MochaAE - track what you thought was untrackable
Ross came to the FEB 16 dmala meeting to show off some very cool software: MochaAE and gave us some great tricks and tips as well. He promised to offer the tips to everyone on the imagineer systems site, and sure enough - - here is the first: UNLINK to track what you thought was impossible:
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I promised to post this when available. This is a very useful tutorial that covers some great undocumented tips and tricks for using mocha and Red Giant Warp.
It also covers a very cool unlinking trick for tracking long camera pans (where all your tracking points keep going off screen).
http://www.imagineersystems.com/products/mocha/mocha_unlink_tutorial.mov
Enjoy,
Ross
Ross Shain
Imagineer Systems
Posted at 12:00AM Mar 03, 2010 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[4]
Using Sapphire Blur in After Effects
Learn how to use the Sapphire Blur plug-in with these video tutorials for:
After Effects
Final Cut Pro
Posted at 01:53PM Feb 26, 2010 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[1]
Mojo Tutorial with Stu
Tutorial by Stu Maschwitz
Learn Magic Bullet Mojo from the Creator, Stu Maschwitz
In this tutorial, Stu Maschwitz introduces you to the features in Magic Bullet Mojo, a tool for putting one of Hollywood's hottest film looks at your fingertips.
Intro To Magic Bullet Mojo from Red Giant Software on Vimeo.
.Posted at 12:00AM Feb 26, 2010 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[1]
SonicFire Pro: Moodmapping
Larry Jordan - - the guy from Digital Production Buzz has a bunch of tutorials, including one for Sonic Fire Pro moodmapping which is a really easy way to modify music events to match your edit.
Check it out:
Posted at 10:00AM Dec 07, 2009 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[16]
Genarts' Todd Prives Sapphire Training
check out the new online tutorials
Posted at 08:35AM Oct 29, 2009 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[28]
Halloween Promo: More stuff for Halloween
If you're not finished with your Halloween promo stuff, you're
scrambling for content right now. Well, here's a continuing list
of stuff you might be able to use, or use next year...
Posted at 12:00AM Oct 12, 2009 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[11]
QuickChrome with Gradient Only
Chrome is often rendered with HDRs applied and GI implemented. However, you can 'fake' something with standard renders using just reflection too.
Posted at 12:00AM Sep 30, 2009 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[11]
Photoshop Goo for Halloween
It's almost the first of October, time to start running those Halloween promos. What could be more generic for all of your Halloween horror graphics than some nice green slime textures for your 3D models. An easy way to make the 3D texture is with some simple Photoshop tricks. Here are a couple steps to make some Photoshop slime. Halloween Photoshop Goo
Posted at 09:00AM Sep 25, 2009 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[24]
New roto After Effects tutorial for mocha and mocha shape
Ross just posted a new video tutorial from Ben Heusner of Curious Turtle that is worth checking out if you are looking for roto tips.Ben goes through using After Effects, mocha for AEv2 and mocha shape plug-in to combine procedural mattes:
http://www.imagineersystems.com/products/monet/mocha_Ben_Heusner_roto_tutorial.mp4
Posted at 08:57AM Sep 10, 2009 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[22]
C4D4AE: auto align
Where did the names of my objects go?!?
This is one of those 'gotcha's that happens to a bunch of people. If you're quickly clicking through your project, you might not even notice that you've moved the column. But once you did, it's no longer auto-revealing...
Posted at 10:11PM Aug 15, 2009 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[19]
Aharon's Simple Reflection Techniques
Simple Reflection Techniques
In this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create simple reflections on the floor for both individual people and crowds, in Adobe After Effects. As a bonus, you?ll pick up a valuable technique for counteracting some of the issues you may encounter when you have collaps transformations turned on.
Posted at 05:00AM Jul 21, 2009 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[6]
RGTV Ep. 23: Peel-Away Vortex Transition
RGTV Ep. 23: Peel-Away Vortex Transition
In this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create an insanely cool transition for text and other elements. This tutorial builds on RGTV Episode 21, where Aharon covered a text-to-sand transition, so make sure you check it out.
Posted at 10:07PM Jul 15, 2009 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[9]
C4D Kill the lights...
If you're familiar with CINEMA 4D's ability to export to Adobe After
Effects, you know that all of the camera and light data can be saved in
a single file - for use within a 3D composition in AE. However,
sometimes unnecessary light animation and 3D data makes that AEC file
heavy. Here's how to clean up your export file.
You're probably
aware by now that you can export any CINEMA 4D file as an AEC - - which
means that you can open it directly from within Adobe's After Effects,
capturing all of the 3D data that is attached to the cameras, lights,
and external compositing tags..... READ MORE
Posted at 11:32AM Jul 07, 2009 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[11]
Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects CS4 Update
Chris and Trish Meyer provide a free 48-page chapter on the Focal Press website that describes the new and changed features in After Effects CS4.
Posted at 06:00AM May 21, 2009 by John Haley in Tutorials | Comments[22]
XPresso Lite: Time for a reheat p2
If you're familiar with After Effects' expressions, listen
closely: Cinema's XPresso is even easier and just as powerful in its
own right. In last
week's installment, XPresso Part 1,
I covered the manual insertion of attribute controllers through
XPresso. This is really the basis of how XPresso ("XP") manipulates the
paramaters of attributes in your project. However, there is an easy way
to add XP control without ever seeing the XP window.
Posted at 11:00PM May 14, 2009 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[29]
XPresso Lite: Time for a reheat
In earlier versions of Cinema 4DXL, C.O.F.F.E.E. programming language was the tool required to script both complicatedly interesting and simple operators to control the 3D
objects and attributes of your project. With the release of Cinema4D
version 8, a new, comprehensive, easy to use tool was introduced called
XPresso. Still, many people are still afraid to open it up, assuming
only code warriors and superusers will understand its contents. If I can use it, so can you. Here is the first of two simple tutorials to demystify Maxon's
new expression manager. If you've never used XPresso, or are new to it,
here's a simple breakdown of just how easy and useful it is to
incorporate into your next project.
Posted at 11:00PM May 13, 2009 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[23]
C4D project : sweep stars
This project file is from R9 days (2005)
... but it still works in the core package of R11
(even tho' DIRT isn't around anymore)
Posted at 06:43AM Apr 23, 2009 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[21]
C4D Oldschool Three Fake Waters
Posted at 11:00PM Apr 20, 2009 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[11]
Boolean Splines in CINEMA4D MOGRAPH
This week I've made a small movie examining the Mograph spline mask. This is a subtle tool with great utility to the motion graphics artist. Simply stated, this puts boolean operations from one spline to another at a mouse click.
Posted at 11:00PM Apr 19, 2009 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[24]
Importing Splines in Maxon's Cinema 4D
If you're familiar with Adobe's Illustrator, and create splines for use within Maxon's Cinema 4D, and now use the latest version of Adobe's products?
Posted at 09:00AM Apr 17, 2009 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[12]
