June 19, 2009 by John Dickinson | 12,582 views | Comments (12)
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. For a 10% discount on Form and other Red Giant Software products use the code Motionworks10. Watch Tutorial
12 Responses to this post
June 27, 2009 at 12:04 pm |
I’m new to After Effects and have been searching for cool tutorials to show me the ropes. Your tutorial is the second one I’ve seen that uses the Trapcode effect. I have CS4 version and I don’t have Trapcode in my list of effects? Can you help me?
June 27, 2009 at 2:01 pm |
Hi Rickie, Trapcode plug-ins are amongst the most popular in the world. You can learn all about them at http://www.redgiantsoftware.com
July 4, 2009 at 5:53 pm |
Rickie, Trapcode is a group of effects that you need to download. The site that I downloaded my copies was http://www.redgiantsoftware.com
If you go to http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products , you can find a list of various products on the site. There are nine Trapcode products. It seems that the three most popular are Form, Particular, and 3D Stroke.
July 5, 2009 at 3:03 pm |
trapcode is the plugin for after effects!
July 14, 2009 at 9:32 am |
Thanks for the feedback. This is wild stuff!! Looking forward to the next exciting tutorial.
September 17, 2009 at 8:59 am |
John,
I love all your tutorials in PS and AE. Your teaching methods are so easy to understand. You give us different perspective of the these tools and not just click this and click that. However, I have been struggling trying to do this effect. Here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9vXoWIKpRY
What is the best way to track this? via mocha or AE tracking tool?
Can you give me a quick written suggested guide of how I could go about? I know you are busy. I have plenty of time. I am checking out some more tutorials from you. You are totally awesome!!!
September 17, 2009 at 9:46 pm |
Hi tvandang, you could use either of those or even just use Corner Pin or CC Power Pin (better) and do it manually. Freeze the shot, mask out the inside edges of the frame (leaving only the guys face) then track that to the corners of the frame. Best, John.
September 17, 2009 at 11:11 pm |
using CC Power Pin is better but having a 26 seconds clips with a frame rate of 30 would be about 780 frame to adjust the corners. is that how i would do manually? it would be accurate but it would be too time consuming. am i wrong? thanks!
October 28, 2009 at 7:28 am |
You track it – using after effects built in tracker or Mocha. There’s help available from various places. Creative Cow has good intros to Mocha.
October 8, 2009 at 1:31 pm |
Thanks John Dickinson and Maltaannon very artistic tuts
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