Category: After Effects

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Clones, Step Effector, and Atom Array Tutorial for Cinema 4D

In this tutorial, I try to recreate some of the effects in Ion’s beautiful Spherical Animation using the Cloner, Step Effector, Atom Array, and Cel Renderer. I also show you how to do the final composite in After Effects. Sample … Continue reading →

April 23, 2012 and filed in After Effects, Cinema 4D
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Using Form 2.0 with Cinema 4D

Chicago C4D released a video of Gavin Morrissey’s talk about integrating Cinema 4D and Trapcode Form 2.0.

March 8, 2012 and filed in After Effects, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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Basics of Seamless Looping Animation Part 1

You may have seen my page of Tiny Animations that feature a bunch of simple animations from Cinema 4D and After Effects. They have been really fun to make, and I got a few questions about how to seamlessly loop … Continue reading →

January 12, 2012 and filed in After Effects, Tutorials, Video
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How to Make An Animated Title Sequence in Cinema 4D and After Effects

Vimeo asked me to do a tutorial for their excellent Vimeo School series and I said “heck yes!” It’s all about how to make a fun animated title using Cinema 4D and After Effects. In Lesson 1, we build the … Continue reading →

December 20, 2011 and filed in After Effects, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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My Favorite After Effects Plugins From Red Giant

Here is a list of some of some of my favorite software from Red Giant and how I use it in my work. Trapcode Suite 11 It’s everything Trapcode. If you work in After Effects, it’s the first plugin set … Continue reading →

December 13, 2011 and filed in After Effects, Motion Design
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Cinema 4D to After Effects Tutorial: Plasma TV

In this tutorial, I will show you how to prepare a cinema 4D scene file for export to After Effects. First, we will model, light and animate a simple flat-screen TV. Then, we will export the scene to After Effects … Continue reading →

December 12, 2011 and filed in After Effects, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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After Effects Preference Settings by Stu

After Effects is a professional tool by any measure, but it is designed for a broad user base. So an artist who plans to push it hard will want to tune the application accordingly. Here’s what I do to a … Continue reading →

November 21, 2011 and filed in After Effects
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Vintage Film For Looks is Now Only $69

Yep, if you have ever thought about ever getting my Vintage film for Looks, now is the time. It’s now only $69 down from it’s original price of $99. What’s more, you can now get ALL 17 of the guru … Continue reading →

October 21, 2011 and filed in After Effects, Digital Cameras, My Work, Photography, Video
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Three More Trapcode Presets over at Red Giant People

Modern Particle Cloud Download the Preset Fire Grid Download the Preset Slow Abstract Pink Background Download the Preset

July 28, 2011 and filed in After Effects
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How To Use Dynamics, Particle Emitters, and Different Camera Angles in Cinema 4D Part 2

In part 2 of this tutorial we head in to After Effects to composite all the separate camera angles we rendered from Cinema 4D. We use pre-comps to set up the scenes and edit them together in another comp. Then, … Continue reading →

July 22, 2011 and filed in After Effects, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video