Creative Dojo

[...] So PBS did an episode over the Art of Animation & Motion Graphics as part of their Off Book series and some of my work was featured in the segment! I’ve also [...]

[...] of people and sensitive data is being compromised. How does this relate to visual effects and motion graphics? It doesn’t. It’s my blog and it effects me, so I want to share some of my [...]

[...] chance to grab a tool that will enable you to make edits, composite vfx, and build motion graphics easily within a single tool. Grab HitFilm 2 Express Now You can grab HitFilm Express [...]

[...] layers in the timeline was a painful, yet necessary process to get some poppy mesmerizing motion graphics. After a few days of work, I created a nifty little nifty script that would solve a majority [...]

[...] Bringing the Heat with Trapcode Particular Here’s a little render I did while messing around in After Effects with Trapcode [...]

[...] mother nature and create some galaxies to add to our creations! We’ll primarily use Trapcode Particular to create the elements and top it off with a nice lens flare. We’ll also take a look [...]

[...] and environments, and colorful space matter. Most of the scenes were created heavily using Trapcode Particular and a few images as custom particles. A lot of the flame elements were created in 3DS Max [...]

[...] layer. To really create more volume in the scene, try adding some light dust using Trapcode Particular. You can do so by creating a large emitter space, changing the particle type to [...]

[...] mood of our animation and add some color to our flat render. We’ll then add some motion blur using ReelSmart Motion Blur, but you can use CC Force Motion Blur as a alternative. The [...]

[...] able to handle some pretty decently sized projects. Reflections, refractions, depth of field, motion blur, and bevels render flawlessly. This is a CS6 Ray Tracing killer. (even though Element doesn&# [...]

[...] better look while hiding all the junk you didn’t do so well with. Additionally, enabling motion blur will make it more convincing and will also hide some ... [...]

[...] good in the near future. If you would like to see this tutorial, let me know! With a bit of motion blur, depth of field, and some styling, you can create a pretty neat fracture animation inside [...]

[...] within Cinema 4D, then in the next tutorial, we’ll bring it all together with color correction, compositing, and grading all within After Effects. Watch Part 2 of the tutorial here [...]

[...] some ways to pretty this thing up a bit. We’ll do some post work, basic compositing, color correction, add smoke elements, etc. If you’re sort of new to this Cinema 4D and After Effects [...]

[...] a simple tracker that moves our masks around to match our shot’s movements, useful for color correction or very basic edits such as blurring the masked region. Unfortunately, utilizing the  [...]

[...] off our Cinema 4D render from part one. In After Effects, we’re going to do some color correction and grading to set the mood of our animation and add some color to our flat render. We’ [...]