Choosing A Career in Visual Effects

Choosing A Career in Visual Effects

Visual Effects (VFX) is a fun, dynamic industry to work in, creating amazing images for some of the best films, TV shows and adverts around.And what’s more, the VFX industry is growing and needs fresh new talent. For young people who are technology-savvy and have creative flair, working in VFX could offer the perfect career. [...]

Creating a “Meteor fireball” effect in After Effects

Meteor Strike After Effects Tutorial

Another exciting After Effects tutorial for you guys ! In this tutorial, “VinhSon Nguyen” of creativedojo is going to show you how to create this nice, but basic “meteor” fireball effect and composite it into our shot. He will show you some cool compositing techniques like, fake shading, shadows, reflection, and color correction/grading to give [...]

Free Gun Shell Ejection Kit + Tutorial

Gun Shell Ejection Kit tutorial

This video from author, Mike Gentilini Jr, from VidMuze, shows you how to create 3 different 3d gun shells that wll roate in a 360 degree loop.  This simulates a shell ejecting from a gun. He shows you how to add the muzzle flash of smoke from the bun barrel and the shell ejection.  This will [...]

How to Get your Cinema 4d Animation Keyframes into Element 3D

Cinema 4d Animation Keyframes into Element 3D

In this tutorial from author, Serge Mustu, He shows you How to render sophistcated and complex animations in After Effects which were done in Cinema 4d, by moving Cinema 4D keyframes (position, rotation, etc) and native C4D models and use them inside of After Effects for the plugin “Element 3D” from Video copilot. Import Cinema [...]

Export Maya Position & Normal Pass to Pixel Cloud for After Effects

Maya Export Position and Normal Pass to After Effects Pixel Cloud

In the following tutorial, the author, Michael of TheBlurrypixel, shows us how to use Maya to create a normal pass and postion pass to be used with Pixel Cloud plugin for After Effects. He shows How to export the passes from Maya and what adjustmets you need to make after importing into After Effects. Export Maya [...]

Making Rubix Cube style Spinning Titles in After Effects

Rubix Cube style Spinning Titles in After Effects

In this tutorial from Evan Abrams, He is going to show you How to create this Rubix Cube style rotating titles using after effects using some cool tricks. It can be done in any version of AE, So if you have cs3, cs4 or cs5 you should be fine. Let’s take a look. Making Rubix [...]

Get Better Camera Focus in After Effects using “Target Object”

Better Camera Focus in After Effects using Target Object

In this tutorial author “David Biederbeck” going to show you How to create a target object in After effects to make sure your camera is always in focus. Get Better Camera Focus in After Effects using “Target Object”

Create 3D Water Reflections using After Effects & 3ds Max

3D Water Reflections using After Effects & 3ds Max

Learn How to create fully 3D water reflections using the simple technique in this tutorial. The author, Jan Mika, will show you How to track the footage and export the After Effects camera into 3DS Max, where He will show you how to create the scene, lights and materials, all from scratch. Once complete, the [...]

Cinema 4D To Elements 3D Material Workflow

Cinema 4D To Element 3D Material Workflow

In this quick tutorial “David Biederbeck” going to show you How to work with videocopilot’s newly released Elements 3D for After Effects. He will demonstrate you how to import your cinema 4d models inside elements 3d to work on them. From David: Hey, if you’re like me you have been pretty stoked about the new [...]

Creating “The Trailer” using Cinema 4d & After Effects

The Trailer using Cinema 4d & After Effects

In this tutorial “VinhSon Nguyen” of creativedojo going to show you How to create this cool “The Trailer” titles using Cinema 4d and After Effects. In first part he will show you How to setup the basic 3D MoText, the Random Effector, some basic lighting and texturing. and animation part in Cinema 4d. In second [...]