May 30, 2007 by John Dickinson  | 3,729 views | Comments (11)

This project was created in After Effects (AE) by combining various AE effects with Zaxwerks 3D Warps, Zaxwerks ProAnimator and Knoll Light Factory. The main screen was modelled in ProAnimator with the vision mapped to the front face using a layer map. The layer map is a precomp combining the base edit with a Cell Pattern layer using the Add blend read more

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May 17, 2007 by John Dickinson  | 2,971 views | Comments (5)

For this animation I had planned to have the text fly in as simple After Effects layers but a little warping using 3D Layer Warp gives the promo that extra edge. A simple grey solid acts as the back face of the sticker and adjusting the Displacement settings (with a Fractal Noise map) to give the sticker it’s bumps. Watch movie   Download project

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May 5, 2007 by John Dickinson  | 1,869 views | Comments (1)

This 3D Warps example uses Radial Wave warp style for all 3 Warps. Setting Material Shading to Shaded With Highlights and increasing the Highlight Sharpness and Highlight Brightness settings gives the material a glossy, plastic-like appearance. Watch movie   Download project

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April 28, 2007 by John Dickinson  | 2,859 views | Comments (3)

Here are some examples of flowing ribbon–type effects created using 3D Warps from Zaxwerks. This is the base 3D Grid Warp effect without any other effects applied. 

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