From the tutorial description: In this multidimensional episode of Red Giant TV, Harry Frank walks you through creating a 3D environment from a 2D image, all in After Effects. You’ll also learn some great compositing and color correction techniques to finish the job off right.
Laurence Grayson writes: I know – I was supposed to be doing a kinetic typography tutorial next, but I have the attention span of a goldfish. This was one of those ‘I wonder if…’ moments, and the only way to get rid of those nagging thoughts is to see where they lead. In this case, it lead to a quick and easy method of creating a tarmac / asphalt text using fractal noise (it’s amazing how useful that effect can be), with a street marking-style title.
Lake Keene writes: This demonstration shows how to utilize Mocha AE and the Mocha Shape plugin to quickly track and rotoscope an object. Mocha AE data is then passed to the Mocha Shape plugin in After Effects and used as track matte.
Newton Physics for After Effects is a complete 2D physics engine environment for After Effects which represents an easy and quick plugin for any type of simulated rigid animation. Newton interprets each 2D layer as a rigid body in a real environment. Once simulation is completed, animation is recreated in After Effects with standard keyframes.
Henning Sanden writes: In this video, I’m showing how to make polygroups in ZBrush using UV mapping. The main advantage here is that it’s far more accurate than using for instance masking, or hiding parts and making groups that way. I do this for every character I make, and I always find to be very helpful at some point during the sculpting.
Anthony Aslangul writes: Forester is Maya MEL Script i made that will give you the possibility to generate a large amount of objects on a surface. It can be useful to make forests, rocks, garbage stuff and other things like that. I don’t know if you ever tried to place each tree of a wood manually but i assure you, it can take a veryyyyy long time! I hope this script will help you. It also has a feature to orient the objects by using the vertex normal direction that allow you to make special objects (like spikes on a ball or if you want to detail a spaceship hull…).
Suchan Bajracharya writes: This video goes over a little process/tip on how we can extract facial shapes from existing facial rig to quickly and efficiently create facial rigs! The video also covers on setting up a quick brow rig driven by facial deformation.
Carey McGarvey Jr. writes on his Maya tool: I originally started this small project to make a quick converter for getting MEL curves to Python. I quick realized that a nice little interface that stored the generated code for later use would be better then making shelf buttons for each and every curve you wanted to keep for later use. The tool, upon conversion will give you the option the grab the code and just use it as is, or give it a name and store it. The tool will store the converted commands inside a .txt in the same location as where the script is being loaded from. This tool will also give you the option to select a stored curve and have the command printed out into the script editor in-case you want to pass it on to someone else.
