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AE: Omino Stamp, a Pixel Bender Filter

david van brink — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 05:41:20 +0000

Early this month, we visited the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, featuring patterns and clothing by the Hawaiian designer Alfred Shaheen. Great stuff! Yeah, I have a closet full of Hawaiian shirts. (Show show goes til August 8, worth visiting. On the first Friday of the month, many of the galleries on First Street [...]

AE: Short-take, Rain

david van brink — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:22:00 +0000

Easy Rain Here’s a cute one. Nothing deep or advanced, but it was fun. It’s a way to get a very simple and cheap “rain” in After Effects. Take a tiny bit of Noise, and blur it in one direction with Fast Blur. This makes very, very dim “streaks”. Use Threshold to make them visible again. Fast Blur it [...]

Omino Plugins Link Revision

david van brink — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:29:40 +0000

Just an administrative note. I’ve got a set of free After Effects plugins available. The old web-page links were a bit confused, especially with respect to which ones work on After Effects CS3 and CS4, and which are for After Effects CS5. The new link is http://omino.com/pixelblog/omino-ae-plugins/, and also appears as a “Page” in the blog [...]

AE: Omino Spindala, a Pixel Bender Filter

david van brink — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:20:31 +0000

download ==> omino_spindala_32.pbk, an After Effects filter. Always doing things the hard way. Needed a wheel with some symmetry, like so: How else to do it than by drawing a circle with some blobs, and then treating it with… a handwritten pixel bender kernel: I started describing its controls, but wouldn’t it be more fun to just try [...]

AE: Omino Staragon, A Pixel Bender Filter

david van brink — Tue, 04 May 2010 00:54:08 +0000

download: ==> omino staragon 32 6swtGElxOzs click forhttp://www.youtube.com/v/6swtGElxOzs&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999 [...]

AE: Omino Glass, A Pixel Bender Filter

david van brink — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:41:32 +0000

download: ==> omino glass 32 click forcontent [...]

Omino Plugins for CS5

david van brink — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:37:08 +0000

Glory Time marches forward. Computers are faster, hard drives and screens are bigger, cameras are smaller. My usual settings have grown from 8 bit, 640×480 to 32 bit 720p. (Yeah, I’ve lost my fear of nonsquare pixels.) Adobe just announced After Effects CS5, and I’m happy to report that the Omino After Effects Suite is fully ported for [...]

AE: Scripting Notes

david van brink — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:40:32 +0000

Just a quick note about a bug and an optimization when scripting After Effects CS4 (and probably earlier versions, too). addProperty() bug When adding several effects, each addition invalidates the object variable references to earlier ones. Here’s a code fragment which shows the problem and the solution. var comp = app.project.activeItem; var layer = comp.layers.addNull(); layer.name = "null_layer"; var slider1 = [...]

AE: Feature Wishes

david van brink — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:00:11 +0000

After Effects is just about my favorite software application. Very elegant model, and a clean & responsive UI. But I think I can articulate two well-considered features that would boost its utility quite generally. Feature Request 1: Foldering When working with many layers, it would often be nice to group several of them together. To do this, I’d [...]

AE: Projecting a Movie Onto a Complex Surface

david van brink — Sun, 24 May 2009 06:31:11 +0000

This is a rendering simulating an image projected onto a simple 3d scene. There’s nothing too exotic about it, except that the projection was done in 2d, in After Effects. And… here’s a moving sequence of the same scene. With old family movies. [...]