October 23, 2012

The week in After Effects

...‘Avengers’ HUD, Orient World, Particular, shortcuts, and error codes are just a few of the latest news items. Read The week in After Effects at PVC.

Here's Trapcode Particular Essentials from Dan Stevers, which "covers the essentials of Trapcode Particular, a particle generating plug-in for After Effects that also happens to be the greatest plug-in of all-time!" Dan looks at how to use or make Dust, Rain, Snow, Sparks, Firework, Layer Emitters, Custom Particles, Snow w/ Custom Particles, and Light Emitters.


October 18, 2012

Another week in After Effects

... features wiggles, twitches, color, 3D, scripts, Premiere, & more from the last week or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins.

Read it at ProVideo Coalition.

An extra via the Tao of Color Grading newsletter, here's Becoming A Colorist: A Preview, an excerpt from a documentary on color grading & finishing:





Big Science

October 10, 2012

Last week in After Effects

... features sync to beats, son of Ken Burns, roto, 3D, Production Premium, and more from the last week or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.

Among news of note is Beat Assistant from Mamoworld, a new tool from AE Scripts that detects “the bpm (beats per minute) of wav, mp3 and aif files and use it to generate markers or keyframes and to stagger layers.”

October 8, 2012

In case of a flexagon emergency

Risking hours of accidental math tourism, here's Vi Hart on hexaFlexagons (see the YT movie info):



Via io9