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How To Create An Awesome Teleportation Effect

Maxwell Swet — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:00:45 +0000

This is a tutorial on how to create a teleport effect similar to the Fallen’s teleport effect in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. We start with tracking the footage, adding glow to the actor, and using fractal noise to create a ‘lattice lightning’ effect. I used this shot in my short film, ‘Agents Of Evil: [...]

Nothing To Fear: From Storyboard to Animation – Tuts+ Premium

Simon Russell — Tue, 22 May 2012 13:00:48 +0000

In today’s tutorial I’m going to go through the entire process of creating an animation from a sketch on paper to the final render. I’ll specifically be going through the workflow I used for my animation ‘Nothing To Fear’. Let’s jump in! :) In this tutorial we’ll look at: Creating and preparing drawn artwork in [...]

Aetuts+ Hollywood Movie Title Series – Green Lantern

Antonio Cerri — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:00:43 +0000

Today we’re going to be looking at the animation style of movie “Green Lantern”. At the end of this tutorial, you can learn how to draw and animate your own title with this incredible style. The actual example of the Green Lantern movie title is just for training purposes and is not to be used [...]

10 Free Amazing Motion Design Fonts

Alexander Dohr — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:00:13 +0000

We all love a variety of nice fonts, don’t we? However most times it comes in more than handy to have about ten fonts you’re familiar with and that work well in multiple situations such as kinetic typography or 3D applications. If you’re still looking for your favorite ten check out this roundup because it’ll [...]

Create An Animated Helicopter From A 2D Image

Jack Grundy — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:00:43 +0000

In this tutorial you’ll be learning how to create a realistically animated and composited helicopter from a 2D image. We’ll cover how to extract the helicopter from the background using Photoshop before diving into After Effects to get started. In After Effects we’ll look at how to create your own rotor blades for the helicopter, [...]

LOTR Series: Eye of Sauron – Tuts+ Premium

James Whiffin — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:00:05 +0000

Continuing the Lord of the Rings series, we will be creating the Eye of Sauron with fractal noise, vector blurs and CG fire. This will then be exported into Maya and composited back in after effects with the CG tower, lighting and background HDRI. Get the Full Tutorial! Didn’t hear about Ae Premium? It’s an [...]

Use Projected Plates To Clean Up Your Shot

Alexander Lehnert — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:00:28 +0000

In this tutorial we´re going to adopt a fairly common technique used in 3d compositing tools such as Nuke. We will start off by tracking the shot using the After Effects CameraTracker plug-in by The Foundry to get our 3d Camera properly solved. With this data we extend this shot and create a clean plate, [...]

Simulate An Old School X-ray Vision Shot – Parts 4 & 5

James Whiffin — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:00:46 +0000

In the Aetuts+ section of this tutorial we’ll be compositing our render passes that were created in Maya. We will then use every tool in our arsenal to dirty up the image to make it look a hybrid of 50′s scifi and 80′s television. To view Parts 1, 2, and 3, head over to our [...]

How to Create a Glitchy Interface Animation

Anthony Errisuriz — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:00:49 +0000

A Simple Puzzle Animation With The Shatter Plug-in

Tibor Miklos — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:00:37 +0000

Hello everyone! In this tutorial we’re gonna show you how to create a really cool looking puzzle animation in After Effects.You don’t need any external plugins (The optical flares animation is just an extra visual improvement it’s not necessary to have.However I included the optical flares version project file to those of you who want [...]