Just received the Motion Designer’s Toolkit and Compositor’s Toolkit from Digital Juice. I always disregarded Digital Juice as being only for editors who needed canned backgrounds… Man was I out of touch. Look out for a full review soon.
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.
8 Responses to this post
July 26, 2009 at 10:15 pm |
I have never thought that much of these packs, we had one at my old work, if there are animation presets then maybe it would be more useful – the one at my old work was just layered psds… boring.
July 26, 2009 at 10:19 pm |
This set comes with the Illustrator files, Quicktime animated versions and the After Effects projects.
July 27, 2009 at 1:40 am |
John, How much space will it take if you copy all the elements into your harddrive?
July 27, 2009 at 2:21 am |
Good question Ethan, I’m not sure, although I’m not planning to copy them to a drive, I’ll leave them on disk.
October 16, 2009 at 8:16 am |
Can I use MDT in apples Motion the same as in after effects?
October 16, 2009 at 3:29 pm |
Hi Erick, you can use the movies and Illustrator files but not the After Effects projects. Best wishes, John.
December 21, 2009 at 4:50 pm |
Hi John, first time posting on this site. I don’t know if this is the right place to ask but here goes; I just bought MILG4 and I love every bit of it but when I try to modify Motion Design Tool kit AI files for ProAnimator… the whole original file opens up. E.g, I open a MDTK AI in illustrator and delete parts of it and then add text, when I apply proanimator in AE and open up my modified illustarotor file, all I get is the original MDTK model or file. What I’m I doing wrong? Please help! You can shoot me a quick email if this is not the place to discuss, sorry for asking too much. Btw, I’m an AI newbie and that’s why I can’t figure it out. Many thanks,
Jimmy.
December 22, 2009 at 2:33 pm |
Hi Jimmy, generally you can directly import Illustrator files from collections such as MDT and have them work in ProAnimator. You’ll need to do some cleanup work in Illustrator. Send me the file and I’ll take a look. Best wishes, John.
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