The Art of Flight – Plexus Matte Tutorial
Some people had been asking about how to create the “magnified” effect within a Plexus as seen in The Art of Flight title sequence, so here’s how to do it. I’ve quickly glossed over …
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Background Replacement using a luma matte
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use a luma matte to do a quick background replacement, and in a second example, how to incorporate Set Matte and Matte Choker to further refine …
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Element 3D
Video Copilot is a invaluable resource for anyone who wants to learn After Effects. While host and effects guru Andrew Kramer likes to focus on “fun, guy-stuff” like making explosions, effects for the new Star …
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The Art of Flight – Plexus Titles Tutorial
If you’re into snowboarding, you’ve no doubt heard of The Art of Flight. If not, it’s a film that came out about two years ago that’s a collaboration between Travis Rice/Brain Farm and Red …
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Plexus and Null Swapper
Plexus is a 3D point rendering plug-in for After Effects that can create some really neat and interesting designs. With a few tweaks, you can make some pretty complex animations, though once you dig a …
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Basic Rotoscoping with Mocha and After Effects Tutorial
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to do a basic rotoscope, with the intention of placing some text into video behind the on-screen talent. This tutorial is a little bit longer, but I’ll show …
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Object Removal with Mocha Pro/Mocha AE and After Effects
For the first installment of my new series of tutorials, I thought I’d show you how to remove a portion of your video that just isn’t working out the way you’d like. To follow along, …
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NFL Network Promo Breakdown
Greyscalegorilla is one of my favorite websites to learn about Cinema 4D and After Effects work. Nick Campbell and the rest of the crew have been very helpful to me as I was first wading …
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Penn State Homecoming 2013
Talk about a sweet gig! We were hired to shoot aerial beauty shots of the Penn State University campus and homecoming football game vs Michigan two weekends ago. Helicopter pilot Dan from Pine Bottom Aviation …
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Early 2013 Demo Reel
A collection of some recent work. All motion video shot by me. I was not the photographer of the still images, they are used to demonstrate 2D animation.
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