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  1. Crowd Tutorial Coming Soon!

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Jul 14, 2009

    …But not from me. This one is from my good friend, Harry Frank of GrayMachine.com. Next week’s episode of Red Giant TV promises to be an amazing one  – it covers creating a crowd with Trapcode Particular 2.0. Building off of Harry’s work in the tutorial, I created this scene: A still image doesn’t do [...]

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  2. Particular 2 Presentation + Tutorial

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Jul 06, 2009

    AENY Aharon Rabinowitz introduces the new features of Trapcode Particular 2 from AENY on Vimeo. On June 25, 2009, I gave a presentation at After Effects New York on Red Giant’s Software’s Trapcode Particular 2 (not yet released). It included a 20 minute overview of some of the new features, as well as a 20 [...]

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    Ocean Water Effect

    In 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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  4. After Effects New York – Ocean Water Presentation

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Jun 29, 2009

    So… good news and bad news… The bad news first. The screen capture we did at After Effects New York, did not work out well. Now the good news… Today I sat down and gave the same presentation to… my computer. I just re-did the presentation – no editing, no planning, no nothing. It’s recorded [...]

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  5. New Ad for Crowd Control

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Jun 23, 2009

    Just completed a marathon animation run to complete this 30-second commercial for Crowd Control. I did it in After Effects in under 2 days, pretty much from scratch. Believe it or not I spent more time on that logo build than on any other single section. Tried so many different things… With the exception of [...]

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  6. After Effects and Rendering for Flash with Alpha Channel

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Jun 22, 2009

    I was asked this question this week, and wanted to share the answer. Question: When I render particles with an Alpha Channel and import that into Flash, there is a dark halo or weird edges around the particles, which makes compositing impossible. I am rendering out as an FLV with Alpha. What am I doing [...]

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    RGTV Ep. 21 – Creating a Text to Sand Transition

    In 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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  8. On being “The Man” and After Effects with H.264

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Jun 05, 2009

    Recently, I was told that, with the launch of a big product like Crowd Control, I went from being just a guy to being “The Man.” Sooooooooo not true. I only own a small island. (you know I’m kidding right – if you live outside NYC, there’s a 99% chance your home is a lot [...]

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  9. Trapcode Particular 2!!!!

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    May 28, 2009

    IMPORTANT NOTE: Given that the product is still in Beta, these features are not set in stone. Until this ad appears on the Red Giant website, do not consider this official. The ad may change. Oh yeah, it’s Red Giant Software’s Trapcode Particular 2, baby! OK, well, it’s a commercial for it. And at the [...]

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  10. Peel-away Vortex Transition

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    May 22, 2009

    OK – maybe not the best name, but here’s a tutorial I’m working on.  It uses Trapcode Form to create the majority of the effect. Click the image to watch video Man, I can’t wait to try this transition out on some of the Crowd Control footage, to see if it translates well as a [...]

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  11. Reverse Shatter Tutorial by Harry Frank

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    May 17, 2009

    Just watched a cool tutorial by Harry Frank on creating a Reverse shatter effect. This is the end result: Reverse Shatter Effect from graymachine on Vimeo. You can see the tutorial here:

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    Creating a Force Field Effect in Adobe After Effects

    In 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. [...]

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  13. The Force Field…

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    May 13, 2009

    The After Effects Force Field tutorial is done. The only thing keeping me from putting it up is an overnight compression job.  But here’s a video to keep you happy in the meantime… We’ll be covering how to create the forcefield itself, and some basic color corrections. The rest (camera shake, explosion) is for another [...]

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  14. After Effects Force Field

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    May 04, 2009

    For a long time I’ve wanted to do a force field tutorial. But I had trouble finding inspiration. I started to look around the web, and found this trailer for Halo 3: After watching that, I was inspired to find a way to create an effect  that didn’t feel random but that did have some [...]

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  15. Crowd Control Takes on Adjustment Lights

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Mar 30, 2009

    Eran Stern just did a great Creative Cow podcast tutorial on the subject of adjustment lights. And I’m proud to say that in it, he uses Crowd Control to help illustrate it. And if you’re more of a “Full-res” tutorial kind of person, it should be up this Friday in all of it’s full-sized glory. [...]

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