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deeper modes of expression part 3

By lesterbanks | Published: March 9, 2010
Chris and Trish Meyer post the third part of a 12-part series, called “Deeper Modes of Expression”, that comes from the 180+ page bonus chapter in their fantastic must-have book, Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects. Part three is a look at arrays.
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text animators underwater floating type, after effects tutorial

By lesterbanks | Published: March 8, 2010
QubaHQ back again with a new after effects tutorial that shows you how to create a nifty environment of floating type by NOT using trapcode particular or cc particle world – The project actually and quite simply uses text animators. View the tutorial here. Alphabet Soup Tutorial Preview from Quba Michalski on Vimeo. this After Effects tutorial will [...]
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create a logo transition with card dance, after effects tutorial

By lesterbanks | Published: March 6, 2010
Chris Hodgson of syrup syrup demonstrates how to create a nifty logo transition using after effects, and after effects bundled plug-in Card Dance. MDL – Create a cool logo transition using card particle from Motion Design Love on Vimeo. Presented by Chris Hodgson, from www.syrupsyrup.co.uk
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cloudy-moonlit night tutorial in after effects

By lesterbanks | Published: March 5, 2010
Learn how to create an animated cloudy moonlit night scene from scratch in After Effects over at cgswot. The cloud system is built using Trapcode Particular and the starfield background is made with a Fractal Noise. Pretty neat.
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create a music-to-light effect in after effects

By lesterbanks | Published: March 4, 2010
Harry Frank shows how to re-create a Music-to-Light effect (like the one seen on the tv show Heroes), using Trapcode Particular 2. He’ll also use Mojo to alter the color, and Knoll 3D Flare to add to the effect.
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creating a hollywood style hacking sequence in after effects

By lesterbanks | Published: March 3, 2010
Watch and learn at QubaHQ how to create one of those fancy hollywood-style password hacking sequences that you often see on screen as a visual interpretation of “password hacking” – very neat tutorial.
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create a nebula with trapcode particular

By lesterbanks | Published: March 2, 2010
Alex Verlan demonstrates how to create a nebula in after effects by using trapcode particular. Watch the end result in the video below, and find the tutorial at AEtuts. nebula from versa on Vimeo. scene from upcoming project upd: Selected for Trapcode Gallery http://trapcode.squarespace.com/journal/2010/1/19/nebula-by-versa.html Thanks Peder! upd: see whole project here http://www.vimeo.com/8734442 upd: AETuts TUTORIAL http://bit.ly/9X8QEu
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after effects color link

By lesterbanks | Published: February 27, 2010
In this after effects video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern creates a colorful disco tunnel using shape layers and matching the look to a video footage using the color link effect.
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cascading text animation with cinema 4d & after effects

By lesterbanks | Published: February 22, 2010
Nick Campbell, the GreyScaleGorilla with a tutorial on how to create this nifty cascading text effect by using cinema 4d. I find this particularly interesting coming from an autodesk maya world where the simplicity of this task in cinema 4d would sadly be a bit lost in maya. How to make a Cascading Text Animation with [...]
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navigating nested comps in after effects

By lesterbanks | Published: February 19, 2010
AdobeTV shows how you can navigate nested compositions faster than ever before in After Effects CS4. Join Adobe Video Evangelist Karl Soulé as he shows you the new improved workflow.
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