Amateurmedia.net has some terrific type-based Cinema 4D tutorials.

It will come as no surprise to Motionworks regulars that I’m a big fan of Brian Maffitt. Brian is a veteran trainer and someone that I have aspired to while developing my own presentation style. The foundations of my After Effects knowledge were built watching Brian’s Total After Effects series. [Read more]

Superb CG architectural renderings. Quite beautiful and hypnotic.

French motion design artist Pierre Magnol of GKaster has some truly stunning work, you must see.

In this Adobe After Effects walkthrough learn how Red Giant Holomatrix was used to give grungy 3D text a dynamic sci-fi look. Grab a 10% discount over at Red Giant Software using this code “motionworks10”.

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In this extended tutorial learn how to identify the field order of footage and interpret it collectly; create a realistic Jumbotron-style look using CC Ball Action, Glow, Levels and Curves; turn the jumbotron into a 3D column mounted on grungy wire mesh using Zaxwerks 3D Layer Warps; and fine tune the look by adding animated arrows plus a touch of [Read more]

Beautiful work by Korb. Check out his reel too – magnificent in it’s simplicity. Via @engine.

Maltaannon is back with a new tutorial on getting control of the Adobe After Effects camera.

Dosch Design has a superb collection of high resolution HDRI images, including the very handy Chrome & Studio Effects V2 series.

In this recording of a recent e-seminar, learn how to create a Sopranos–style text look, inspired by HBO. Main tools covered include Adobe After Effects and Zaxwerks ProAnimator.

As with all graphics on Fox Classics, the palette for this spot was restricted to orange, black and white. Being that this is Sunday “Night” at the Movies, it made the most sense to use black as the base color. Most of these movies are from the 60’s/70’s and when I heard the music (The Supremes) I thought of one of those old 70’s-style beaded door curtains and decided to use that as the basis of the design. Read more

For this Adobe After Effects project the brief was pretty open but I had to include graphic elements from the Crime and Investigation network’s existing identity along with key words and footage from various “ci” programs. The channel tagline is “look closer” so I decided to use glass panels similar to the glass slides one uses to examine specimens under a microscope. Read more

Aixsponza has kindly given Cinema 4D users our very own teapot model for radiosity testing.

Chris Zwar has a new 3-part tutorial covering planning and creating a complex 3D project in Adobe After Effects. (via Todd Kopriva).

Digieffects has announced a new Adobe After Effects plug-in for simulating a 3D scene from 2D stills or video footage. The Camera Mapper was developed in collaboration with Mark Christiansen, author of After Effects Studio Techniques.

Maltaannon.com has released it’s new Youveelizer plug-in, allowing you to apply a texture and add reflections to a rendered 3d object directly inside for Adobe After Effects CS4.

Over at CGTutsplus Tomas Sinkunas demonstrates how to use Maxon Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects to build a fun dancing ice cream animation in 126 simple steps.

Maltaannon has a plug-in under development for working with 3D objects and textures in After Effects. Basically it will allow users to use UV Maps from 3D applications directly within Adobe After Effects to replace textures, saving a lot of re-rendering. Cool.

I had to whip up some quick supers last week and turned to Trapcode Form. Form was used to create the gaseous elements that sit behind the text. The font is Univers Black Oblique;  using the oblique face adds a dynamic feel. The lighting was faked using a solid with the Circle effect applied and a high feather value, rotated in z-space to act as a floor. [Read more]

In the final part of this series learn how to use After Effects’ Color Link effect to integrate the can into the background, work with various Layer Styles, create a 3D text animation and add other finishing touches.   Watch tutorial

This project for a Summer campaign on Foxtel Box Office was created using a combination of Maxon Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects with Zaxwerks ProAnimator and Knoll Light Factory. The simple 3D text supers were created using ProAnimator inside After Effects and the supers with characters were created in Cinema 4D and finished in After Effects. [Read more]

This project is another good example of taking poor quality 4:3 vision, making it 16:9 and giving it some polish. The tools included Adobe After Effects, Zaxwerks ProAnimator, Trapcode Horizon and Shine, and Maltaannon’s Screenify effect (featured in MILG 5). The vision was treated with the Screenify effect— which adds a realistic jumbotron [Read more]

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]

In this recorded e-seminar I’ll show you how to build a simple yet dynamic type-based animation. Topics include working with Illustrator files, setting up simple relationships using expressions, per-character 3D type, setting up 3D layers, creative use of shape layers, Brainstorm, modifying and saving a preset. Watch e-seminar

In this recorded e-seminar you’ll see some of the techniques and workflow I used to create the award winning Fox Classics image spot. Topics include creative color grading, rotoscoping, creative lighting and camera techniques.

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