In this tutorial we will be creating a Futuristic Heads Up Display inspired by the film Iron Man. This 30 minute tutorial includes building self-animating components in 3D space and reactive lighting.
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Now that I have your attention, there is no pizza. I'm sorry. What I do have is an artistic text treatment created in After Effects. Just download the project and change the text in the "Edit TITLE" pre-comp to your favorite slogan and the "OUTPUT" comp will update with a stylized fire look.
It's not photo realistic but it's a fun, procedural treatment for making even boring stuff seem fun!
PS, sorry no earlier AE versions, the time machine is in the shop.
Still finalizing some details for the tutorial but it should be online before Wednesday. I"d also take this opportunity to let you know I'll be in New York for AENY on March 26th 2009. Check out AENY.org for more info in the coming weeks. Should be tons of fun and I'd really love to meet some of you guys first hand. Girls too, don't be shy.
Aharon Rabinowitz is one of the guys heading up AENY along with Jim Geduldick and Dennis Radeke. You might check out Aharon's new website at www.AllBetsAreOff.com he has links to all his AE tutorials including the stuff he's doing for Red Giant TV.
While I'm plugging friends websites, an old friend of mine, Cal Johnson sent me a nice training DVD for Adobe Premiere Pro and you know how much I love free stuff. If any Television manufactures are reading, please email me.
Anyways, the DVD covers Premiere Pro 2.0 but virtually all the tips and tricks apply to CS3 and CS4. What's cool about the DVD is that he covers the 'why' you do things, not just 'how'. I'm sure many of you are well-versed in Premiere but if you are looking for a good Premiere training, this might be a good option. Cal, you can thank me later buddy. Here's his site.
One more plug for good measure, Eran Stern does some tutorials over at Creative Cow and he also has a DVD for AE found here.
All this plugging has got me tired, I think I'll drink a cold refreshing Pepsi. Maybe Pepsi could sponsor me or something...
I finally got around to reshooting Sam for the upcoming HUD Tutorial, now that all this Sure Target business is over. I'm polishing out a few details and I'll be releasing the tutorial this week. Get your VCR's ready, it's going to be a good one. If you don't have a VCR, don't worry it's not that good. No wait! It's good.
In this new tutorial we'll examine some of the new features of Sure Target 1.5 and using it with the updated 3D falloff preset. New features include, auto-rotate, auto-ease and unlimited targets by simply duplicating the last target in the effects control.
Important Notes: Sure Target 1.5 must be used with 3D layers. Make sure they are 3D before applying or using the preset. For the auto-rotate feature to work, you need to adjust the rotation of the 3D layer and not the orientation. This tutorial covers all of this and more.
If you downloaded the presets package yesterday, be sure to download them again because we made some changes to a few of the default settings that were causing some errors.
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