In my tutorials I’m always recommending experimentation as a way of getting comfortable with the After Effects tool set. After quite some time I finally got around to just sitting and playing myself – specifically with Shape Layers — and the result is some interesting looks. Download project
The Foundry has released 3D Camera Tracker and Kronos, two exciting new plug-ins for Adobe After Effects.
Alexander of Amateurmedia.net has created a stylish new font named Typograph Pro. Also check some of the great usage examples created within Cinema 4D.
Red Giant Software has released Colorista 2, with some exciting new features and improvements. Use motionworks10 for a 1o% discount.
Fontfeed.com has an excellent column “Screenfonts” which discusses the use of fonts in movie posters.
Industrial Light and Magic has a new site. It’s quite amazing just how many productions ILM has been involved in.
Urban Dirty has terrific free grunge stock images and also provides color themes for various images with a downloadable .ASE file. You can import the .ASE file into After Effects using Swatch You Want.
6 Responses to this post
November 3, 2007 at 1:49 pm |
Hey John, Thanks for sharing this amazing Project .. ALL tutorials you show us are Great !! For this tutorial ,i found one small part of the finished movie ( between 3 ~ 4 Seconds ) looks like some Mosaic effect.. Did you make it on purpose ?? Is that able to make it (just that part ) as soft as the last few seconds ??? I mean make the movie look smoothly ?? Any feedback would be appreciated ..
November 3, 2007 at 1:57 pm |
Hi Jerry, I was just playing around with different parameters to see what came up. Some of the transitioning between shapes is a bit jerky but I thought I’d let you guys take it where you wanted. Might be nice to Brainstorm as well.
November 5, 2007 at 1:37 am |
Yes, will be nice to brainstorm as well~! Thank you very much~!
November 6, 2007 at 7:30 am |
hi john!this particular tutorial helped me a lot. i think it is really surprising how much you can do once you get comfortable with the after effects tool set.
When i saw your work it just hit me if i can just familiarize myself with the after effects then it would be easier for me get the finish that i visualized.
looking forward to more tips
June 12, 2010 at 6:05 am |
Very interesting. Thanks!
August 26, 2010 at 1:40 pm |
Hi Jhon.
thanks for sharing the project file.i really lake it.as all your tutorials.but if you can.please record a tutorial about shape layers.
because we rarely find tutorials about it.please.we need to learn more technics about SL.and make sure that the tutorial will be for free.hahaha i’m joking…we are ready to pay whatever the price.
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