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hot matte
Monday, August 9th, 2010
Alpha Matte from AE and Illustrator
Thursday, August 5th, 2010mattes 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.
Cinema4D waterfall
Thursday, July 29th, 2010one of the fun things about animation is …. relationships intended to produce a certain ‘look and feel’ … a certain effect .. might work just fine for something completely different.
Using the cloth tag and some friction/gravity relationships you can create a pretty friendly waterfall with plane layers sliding off one another. Play with the timing, surround with a nice cartoon landscape, get some bright reflective material for your bubbly water surface and …
together they produce a nice starter for your wild paradise wonderland.
Cinema4D – Landscape primitive
Monday, July 26th, 2010you can have a lot of fun with C4D landscape primitive. Creating a diverse landscape with definitions for ‘furrows’, sea level, plateau it is very helpful to begin to create your own landscape model.
Create material that portray your land realistically,
you can animate your land dimensions if you want to do a universe creation gig – very flexible and C4D has all the goodies to go with it. Pyrocluster will help you create your volcano, smoke, if you like trapcode it is very easy to migrate to AE and add more pyrotechnics there.
I wanted a mandala sun using some of the geometery in AE than mapping trapcode’s ‘Shine’ to my sun object’s positions with the simplest of expressions binding shine to our sun.
Try a little sorenson – squeeze … that is… don’t forget 360
Saturday, July 17th, 2010is pretty cool – we all need to squeeze these media monsters but
360 http://www.sorensonmedia.com/video-delivery-network/
is much more with their own world of skins, players, a review section to share, statistics, SEO, one stop shopping …. central satellite view …. wow … that’s a lot of alliteration …. but then again … SorensonSqueeze are one
Cinema 4D video cube
Saturday, July 10th, 2010borrowed this from C4D Cafe http://www.c4dcafe.com but it reminds me of the little glass boxes you pick up in souvenir shops when you were a kid. The fun part
is what you populate it with and how you tune your animation. Since most of mine come from the woods, my cube sports baby ducks, full moons, hummer, and water spiders. Pretty cool – your sister will love the water spiders
Cinema 4D makes this very easy importing an image, in this case a movie as your material luminance channel. Create a new material, ‘uncheck’ the default color channel, add luminance to radiate your image,
then play with the timing and mingling of your cube faces and their children.
the Magician C4D
Thursday, July 1st, 2010I’m sure Anne won’t mind that I borrowed a few of her children ….
for the Magician
Honorable mention to Acoustica Mixcraft which I love so much I got copy for long lost friend for his birthday
sounds, sound effects, strings and a little help to get you started …..
for us non musicians … who love music
Clover and Sorenson
Thursday, July 1st, 2010I like cartoon to blend reality and have recently been using Sorenson. Squeeze mp4 over flv
we’ll see ~
C4D curves, splines, and flight paths
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010easy to define your flight path with a spline. Once you like it, you may create second, rail to provide balance and banking. With ‘tangential’ chosen, your object, your mythical beast will orient with your railing and then
find some fun background …. or create your own. External video blends quite well if you want your cartoon to flirt with reality.
Skylight C4d
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010a little skylight – these should be carrying oil eating Martians but ….
we’re not quite that ambitious with C4d yet. I’m sure it can do it … just not quite yet
