Tag Archives: After Effects
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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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Red Giant Quick Tip #3 – 3D Text
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Mar 24, 2010
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Views: 6394
6 commentsA quick tip for quickly creating cool looking 3D text in AE with real depth, using Red Giant Software’s PlaneSpace.
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Red Giant QuickTip #1 – Chromatic Aberration
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Mar 18, 2010
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Views: 2439
5 commentsRed Giant QuickTip #1 – Chromatic Aberration from Red Giant Software on Vimeo. In this quick tip, Aharon Rabinowitz discusses the Chromatic Aberration tool in Magic Bullet Looks, and shows you how to quickly create a dreamy distorted look for your footage.
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New Tutorial Coming Soon – Retro Vector Video Game Look
1 commentOne of the first tutorials I ever intended to do for Red Giant TV was to re-create my favorite video game of all time – The Star Wars Arcade Game from the early 80′s. But it proved a little too daunting given a new baby and not enough quiet time to take on this massive [...]
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Cool Tutorial at GreyscaleGorilla.com
No commentsHey folks – just watched a great Cinema 4D/After Effects tutorial by Nick Campbell at greyscalegorilla.com: How to make a Cascading Text Animation With Cinema 4D and After Effects. Check it out by clicking on the links below. FinalRender from Nick Campbell on Vimeo. Watch Part 1 here. Watch Part 2 here
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New Holomatrix Tutorial at Motionworks
1 commentJohn Dickinson, the “Tutorial Thunder from Down Under,” just posted a tutorial/project breakdown on his use of Holomatrix in several Terminator spots for FoxTel. he does some really interesting stuff with Holomatrix and Mattes. Check it out here.
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Keep Your Wiggle Under Control
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Nov 19, 2009
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Views: 7513
8 commentsHave you ever set up a wiggle expression, gotten a result you liked, and then added another layer into your comp – only to find it changed the wiggle animation? Or maybe you changed the layer order and your wiggle animation changed? In this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz, tells you why it happens and how to [...]
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Intro to Holomatrix, Pt. 3: Transform Properties
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Nov 16, 2009
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Views: 7396
2 commentsIn 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: 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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Intro to Holomatrix, Pt. 1: Getting Started
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Nov 16, 2009
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Views: 12595
14 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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I love the 80′s
6 commentsUPDATE: Video Rock is now available – get it here. OK – that’s a terrible lie. When I was in the 80′s it was an awkward time. The chicks didn’t dig me. I wasn’t on the football team. I watched Dr. Who and Star Trek, and did lots of other geeky stuff. I was more [...]
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Working a Film Shoot from 10,355 Miles Away
13 commentsLast Sunday night, this was my schedule: 7:00 PM – Dinner with wife and daughter at home, in NYC 8:00 PM – Film Shoot in Melbourne, Australia 12:00 AM – Back home and brushing my teeth before bed I know what you’re thinking: I probably should have brushed and flossed right after I ate. I [...]
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My Interview on Motionworks Unplugged
6 commentsHey folks – I had the pleasure of being interviewed by my good friend John Dickinson, of Motionworks, last week. In this up-close and funny chat, we discuss how I started in the industry and my years working with Creative Cow and now Red Giant Software. I also talk about the online tutorial phenomenon, plus [...]
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Holomatrix is Coming…
11 commentsA new set of tools designed by Dan Ebberts and myself, and which will be published by Red Giant Software. More info coming soon…
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WIP: Fly Into a Picture
12 commentsOne of the effects I’ve always wanted to pull off was flying into picture – similar to what was done in the opening credits of HBO’s Carnivale: Some tarot cards are dropped on a table and then the camera flies into them revealing a full 3D (Well, 2.5D actually) environment. I’ve always admired it because [...]
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The People I Work With (and Who You Should Work With Too)
3 commentsOver the years I’ve worked with a lot of people, and I’m at the point in my career where I can be a little picky about it. Aside from the team at Red Giant Software (which I am honored to be a part of) there are a few people and companies that I have really [...]
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Free After Effects Project File: Microscope
7 commentsYears ago (2006), I had planned to do a tutorial on creating a microscope look with After Effect. I put together a project file, but then got pretty busy with work. When I was finally ready to do it, Andrew Kramer had already done a fantastic tutorial on the subject, so I moved on to [...]
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Free After Effects Project File: Old World Map
14 commentsA while back I did at tutorial for Creative Cow called Shape Layer Tip #3: Trim Paths. In that tutorial I did an old-school map animation using shape layers to create the animated red line. Recently I was asked to share how the map itself was created. The short version is that I read a [...]
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Mojo Rising – Magic Bullet Mojo
1 commentThe latest from Stu Maschwitz and Red Giant Software is finally here – Magic Bullet Mojo . Mojo is a plug-in that allows you to easily create the film look seen in almost every action/sci-fi/blockbuster movie made in the last few years. The look is characterized by any non-skin toned colors being pushed it into [...]
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After Effects: Effects from A-Z
1 commentRecently I heard about a series of tutorials being done at Motionworks, John Dickinson’s website. The series is called After Effects: Effects A-Z, and it’s an ambitious undertaking of going through every effect that ships with AE, and explaining it’s purpose. There are several contributors so far – Maltaannon, Topher Welsh, Harry Frank, Eran Stern [...]
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Haunted Audio
- By Aharon Rabinowitz & Harry Frank Sep 03, 2009
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Views: 11786
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. You can expand [...]
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The Daily Show
12 commentsI’ve been doing this animation thing for a while, and while I’m not a fantastic artist, my one saving grace is that I work fast. Really, really fast. At least I thought so until I went to the Daily Show with John Stewart (my favorite show, and the only reason I take a few minutes [...]
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After Effects and Tron 1.0
12 commentsWatching the promo for Tron Legacy got me all excited and a little nostalgic. So today I played around in After Effects with Trapcode Particular 2, and came up with this. I smell a tutorial. End of line.
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The NY Yankees and Mets Call in Crowd Control
3 commentsI have founded my career and reputation on helping people. When we built the Crowd Control Library of Pre-keyd Alphastock Footage, it was an extension of that. It’s not something we can give away for free (except that we do), but we’ve tried our best to make it easy to buy and use so that [...]