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Creative Cow together with Aharon Rabinowitz, Pete O’Connell and Eran Stern has released three new After Effects Video Tutorials.

1. Advanced Rotoscoping Techniques for Adobe After Effects by Pete O’Connell
2. After Effects: The Next Level, vol, 2: CS 3 Tips and Techniques by Aharon Rabinowitz
3. Motion Design with Adobe After Effects by Eran Stern

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

VECTORTUTS is a blog/tutorial site for people who use vector editing programs such as Adobe’s Illustrator. Vectortuts has been launched by the same team who does such an wonderful job on releasing new Photoshop Tutorials on PSDTUTS. It is the sister site of PSDTUTS and NETTUTS.

Trapcode Horizon is a camera-aware color gradient and image mapping tool. It is a fairly straightforward utility plug-in. It is meant to be used on the bottom layer in a 3D comp. It generates a background that corresponds to the camera’s viewing direction.

To get yourself started with the Trapcode Horizon Tutorial

Trapcode Horizon can be used for example when a 3D camera move leaves the viewer confused; Trapcode Horizon can help generating a background that corresponds to the camera move and thus help the viewer understand what is actually going on. Or it can be used just for fun!

Trapcode Horizon is a great companion to the other 3D plugs from Trapcode, such as Particular and Form etc.

Supported Hosts: Adobe After Effects 7.0 and higher (Mac OSX/Windows)

Earlier news: Trapcode Horizon - After Effects plugin (updated)

Trapcode Horizon costs currently 99 USD: Buy Trapcode

Creative director Steve Holmes (Energi Design) shows you in this video tutorial how using PhotoShop CS3 vanishing points,Vanishing Point exchange and still images you could compose a clip or short movie. The clip is from NAB 2008 and I saw it before, but talking to someone I figured that this little gem and more which are available either in Adobe TV or on the Adobe NAB 2008 web site is not known to all.

A new imagineer systems mocha / mocha-AE video tutorial covers advanced techniques:

• Adjust track module
• Obscured track objects
• Offscreen tracking
• Import workflow to After Effects

imagineer systems mocha is a stand alone 2D tracking tool packed with features that make the effects compositors life easier.

imagineer system mocha-AE is custom designed and priced for the After Effects community

Jerzy Drozda Jr (aka Maltaannon)  a multimedia, motion graphics and vfx artist shows you in his latest after effects video tutorial how to create a 3D earth in After Effects CS3. You can find some earth textures and how it should look at NASA’s Visible Earth

Andrew Kramer did release the long awaited “The Bullet” training.  Before you read on buy The Bullet right now.

This new DVD will take you from your favorite 3D program to After Effects and back, including compositing multi-pass renders and importing camera data.

“The Bullet” training is designed to show you how to create large-scale visual effects in an organized and powerful work flow.

What do you learn about After Effects:

• Creating elements from scratch
• Working between AE and 3D, integrating camera data
• Multi-Pass exporting and compositing
• Advanced color correction techniques
• File management and work flow tips such as pre-comp proxies
• Displacement effects and other creative uses for common plug-ins

What do you learn about 3D Software:

• Model a realistic bullet and shell casing
• Texturing and lighting with reflections
• Animation with Null objects and groups
• How to render multiple elements for compositing

The Bullet Video Training:
Over 5 Hours. If you continue with a single 3D program training time is about 3 hours.

01. Introduction / Organize
02. Preparing Footage and building 3D Scenery
03. Building Assets: 3D Muzzle Flash & Smoke
04. Building Assets: Perspective Slide Action
05. Work-Flow Tips & Building Proxies
06. Compositing the Elements
07. Final Compositing
08. Finishing Touches & Advanced Color

Andrew Kramer sells “The Bullet” for $49.95 available on a DVD or through download.