Category Archives: Blog
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Crowd Control is Back!
1 commentCrowd 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
43 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
4 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
1 commentRed 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)
8 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
1 commentRGTV 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
No 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 [...]
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2010: An iPad 3G Odyssey
15 commentsI just got my new iPad. Not quite what I was expecting: Ironically the iPad/iPod friendly version can be found here: http://vimeo.com/11361004
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Teaser: John Knoll Interview
8 commentsThis is a 4-minute teaser for my interview with John Knoll, coming VERY soon to Red Giant TV. In this Video, John talks about the daunting challenge of creating the visual FX for Star Wars Episode One.
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My Schedule for NAB
3 commentsOK folks – while I hate Vegas, I plan on enjoying myself at NAB this year – and I look forward to enjoying it with YOU. Here’s my schedule: Sunday Night: Arrive at the MGM Grand. If you’re staying there give a shoutout. Maybe we can knock back a a drink talking about the olden [...]
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Red Giant QuickTip #8: In Like Flynn with Magic Bullet Looks
2 commentsIn this QuickTip, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to recreate the look of Flynn on screen, as seen in the trailer for Tron Legacy, using Magic Bullet Looks.
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Video Game Fun from Patrick Jean
3 commentsAs you can see from my recent posts and tutorial, I have lived through and been influenced by several video game and graphics revolutions over the last few decades. This video is a brilliant bridge between then and now. Good stuff! PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN. Uploaded by onemoreprod. – Discover more animation and arts videos.
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Red Giant QuickTip #6 – Driving Holomatrix Animation with Audio
4 commentsRed Giant QuickTip #6 – Driving Holomatrix Animation with Audio In this quick tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to use Audio to control the various effects in Holomatrix. He’ll also use Trapcode Soundkeys.