Category: After Effects

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De-sync Expressions Tutorial by Sebastian

In this short tutorial, Sebastian Bap shows you how he made the follow arrow effect from his popular animation, “Make it better” using After Effects and Expressions. Make It Better Animation (Example) You can see more of Sebastian’s work at … Continue reading →

March 7, 2011 and filed in After Effects, Tutorials, Video
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My Favorite Guru Packs

Vintage Film For Looks Buy Vintage Film For Looks Harry Frank’s Looping Backgrounds for Trapcode Suite Buy Harry Frank’s Looping Backgrounds for Trapcode Suite Stu Maschwitz’s Rebel Epic for Looks Buy Stu Maschwitz’s Rebel Epic for Looks

January 14, 2011 and filed in After Effects, News
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My Essential Red Giant After Effects Plugins

UPDATE: Today only, Red Giant is having a 40% off sale. Enter Coupon Code SECRETSALE2011 during checkout to redeem your discount. People always ask what plugins I use with After Effects. These are what I consider essential plugins for my … Continue reading →

December 14, 2010 and filed in After Effects, News
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Slow Motion 60 fps GoPro HD Footage Test

An experiment at the Dunes with my camera my friends and the dogs. Filmed with the GoPro HD HERO Camera Naked at 60fps, slowed down and color graded in After Effects with Vintage Film For Looks. The quality of the … Continue reading →

November 19, 2010 and filed in After Effects, My Work, Video
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The Importance of Compositing: A Layer By Layer Breakdown in After Effects

In this video, I wanted to show you how important compositing is for your 3D renders. A 3D render is never finished straight from Cinema 4D or any 3D package. Every shot needs and deserves some sort of compositing and … Continue reading →

October 25, 2010 and filed in After Effects, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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New Trapcode Particular Preset: “Sparkler” – Including Motion Sketch Tutorial

I recently posted a new preset over at RedGiantPeople for Trapcode Particular. It’s called “Sparkler” and it is based off of images of writing your name with a sparkler. You can see the example below. In this tutorial, I wanted … Continue reading →

October 8, 2010 and filed in After Effects, Motion Design, My Work, Tutorials, Video
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Layer By Layer: A Breakdown Of My Layer Tennis Match

There were so many questions and comments about my Layer Tennis match on Friday. So, I decided to make this breakdown video showing you my thought process, workflow and scene files from the match. Links Mentioned Layer Tennis Aaron’s Site … Continue reading →

August 24, 2010 and filed in After Effects, Cinema 4D, Motion Design, My Work, Tutorials, Video
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How To Give your 3D renders a Retro Feel with Vintage Film for Looks

In this quick video, I show you how to give your 3D Renders a Perfect Timeless look with Nick Campbell’s Vintage Film for Look and After Effects. Buy Vintage Film For Looks Here

August 17, 2010 and filed in After Effects, Cinema 4D, Design, My Work
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How to Animate the Inception Totem Part 2 – After Effects

In part two of this tutorial, we head into After Effects where we composite and finish the scene using Frischluft Depth Of Field, Curves and blurs. I also show you how to use the object buffer from cinema 4D to … Continue reading →

August 16, 2010 and filed in After Effects, Tutorials, Video
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My New Guru Presets for Red Giant: Vintage Film For Looks

I’m so happy to announce my first GURU pack for red giant called “Nick Campbell’s Vintage Film for Looks.” Based off the vintage feel of my iPhone apps, these presets were made to add timeless tone and instant vintage color … Continue reading →

August 3, 2010 and filed in After Effects, My Work, Photography