WE HAVE HOSTING AND A DOMAIN!
Alrighty, I know that its only been up for 2 weeks, but I just got my domain, and hosting, and we are expanding our tutorials, to ANY AND EVERYTHING…. yes oh yes.
http://www.VisualFXTuts.com
that is our new domain name and where all of the new posts will be. You will also see we will be posting all kinds of different VFX tutorials as well, mainly AE ones from me, but as we grow, we hope to get more contributers as well.
I am going to get this URL forwarded to visualfxtuts.com but until then you are just going to have to click the link. If anyone knows how to do free domain fowarding from wordpress to an external server… please let me know!
Thanks everyone and see you at the new site!
Making It Look Great 5 Out Now!
Here is a message from the one of the biggest provider of high quality tutorials on the net that a lot of us frequent his site, Maltaannon, aka Jerzy Drozda Jr.:
MILG5 is now available for download. This is the biggest, most jam packed MILG release so far, with over 7 hours of After Effects tips and techniques.
Hello my dear friends! I’m happy to announce that Making It Look Great 5 hosted by myself is finally here. It took me over five months to record the tutorials, edit them, and put it all together, so I really hope you’ll like it. Please support my efforts and hard work by purchasing this product from Motionworks so I can continue to provide you with free content and great products.
Click on the image above to learn more about the product. It’s loaded with over 7 hours of video training. Learn how to harness the power of expressions in After Effects to make beautiful, complex animations and save time. Whether you’re an After Effects beginner or expert you’ll learn valuable techniques that will make your work look great. Included with the 10 video tutorials are 3 bonus video tutorials: Gyro Extended, Butterfly Man extended and Working with the Presets (see full tutorial list). MILG5 is also loaded with free plug-ins and presets discussed throughout the lessons.
Work fast, work smart, look great with Making It Look Great 5.
Cinema Pro After Effects Presets!
TonyFBaby on the VCP forums has just released a pack of Cinematic Presets for a bunch of different looks… HERE is a link to where you can download them on DeviantArt.com.
Pack Includes:
-Advanced Day to Night
-Lightsaber
-Night-Vision
-Thermal imaging (thermal nightvision)
-Cool Restore
-Brilliant Cinema
-Polarizing Filter
-Modern Black&White
-Auto Cinema
BONUS: Harry Potter magic lightning preset
German Tutorials!
Sascha Plagge is a Visual Effects Supervisor who hangs around on the VCP Forums a bit. He sent me his website, and even though the tutorials are in german… they can still be pretty helpful. LINK HERE
Some New Tutorials
Hey I found some more tutorials when I was searching through the VCP Forum Free Tutorials archives…
Here is a link to the tutorials page on video-fx-universe.com. I don’t know how good these videos are because you actually have to download the video and the .zip files to even see the tutorials, but you can check it out anyways LINK HERE
Lynda.com has a lot of training that, unfortunately you have to pay for, but if you can get your school to spring for a year membership or something it would be quite worth the while. They have some stuff that is complementary though, if you look through they give you like a teaser lesson in each series. Here are all the After Effects from 7.0 to CS4 categories
AE (all versions) http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modListing.asp?pid=331
AE 7.0 http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modListing.asp?pid=333
AE CS3 http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modListing.asp?pid=332
AE CS4 http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modListing.asp?pid=395
Firechild Entertainment has some good tutorials, including a really cool one on Superman Opening Title text effect LINK HERE
Aurellia.net has a good collection of tutorials, and a slick looking website too I might add… LINK HERE. They also have downloadable project files as well… which as wel all know helps A LOT.
Here is a site with only one tutorial, but I anticipate a lot more from them. I have a good feeling about them… anyways the name of the site is Brix FX Production and their tutorials are located HERE
So this guy has some really cool AE tutorials on how to do effects seen in the TV Series “Smallville”. He has some really good stuff. This is a link to his youtube channel, because he doesn’t have a website, and all of his tutorials are hosted there anyways. LINK HERE
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Here is another guy on Youtube that I found that produced a really good quality tutorial on how to do the Dumbledore/Voldemort wizard duel effect. Very impressive. Also he has a tutorial on how to make a Particle Lightsaber… which looks really awesome, especially for those close up shots it adds a good dramatic feel. LINK HERE
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Thats all for for now… let me know if you guys find some other good stuff…
3 New Sites…
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I found a few more sites that have some good tutorials on them… first… Forging Fire Studio has some good resources for making some cool effects with the Trapcode plugins
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Then, since this guys website sucks, I am including a link to his Vimeo here. He has some really good resources for creating some cool motion graphics.
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And lastly here is a link to XELER8R. He has a ton of .pdf tutorials, and even though they are probably boring to read, and not as much fun as a video… they are really good to learn.
Heroes Flame Effect and others – Johnny A. on Vimeo
Here is a cool tutorial that looks really good, and is really simple. It uses a peice of stock footage to create the flame effect that Claire’s mom can create in her hands like on the TV Series “Heroes”. This tutorial shows how to create reactive lighting, motion track and composite the fire in correctly to produce a really quite impressive effect.
Here is a link to Johnny A. on vimeo. He has another tutorial on how to make a plasma ball effect as well and I am sure that he will have more soon!
Gnarls Barkley Ink Bleeding Effect
Here is a link to a text tutorial on how to do the effect as seen in the Gnarls Barkley video It is from the GoMediaZine.com website which is part of the awesome design elements website GOmedia.com. Below is a sample of the effect that I am talking about.
Ryan Weiber Tutorials
So if anyone is a Star Wars geek like me, they have seen Ryan VS Dorkman and RVD2. Well this is the guy that makes all that… Ryan Weiber. He is one of the masters behind the TV Series “Heroes” and also has worked on TONS of movies while working for Stargate Digital. He has compiled a bunch of tutorials, from his younger days, but a lot of them are pretty good for basic fun effects that all of us like to do. Cloning, Lightsabers, Energy Balls… things like that… so take a look and send me some of the stuff that you make! http://www.ryan-w.com/ryan-w/tutorials.html
