I spent part of this week playing around with some different ideas and concepts for future tutorials or breakdowns. The first example uses some interesting camera animation techniques as well as Particle world for the fog. It was all created with standard AE tools.

If you download the second video and make sure QuickTime is set to loop it should play seamlessly. Kind of an interesting idea for making fluid videos that play through forever. The camera move is a bit wild but I don't even know what that stuff is...

First Video

Second Video

Part three of the Meteor will be out soon along with a NEW After Effects tutorial. I should also have some news about one of our upcoming products. Without giving away too much it has to do with Music...

Here is a short excerpt from one of the upcoming tutorials on The Meteor.
(The first set will be out this weekend!)

The message is:
Even non-3D folks will benefit from understanding the work flow between AE and a 3D program even if you are primarily a compositor or dictionary salesman! It's WIN-WIN.

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Here's another free project file that uses the electric energy along with some other cool fx. The layers aren't terrible organized but you can probably find your way around.

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PS, I'm sorry but I can only provide project in CS3.

I wanted to try and created some cool energy in After Effects without special plug-ins that looked 3D... Here is a pretty cool AE project file that I came up with for electric energy using fractal noise and turbulent displacement. It's simple enough but has some complex layering. Have fun with it!

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Here are some screens of the stuff I'm working on. Some of it is abstract futuristic and the other is part of an action sequence. Wish I could show more...

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