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Rich Young is a long-time After Effects user from the San Francisco Bay Area. His After Effects weekly round-ups provide viewers with an easy-to-digest summary of what developments have been taking place with After Effects. He also supplies info and links for tutorials that allow users to do things in After Effects they never thought were possible....
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A fractalized 3D mesh for real time experimentation
By Rich Young | August 03, 2012
Trapcode Mir 1.0 was released this week. Mir creates 3D shapes that are built from a simple polygon mesh. Using fractal noise for distortion, texture mapping, repeating and wrapping geometry, and After Effects light integration -- all accelerated by your OpenGL hardware -- Mir generates smoothly shaded objects or flowing organic elements, bendable tubes & tunnels, nebulas, abstract landscapes, bar charts, and so forth, animated with light and depth. Shader options include Ambient Occlusion and wireframe mesh and point fills.
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By Rich Young | July 30, 2012
Here's the latest week or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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New tools for lip-sync and creating Digital Cinema Packages, plus tutorials for volumetric lighting, difference mattes, film looks, Element 3D, time-lapse, and more.
By Rich Young | July 27, 2012
Here's the latest week or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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A survey
By Rich Young | July 24, 2012
Volumetric lighting, Crepuscular rays, God rays, and the like are visible rays or even globes of light. You can't see lights themselves with the built-in lighting in After Effects (for background see Cameras, lights, and points of interest), so plug-ins are used to help make light visible.{C}
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Real advances for 3D in AE and more
By Rich Young | July 17, 2012
Here's the latest 2 weeks or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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![Element 3D: new After Effects plug-in [updated]](http://provideocoalition.com/images/uploads/watched.jpg)
3D models and particles inside After Effects
By Rich Young | July 10, 2012
Video Copilot has released Element 3D, an After Effects plug-in that lets you import and animate 3D models, even as a particle array, and extrude text and mask shapes in real time. It's useful for all of us, for newbies and old hands & for straight 3D and more abstract experimentation, at least if you have a more recent OpenGL graphics card.
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A roundup of tutorials and free projects
By Rich Young | July 04, 2012
Attempts at creating fire in After Effects have resulted in outputs of various styles and quality. Projects have used CC Particle World, Fractal Noise, and other tools built into AE, 3rd party plug-ins, and composited stock footage often used as a particle source.
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3D models in AE, 3D camera tracking, ray-tracer, performance, scripting, DCP, and more
By Rich Young | July 02, 2012
Here's the latest 2 weeks or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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Some learning and script resources
By Rich Young | June 22, 2012
A new After Effects Scripting Guide was released on the AE team blog this week in scripting changes in After Effects CS6, plus new scripting guide. A casual glance may reinforce the notion that the whole affair is only for the cognoscenti.
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Assorted tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old
By Rich Young | June 18, 2012
AE news was a bit slow last week, even considering that a few items ended up in the tardy roundup of the previous week.
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![Lip Sync in After Effects [updated]](http://provideocoalition.com/images/uploads/lipsync.jpg)
Some resources
By Rich Young | June 15, 2012
Last year Angie Taylor posted Lip Sync in After Effects, demoed a possible solution to a task that most animators will be asked to do at some point. Admittedly though it would rarely involve a talking dog or space coyote.
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3D scripts, 3D and rendering, character animation, PointGlue, & more.
By Rich Young | June 13, 2012
It was an busy week or so, with even more After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins old and new.
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a few possible solutions
By Rich Young | June 06, 2012
It's a bit of a mystery why there's still so much banding in TV & web graphics.
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By Rich Young | June 04, 2012
It was an average week with assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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...some resources
By Rich Young | June 01, 2012
Shatter is an older 8-bit plug-in that ships with After Effects. Originally developed by Brian Maffitt under the Atomic Power banner, Shatter is mostly used for shattering glass, walls, puzzles, and so forth, but also used to generate 3D text or shape blocks.
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An updated survey of methods
By Rich Young | May 30, 2012
Creating 3D text in After Effects has long been a cottage industry, generating many workarounds and 3rd party plug-ins. Adding to the parade is one of the big new features in After Effects CS6, the extrusion and material options in the Ray-tracing renderer, which requires an Nvidia GPU. Many will benefit from beautiful renders by the new features, though many will get bogged down by requirements, render times, or inadequate features, and turn to older methods surveyed here.
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CS6 updates, assorted tutorials, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
By Rich Young | May 29, 2012
Here's another summary of recent news on Adobe After Effects - with more on CS6 and updates, raytracing (or not), hardware requirements, integrating muzzle flashes, looks, assorted tutorials, and plug-ins new and old.
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New videos from Brian Maffitt
By Rich Young | May 10, 2012
Brian Maffitt of Total Training is back on the tutorial beat after a long absence, with AE CS6 essentials training.
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CS6, assorted tutorials, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
By Rich Young | May 08, 2012
CS6 is now shipping; Cloud services and point product subscriptions are available May 11. CS6 trial applications good for 30 days are also available (with advice). CS6 Help is up, but for now has poor search results and no PDF.
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By Rich Young | April 30, 2012
Here's another summary of the last week of news on Adobe After Effects - with more on CS6, new scripts, time-lapses, light arrays, looks, and assorted tutorials and plug-ins new and old.
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