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BOOM! Hey what’s up! Our new Tutorial is online AND we’re excited to announce Video Copilot is going on Tour! We’ve been looking for new ways to get together with the community and showcase other amazing designers at a fun show! We are happy to finally share all the details!
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Here are a Few of my favorites! TUTORIAL is ONLINE! #aftereffects #motiondesign #videocopilot
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In this exciting new Tutorial Series, we’ll learn how to create this cinematic title all inside of After Effects! This procedural effect can be customized with any logo and even reacts to environment lighting! This tutorial is jammed-packed with ways to customize the Bevel and create endless variations!
These Tutorials are getting more and more complex!! 👍 #editing
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What is this thing! I’ve basically combined a bunch of stuff into one experiment!
I might have been inspired by the amazing planet explosions from The Force Awakens but wanted to see if I could get a cool version inside Element 3D.
Few Notes on this experiment;
I added smoke elements, shockwaves using CC Sphere, and even used the Saber plug-in to give the beam a nice energy feel!
For the disintegration, I used the multi-object system of Element 3D with a pre-fractured sphere and animated with the animation engine so it would break apart over time.
I even animated an After Effects light to match the death beam to fake reactive lighting.
The Sci-fi Weapon Tutorial has some really cool tips for turning radial shockwaves into other shapes.
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Boom! Combining techniques! #Saber #Element3D #Shockwave
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Some cool news to announce! We have just finished recording a horrifying new blog show with a frightening theme! But more on that next week!
Another exciting development is a a new workflow plug-in for After Effects! Coming this week!
Now, this plug-in doesn’t make light sabers or energy fx, it might not even change your life, but this utility we developed will speed up your AE work flow! Embarrassingly enough, the development began last year when I started working on Intercept! And while I am still finishing the VFX for my short, this new plug-in is done and so we’re going to release it! Is that progress!? I DON’T KNOW!!
The good news is we’re jamming on a lot of projects behind the scenes, but this year has been a very humbling and rejuvenating experience for me. And it is simply managing ideas and execution. How do we continue to push ourselves creatively and build better consistency… I don’t know if we have it all figured out, but at least we are asking the right questions now!
For example : Here was my thought process on the Saber plug-in:
Being late because of high expectations makes my expectations higher. A dangerous loop.
So you can see the real challenge is I want to make awesome stuff but it’s easy to underestimate how much time it takes to pull it off! (Cough Cough, Intercept!)
This year we added some fantastic new people to the VC Team and I’m able to get everyone more involved in our shows and do more simultaneous projects that are spread out over time so there are things always in development and more people can be involved in finishing projects.
I think at the end of the day, walking around with a Video Copilot apron has really helped my focus!
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