Mospline – hats to 3D Kiwi with a little Xpresso thrown in for fun.
With C4D 12 on the way ( got my tracking number yesterday, Yes), and Python in the package
ease of adding extra impressive effects is available for all.
This gem from Mr Kiwi has been available for some time with the magic of Mospline and this fairly simple tutorial presented on his C4D site, one of the best resources for Cinema
vimeo - today
mattes are fun and even more when you use a text matte to reveal your message.
Of course there’s really no message here tonight but a simple text animation revealing some fishy activity. Candidate for a political add.
We hear CS5 has some special romance with Cinema4d. Simple techniques to export your Cinema file to AE, 64 bit memory addressing capability. There are many features which offer special performance that overlap with one another.
You need to have a 64 bit OS to address more than 3 gig of memory but 64 bit has been around for a while. Faster rendering comes with the cuda Nvidia cards but Badaboom has been around for a while too. And the marriage of cuda with the Mercury engine lets Premiere Pro do ‘real time’ editing and rendering in incredible reduced windows.
Yeah, many of these contributors have been around for a while but with CS5 rewritten for 64 bit, and the release of the Mercury engine, they all play nice together. It will be great fun to see the new creations but some of my greatest excitement will remain in the cutting room -
the movie will be just as creative as it was before … or not … the output will be quite similar and the viewing experience too. But the time editing and processing will be shattered ….
which should make for a happier, more creative crew. Let’s see !
Product Collage ala News Hour w After Effects
with a little After Effects and some exceptional help from Trapcode Particular
we have a product collage explosion using particular, and a little shine for the times
Smiles are the statement of the day as we create something clever for our friend the dentist. With some nice ‘outdoorsey’ photo’s that reflect our ‘deeper sensibilities’, there seemed to be something missing -
Smiles !
so, using the After Effects bulge effect and a little tracking on our magnifying glass, it was quite easy to create a simple pan … of some very happy teeth, some quite appropriate smiles for our dental site.
a little trapcode form, some cool layers of bright spheres, a little bounce expression, to give it a little … well … and a little particular, to blow some smoke,
use AE reverse mapping to reverse your bounce layer, and a little subtlety …. about our recovery
what more mystical creature for our magician and storyteller
Dogcreek provides a wonderful, wise and beautifully feathered hawk to join our fable
Layer Styles and some interesting possibilites … in After Effects
Applying layer styles lets us endow our text and our layers with special qualities, bevel, gradient luminance. I thought I was cool when I could import Photoshop layered images and import as layers, taking advantage of Photoshop features. However I encountered the layer features watching a tutorial for Red Giant Form plugin, an amazing special effect plugin for After Effects.
The quick technique I saw was creating or dissolving your object – text, video, graphic, into particles of sand … like a cosmic creation. With that simple inspiration, I made my first.
You do need the form plugin for this effect but all the trapcode/light factory and various assundri cousins are well worth the investment.
enjoy
Overlooking the quiet town of Kingston, Street St is nestled above with a complete 360 view of hills, town, Harpeth River, wildlife. Blend a little after effects, with a bumpy road, twilight, sunset,
but be careful ….. don’t drive through the River …
unless you’re invincible … or of course ….. invisible
Creative Cows
