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Nodes 2 from Yanobox
Tweet Avengers. Ender’s Game. Iron Man 3. Rise of the Planet of the Apes. These are just a few films that have had the opportunity to utilize the plugin known as Nodes. With the release of Nodes 2,...
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Using Mocha Masks in After Effects CC
Tweet Mocha AE is the version of Mocha that comes with After Effects CC. It has a great number of tools to access with tracking and rotoscoping, however, it’s not nearly as robust as the stand alone...
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Linking Mocha Track Masks
Tweet Mocha is a great program for tracking. That data can then be applied and used in other software programs such as After Effects for various reasons and uses. Such examples include beauty...
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Scar Blemish and Birthmark Removal in Mocha and After Effects CC
Tweet In this day and age of digital revolution, it should be no surprise that make up artists are not the only coverage actors and actresses receive these days for blemishes, scars, shine, wrinkles,...
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Wrinkle & Basic Blemish Removal with Mocha AE and After Effects CC
Tweet Beauty retouching has evolved throughout the ages. First, we had make up artists who would do their best to mask and cover various blemishes. Over time, it became possible to retouch photographs...
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After Effects Add-Ons
Tweet Being one of the longest industry standard post production applications in the world, you would think After Effects would have every function to make your life as an artist easier. With the...
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Greenscreen Compositing: Place Talent in Vehicles
Tweet One of the benefits of using greenscreen is the ability to control the environment your talent is placed in. The amount of time, effort, and money it would cost to shoot in certain locations can...
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AE Tips from UkraMedia
Tweet Every so often, there will be people on Youtube who produce useful content which can help make you better at a particular task or application. If you know the places to look, or you happen to...
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FCPX to AE & Avid to AE
Tweet Very often in the editing process, we get to a point when we need to shift from cutting and assembling our edit, and into the stage of refining it with motion graphics, visual effects, or color...
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Finding & Compositing Fire Elements in AE CC
Tweet Digitally composited fire is a common element that comes up regularly in television, film, commercial advertising, and web content. For obvious reasons, it is much safer than dealing with real...
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Creating Fire Heat Waves in AE CC
Tweet Fire is a common element VFX artists need to work with in television, film, commercial, and web content. In a previous lesson, we looked at where to find fire elements and how to quickly...
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Sci-FI VFX Tutorials
Tweet With the upcoming release of Star Wars the Force Awakens, and the premiere of the recent Star Trek films, there have been many visual effects that filmmakers have looked to replicate to bring to...
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FCPX Tips and Tricks Volume 2
Tweet One of the things I’ve enjoyed about learning the inner workings of Final Cut Pro X is how to work faster despite having a different editing paradigm. Getting used to the magnetic timeline was a...
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Morph Cut Transitions
Tweet Jump cuts can be a pain to deal with when cutting interviews and other types of video projects. Sometimes your talent talks too long or you need to hide unnecessary motion. All conventional...
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Adding Noise & Grain back into your VFX
Tweet So you’ve just spent hours, days, possibly even weeks arduously creating a visual effect. It might be a CG animation, matter painting, or a simply cell phone screen – and you’re ready to comp...
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