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Photorealistic Animation 'Consumed' Sees Science Destroy the Earth with Grey-Goo

01.18.13 @ 9:00AM Tags : andreaswannerstedt, animation, motiongraphics, short, watch

Trekkie or not I’m betting that at least once after a hard days work, returning home to an empty fridge you’ve pondered ‘why the hell hasn’t someone invented those Star Trek food replicators yet?’ You may want to hold that thought the next time it crops up, at least until you’ve seen Andreas Wannerstedt’s science test gone wrong short Consumed: More »

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Watch Animated Short 'EXODUS' and Learn How to Get Started with Trapcode Mir

01.15.13 @ 10:42PM Tags : animation, motiongraphics, short, shortfilm, shorts, tutorial, tutorials, watch

We’ve already seen a little bit of what is possible in the After Effects plugin Trapcode, but now we’ve got a short called EXODUS from Magnus Östergren that was commissioned by Peder Norrby, the founder of Trapcode, to specifically show off what Trapcode Mir (a part of the whole suite) was capable of. Click through to check out the short: More »

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Build Your Own Futuristic 'Trapcode Planet' with After Effects

01.12.13 @ 9:00AM Tags : motiongraphics, philipppavlov, short, tutorial, watch

2012 saw effects plugin company Red Giant blur the line between advertisement and compelling short film with Plot Device and Tempo. But as good as both those shorts were, if I’m honest, the demonstrations which really raise my excitement levels are those that are developed in bedrooms with a mighty staff of one. Cue 21 year old Russian motion artist Philipp Pavlov, whose ‘visual experiment’ Trapcode Planet does a pretty good sales job of highlighting some of the capabilities of Red Giant’s Stockholm plugin suite partner Trapcode: More »

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Learn How to Do a 3D Match Move Using the Free and Open Source Program Blender

01.6.13 @ 11:55PM Tags : blender, cgi, matchmoving, motiongraphics, post-production, postproduction, tracking, tutorial, tutorials

One of the great features in Adobe After Effects CS6 is its built-in 3D camera tracker, which helps realistically integrate CG elements into footage that have a fair amount of camera or subject movement. But what if you want to do a 3D match move shot, and you can’t afford a copy of After Effects? Not a problem. Andrew Price of Blender Guru has a great hour-long video to get you started with 3D tracking and compositing CG elements in the free open source 3D program, Blender: More »

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How to Track Motion in After Effects (Using the Free Plugin Mocha)

12.5.11 @ 9:21AM Tags : aftereffects, mgfx, mocha, motiongraphics, motiontracking, tracking

Mocha is an advanced motion-tracking plugin for Adobe After Effects that is conveniently bundled with AE for free. I’ve done most of my motion tracking in After Effects using its native tracking abilities, but Mocha offers more advanced controls. So here’s a tutorial of how to use Mocha — in this case, to properly track a wall in a moving shot, and to add some graffiti in post to said wall. This is an excerpt of a After Effects training course at Lynda.com by Chris Meyer and Trish Meyer: More »