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• Core Training Value: You will learn the fundamental 12 Principles of Animation and how they can be used within After Effects to give all your future projects more life.
• Difficulty: Beginner

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Overview

• Core Training Value: You will learn the fundamental 12 Principles of Animation and how they can be used within After Effects to give all your future projects more life.
• Difficulty: Beginner

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Similar to Andrew Kramer’s tutorial, this one shows how to use a Difference Matte to roto out an actor and then composite various HD elements in front AND behind an actor to make the ground smashing effect seen in movies such as Hancock and games such as Crackdown.

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  Martin Brennand – Unlink Tracking Techniques

  Martin shows up some interesting techniques to implement when dealing with tricky pan shots that can cause for a difficult track.

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  Carl Larsen – Horizontal Replacement and Roto

  Carl Larsen from Telescope Media Group shos you how to use Mocha effectively for replacing skies as well as some good roto techniques.

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  David Torno – Face Replacement

  You probably saw this a while back, but David Torno has an awesome tutorial on how he replaced the faces of characters from the Golden Girl with faces of a band for their video… spectacular.

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  Ben Heusner – Using Mocha Shape in a Compositing Workflow

  Well… the title was kind of a mouthfull, and really basically tells you what you are about to watch. Learn how to use the Mocha Shape addon for MochaAE as an awesome tool in your compositing shots.

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  Carl Larsen – 2.5D Rig Removal

  Carl shows you how to remove objects within a shot using MochaAE as well as Photoshop. This is an essential technique to learn… trust me… I have run into it many times.

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  Carl Larsen – Tracking for Broadcast Graphics

  In this sweet tutorial, Carl show you how to track some footage of a gun with some blowback to crate some cool graphic overlays.

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  Ben Heusner – Roto Techniques

  Again, using Mocha Shape in conjunction with MochaAE, learn how to create spectacular mattes in less time to ease your compositing tasks.

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  Eran Stern – Red Giant Warp and Mocha

  Eran walks you through exporting your tracking data for use with Red Giant Warp instead of the basic corner pin effect in AE.

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  Ross Shain – Adjust Track Module

  In this tutorial Ross shows you how to adjust your tracks midway through for a very thorough and awesome track for your footage, whatever it may be!

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  The Basics of Mocha

  In this tutorial, Ben Le Tourneau shows you all the basic features on getting you up to speed on using the software.

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  Exporting Data into After Effects

  This is a simple walkthrough on how to export your tracking data into After Effects.

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  Aharon Rabinowitz – Exporting Mocha Data

  Similar to the one before, this one features one of our buddies, Aharon Rabinowitz showing you how to export tracking data from Mocha into AE.

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  Martin Brennard – Top 5 Workflow Tips

  Pretty straight forward eh? So yeah, this is a must see if you work in Mocha a lot. I mean you might learn something new… you never know!

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  Chris Heur – Convert 2D to 3D

  In this awesome tutorial Chris shows you how to take an old movie like Nosferatu and take it from 2D into 3D using tools like Mocha.

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  Martin Brennard – Tracking Foreground Obstructions

  This tutorial shows you how to compensate for things that get in the way of your track, and how to make Mocha ignore those when it comes time to track the things that matter.

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  Ben Heusner – Logo Replacement

  Learn how to use Mocha’s roto tools for use in replacing a logo on a candy bar.

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  Ben Heusner – Exporting Track Mattes

  Learn how to stabilize and export track mattes into After Effects for use later for task such as eye replacement.

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  Sasa Jokic – Matchmoving Multiple Tracks

  This is by far one of my favorite tutorials for Mocha. In this you learn how to track a ton of different planes of people holding up green cards so that it creates a specific image.

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  CMIVFX – Advance Planar Tracking

  In this tutorial you will learn some advanced techniques for planar tracking in lots of real world situations.

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  Ross Shain – Image Stabilization

  Instead of using this just for tracks, you can also use Mocha for tasks such as image stabilization, something that I am sure we all need every once in a while.

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  Mathias Mohl’s MochaImport Script and Tutorial

  Mathias has created a spectacular script to let you import Mocha data into After Effects and onto certain layers. He shows you how to use that data to track makeup onto actor’s faces.

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  Jeff Foster – Motion Tracking with Mocha

  In this tutorial from Jeff he shows us how easy it is to take some impromptu footage shot on the street and use Mocha to replace the side of a semi truck with whatever you want!

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  RGTV Ep. 27 Building an Airport Scene Part 1 – Backplate

  In this tutorial, Mathias creates the backplate for which we will be creating this airport scene.

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  RGTV Ep. 28 Building an Airport Scene Part 2 – Compositing

  In this next tutorial, Mathias shows you how to track with Mocha and use the data with MochaImport to create a sweet looking composite.

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  Eran Stern – Bionic Lab

  Using Mocha in this tutorial, Eran tracks footage to a computer screen as well as offsets different layers of numbers to create a cool looking lab text animation.

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  Richard Harrington – Mocha Walkthrough

  Another one of those basic tutorial, Richard Harrington for Layers Magazine takes you through some of the basics for MochaAE.

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  Aaron Zander – The Gatorade Effect Part 1

  In this first part, Aaron takes a look at the toolset within Mocha and how it can be used to create the look desired.

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  Aaron Zander – The Gatorade Effect Part 2

  In this second part Aaron shows us how to use Mocha link splines to other tracks, adjust tracks and keyframes, and finally rendering.

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1 The Plus Project

As you may know we have some pretty big plans for these Tuts+ sites. While today they are humble little tutorial blogs, we’ve thought for some time that it would be cool to build an entire platform for education. We’re going to call that platform Plus. You’ll know Plus content as our premium content, but no longer.
Our premium content is now ‘Premium’ (go figure!) and Plus is the brand for the educational platform we’re building, which, just like Psdtuts+, will be completely free for the most part.

With Tuts+ well established now, we’ve finally begun work on the project! We’ve acquired the domain Plus.org which will be the home of the new platform (yay for our first four letter domain!) We’ve also brought over our resident code genius Ryan Allen (who built our ActiveDen platform all by himself back in 2006) to team up with Tuts+ developer extraordinaire Fred Wu and kick ass front-end guru Derek Herman. And Skellie and I have been busy spec’ing out the plans for the new site, and it’s pretty, damn cool if I do say so myself!

Right now the Tuts+ sites are fairly passive, but we’d like to get the whole community involved in writing, teaching, answering questions and generally learning. The new Plus.org platform promises to incorporate all that plus some nifty ideas we’ve taken from gaming to come together into a social education platform.

It’s going to take a long time and we’re going to roll it all out in pieces over the next 2 years. We’re super excited about it all, and I hope I’ll have more updates in the coming months!

2 Creative Sessions and Mobiletuts+

While Plus.org will take a long time, we do have some new goodies coming much sooner including Creative Sessions which is being built now, and also Mobiletuts+ which will be all about mobile development!

3 Server Update

About a week and a half ago we had some major problems with our servers. I’m happy to say that we’ve now completely resolved these issues by moving hosts and reengineering our hosting setup completely from scratch. The new setup is much quicker and has a much greater capacity for growth, so fingers crossed, that will be the last server outage for a long time to come!

4 The Redesign

The new theme has a few neat features you may want to check out including:

• Basix!
  While Tuts+ has always been known for intermediate to advanced level content, we’ve been thinking it’d be good to separate out tutorials and articles better suited to people just getting started. So we’ve created the Basix tag for quick browsing. You’ll find it in the top menu, and expect to see more Basix content soon as we beef up our library of novice-friendly content.
• Easy access to Videos, Tips and Premium Posts
  We’ve also started tagging videos, tips and Premium membership posts so that along with Basix content you can quickly find what you’re after. We’re generally going to be working to clean up our category/tagging across the network in the coming months to get it more standardized.
• Tutorial Details on Posts
  We’re also going to start standardizing all tutorials to have a "Tutorial Details" section at the top with difficulty and other pertinent details. Eventually we’ll get all the archives updated … but with over 2000 tutorials, that will take a while!
• Bigger, more readable content area
  We’ve expanded the site to be optimized for bigger 1280px wide screens, with a bit of JavaScript to resize for smaller resolutions. This has given us the space to clean up the content area to be a bit bigger and more readable generally.
• Latest Creattica content for inspiration
  We’ve also started porting over the latest Creattica content into our sidebars. There’s actually a redesign of Creattica coming in the next few weeks and we’ll be expanding the gallery to cover even more types of inspiration. The new sidebar widget will give even more exposure to those talented creatives on Creattica!
• General UI Improvements
  Most of the improvements on the new design are small, subtle improvements such as a reduction in the number of clicks needed to browse categories, a clearer search field, faster loading pages and generally cleaner, more optimized code.

One change that we have also made is to remove the community link feed. Over the years this was a great way to get exposure to community links, but unfortunately was also home to a lot of spam. So with this iteration we’ve left it behind.

Also at the moment sites with Flickr groups don’t have it showing, but don’t worry that’ll be back. There’s just a problem with our Flickr plugin at the moment!!

There are still some more tweaks to do to the new design and a lot of post formatting to do to get our archives matching up with the new theme. But for all intents and purposes the new theme is now alive and well! Enjoy!

We just released this tutorial that you can use this element in. Also helpful would be the similar tutorials: Creating a Crowd Scene with Particular 2, Creating the Jumbotron Look in After Effects, and How to Create Light Wrap and Edge Blur.

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Requirements

• Trapcode Particular You can download a trial version here.

Overview

• Core Training Value: Creating a quick crowd and generating a room with walls that change with the music.
• Difficulty: Beginner

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Overview

• Core Training Value: Learn how to use After Effect’s native effects to create a beautiful dynamic texture controlled and animated by it’s base colors. and create a custom “control panel” to animate it. The design options hidden within this technic are endless and depends entirely up to you.
• Difficulty: Beginner

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Create an awesome wallpaper to show your support for AEtuts+. You’ll have your wallpaper distributed to thousands of AEtuts+ readers, and if the community loves your wallpaper the most, you could win more than a thousand dollars worth of AE goodies!

The Rules

Please read the following carefully *before* submitting your content.

• You can send as many wallpapers as you like, but if you want to send
  
  more than one, we suggest you to zip/rar the files before sending them.
• The name and the e-mail address must be valid, and they are the ones
  
  that will be credited. We will contact you before announcing the winners
  
  with that e-mail address (in case you win).
• All the wallpapers must be released under a free license. By submitting
  
  you agree that the content will become public domain.
• We welcome any type of image, 3D art, vectors, photos, and pixmaps.
  
  Note though that because this contest is for wallpapers, we do need big images.
  
  So sizes equal or bigger than 1900×1200 are a bonus. We also appreciate
  
  very much if you send different resolutions of the same wallpaper.
• The limit for uploads on this server is around 5 MBs. If you encounter any problems
  
  with files around that size, please make them smaller or send via YouSendIt to aetuts@tutsplus.com.
• Accepted extensions are: jpg jpeg bmp gif png svg svgz (tar.)bz2 (tar.)gz zip rar
• All entries must be submitted before midnight 12am EST March 31st. We will then open them for voting in the beginning of April.
• You must include the aetuts logo in the Wallpaper in order to qualify!
  

  DOWNLOAD IT HERE

The Prizes

The winners will be chosen by votes. Once we receive the final entries, we’ll post them all up gallery-style then you and ALL of your friends will be able to vote. Your goal should be Creativity and good Design.

• First Place will be given 1 full license of mocha tracking and roto software (full version) (OSX or Windows) retail value: $1,095.00
• Second Place will be given mocha for After Effects and mocha shape for After Effects (OSX or Windows) retail value: $330
• Honorable Mention Professional Training for Primatte Keyer Pro
• Honorable Mention Professional Training for the After Effects Camera
• Honorable Mention Professional Keying with Keylight
• Honorable Mention Professional Training with Trapcode 3S
• Honorable Mention Trapcode Form Training with Harry J. Frank
• Honorable Mention After Effects Expressions Series 1 & 2 Bundles
• Have lots of fun! =))