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How to Make the 2010 Winter Olympics Ice Cube Event Bumpers Part 2

March 1, 2010

In This tutorial, we finish the Olympics Ice Cube tutorial in After Effects where we use fractal noise, blurs, glows, photos, text, and curves to complete the animation, compositing and color correction.
Final Animation

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How to make a Cascading Text Animation With Cinema 4D and After Effects – Part 2

February 18, 2010

In the second part of this tutorial, we color correct and composite our final animation in After Effects using a combination of blending modes, luma keys, blurs, vignettes, glows, and gradients.
Final Render

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How to make a Cascading Text Animation With Cinema 4D and After Effects – Part 1

February 16, 2010

In this tutorial, I show you how to make a fun cascading text effect shown below using Cinema 4D. Mograph, shader effectors, step effectors, and extrude nurbs. I also show you how to light the scene by using some reflective white cards and my upcoming Studio Light Kit.
Based on this animation
Final Render

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Camera Projection and GI in Cinema 4D Part 2: Compositing the Scene in After Effects

January 14, 2010

In part two, I show you how to set up your scene to render for compositing. We set alpha passes, depth of field passes, AO and GI passes. Then, In After Effects, we composite the scene using curves, colored solids, blurs, Frischluft Lencare, and Red Giant Knoll Light Factory.
WATCH PART 1 HERE


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How to make 3D Text and use 3D Stroke in After Effects – Live Tutorial

December 31, 2009

Check out the very first Live GSG Tutorial on how to make 3D Text and how to Make 3D Stroke from Trapcode go around objects. This tutorial was made live on Ustream where people could interact and ask questions about the process of making this scene.
I want to start doing live tutorials because I think [...]


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40% Off Red Giant Software Today Only – It’s Over

December 8, 2009

UPDATE: It’s all over, folks. Hope you got a good deal on some new software.
Today is the day. You can get 40% off of EVERYTHING from Red Giant. If you were thinking about getting anything from Red Giant including: Trapcode, Knoll, or Magic Bullet, now it the time to do it. Use the code [...]

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