Aharon Rabinowitz has just released a massive library of 45,000 pre-keyed stock images. The product is named “Crowd Control” and is apparently the largest of it’s kind in the world. Check out the site and register to download a number of free clips up to HD resolution. Nice work Aharon.
March 13, 2009 by John Dickinson | 2,372 views | Comments (1)
March 3, 2009 by John Dickinson | 2,277 views | Comments (3)
Red Giant Software are now hosting the Making It Look Great 5: Form Face tutorial as a free two-part download. Enjoy!
February 26, 2009 by John Dickinson | 1,591 views | Comments (6)
HypaTV have just relaunched their blog and on it you’ll find a bunch of great Cinema 4D tips and projects. Check out the fancy new logo; now that would make a nice tutorial!
January 4, 2009 by John Dickinson | 2,116 views | Comments (2)
Chris and Trish Meyer are After Effects’ experts who were writing about After Effects long before I’d even heard of the software. Along with Brian Maffitt from Total Training I consider them my mentors and, thanks to yearly visits to NAB, my friends. If you weren’t aware, Chris and Trish post regularly at the ProVideo Coalition and recently added Read more…
December 17, 2008 by John Dickinson | 5,159 views | Comments (14)
Rotoscoping is something I love to hate – I love the results but hate doing it. Well not exactly hate but you know what I mean; have you ever heard someone say “man I love rotoscoping” or ”gee, I can’t wait until the weekend so I can do a little rotoscoping”. Nope, it’s one of those tasks that’s a drag, but worth it in the end. Read more…
December 5, 2008 by John Dickinson | 2,316 views | Comments (5)
Yesterday I had a surprise visit at Foxtel by Ian Haigh, a fellow Sydney-sider and the creator of the very cool Ease & Wizz scripts for Adobe After Effects. I had no idea Ian worked just up the road from me and as it turns out he is a 10 year veteran of After Effects. So what is Ease & Wizz? According to Ian’s website, “Ease and Wizz is a set of expressions Read more…
November 23, 2008 by Jonathan | 3,502 views | Comments (11)
Psunami 1.3 was recently released by Red Giant Software after their recent acquisition of Digital Anarchy’s After Effects plug-ins. A recent project required this style of FX treatment, and I have been thoroughly impressed with this plug-in, both in its ease of use, potential for creative extension and use in non intended ways. Read more…
August 29, 2008 by John Dickinson | 6,373 views | Comments (2)
Trapcode “Horizon” is a camera-aware color gradient and image mapping plug-in for Adobe After Effects. It’s a straightforward utility plug-in generating a background that corresponds to the After Effects camera’s viewing direction. The camera position has no influence on Horizon, you could say it always uses an infinite distance to the camera. Read more…
