fortune cookies tell you your future, or something about yourself, or your lucky numbers. The one I got today had great advice for when potential clients ask “how much is it going to cost” and “how fast can you get it done?”
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QuickTip: Trapcode Form City
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jun 29, 2010
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Views: 10755
3 commentsRed Giant Quicktip #15: Trapcode Form City from Red Giant Software on Vimeo. In this Quicktip, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how using Depth Maps to displace Trapcode Form particles can be used to create a 3D Point Cloud Representation of a city. This tutorial was inspired by the brilliant Trapcode Form work of Jeremy Cox [...]
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Music Creation For People With Talent (in other areas)
10 commentsIt’s probably not a surprise to you, but a lot of people that are talented in the visual arts (such as animation or motion graphics), are talented in other disciplines – often music. Maybe they sing, or play the guitar or the harmonica, as a break from the daily grind. While I can play several [...]
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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