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.

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

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.”

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

After Effects Lately #3

...is the last bunch of news from September in assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.

Read the last 3 AE news roundups at ProVideo Coalition:

• After Effects Lately #1
• After Effects Lately #2
• After Effects Lately #3

After Effects Lately #1

Round up of IBC and other news: a new full-featured 3D renderer & more... Read After Effects Lately #1 at PVC.

Lens flares in AE: new comparisons

Lens Flares in After Effects, a mini-roundup at PVC, has been updated with links to 2 new review resources from Michele Yamazaki and from Mylenium, a longtime student of lens flares and creator of presets. Both plug-in comparisons look at the big products from Video Copilot, John Knoll, Boris FX, and Genarts.

As an aside, here's the video for the SIGGRAPH 2011 paper, Physically-Based Real-Time Lens Flare Rendering: