You can view the tutorials in the following link. This tutorial covers from the basic to the intermediate level… Comments would be much appreciated.
I had done 16 lessons until now… More yet to come in future.
Thanks
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That blog is about downloading videocopilot tutorials and products for free. Even creative cow Aftereffects tutorials.
I got many visitors to my site and i was happy with their support. To make that more activated i recently created a forum.
I haven’t got much acquainted with forums and being this my 1st forum i need some supporters to begin with.
So I request you all to visit my forum and give your support and active participation like here.
You can visit my blog and from there you can reach my forum link. You will find lots of important features in my blog. Its only for AfterEffects.
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Here is a preview of the final result
And here a “behind the scenes” clip
Many more After Effects tutorials can be found on mamoworld.com.
I have just run into this site called cinema4dtutorial.net, they provide both Cinema 4d and Adobe After Effects tutorials and complete projects. (scenes, models, project files, color correction, etc):)
Transformers triple changer Blitzwing – FREE tutorial
http://www.cinema4dtutorial.net/?p=701
Create your own TRON light cycle – FREE tutorial
http://www.cinema4dtutorial.net/?p=243
I am glad to share this link with you.
Enjoy!
Regards,
rc2
Hey Guys!
This was what happened after we watched a great vid, based on a very long time freeze sequence. We rushed out and gave it a shot… It was not supposed to be released but actually it shows how the camera movement plays an essential role in the whole process of time freezing and what it adds to the result…
So I got a few emails asking how we did this effect and since we are not into making on screen tutorials I will try to give you a little step by step guide:
1. You shoot your footage while you try to move your camera as steady as possible (If you can use a dolly or Glide/Steady cam).
What is important is that your actor has to try to stand as still as possible (try to use a position which already looks freezed like shooting a gun and having your mouth wide open as if you shout).
What you do now is try to make the pan as quick as possible so you can later slow it down so you won´t see the movement of you actor. (slow it down to 50-60 percent)
2. You import your footage into AE and track your shot with the inbuilt motion tracker (if you have bojou or any other tracking software use it, its way better), but for a shot like this the AE tracker does the job.
3. After having tracked you shot you will see that you have to adjust some of your frames, since the tracker is not 100% accurate. Now you slow down your shot about 60-70%.
4. Now you have a steady shot of the camera panning and your actor being kind of freezed. What you need to do next is to give whole shot a mood.
5. To give the shot the right mood you need to add some nice colors etc to give it the right touch.
6. Now comes the part where you make your shot look “real” again. You create a new camera and depending on your shot (we did 24mm) you adjust the settings of your camera. now you go into the position settings and add a “wiggle” to your camera which adds a fake camera movement and makes your shot look hand held and more realistic.
7. Now you might think your done, but the most important thing has been left out: The Sound…
Many people tend to ignore or just add a song from Hans Zimmer and think “wow that’s so cool” but no… it´s not.
Every shot needs to have it´s individually designed sound effect and music. In a shot like this we should focus on the sound effects. the best thing to do it to use some kind of build-up sound in the beginning. When it freezes you simply add a “swoosh” sound ( we use Pro Scores from Video Copilot) and reverse the sound you used before and slow it down. In that way you keep the same atmosphere when it freezes and when it is in regular motion.
8. Now that you have done this you can add muzzle-flares or what ever fits your shot and needs to be added to make it fit your scene. This was only a simple test to try out a freeze. We did a full freeze-motion scene in one of our movies. you can find it here:
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