So Knoll Light Factory 3 was just released today and I got a chance to test drive this legendary lens flare machine thanks to Aharon Rabinowitz. So what’s new and added in the ‘so longed’ industry standard lens flare plugin? Let’s find out. The…
Creating and Compositing a Meteor Strike
In this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to create a very basic “meteor” fireball effect and composite it into our shot. We’ll take a look at some basic compositing techniques such as fake shading, shadows, reflections, and other fine details that…
Trapcode Particular Flames
Bringing the Heat with Trapcode Particular Here’s a little render I did while messing around in After Effects with Trapcode Particular. With all the work I’ve been doing, I haven’t had the chance to play around with Particular for quite some time. Obviously nothing mind…
Building a 3D iPhone Completely in After Effects
Pseudo 3D iPhone in After Effects? Hey folks, today in this tutorial I did for AETuts+ we’re going to take a look at how to build and construct a 3D iPhone completely using After Effects. We will construct all the elements in After Effects from…
Changing Multiple Render Output Modules at Once
So I recently had multiple items in the render queue that I needed to change the output module for. At first, it was a little tricky to select and change multiple items at once, but at last! A solution! Basically, you need to select all…
CS6: Quick Overview of After Effects’ Ray Traced 3D Renderer
In this really quick video, I’ll show you an overview of After Effects CS6′s new 3D Ray Traced Renderer allowing you to extrude shapes/text layers natively. Stay tuned for more in-depth tutorials on the new 3D features found in After Effects CS6. To my surprise,…
Glossy 3D Particles with Particular
Yes, we’ve seen many cool custom particles for Particular, whether it’s smoke, fire, leaves, or vines. I’ve tried many custom particles before, but oddly enough I never did try HDRI images with Particular. With a bit of experimenting, you can achieve some pretty convincing objects…
After Effects CS6 Video Tutorials & Resources Roundup (Updated)
So everyone is pretty stoked about the upcoming After Effects CS6 release, there are quite a few artists that had the amazing and lucky opportunity to test drive After Effects CS6 (one of those lucky people doesn’t include myself). With all the new great features, there has…
