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
Knoll Light Factory CS5 is here. So …. let’s animate a spline. Why ? Why not.
Knoll CS5 is quite cool with easier editing of your light selections and the tuning you will do within each category. There is a preview editor that makes so much difference and much more sophisticated than before.
I know form had a preview editor, seems like different RedGiants did/didn’t but Light Factory might be seen by some as their flagship, I mean how many more Star Wars will there be … so it’s great that’s it’s ready to go with CS5 and has some significant improvements of it’s own.
So animate a spline ? I just can’t put down Cinema4 and since these guys love to play together … we’ll do a quickie to welcome KLF to the magical world of 64 bit AE (even if most of the lights are noted as 16)
welcome with a little sparkle, a little spline, and a humble expression from AE
my dogcreek friends have a little different perspective.
I’m reminded of how in Walden, Thoreau bemoans the many hours we spend working our life instead of living our Lives. It just doesn’t seem like the same possibility now but …
tell that to my fawn ….
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.
I’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
I upgraded trapcode to 64 bit which practically coincided with CS5 …. hmmmm
only to be expected. Now if only Knoll Light Factory and C4d would go 64 bit we could all place nicely together again.
It’s fun and easy to create some impressive yet simple fireworks with trapcode particular.
While it’s supposed to augment your action and add fire to your fancy, you can have a lot of fun just playing with the different particles.
I’ve noticed an old tutorial where you see a preview of the particle you choose, can’t imaging why they let this feature go.
Apparently only Form now offers a preview, but there is a pull down of presets, with an ‘hd’ high density and an economy size particle for you.
There is a pulldown with the particle definition presenting the presets names and they are fairly intuitive but I think it will be fun to
create my own index, movie image set because, heck …. seeing is believing.
Welcome
try Acoustica Mixcraft to add wonderful sound to your compositions
Herbs from garden, blessed by special visit by C4d.
It’s Sunday, time rest and especially in Nashville with our aftermath of days of rain.
A good time to reflect and enjoy simple creations.
This past two days have seen record breaking rainfall, congestion, flooding, and dislocations in Nashville. We live on Dog Creek, we’re used to seeing fast water and rising tides with the Spring season but this was
something else.
Apparently the enormous amount of rainfall in such a short time, in areas not prepared to redirect or handle monsoon created an unprecedented event for much of Nashville, Middle Tennessee area.
Only moments ago our power was returned after an outage that began Saturday at 6:30 pm. It has been a surreal lovely quiet Springtime with rushing waters, flushing the valley …
we are still blocked in by about thirty feet of debris blocking the road but – electricity, shower, sip by the sunset … we are quite fortunate.
what 4 inches of snow won’t do for Nashberg. Grace delivered on Friday, weathermen predicted accurately on Thursday.
Pack up for the weekend at grocery of your choice – and play. What a great play snow it is complete with full ‘Wolf Moon’ Friday night, snow glistening in light, another few inches on Saturday
leaving no choice but to bundle up, light the fires, make trails with the dogs
embrace the Blue Silence …. and maybe catch on snow moon setting in the morning.
We like Dog Creek …
Creative Cows
