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  1. Crowd Control is Back!

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Aug 30, 2010

    Crowd 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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  2. Crowd Control Gets Props at Supermeet

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Feb 08, 2010

    Crowd Control received Rave reviews from Matt Silverman at last week’s FCP user’s Supermeet in San Francisco! Check it out at 21:00 (21 minutes and 0 seconds): Hey… We’re just saying…

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  3. Crowd Control Year End Sale!

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Dec 15, 2009

    The holidays are upon us, and we wanted to offer you a special holiday treat: 40% off Crowd Control, our library of pre-keyed alpha stock footage. The sale ends on Thursday December 17,  2009 @ 12:00AM EST. Use the code CCYE40 when purchasing, and you’ll be given 40% off the price of download credits. You [...]

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  4. Death Eater Apparition Effect

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Nov 11, 2009

    There’s a new tutorial at Red Giant TV that shows you how to create the Death Eater Apparition Effect seen in the Harry Potter films. It may not look exactly like it, but it’s a really cool result, none the less. Very interesting manipulation of Trapcode Particular 2. Michael also covers some color correction techniques, [...]

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  5. WIP: Fly Into a Picture

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Oct 08, 2009

    One 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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  6. Crowd Control Kicks Off the Teen Choice Awards

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Aug 29, 2009

    Recently, our friend Harry Frank, of GrayMachine.com, used Crowd Control to kick off Fox’s Teen Choice Awards. You can see the clip being used right here, in the first few seconds. Yes, that vector-like artwork is actually a video clip that Harry manipulated in Adobe After Effects to work with the color palette and style [...]

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  7. The NY Yankees and Mets Call in Crowd Control

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Jul 28, 2009

    I 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 [...]

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  8. 50% off Crowd Control

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Jul 21, 2009

    In honor of Harry Frank’s Particular 2 crowd scene tutorial, we’re giving 50% off Crowd Control so that you can re-create the effect. UPDATE: The sale is over. Use the code “particular2” when purchasing credits, and get half off the price. BTW – these are the 5 clips Harry used: # 00036_002_10 # 00155_001_58 # [...]

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    RGTV Ep 25: Creating a Crowd Scene with Particular 2

    In 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. Energize: Big Sale (50% off) on Crowd Control

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    May 19, 2009

    This weeks Episode of Red Giant TV is hosted by my good friend Eran Stern. He had a lot of fun creating a transporter effect. Episode 19: Creating a Transporter Effect In this episode, Chief Engineer Eran Stern works furiously to get his Starship’s transporters back on-line to rescue a fellow crew member trapped on [...]

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  13. Major Site Improvements Coming!

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Apr 05, 2009

    Hi folks- Just wanted to let you know that we have major site improvements planned for All Bets Are Off Productions – specifically with the speed of the Crowd Control site. Over the last 3 weeks (since we launched Crowd Control) we’ve been receiving your feedback about the way the site works and what you [...]

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  14. 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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