Sean Safreed, Director of Products and Co-founder of Red Giant Software shows you how to create with ToonIt a custom cartoon style and compares ToonIt to the bundled cartoon effect inside After Effects CS4.
Red GiantToonIt uses unique Toonamation algorithms to transform your image into captivating cartoon shading. ToonIt eliminates time-consuming techniques such as rotoscoping and hand painting, and lends precise control over styles, shading and outlines. Red Giant TV did also publish a Video Tutorial hosted by Aharon Rabinowitz:Creating a Watercolor Painting Look in which Aharon turn your video into an animated watercolor painting.
Mathias Möhl published two Video Tutorials on how you could use his After Effects script Tracker2Mask. Tracker2mask can help you when you do rotoscoping in After Effects.
“Tracker2Mask computes the movement of maskshapes based on the movement of trackpoints. It is easy and flexible to use. In particular you don’t need one trackpoint for each maskpoint. In the tutorial I show how to rotoscope the shape of a moving car based on only four trackpoints, for simpler shapes often one trackpoint is sufficient.”
imagineer systems is sponsoring a video screen recording tutorial contest. Participants may submit a video screen recording of any of Imagineer Systems products and the winning participant will receive a full suite of all of Imagineer’s programs!
User must have the rights to use the content of the footage they are using. Video can feature any of the following software applications: mokey, monet, mocha, motoror mocha-AE
Any number of topics can be covered and the more unique the tutorial, the better chances of winning! Some sample ideas for tutorial topics:
rotoscoping organic objects with motor
logo replacement with monet
using clean plates in mokey
tracking null layers in After Effects using mocha-AE
Videos must be send to Imagineer no later than August 31th, 2008.
Two (well one) lame duck leader and one classic song. This is a well done composition. If you ever wonder why should buy a composting and a rotoscoping package, now you know why.
Credits:
Directors: Andrey Mudrov, Yaroslav Kemnits (Director of Special Effects)
Producer: Dmitry Lesnevsky
Film compositor Pete O’Connell shows you the secrets of advanced rotoscoping that will save you hours, even days, on your toughest jobs. Eran Stern has quickly become one of the Cow’s most popular authors; here he presents tutorials for real-world motion graphics that you can start using right away. And Aharon Rabinowitz, one of the world’s true AE masters, leads you through AE CS3
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