After Effects CS6 includes a new ray-traced 3D renderer, 3D text and shape layer extrusion, environment layers, simple curvature of layers and more . In this walkthrough tutorial learn where to find the key new features and how to make the most of them. Download Project

Guest host and Cinema 4D R13 Cookbook author Michael Szabo demonstrates how to use the Collision Deformer to create an effect where bullets bounce off an object. Download Project

Countless times over the past several years, either myself or a co-worker has wondered “Why the hell do I have to re-import this entire After Effects project every time thereʼs a change?” Apparently, Chris Roe was thinking the same thing.

If you ask me, a good post-production product needs three things: ease of use, speed and great customer service. Chrisʼ upcoming release Project Sync has all three. The idea behind this Adobe After Effects plug-in is simple: import an existing project into your current working project, click Sync and your projects are now in sync. It’s as simple as that.  Read more…

In this tutorial learn how to export an existing After Effects project to Cinema 4D to add a 3D logo. The background featured is from Digital Juice’s Animated Canvases 2 collection.

After Effects wizard Maltaannon is back, this time demystifying the Channel Combiner effect and how to use it on challenging keying projects.

Nick Campbell of Greyscale Gorilla (GSG) said when he announced  HDRI Studio Pack 1.5, that he set out to deliver two things: speed and quality. He succeeds at both. I work for a post house in Philadelphia and if I had to say we specialize in one thing, it’s speed. Our staff can crank out some fantastic looking work in a very short amount of time. With that said, I tend to shy away from Global Illumination (GI) as my main source of lighting in Cinema 4D  for a few reasons: Firstly, our schedule rarely permits long renders and secondly, access to Cinema 4D NET Render machines is often limited. I own a seat of GSG’S Light Kit Pro and while it gives great results, something like HDRI Studio Pack was appealing for fast initial style frames and concepts. Read more…

Working from home is great but poses problems when you decide to do some home remodeling. What I thought would be a two week inconvenience has turned into a two month ordeal as my office has been relocated to the kitchen table. Over the weeks working from a wooden chair has my back longing for the comfort of my couch. Also, plugging my laptop, hard drive, and other accessories into a power strip, and then draping the cords over chairs and across the floor to the nearest outlet, got me thinking that the portability I should have in a laptop didn’t stack up to TV commercial claims. There had to be a better way of doing this. That’s when the seed of a wireless network finally started to germinate in my brain. Read more…

Peter McAuley has been involved in the development of state-of-the-art graphics technology for print, video and film since the mid-1990s. Since 1999, he’s been a part of the Boris FX team, managing Boris Continuum Complete and other Boris FX product lines. In this episode of Unplugged we discuss Peter’s background, his role at Boris FX and learn more about Boris FX products with a focus on Continuum Complete 8 and how it compares to other popular After Effects plug-in sets.