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Tutorial: True Detective Look

Charles Yeager (yeagerfilm.com) shows how to create double exposure displacement mapping effects with FreeForm Pro. Free project file: https://www.mettle.com/tutorial-true-detective-look-freeform-pro/

Create a 360° Terrain Landscape Animation

Learn how to create a 360° animation using the built in VR tools in Adobe After Effects CC 2019 (formerly SkyBox). With GEOlayers 2 and FreeForm Pro. Host: Charles Yeager.

How to Make a 360 Video With a 2D Photo | FreeForm Pro + SkyBox

Charbel Koussaifi shows how to take a single 2D photo, and turn it into a 3D animation with FreeForm Pro, and then take take it into 360 , all in After Effects. This tutorial works with SkyBox Studio V2, and the integrated version in CC 2018.

Create a Liquid Metal Logo in After Effects

Featured in 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 FreeForm Pro, along with some clever tips and techniques.

Captain America: Part 1

Eran Stern (Sternfx.com) creates the Captain America shield and text, all in After Effects. He uses FreeForm Pro, ShapeShifter AE, RGS, Magic Bullet + Trapcode Suite Products Watch Tutorial Part 1 Download Free Project File

Lizard Man Part 3

Transform a human into a Lizard Man in After Effects, with Imagineer Systems Mocha and mettle FreeForm Pro. Part 3: Mask out the sections of the face that the texture should not apply to.

Treachery: The Film

Mr. Eric D. Kirk has prepared an overview on how he put together the closing film credits for Treachery. He uses both FreeForm Pro and ShapeShifter AE.

Lizard Man Part 6

Transform a human into a Lizard Man in After Effects, with Imagineer Systems Mocha and mettle FreeForm Pro. Part 6: Creating the final Lizard Man transformation.

FreeForm Pro Version 1.5 Displacement Noise, Fog and Mist.

Klaus Brandenburg shows how to create a terrain that has water and terrain on the same layer. All possible in FreeFrom Pro Version 1.5.

FreeForm Pro Version 1.5 Fog and Mist

Tim Harris creates a fly-through terrain with Version 1.5. He explains how he used the new Environment Features: fog and mist.

Rocket-Dees Tutorial: Wing Animation

Dan Gies shows us how to create a pair of 3D animated wings in After Effects using FreeForm Pro. Project files available at www.e-d-films.com.

Rocket-Dees Tutorial: Puppet Tool & Rigging

Dan Gies goes briefly through the process of rigging the bird's body, using the Puppet Tool and Null Objects to create bones. Project files available at www.e-d-films.com.

FreeForm Pro in Japanese: Part 2

クリエイターズ ビュー／FreeForm Pro：ディスプレイスメント&リフレクションマッピングについて. Ran Ben Avraham (ran-mograph.blogspot.ca) created this for C-Valley Japan.

How to Create and Rig a Realistic Puppet: Overview

Dan Gies (www.e-d-films.com) gives an overview to a comprehensive tutorial series on Character Animation in After Effects, shown on aetuts+. He uses FreeForm Pro, Cycore FX, Duik Tools and native AE Tools and expressions.

Create and Rig a Realistic Puppet: Day 2

Dan Gies looks at combining puppet tool pins with null objects to make an expressive, malleable face (positioning the pins and Null objects for optimal control).

Create and Rig a Realistic Puppet: Day 4

Dan looks further at facial expressions controls and builds some relationships between them. Like having a smile slider affect the mouth, the jaw and the cheeks, all at the same time, without having to animate them independently.

Create and Rig a Realistic Puppet: Day 6

Dan Gies demonstrates a technique for creating a “Look At” object for the eyes so that the pupils don’t have to be animated individually. This also includes creating a slider to make the eyes go cross eyed or wall-eyed.

Create and Rig a Realistic Puppet: Day 8

Dan Gies demonstrates how to take the head composition into the third dimension to make convincing head rotations, using Free Form Pro.

Create and Rig a Realistic Puppet: Day 10

Dan Gies shows how to apply the painted displacement map to the character’s head. He also demonstrates how to use an animated displacement map composition to create a more detailed deformable face.

Create and Rig a Realistic Puppet: Day 12

Dan Gies uses CC Lens and the Magnify filter to create rounded eye balls and simulate really thick lens glasses. He also shows you how to convert layer space coordinates composition space so that you can get 2D effects to follow 3D objects.

Create and Rig a Realistic Puppet: Day 14

There are many ways to connect your character together, and the best way often depends on the style of the puppet’s joints and the clothes it wears. Dan explores the many ways to make hard and soft joints and refine them, to get the best effect.

Create and Rig a Realistic Puppet: Day 16

You can now create inverse kinematic chains for fast and intuitive character movement, similar to what you will find in high end 3D packages. You will no longer have to manually rotate each joint and fight with feet slipping and dipping into the ground.

3D from a 2D Image

Tudor "Ted" Jelescu shows how to create 3D / 2.5D movement from a 2D image using displacement maps in AE. Tudor uses FreeForm and displacement maps to be able to have a different camera move, one that rotates around the subject. Watch Tutorial on CreativeCOW

3D Tunnels in AE Using FreeForm Pro: Part 1

Tudor ‘Ted’ Jelescu explores the ability of the new FreeForm Pro plugin to create organic looking 3d tunnels in AE. Whether used for a scifi shot, a medical animated illustration or another fx shot, the tunnels created using FreeForm Pro give you the ability to move around them on the outside and fly inside. Watch on CreativeCOW

FreeForm Mylenium Edition: Part 1

The Mylenium Edition for FreeForm and FreeForm Pro was created by Lutz Albrecht (mylenium.de). Chris Heuer (FreeFall FX) shows how to customize these effects in minutes. You'll see: how to change the text in the file to the text, logo or shape of your choice; how to modify the effect to fit the shape of your text, logo or shape.