Category Archives: 3D
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Red Giant TV Episode 89 – Tempo: Up in Flames – Realistic and Slow Motion Fire Effects
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 18, 2012
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2 commentsIn this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz walks you through the workflow used to create realistic fire for our film Tempo. He’ll be using a combination of real fire footage, Trapcode Particular, and some 3rd Party plug-ins. Note from Aharon: One thing I did not mention – the particles’ life is set to [...]
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Episode 84: Trapcode Mir – Amplitude Mapping
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Aug 14, 2012
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No commentsIn 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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Episode 79: Soylent Screen – The Secret Ingredients for a Filmed Computer Screen Look
- By Aharon Rabinowitz May 17, 2012
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No commentsIn this Episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create the look of a filmed computer screen (what it looks like when you film it with a handheld camera) using After Effects and elements created with screen capture software. Expression for Creating Wiggle with Ease: freq=.5; //frequency: fill in or tie [...]
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Red Giant TV Episode 69 – Cosmodius: Creating a Retro Sci-fi Logo Animation
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jan 27, 2012
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Views: 3314
3 commentsn this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz walks you through the process of creating a Retro Sci-Fi logo. In addition to creating the logo, he’ll show you how to age the video to make it look like it came out of the early 80′s. Links: Inside the Nebulae – Space flight video by [...]
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Red Giant QuickTip #50: From Torch to Plasma Fireball – Building new FX from a Red Giant People Preset
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Oct 04, 2011
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Views: 3324
No commentsSomething old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. In this QuickTip, Aharon Rabinowitz builds a beautiful blue Plasma Fireball effect with the help of a Torch preset created by Harry Frank for Red Giant People. Presets: Get the FREE Plasma Fireball preset at Red Giant People: people.redgiantsoftware.com/Explore/PresetDetail.aspx?PresetId=1949 Get the FREE Form 2 Torch Preset at [...]
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Red Giant TV Episode 59: Trapcode 3D Stereoscopic Workflow Basics
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Aug 09, 2011
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Views: 3559
2 commentsIn this Episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz explores the basics of 3D Stereoscopic Workflow with Trapcode 3D plug-ins.This tutorial is a great intro to Stereoscopic 3D in After Effects. If you have them, bring your 3D Glasses – it will help. Watch it here: Check out Pinkau.com to get the FREE stereoscopic tools [...]
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Red Giant QuickTip #35: Kaleidoscopic Effects with Trapcode Form
- By Aharon Rabinowitz May 17, 2011
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Views: 2517
1 commentIn this QuickTip, Aharon Rabinowitz explores the Kaleidospace features of Trapcode Form to create 3D mirrored kaleidoscopic effects. Watch the tutorial below.
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RGTV Ep. 39: Creating a 1980′s Retro Video Game Look
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Mar 16, 2010
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Views: 6458
14 commentsIn this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz walks you through the process of creating the look of a vector style arcade game from the early 1980′s. He’ll use PlaneSpace, Particular, & Text Anarchy, as well as expressions and other techniques.
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An Introduction to Knoll 3D Flare (Beta)
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 16, 2009
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Views: 20015
19 commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz introduces you to the features of Knoll 3D Flare – the new FREE add-on for Knoll Light Factory Pro from Red Giant Software. This add-on for Knoll Light Factory (2.5) in After Effects includes fantastic features like Edge flare-ups, color linking, Z-depth intensity, and full 3D obscuration.
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Intro to Holomatrix, Pt. 2: Corner Pinning and 3D
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Nov 16, 2009
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Views: 6280
3 commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz talks about perspective corner pinning and 3D with Red Giant Software’s Holomatrix – A set of tools he and Dan Ebberts created together, for Adobe After Effects. The software creates the look of Holographic Imagery, Digital Signage, Bad TV and Ghostly Apparitions.
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RGTV Ep 25: Creating a Crowd Scene with Particular 2
- By Harry Frank Jul 21, 2009
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Views: 25939
25 commentsIn 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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RGTV Ep. 23: Peel-Away Vortex Transition
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jul 07, 2009
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Views: 53664
40 commentsIn 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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Ocean Water Effect
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jun 30, 2009
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Views: 20441
30 commentsIn this presentation, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create this ocean scene in Adobe After Effects with only the tools found in AE – No 3rd-party plug-ins were used. He’ll also introduce you to a cool plug-in for creating realistic water. This was part of a presentation he gave on June 25, 2009 at [...]
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Simple Reflection Techniques
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jun 03, 2009
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Views: 28786
14 commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create simple reflections on the floor for both individual people and crowds, in Adobe After Effects. As a bonus, you’ll pick up a valuable technique for counteracting some of the issues you may encounter when you have collaps transformations turned on. Important Note: Make sure to [...]
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Creating 3D Cloud Motion From a Still Image
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Apr 27, 2009
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Views: 58693
37 commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to take a 2D image of clouds and use it to create realistic 3D cloud motion, in just a few simple clicks. No cutting up of the image needed! This Tip was sent to us by Noel Powell after he watched our weather replacement tutorials.
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RGTV Ep. 15: Better Compositing with Particles
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Mar 31, 2009
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Views: 14984
7 commentsIn this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a technique for placing layers inside the middle of a particle system – crucial to truly integrating your CGI effects with your live action footage or motion graphics.
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RGTV Ep 10: Creating Traffic Patterns
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Feb 24, 2009
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Views: 10149
1 commentIn this episode, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create a realistic traffic pattern backdrop – great for a scene in which the camera overlooks a low lying, but developed area – perhaps looking down from a high hill onto a residential neighborhood.
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RGTV Ep 08: Creating and Working with Complex 3D Projects
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jan 30, 2009
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Views: 16130
8 commentsIn this episode, Aharon shares some tips for simplifying and working with 3D compositions. You’ll also get a look at at some cool tools designed to easily distribute layers in 3D space, and that help create complex 3D shapes.
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RGTV Ep 07: Getting Better Control of Emitter Position in Trapcode Particular
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jan 30, 2009
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Views: 7796
8 commentsIn this Episode, we’ll look at some very useful techniques for Trapcode Particular that will give you better control of emitter position in 2D and 3D. You’ll also learn how to capture the motion of your mouse (or stylus) to control emitter position.
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Weather Replacement in AE CS3: Part 2
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 5586
6 commentsIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz continues his weather replacement tutorial, and shows you how to add rain to your shot, as well as drops of water on the camera. Also, 3D compositing and color correction are covered.
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Light Writing – Part 2
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 5691
3 commentsIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to improve the look of the light writing effect covered in part 1, adding intense points of light and other improvement ideas.
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Light Writing – Part 1
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 6791
1 commentIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to use AE to simulate the popular light writing effect seen in recent Sprint commercials.
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Per-Character 3D Text
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 2397
No commentsIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz introduces you to the new Per-Character 3D Text animation feature in After Effects CS3.
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Creating 3D Extruded Text
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 4362
4 commentsIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you several popular techniques and tools for creating 3D extruded text in After Effects.
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Vanishing Point in AE CS3
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 1576
2 commentsIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to use Photoshop CS3′s Vanishing Point tool to convert a flat 2D image into a 3D object in After Effects CS3.