Category Archives: Effects
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RGTV Ep. 37: Creating a Holographic Interface Effect
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Feb 15, 2010
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Views: 2999
4 commentsIn this episode of Red Giant TV Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to quickly create the look of a holographic interface effect using Red Giant Software’s Holomatrix. He’ll also be using Digital Juice’s motion Designer Toolkit 2 for the screen elements, as well as Magic Bullet Looks for the color grading.
Note from Aharon: This isn’t [...]
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Intro to Holomatrix, Pt. 3: Transform Properties
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Nov 16, 2009
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Views: 2718
1 commentIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz walks you through the Transform properties found in 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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Intro to Holomatrix, Pt. 2: Corner Pinning and 3D
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Nov 16, 2009
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Views: 2115
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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Intro to Holomatrix, Pt. 1: Getting Started
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Nov 16, 2009
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Views: 4310
8 commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz gives you a basic introduction to 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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Haunted Audio
- By Aharon Rabinowitz & Harry Frank Sep 03, 2009
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Views: 7620
11 commentsIn this video, Harry Frank and Aharon Rabinowitz do a tag team tutorial in sound design. Aharon covers how to create that scary audio heard in Poltergeist using audio software, and Harry shows you how to recreate that effect in Adobe After Effects.
You can watch the tutorial in the window below.
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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: 14837
19 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 collaberating [...]
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RGTV Ep. 23: Peel-Away Vortex Transition
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jul 07, 2009
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Views: 30933
38 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: 10061
24 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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RGTV Ep. 21 – Creating a Text to Sand Transition
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jun 09, 2009
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Views: 37099
33 commentsIn this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to use Trapcode Form to create the effect of text (or a logo) dissolving to sand and blowing away. You’ll also learn how to reverse the transition, so that sand forms into text. You can see an example video of the end result [...]
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Simple Reflection Techniques
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jun 03, 2009
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Views: 16698
13 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 watch [...]
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Creating a Force Field Effect in Adobe After Effects
- By Aharon Rabinowitz May 14, 2009
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Views: 53580
126 commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create a awesome force field effect in Adobe After Effects – with no 3rd-party plug-ins. He’ll also cover some basic color correction techniques.
Warning: This tutorial is almost 40 minutes long. Go get some snack and hit the head before you sit down to this one. You [...]
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Creating 3D Cloud Motion From a Still Image
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Apr 27, 2009
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Views: 29131
32 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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More Techniques for Better Light Wraps
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Apr 20, 2009
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Views: 31550
14 commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz continues his exploration of Light Wraps, focusing on improving Maltaannon’s free light wraping method (ceLightwrap), as well as covering a light wrapping technique for emergency situations.
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RGTV Ep. 15: Better Compositing with Particles
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Mar 31, 2009
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Views: 10041
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: 7367
No commentsIn 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 09: Creating a Watercolor Painting Look
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Feb 17, 2009
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Views: 3452
1 commentIn this episode, Aharon shows you how to turn your video into an animated watercolor painting, and shares some techniques in varying the look and color.
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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: 5238
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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RGTV Ep 06: Controling Time with Audio – Pt. 2
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jan 23, 2009
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Views: 5266
11 commentsIn this episode, Aharon continues to explore how audio can be used to control time, but he expands on that by showing you how it can be used to change the look of the footage as well.
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RGTV Ep 05: Controling Time with Audio – Pt. 1
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jan 23, 2009
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Views: 6215
8 commentsIn this episode, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to use audio to control time. You’ll learn how to make your video automatically move forward in time to the music’s beat – a technique used in tons of music videos and commercials.
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RGTV Ep 03: Looping a Particle System
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 4739
1 commentIn this Episode, you’ll learn how to set up a seamless looping particle system. We’ll be using Trapcode Particular and Starglow to create a stylized holiday snowstorm, but the concepts can be adapted for anything from backgrounds to lower 3rds.
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The Bourne Flashback: Creating a Flashback Look
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 5927
6 commentsIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create the flashback look as seen in the film The Bourne Ultimatum with some extra touches and hints.
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Creating a Looping Particle System
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 2824
1 commentIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz (Along with the help of his daughter Noa) shows you how to create a looping particle system in After Effects.
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Creating the Jumbotron Look in After Effects
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 4270
1 commentIts game time baby! In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create the look of a giant monitor, such as the kind you might see at a stadium or concert.
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AE Quick Tips #5: Perspective Offset
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 1863
3 commentsIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a cool tip for adding depth to your Fractal Noise animations.
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AE Quick Tips #1: Grow Bounds
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 1244
4 commentsIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you an often-missed tool that can help you out in a pinch, by expanding the boundaries of your footage.