In this Adobe After Effects: Effects A-Z tip, special guest presenter Maltaannon explains some techniques for using the Angle Control effect with basic expressions
Watch tip (9mins, 11MB)
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.
18 Responses to this post
August 14, 2009 at 4:47 am |
good stuff man
really loved it
both of you many thanks
August 14, 2009 at 5:58 am |
Thanks for the tip!
Good stuff.
J
August 14, 2009 at 1:49 pm |
You’re welcome Jim, hope you’re not working too hard
August 14, 2009 at 10:50 am |
Keep those tips coming!
But FLV — really? How about some Quicktime or HTML 5 love?
August 14, 2009 at 1:48 pm |
Hey Navarro, I’m switching to flv for use with JWPlayer. The movies are still encoded the same way as before so try right clicking to download and change the extension to .mov.
August 14, 2009 at 4:18 pm |
Nice little effect and tutorial. Somehow I am not surprised that Maltaannon chose an expression controller to explain
August 14, 2009 at 8:19 pm |
Every tutorial from maltaannon is like: What? I can do that with AE?!
Thanks.
August 21, 2009 at 6:04 pm |
Great Tip, After Effects is full with stuff to discover, and thanks to people like Maltaannon who share their knowledge we can learn more and more!
August 21, 2009 at 8:41 pm |
Hi A3, yes, even the best of us can still discover things in AE.
September 30, 2009 at 7:19 am |
nice tutorial thank you John
September 30, 2009 at 3:27 pm |
You’re welcome daniel. Best wishes, John.
October 20, 2009 at 8:38 pm |
very nice tutorial…thank you john
can i know…what type of software u use to show the keyboard stroke on your tutorial…it’s look very cool
October 21, 2009 at 2:28 pm |
Hi Pakku, I’m using an OSX application named Screenflow. It has an option to display keys pressed on the keyboard. Best wishes, John.
October 21, 2009 at 6:59 pm |
thanks john
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