Here's a tutorial for Twixtor. Twixtor is a plugin that automatically does a thing called "frame filling." Similar to slow motion.
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Friday 10 June 2011
How to use Twixtor in Adobe After Effects
Here's a tutorial for Twixtor. Twixtor is a plugin that automatically does a thing called "frame filling." Similar to slow motion.
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After Effects Tutorial - How to pick up a car!
This tutorial goes over the basics of how to pick up a car in Adobe After Effects.
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Music to Light Effect
In this episode of Red Giant TV, I’ll shows you how to re-create the Music-to-Light effect (seen last season on Heroes), using Trapcode Particular 2. This is a deep exploration of the extremely powerful Aux System in Particular
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Clusters college of media and designs
Clusters College for Media & Design, a unique facility offering professional training for artists in the entertainment and Media industries. Clusters was launched as a means to develop high end professional techniques for people who have the goal to excel in life with a passion for creativity and success.
At Clusters we give you a real time studio instead of ordinary class rooms, and you will find guidance from experienced supervisors. The films you create in our studios will have all the production challenges and life lessons you will experience on the job. This unique experience with our employer designed curriculum gives you a deeper understanding of what it takes to work on a production team and makes you production-ready. No other training provider is as aligned to the industry as Clusters.
As the demand for creative artists increases and the quality of visuals in games and film continues to mature, education is the foundation of our industry's future. Our mission is to provide the highest level of training in a real time studio production ambience that both educates and inspires in order to help people achieve their personal goals.
Contact Details
Corporate Office
No 66/1, 2nd Floor, Coles Road, Frazer Town
Bangalore, Karnataka, India - 560 005.
E-mail: bglr@clusters.in
Training Division
SFS Pointe, Near A.I.R.,
Vazhuthacaud, Trivandrum, Kerala, India - 695014
Tel:91-471-4066115, 116.
E-mail: tvm@clusters.in
Training Division
3rd Floor, Baby Arcade,
PT Usha Road, Calicut, Kerala, India
Tel:91-495-4011664, 665.
E-mail:clt@clusters.in
Davinci Media College
DA VINCI Media College is located in the center of the Kollywood production district.
DA VINCI's facilities have been designed to create a production-like environment with an atmosphere conductive to creativity and learning. Our 2000-square-foot facility features three computer labs furnished with a total of 60 state-of-the-arts, production-level workstations. An analog studio is home to courses such as Figure Drawing and Production Design. The remainder of our space is made up of a professional-level shoot/edit bay, kitchen and administrative offices.
TECHNOLOGY
All DA VINCI computer labs house the latest in state-of-the-art workstations. The production-level Windows7 and Apple IMac workstations are periodically upgraded and serviced to meet the demands of the VFX industry.
ENVIRONMENT
Although we are extremely serious about training and education,DA VINCI has a very casual atmosphere. We are open from 9 am to 9 am, six days a week and there are students here whenever our doors are open. They are doing their studio/lab time, working on personal projects, watching movies or playing video games ("Research, you know"), or just interacting with other people who are just as passionate about 3D as they are.
Contact details :
No. 15, Muthuramalingam Street,
Saligramam, Chennai 600 092.
Tamilnadu. INDIA.
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Thursday 9 June 2011
Frame Boxx Animation studios
Frame Boxx pay extra emphasis to the fact that training curriculums require constant and ongoing development which is founded upon long hours of research and interaction with the industry. This coupled with an integrated instructor development and training program which ensures that our highly talented teams of instructors are always kept at the helm of technology and are equipped with the finest techno-creative skills translates into the next generation of highly talented artists who are charged up to handle the most challenging production scenarios right from day one.
Contact Details
Frameboxx Animation | Visual Effects Pvt. Ltd.
101-108, 1st Floor,
Shoppers Point, S.V. Road,
Andheri(W), Mumbai - 400059, India.
Tel: +91-22-66753203 / 07 / 08
E-mail: info@frameboxx.in
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Contact Details
Frameboxx Animation | Visual Effects Pvt. Ltd.
101-108, 1st Floor,
Shoppers Point, S.V. Road,
Andheri(W), Mumbai - 400059, India.
Tel: +91-22-66753203 / 07 / 08
E-mail: info@frameboxx.in
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Fairytale Lighting in After Effects
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Fractal Noise Fade Effect
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Wedding Template intro - After Effects Template
* All made in After Effects,
* No 3d application used.
* Everything can be edited.
* No 3d application used.
* Everything can be edited.
* All the images can be easily changed,
I show how to do this step by step in the video tutorial.
I show how to do this step by step in the video tutorial.
Resolution: 1920×1080 Full HD (Separate compositions for HD720, NTSC, and PAL resolution included)
Required Plugins: NONE,
Sound: NOT Included
CS3 CS4 and CS5 Compatible
Works on MAC and PC
Instant Download File Size: 175 MB
Autodesk Combustion
Combustion 2008 is the newest version of Autodesk's visual effects and compositing software tool.
Combustion is a computer program "for motion graphics, compositing and visual effects" (Discreet, n.d.). The software retails for US$995 (MacMinute, 2004). It is commonly likened to Adobe's After Effects, and shares a timeline based interface with Autodesk's (formerly Discreet) higher-end compositing systems Inferno, Flame and Flint. This is in contrast to the node based interface used by some other compositing applications.
Since the release of version 2, Combustion includes both node view and time line views.
It has since been replaced by Toxik, which is now called Composite.
Download Combustion Getting Started Tutorials
Foundry Nuke
Nuke is a node-based compositor produced by The Foundry, and used for film and television post-production. Nuke is cross-platform, and is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Nuke's users include Digital Domain, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Pictures Animation, Framestore, Mr X, Weta Digital and Industrial Light & Magic, and Nuke has been used on productions such as Avatar, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, King Kong, Jumper, I, Robot, and Resident Evil: Extinction
Click here to download latest Nuke Training videos
Fast, memory efficient, scanline-based image processing engine
NUKE's rendering engine only processes the part of the frame being viewed to give fast artist feedback and support for massive image sizes. Multi-threading is supported on all platforms taking full advantage of multiple processor systems and multi-core CPUs.Resolution independent multi-channel pipeline
Read and output at any image size and manage up to 1023 user-definable 32-bit floating point colour channels. Cleanly manage multi-pass renders in a single compositing stream, separate out passes for individual manipulation and work natively with HDRI.
A comprehensive and tightly integrated 3D environment
Interactively construct and edit 3D scenes using the OpenGL accelerated 3D viewer. Set up cards, extended bicubic and bilinear meshes and standard geometric primitives or import pre-constructed meshes using OBJ and Autodesk FBX® support. Transform, texture, projection map, light and render with multi-sampled motion blur.
Multi-view and metadata aware framework
Manage multiple user-defined views and apply local or global processing changes at an individual node or parameter level - perfect for efficient stereoscopic, 2D to stereoscopic conversion and multi-camera post production. Directly access and modify arbitrary metadata, ingested and created in the processing stream.
Intuitive node graph based workspace
Rapidly construct and edit complex 2D and 3D composites, working and sharing scripts with a variety of node annotations, colour backdrops, groups and thumbnail images. Reference and pre-render external pre-composites for efficiency and artist collaboration.
See and adjust, anywhere
Concurrently open multiple 2D or 3D viewers and adjust parameters of any node process. Compare and flip book results with flexible import, export and display colour management. Integrated Iridas FrameCycler™ Professional playback and video preview display via BlackMagic Decklink and AJA Kona output cards.
Define your own workflow and interactively build custom tools
Take advantage of NUKE’s simple but extensive user interface and node customisation capabilities. Use the inbuilt Python script editor, parameter expressions, linked clones and define Gizmo-macros to rapidly prototype and deliver complex procedural effects – accessible later at the touch of a button.
Automate and batch process
Interact with NUKE outside the graphical user interface from a straightforward command line interface or using flexible script control. Draw on extensive third-party render queuing application support.
Open a complete visual effects toolbox
Powerful animation curve editor for visualising, drawing and editing parameter value curves and mathematical expressions.
Concatenated 2D and 3D transformations with high quality filtering options, 2D tracking and image stabilisation.
NUKE’s own IBK™ advanced Image Based Keyer.
Integrated Foundry Keylight, Primatte™ and Ultimatte™ keyers.
Key spill suppression tools.
Multiple colour correction approaches, histogram, curves, look up tables and configurable colourspace conversions.
Extensive set of image processing tools including noise, Gaussian and vector blur, defocus, dilate/erode, grid and spline warping, a variety of image composition and merge methods and a vector-based, anti-aliased text generator.
Rotoscope and vector paint toolset Bezier and spline shapes with variable point feather and individual motion blur. Paint with multiple brushes including dodge, burn, reveal, blur, sharpen, smear and recursive clone with full source transformation and onion skin. Intermix shapes and paint strokes with a layer hierarchy and blending modes. Animation curve editor and scripting integration.
Click here to download latest Nuke Training videos
Pinnacle Commotion Pro
Commotion is a visual effects application, originally released by Puffin Designs. Puffin Designs was founded by Scott Squires (an award-winning Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic) and Forest Key to market Commotion.
Commotion set a very high standard for a rotoscoping application, introducing rotosplines and offering features like motion tracking[disambiguation needed] and motion blurring for masks. it was the first desktop application to allow real-time playback of full quality video clips from RAM.
Puffin Designs was later acquired by Pinnacle in 2000. After another release, Pinnacle let the program languish. Pinnacle has since been acquired by Avid, who shows no signs of reviving the product.
The last release was version 4.1.
Apple Computer briefly bundled a limited version of the program with Final Cut Pro.
Wednesday 8 June 2011
Blender
Blender is a free open source 3D graphics application, available under the GNU General Public License for the Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Blender's features include 3D modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water and smoke simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and the ability to create interactive 3D applications, video games, animated film, or visual effects. More advanced tools include rigid, realistic body, fluid, cloth and softbody dynamics simulation, modifier-based modeling, character animation, a node-based material and compositing system, and embedded scripting in Python.
Features
Blender has a relatively small installation size and runs on several popular computing platforms. Official versions of the software are released for Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and FreeBSD. Though it is often distributed without extensive example scenes found in some other programs, the software contains features that are characteristic of high-end 3d software. Among its capabilities are:
1.Support for a variety of geometric primitives, including polygon meshes, fast subdivision surface modeling, Bezier curves, NURBS surfaces, metaballs, digital sculpting,outline font, and a new n-gon modeling system called B-mesh.
2.Integration with YafaRay, a free software ray tracer.
3.Internal render engine with ray tracing, indirect lighting, and ambient oclusion that can export in a wide variety of formats.
4.Keyframed animation tools including inverse kinematics, armature (skeletal), hook, curve and lattice-based deformations, shape keys (morphing), non-linear animation, constraints, vertex weighting, soft body dynamics including mesh collision detection, LBM fluid dynamics, smoke simulation, Bullet rigid body dynamics, particle-based hair, and a particle system with collision detection.
5.Modifiers to apply non-destructive effects.
6.Python scripting for tool creation and prototyping, game logic, importing and/or exporting from other formats, task automation and custom tools.
7.Basic non-linear video/audio editing and compositing capabilities.
8.Game Blender, a sub-project, offers interactivity features such as collision detection, dynamics engine, and programmable logic. It also allows the creation of stand-alone, real-time applications ranging from architectural visualization to video game construction.
9.A fully-integrated node-based compositor within the rendering pipeline.
10.Realtime controll during physics simulation and rendering.
Use in the media industry
Blender started out as an inhouse tool for a Dutch commercial animation company, NeoGeo.[citation needed]
Blender has been used for television commercials in several parts of the world including Australia, Iceland, Brazil, Russia and Sweden.
The first large professional project that used Blender was Spider-Man 2, where it was primarily used to create animatics and pre-visualizations for the storyboard department.
"As an animatic artist working in the storyboard department of Spider-Man 2, I used Blender's 3D modeling and character animation tools to enhance the storyboards, re-creating sets and props, and putting into motion action and camera moves in 3D space to help make Sam Raimi's vision as clear to other departments as possible." - Anthony Zierhut,Animatic Artist, Los Angeles.
The French-language film Friday or Another Day (Vendredi ou un autre jour) was the first 35 mm feature film to use Blender for all the special effects, made on GNU/Linux workstations It won a prize at the Locarno International Film Festival. The special effects were by Digital Graphics of Belgium.
Blender has also been used for shows on the History Channel, alongside many other professional 3D graphics programs.
Tomm Moore’s The Secret of Kells, which was partly produced in Blender by the Belgian studio Digital Graphics, has been nominated for an Oscar in the category ‘Best Animated Feature Film’.
Apple Shake
Shake is a discontinued image compositing package used in the post-production industry. Shake was widely used in visual effects and digital compositing for film, HD and commercials. Shake exposed its node graph architecture graphically. It enabled complex image processing sequences to be designed through the connection of effects "nodes" in a graphical workflow interface. This type of compositing interface allows great flexibility, including the ability to modify the parameters of an earlier image processing step "in context" (while viewing the final composite). Many other compositing packages, such as Blender, eyeon Fusion, Nuke and Cineon, also use a similar node-based approach.
Shake was available for Mac OS X and Linux. Support for Microsoft Windows and IRIX was discontinued in previous versions
On July 30, 2009, Apple discontinued Shake. No direct product replacement has been announced, but some features are now available in Final Cut Studio, such as the SmoothCam filter.
Uses
Shake has been used in such films as Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and King Kong, as well as Harry Potter movies and Cloverfield. It was also used by The Embassy to create a television advertisement for Citroën with a dancing car. Shake was used by Broadway Video for restoring the release of “Saturday Night Live: The Complete First Season” DVD box set. It is also in use by CBS Digital for creating new visual effects for Star Trek Remastered.
Other major productions using Shake include the 2005 adaptation of War of the Worlds, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Fantastic Four, Mission Impossible 3, Poseidon, The Incredibles, Hulk, Doctor Who, The Dark Knight and Pirates of the Caribbean 2.
Shake is also used for video post-production, but in this field Autodesk's Flint, Flame and Inferno systems are usually used in conjunction with Shake for a fast turnaround of projects. Shake's historical strength has been the ability to work better with very high resolution formats such as 2K, 4K and IMAX used in the motion picture industry.
Eyeon Fusion
Fusion (formerly Digital Fusion) is an image compositing software program created by eyeon Software Inc. It is typically used to create visual effects and digital compositing for film, HD and commercials. It employs a node-based interface in which complex processes are built up by connecting a flowchart or schematic of many nodes, each of which represents a simpler process, such as a blur or color correction. This type of compositing interface allows great flexibility, including the ability to modify the parameters of an earlier image processing step "in context" (while viewing the final composite).
Fusion is available for 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Microsoft Windows and 32-bit Linux (via a customized version of Wine).
Fusion 6.2 Features
In addition to the advancements pioneered with Uncharted Territory, the development team at eyeon is always employed in the evolution of Fusion's already prolific toolset. Many upgrades have been executed to ensure the equanimity of both artist and studio. Following are some of the enhancements you can expect:
* Fusion x64 for Linux, this includes Open CL supercomputing
* QuickTime support for Fusion x64, with support for Timecode, and greater than 8bit/channel codecs.
* Particle system updates with Particle Fuses and OCL Particle Fuses. Improved particle evaluation, providing more accurate and stable simulations.
* 3D Renderer Updated to render World Position Pass channels.
* WPP allows the artist to create a stereoscopic version from a single camera render.
* Updated RED R3D support to the latest version includes Epic and Scarlet support, as well as all the latest color science and controls.
* SVG importing, Scalable Vector Graphics, the open standard for 2D vector specs can be exported by a large array of applications and imported into Fusion.
* Open CL improvements including a new rays tool and ability to add a second low cost graphics card specifically for OCL supercomputing.
* Picking postion in 3D scenes or via WPP can be used for particle placements and object placements.
Uses
Fusion has been used in many movies and TV shows :
1.Terminator Salvation
2.Watchmen
3.X-Men Origins: Wolverine
4.Sivaji The Boss
5.Final Destination II
6.The Aviator
7.300
8.Avatar
Uses
Fusion has been used in many movies and TV shows :
1.Terminator Salvation
Adobe After Effects
Adobe After Effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software published by Adobe Systems, used in film and video post-production. Its main uses are the origination of 2D and 2.5D animation, visual effects compositing and finishing (image adjustement, color correction etc.). After Effects can also be used as a basic non-linear editor and a media transcoder.
Adobe After Effects is primarily used for creating motion graphics and visual effects. After Effects allows users to animate, alter and composite media in 2D and 3D space with various built-in tools and third party plug-ins, as well as individual attention to variables like parallax and user-adjustable angle of observation.
After Effects and some non-linear editing systems (NLEs) are layer-oriented, meaning that each individual media object (video clip, audio clip, still image, etc.) occupies its own track. In contrast, other NLEs use a system where individual media objects can occupy the same track as long as they do not overlap in time. This track-oriented system is more suited for editing and can keep project files much more concise. The layer-oriented system that After Effects adopts is suited for extensive effects work and keyframing. Although other compositing packages—especially ones that employ tree or node workflows, such as Apple Shake—are better suited to manage large volumes of objects within a composite, After Effects is able to somewhat counter the clutter by selectively hiding layers (using the Shy switch) or by grouping them into pre-compositions.
The main interface consists of several panels (windows in versions prior to After Effects 7.0). Three of the most commonly used panels are the Project panel, the Composition panel, and the Timeline panel. The Project panel acts as a bin to import stills, video, and audio footage items. Footage items in the Project panel are used in the Timeline panel, where layer order and timing can be adjusted. The items visible at the current time marker are displayed in the Composition panel.
After Effects integrates with other Adobe software titles such as Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Encore, Flash, and third-party 3D programs like Cinema 4D.
Monday 6 June 2011
AE ILLUSTRATION
- Create Glossy menu in After Effects
- We will create shapes out of solid layers with the help of masks
Keep Your Eye on the Ball … 3D in After Effects
Sunday 5 June 2011
Car Light Trails After Effects Tutorial
- Create car light trail effect in After Effects
- Play around with 3d stroke effect to achieve great results
3Ds Max LensFlare
- Create a very Basic yet powerful 3ds Max lens flare
- We will use the lens effect of 3ds max to produce a powerful lens flare
Friday 3 June 2011
Cinema Room After Effects Template
Great opener for shows, easy to edit.
All made in After Effects.
Resolution: 1920×1080 Full HD (Separate compositions for HD720, NTSC, and PAL resolution included)
Resolution: 1920×1080 Full HD (Separate compositions for HD720, NTSC, and PAL resolution included)
Requiered Plugins: NONE,
Sound: NOT Included
Video tutorial: with voice
CS3 CS4 and CS5 Compatible
Works on MAC and PC
Instant Download File Size: 90MB
Video tutorial: with voice
CS3 CS4 and CS5 Compatible
Works on MAC and PC
Instant Download File Size: 90MB
Burning Castle Autodesk Combustion Tutorial
In this tutorial we are going to use some simple operators (draw selection, remove selection, turbulence and particles) to make it look like the castle you see on the picture is burning. The intent of this is to show how selections and particles can be combined to make some elements of the picture appear to be before and some elements appear to be behind the particle effects.
Download Combustion Getting Started Tutorials
Writing a Logo with Light Autodesk Combustion tutorial
Running Man Latest After Effects Tutorial
- Generate particles in After Effects with Trapcode Form Plugin
- Apply Trapcode Form Plugin to a real footage to generate 3d particles
Spectrum After Effects CS3 Project
A really cool atmospheric sequence that comes alive to your music. Most of the elements within the sequence are driven by whatever music you add to the project. This will allow the visuals to blend with the music and really draw the audience into the sequence. Let the Spectrum AE Project take your presentation, intro sequence and media to the next level.
The project is well organized and colour coded to make navigation easy. It is also broken up into scenes so making changes and/or adding in extra copies of scenes (e.g. if you wanted extra media displays) is quite easy.
Compatible with After Effects CS3 – all elements are editable within AE. Everything can be changed.
Prepared at 1920×1080 for HD output.
The music in the preview is NOT included. It is simply there to show you how the project reacts to music.
Enjoy!
Afterlife
Hey guys, this an After Effects project file. Another great animation with lots of potential uses and variable title and footage animations. Great for your website or business presentation at your office. It can be easily translated to fit any other type of promo. Neat design and
sophisticated moves make it the best marketing tool for company.
Main features are:
sophisticated moves make it the best marketing tool for company.
Main features are:
- No plug ins required (Optical Flares is pre-rendered but additional file is included for those who have the plug in and want to modify it.)
- HD resolution (720p)
- More than 10 video/text holders
- Useful video tutorial showing how to edit the template
- Audio is not included but feel free to write me an email about additional soundtrack information./
- Renders quickly
- exactly 1 minute long
