The Making It Look Great Cinema 4D Bundle includes Making It Look Great 6: Design and Production Techniques for Cinema 4D and After Effects, and Making It Look Great 7: MoGraph Unleashed. Both loaded with hours of Cinema 4D, MoGraph and After Effects techniques.

Hosted by renowned Cinema 4D and After Effects expert Tim Clapham, these are must-watch workshops for anyone who is serious about using Cinema 4D with MoGraph and After Effects at a real-world, industry-level.

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About your Host: With over 12 years experience, Tim Clapham is an industry recognized expert in Cinema 4D and a renowned trainer with a strong attention to detail. As owner of LUXX, Tim works with a wide range of global advertising and broadcast companies, producing world-class content that is both technically challenging and innovative.

MILG6 host, Cinema 4D expert and Mograph master Tim Clapham is back to guide you step-by-step through 6 stunning, 3D motion graphics projects.

In these workshops, Tim demonstrates must-know, real-world Cinema 4D MoGraph techniques and workflows you will find immediately useful in your own work.

While based around MoGraph, Tim also discusses general Cinema 4D workflow techniques for modelling and texturing which will improve your all-round expertise when working with Cinema 4D.

MoCap

Working with Motion Capture files such as the FBX format, this workshop takes you step-by-step through various techniques for creating animated elements from captured motion.  Watch your motion design advance to new grounds with many possibilities  to create natural flowing movement with your graphic components.

Main areas covered include: Spline Effector, Random Effector, Tracer, Sketch & Toon.
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Flourish

Based upon the popular theme of heraldry, this workshop will provide you with a variety of strategies to assist in developing your ideas into real world projects.  Link Effectors to regular Cinema4D objects to harness the power of MoGraph within your established animation techniques.  Deform objects along any path with the Spline Wrap deformer.  Animate multiple objects in sequence by utilising the Time Offset feature.  This class is jam–packed with a huge combination of techniques you will use on a day-to-day basis.

Main areas covered include: Spline Wrap, Time Offset, Random Effector, Delay Effector, Xpresso Sample Effector Node, Stacked Materials, Stick Texture Tag, Step Effector. Watch example | Watch teaser

Halftone

Whether you wish to recreate a realistic print style halftone effect or build a giant stadium jumbotron structure, this workshop explores the numerous options available when working with image–based source material.  Combining the power of the MoGraph Cloner in Grid Array mode, explore the potential the Shader Effector has to offer.  Once integrated with the Color Shader, you will unleash unlimited possibilities for your own projects.

Main areas covered include: Sort Clones, Shader Effector, Color Shader, Formula Effector. Watch example

Dynamic Letters

Starting with the creation of a simple logo model, then breaking it apart polygon-by-polygon, a techni-coloured interior is revealed.  Lit using Global Illumination and powered by dynamic forces, watch thousands of tiny letters, each an individual light source, falling, colliding and bouncing.  After studying this workshop, the power of dynamics will be at your fingertips.

Main areas covered include: Rigid Body Tag, Plain Effector, Random Effector, PolyFX, Global Illumination. Watch example | Watch teaser

Flocking

Need swarms of bees? Shoals of fish? Maybe you simply want to move with the crowd?  This collection will point you in the right direction.  Streaming with an abundance of opportunities, control the crowds of parameters with ease as you guide them towards your goal.

Main areas covered include: Spline Effector, Step Effector, Delay Effector, Random Effector, Target Effector, Multi Shader. Watch example | Watch teaser

Dancing Morphs

Attach visible lights onto multiple object vertices and watch as your clones move to the rhythm of the beat. Channel the power of the Inheritance Effector as your objects morph from one to another, leaving a trail of ever decreasing light that flickers through the falloff.  This workshop will guide you through the intricacies of some of the often misunderstood and rarely used MoGraph tools, such as the Matrix Object, Instance Object, Sound and Inheritance Effector. MoGraph Instance Object.

Main areas covered include: Matrix Object, Inheritance Effector, Sound Effector, Beat Shader, Displace Deformer. Watch example

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Trish Meyer says “buying this course is a no-brainer for anyone interested in learning MoGraph (which should include every motion graphics artist)” Read the review

About your Host: With over 12 years experience, Tim Clapham is an industry recognized expert in Cinema 4D and a renowned trainer with a strong attention to detail. As owner of LUXX, Tim works with a wide range of global advertising and broadcast companies, producing world-class content that is both technically challenging and innovative.

The ultimate workshop for Cinema 4D and After Effects

Finally, the ultimate single workshop for Cinema 4D and After Effects. Work side–by–side with designer, Cinema 4D expert and Mograph master Tim Clapham as you create a stunning, multi-layered news opener from start to finish. This training is jam-packed with techniques, tips and shortcuts including real-world techniques for getting the most out of the Cinema 4D Mograph module. Suitable for beginner and intermediate users or anyone serious about mastering Cinema 4D with After Effects at an industry level.

Topics include:

Creating the Globe
Working with layouts; Creating and Cloning onto a Sphere Object; Generating the Globe Effect with the Shader Effector; Introducing the Plain Effector and Effector falloff.

Creating the Orbiting Text
Preparing Illustrator artwork; Importing artwork and creating Extrude NURBS; Introducing the Fracture Object; Orbiting the text with the Spline Effector; Linking parameters using Xpresso and Set Driver; Organising the scene with layers.

Working with Cameras
A basic camera rig with User Data; Linking User Data to object parameters using Xpresso; Animating the camera; Manipulating F-Curves.

Animating the Text and Globe
Animating the text using Spline Effector; Scaling and rotating the text using Effectors; Animating the globe rotation; Using Animation Layers to add secondary animation; Adjusting Shader Mapping to enhance composition.

Modeling a Basic Soccer ball
Using Primitives to create the basic football shape; Using modeling tools to edit the football model; Adding textures to Selection sets; Baking a spherical map from the football model; Wiping from globe to football with Effectors.

Creating Materials and the Content Browser
Using the Fresnel shader; Adding HDRI reflections Presets; Catalogs and the Content Browser; The Compositing Tag; Lumas Shader for Anistrophic Highlights.

Lighting the Scene
Introduction to Light types; Using Area Lights; The Target Tag; Three point lighting; Include / Exclude lists; Controlling specular highlights.

Streaks of Light
Using Viewport filters; Matrix Object vs Cloner Object; Creating splines using with the Tracer Object; Adding and optimising geometry with Sweep NURBS; Limiting Tracer results; Making Luminant Materials.

More Graphic Elements
Radial duplication with Cloner Object; Using Blend mode; Cloning Cloner objects; Modifying Clones with Effectors.

Preparing for Render
External Compositing Tag to Export 3D data; Assigning Object Buffers; Configuring output parameters; Setting up Multipass rendering; Exporting After Effects compositing file.

Importing into After Effects
Importing the AEC file, Organising the project; Separating 3D Elements with Object Buffers; Creating the background.

Enhancing the 3D Render
Colour correction; Adding glows; Creating a turbulent glow; Adding a border to the text; Emphasizing specular highlights.

Finishing Touches
Using the exported 3D data; Adding trails with Trapcode Particular; Using Expressions to add randomness; Adding extra 3D elements; Creating an image wipe transition; Final rendering.

About your Host: With over 11 years experience, Tim Clapham is an industry recognized expert in Cinema 4D and a renowned trainer with a strong attention to detail. As a Company Director of HYPA, Tim works with a wide range of global advertising and broadcast companies, producing world-class content that is both technically challenging and innovative.

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Make a cool-looking gyroscopic element

In this video tutorial (inspired by the work of Mark Coleran) from Making It Look Great 5 your host Jerzy Drozda Jr. (aka Maltaannon) demonstrates how to make a cool-looking gyroscopic element completely within After Effects. This tutorial includes extensive use of Shape Layers, parenting and simple expressions to create a technical look using almost no keyframes. All project files are included. Total running time: 48 minutes. ]]> http://www.motionworks.com.au/2009/02/milg5-tutorial-1-gyro/feed/ 0 After Effects,Expressions,MILG,MILG5,Shape Layers Learn how to make a cool-looking gyroscopic element completely within After Effects. Includes extensive use of Shape Layers, parenting and simple expressions. (http://motionworks.com.au/wp-content/blogimages/shop/milg5_01_main.jpg) Make a cool-looking gyroscopic element In this video tutorial (inspired by the work of Mark Coleran) from Making It Look Great 5 (http://www.motionworks.com.au/2008/12/making-it-look-great-5/) your host Jerzy Drozda Jr. (aka Maltaannon) demonstrates how to make a cool-looking gyroscopic element completely within After Effects. This tutorial includes extensive use of Shape Layers, parenting and simple expressions to create a technical look using almost no keyframes. All project files are included. Total running time: 48 minutes. www.motionworks.com.au no http://www.motionworks.com.au/2008/12/milg-1-5-bundle/ http://www.motionworks.com.au/2008/12/milg-1-5-bundle/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:05:16 +0000 John Dickinson http://www.motionworks.com.au/?p=2708 17 hours of After Effects training with top motion graphics designers from around the world

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Ever wonder how the pros get their work looking so sharp? The popular and proven Making It Look Great™ video workshop series has been designed to answer that question. Throughout these in-depth video workshops, professional motion graphics designers including John Dickinson, Harry J Frank, Alan Shisko and Maltaannon, demonstrate techniques essential to their daily work and give the design decisions and rationale that support them. The featured projects are demonstrated step–by–step from start to finish, giving priceless insight into what it takes to design and produce professional broadcast motion graphics.

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Work along with After Effects expert Jerzy Drozda Jr. (aka. Maltaannon) as he guides you step by step through a wide range of motion graphics and visual effects looks and techniques. Learn how to harness the power of expressions in After Effects to make beautiful, complex animations and save time.  Whether you’re an After Effects beginner or expert you’ll learn valuable techniques that will make your work look great. Included with the 10 video tutorials are 3 bonus video tutorials (Gyro Extended, Butterfly Man extended and Working with the Presets) plus free plug-ins and presets discussed throughout the lessons. Work fast, work smart, look great with Making It Look Great 5.

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Create a cool-looking gyroscopic element completely within After Effects. Inspired by the work of Mark Coleran, this tutorial includes extensive use of Shape Layers, parenting and simple expressions to create a technical look using almost no keyframes.

Create a slick push pin toy effect as seen in the Radiohead “House of Cards” video. This tutorial shows you how to combine regular footage with Trapcode’s popular Form plug-in
to create an eye-popping 3D effect. Watch this tutorial now for free here.

Create a reusable retro-style computer terminal animation. Harness the power of
expressions, including some undocumented features to change the text content and
look on the fly. Learn how to turn a simple typewriter effect into realistic DOS-style
computer readout.

Create a realistic and detailed Jumbotron-style video screen. This tutorial includes
must-know keying techniques, tips on creating volumetric lights and presets, and ingenious
workflow for creating complex looks on a single layer using the CC Composite effect.
The advanced CE Screenify effect is also included in the download exclusively for Making
It Look Great 5 viewers.

Create the stylish effect where a character suddenly bursts into hundreds of butterflies.
In this lesson learn how to create a smart butterfly rig using Trapcode 3D Stroke, control Trapcode Particular particles using dispersion maps, build volumetric backlighting using Trapcode Lux and automatically track a layer’s alpha channel.

Master fast and precise color correction techniques using standard After Effects tools
including Colorama and CC Composite. In this tutorial learn how to fine tune a look
using the Colorama effect as a range selection tool, allowing adjustments to specific
aspects of the footage.

Create an infinitely zooming spycam look. This tutorial starts with basic techniques for
creating a simple slide show then covers amazing, time-saving techniques for automating
transitions between layers using expressions.

Create automated subtitles based on layer markers. This short tutorial demonstrates
how to automate subtitle creation.

Create a realistic dripping blood effect without using keyframes or expressions.
This lesson includes a great study of precomposing and demonstrates how to use a
Photoshop-style brush with the CC Time Blend effect to paint text onto the screen.

Create a funky disco-style animation based totally on sound. This lesson includes a slick technique for creating running lights using Trapcode Form together with the Colorama
effect, basic camera movement, techniques using the CC Time Blend and Wave Warp
effects and plenty of simple expressions.

About your Host: Jerzy Drozda Jr (aka Maltaannon) is a motion graphics and visual effects artist based in Warsaw, Poland. Well known in the motion graphics industry through his popular website maltaannon.com, Jerzy’s extreme creativity, razor sharp technical skills and relaxed teaching style, make him one of the top After Effects trainers in the world today.”

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The Making It Look Great ProAnimator bundle includes the Making It Look Great 1 and Making It Look Great 4 video workshops. Both hosted by After Effects expert and Zaxwerks demo artist John Dickinson.

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About your Host: Based in Sydney Australia, John Dickinson is a cutting-edge motion graphics artist who is in demand. John combines 12 years of industry experience with a proven teaching ability to provide high quality learning resources that encourage and challenge participants to break through to new levels of excellence and impact in their work.

Strap On Your Motion Graphics Black Belt

In this 2.5 hour video workshop work side–by–side with senior broadcast designer, After Effects expert and Zaxwerks demo artist John Dickinson, to create the powerful Northstar Martial Arts animation from start to finish.

Topics include:

• Discussing key design decisions
• Background creation and modification
• Creating graphic elements in Adobe Illustrator and After Effects
• Logo preparation in Illustrator
• Logo modelling and texturing in ProAnimator
• Preparing JPEG files with Illustrator Live Trace
• Getting the most out of mini-dv footage
• Creating 3D banners with 3D Flag
• Tricks for isolating glows to logo bevels
• Simulating refraction and depth of field
• Finishing touches to add mood

About your Host: Based in Sydney Australia, John Dickinson is a cutting-edge motion graphics artist who is in demand. John combines 12 years of industry experience with a proven teaching ability to provide high quality learning resources that encourage and challenge participants to break through to new levels of excellence and impact in their work.
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