Category: After Effects

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How To Make The Cherry 7up Look With Cinema 4D and After Effects Part 2

In part two of this tutorial, we finish up the lighting and animation in Cinema 4D and prepare our scene to render and for compositing in After Effects. In After Effects, I show you how to use Trapcode Particular, RS … Continue reading →

June 16, 2010 and filed in After Effects, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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New Station IDs made for SignalNoise

I was honored when James White of Signalnoise asked me if I could make him a cool looking “Station ID” for his upcoming art show. I love James’ retro style and have admired his work for sometime now, so I … Continue reading →

May 7, 2010 and filed in After Effects, Motion Design, My Work, Video
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How to make the the Discovery Channel Rebrand Cube Transition Effect with After Effects – Part 2

In part 2 of this tutorial, I show you how to composite our 3D render passes in After Effects using our Object Buffer passes as a luma matte to reveal different photos and to control the transitions. Then I will … Continue reading →

May 5, 2010 and filed in After Effects, Tutorials, Video
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Reflective and Refractive Glass Block Tutorial Part 2 – After Effects

In part 2 of this glass block tutorial I show you how I use After Effects, Trapcode Starglow, Curves, Compound Blur and Colorama to finish and composite the scene. Final Animation Watch Part 1 of This Tutorial

April 19, 2010 and filed in After Effects, Tutorials, Video
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Fun With Precomping in After Effects

In this short tutorial, I show you how to make a complex animation with only a few keyframes with the power of PRECOMPING!!! I do this all the time in projects, and it creates some really fun animation. Final Animation

April 6, 2010 and filed in After Effects, Tutorials, Video
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How to Speed Up and Slow Down Your Animation in Cinema 4D

In this short tip, I show you the three ways to speed up and slow down your animation in Cinema 4D using Keyframes, Time Scale or using After Effects and Time Remapping. Mentioned in this video: Stopping Time: How to … Continue reading →

March 31, 2010 and filed in After Effects, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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How to make a Simple Spin Logo Animation Part 2

In part 2 of this tutorial, we take our 3D render into After Effects to composite and finish the scene. I show you how to use glow, curves, blurs, and levels to color correct the scene and add some shine. … Continue reading →

March 25, 2010 and filed in After Effects, Tutorials, Video, Visual Learning
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How to Make the 2010 Winter Olympics Ice Cube Event Bumpers Part 2

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 Watch Part 1 of this tutorial

March 1, 2010 and filed in After Effects, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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How to make a Cascading Text Animation With Cinema 4D and After Effects – Part 2

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 Watch Part 1 of this Tutorial

February 18, 2010 and filed in After Effects, Cinema 4D, Design, Motion Design, Tutorials, Visual Learning
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How to make a Cascading Text Animation With Cinema 4D and After Effects – Part 1

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 … Continue reading →

February 16, 2010 and filed in After Effects, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video