Archive For: Mettle
Luscious Free VJ Loops: Swirled
Check out our fabulous “Swirled” Series of six VJ Loops, available for free download on Vimeo! You can find the links to all six loops at the bottom of this posting. They were created in After Effects with FreeForm Pro, …
Canary Bird Cage for Tedx
This animation from the Overit studio for a Tedx event puts a twist on a popular motion graphics trend. This past year we’ve often seen silhouettes used to frame footage, True Detective-style. In this case, the bird silhouette itself is …
音楽と映像のコラボレーション
This is a Japanese translation of the previous posting Aetherea: Continuance. This sequence is a collaboration between Namiko Mori (sound) and visuals (mettle). Namiko Mori is a Film Composer from Japan currently based in Los Angeles. Aetherea is a theme …
Create a Liquid Metal Logo in Ae
Featured in the November issue of 3D Artist Magazine! Chris McFall leads us through this amazing tutorial on how to create a liquid mercury logo animation all within After Effects. He uses mettle’s FreeForm Pro plug-in to nail the effect. …
Free Zombie Character by Devour Destroy
Happy Halloween! To celebrate we’re giving away a Zombie Pilot, courtesy of Josh Avira of Devour Destroy Boston. It’s in PhotoShop, with all the body parts separated on different layers, each with it’s own displacement map. It’s meant to be …
How to Make a 3D Aquaman Logo in After Effects | ShapeShifter
Design and model a complex, organic 3D logo in After Effects in minutes using Mettle’s ShapeShifter Ae. Use familiar 2D filters and techniques, no modelling experience necessary. Chris Bobotis (Partner/Developer at mettle) shows us how to build it using clever …
Stunning Visuals from Kinect to FreeForm Pro
CG Artist Harry Martis used an unusual production pipeline for Secret_Science, a music video for the Athens-based “drone’n’roll” band MECHANIMAL. His process started with a kinect 360 and ended up in After Effects with mettle’s FreeForm Pro plug-in. For his …
How To Dent a Garage Door VFX
In this tutorial, Effects artist Mike Sevigny shows us how to displace a plane in 3D space in Ae, making it look like a garage door is being deformed and dented. The process starts by using After Effects’ 3D camera …
Aquaman Title Sequence | After Effects
Aquaman Title sequence created and animated entirely in After Effects. Logo design and 3D modelling is the work of Chris Bobotis of Mettle. Chris explains,”It’s great to have the flexibility to work entirely in After Effects for a 3D title …
A Bit of Argy Bargy with Jamie Clennett
Who takes a year off to work on a stop-motion animated short that just happens to feature two old men hanging from meat hooks, casually having a conversation? Someone who feels strongly about expressing themselves creatively. That would be Tasmanian-born …
Create an Iris in After Effects by Ran Ben Avraham l FreeForm Pro
Ran Ben Avraham shows us how to create an extreme close-up of the human eye, inspired from the title sequence of the new Cosmos series. He shows us how to create something similar using After Effects and Mettle’s FreeFrom Pro, …
denial.of.service | Experiments with FreeForm Pro + ShapeShifter AE
Harry Martis (aka denial.of.service) has worked on some very high-profile motion graphics projects for clients around the globe, including David Bowie and Banks.
These experimental videos show his working process. He begins by creating long segments in After Effects, almost …
Lizard Man Tutorial Part 2-6
Transform a human into a Lizard Man in After Effects, with Imagineer Systems Mocha and mettle FreeForm Pro. The concept is simple: motion track a face with mocha and map a kimodo dragon texture onto the actor’s face with FreeForm …
Create your world in After Effects | FreeForm Pro | ShapeShifter AE
As often happens, the turn-around time and budget were limited for this music video production (Something Stronger by Origine). What to do? The model and band were shot on Greenscreen. The terrain was created in After Effects with ShapeShifter AE …
Part 9: Character Animation in After Effects by Dave Legion
Dave shows us a fast and easy way to create a 3D head for your puppet. He creates a displacement map using Cinema 4D Lite (bundled with After Effects CC). This displacement map can be imported into After Effects, and …
ShapeShifter AE-The Ultimate Guide by Chris Lavelle
Chris Lavelle has prepared this video for ShapeShifter AE. It can be used as an introduction to the plug-in, or as a reference guide on specific features. Chris uses some great examples to explain the features and functionality in a …
Part 7 & 8: Character Animation in After Effects by Dave Legion
In Part 7, Dave shows us how to create a controller for the whole of the puppet head including all 3D layers and the layer that uses Mettle’s FreeForm. We’ll also see how to create controllers for the puppet’s eyes. …
Part 5 & 6: Character Animation in After Effects by Dave Legion
In Part 5. Build Me Some Hope, Dave shows us how to use 3D layers and layer masks to create a jaw and hair band for the puppet head. In Part 6 Dave shows a pretty clever solution, using expressions, …
Part 3 & 4: Character Animation in After Effects by Dave Legion
In Part 3, you will learn how to set up custom sliders to control your puppet’s facial expressions. Dave walks you through the whole set up, step-by-step. In Part 4, you will learn how to set up the lip syncing …
FreeForm Pro-The Ultimate Guide by Chris Lavelle
Chris Lavelle walks us through the features of FreeForm Pro, mettle’s 3D plug-in for After Effects. He explains every feature in detail, step-by-step. An extremely thorough video manual/tutorial that can be used as an introduction to FreeForm Pro, or as …
Create a Sci-Fi Panel in After Effects: Tutorial by Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Tudor “Ted” shows how to create a custom Sci-fi panel in After Effects. He uses a royalty-free 2D image as the starting point. He shows how to use the displacement mapping feature in mettle plug-ins to create his custom 3D …
Part 2: Character Animation in After Effects by Dave Legion
In Part 2, you will learn how to set-up a rig to control your puppet’s face. Dave will walk you through the whole set-up, including how to use Nulls and the Puppet Tool. He’ll then demonstrate how to create slider …
Part 1: Character Animation in After Effects by Dave Legion
Dave Legion has put together a comprehensive set of tutorials on Character Animation. The series is called “Build Me Some Hope”, named after a character from “A Story of Hope”, an animation he worked on for the FH Foundation. You’ll …