Chris Zwar shares in his 3-part video tutorial (part1, part2, part3)  how he has done the conference opener for Centrica back in 2006.  Chris After Effects video tutorial gives an general insight into the various processes that he did use from start to end.. Chris did use plugin Knoll Light Factory Pro and you may need this plugin to achieve the best results similar to the look chris describes. A small demonstration project that you can download here.

Jerzego Drozde Jr (aka Maltaannona) released his newest plugin. Youveelizer helps you to apply UV mapping with pixel bender, the plugin supports normal maps as well.  When you apply Youveelizer to a layer with a UV render pass to apply a texture to a rendered 3d object, or to a Normal render pass to add reflections. All 3d objects should be rendered out from 3d Studio Max, Maxon Cinema 4D or other 3d package capable of rendering UV and Normal render passes.

If you wonder about UV Data and what it is all about read more about UV data here.”UV space is a parametric definition of an object’s mapping used in computer graphics. Its main goal is to provide a means of correlating the geometry of an object with other data generated within the program. This can include not only textures and rendering data, but also parameters of the object itself. For surfaces generated from curves, this would, for instance, be valid for the tension and continuity. Another common use is the placement of one object on another’s surface. “(Lutz Albrecht)

More on UV data

• Integrating 3D applications with After Effects – Part 1: Working with UV data
• UV Mapping with Pixel Bender

maltaannon Shutter Streak

In his latest Video Tutorial maltaannon (Jerzy Drozda Jr) shows you how to create the  classy film look Shutter Streak effect in your footage, similar to the look you can create with Red Giant Software’s plugin – Magic Bullet Looks. Maltaannon offers you also a Shutter Streak preset (After Effects CS3)

Maltaannon posted an After Effects video tutorial showing you how you can achieve Tilt Shift with After Effects. Maltaannon also developed a Tilt Shift preset.   The Tilt Shift preset is an quick and easy way to apply the effect, if you want to apply the effects and other effects on a more regular basis you want to check out Red Giant’s  Magic Bullet Looks. We use Magic Bullet Looks to achieve this and other looks on our footage.

See also:

• Removing Plosives with Adobe Audition 3

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They say you can’t be too rich or too thin. So how about getting rich by making others thin? Plenty of experienced retouchers make small but enviable fortunes shaving body fat off already lithe models. But rather than showing you a present-day example–honestly, how many times do we need to see underfed waifs made skinnier?–Deke takes us back to a time when ideas of beauty were very different: the High Renaissance. In those times of mean circumstances and manual labor, body fat was a thing to be envied. How best to take a well-fed model rendered by the likes of Raphael and turn her into a slim, trim, big-eyed beauty?

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Split-Flap-What? It’s the term used for displays that are found in train stations and airports, where they typically display departure and/or arrival information and do that cool flipping of letters to display the new information.

This Aetuts+ tutorial does not show how to create the effect from scratch but instead it is a tutorial to explain how to use the project file created by Mattias Peresini who runs the totally awesome mattrunks website which has incredible tutorials for After Effects in French. No Tags]]> http://www.strongmocha.com/2009/06/02/create-a-split-flap-type-display-on-aetuts/feed/ 0