I’ll be hosting a one hour live E-seminar online this Friday at 12.00pm (Sydney time). This time I’ll be walking through a recent grunge-style boxing promotion created for Pay-Per-View. If you can’t make it live, the presentation will be recorded, but you won’t be able to join in the Q+A session. Hope to see you online. [Read more]
In episode 4 of The Business of Motion we look at the four ways to recognize the too-hard basket—an imaginary place where we put everything that’s too hard to deal with right now —and offer an easier alternative to approaching your finances. [Read more]
Cinema 4D has been rapidly increasing in popularity of the past few years, probably due to it’s ease-of-use when compared to other 3D applications and it’s strong motion graphics tools and tight integration with Adobe After Effects. The following is a list of free and fee-based resources from around the web that I have found useful. Thanks to @fmagic & @toe_fur for input. [Read more]
In this tutorial hosted by Jerzy Drozda Jr. (aka Maltaannon) learn how to create a push pin toy effect as seen in Radiohead’s “House of Cards” video, by combing regular footage with Trapcode’s popular Form plug-in to create an eye-popping 3D effect. This is tutorial 2 from the popular Making It Look Great 5 training release featuring 10 full length tutorials. Watch Tutorial
Recently I posted a 3 part series of tutorials on creating a shattering glass effect using Maxon Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects. This is the project that inspired that tutorial. The brief was to animate promotional key art of a person with bloodied hands holding a brief case and finish with a glass shatter effect to reveal the name of the series, followed by the channel logo. [Read more]
In the last episode of The Business of Motion we explored the importance of passion and how it can be your communication super power. Like fire however, passion can be dangerous. In this discussion Robin explains the 3 ways passion can hinder your communication and damage relationships. [Read more]
GreyScaleGorilla is hosting a new 5 Second Project sponsored by Motionworks. This week’s theme is “Kick the Bucket”. The winning entry will receive a copy of Making It Look Great 6 for Cinema 4D and After Effects. This is a great way to make sure your work gets noticed, with the chance of winning a fabulous prize. To learn about the idiom “kick the bucket” click here.
In this video tip learn how to work faster and smarter when using duplicated text layers. [Read more]
Your comments posted in response to The Business of Motion have been fantastic and we’ve decided that we will “jam” those that can add extra value to Motionworks followers. In Episode 2: The 3 Skills That Determine Your Income, Cameron wrote “…you forgot about lying as a key skill”. Jamming this comment generated an important discussion. [Read more]
In the final part of this series we’ll look at how to add some more detail to the shatter in Cinema 4D using the Knife tool, add dust in Adobe After Effects using Trapcode Particular, create a quick background and fake refraction using the Displacement Map effect. [Read more]
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