Adobe CC 2015 has been released, and is full of many great new features. Here’s what you need to know about mettle plug-ins and compatibility with CC 2015. SkyBox and FreeForm are compatible with CC 2015. FreeForm Pro and ShapeShifter
This title sequence for the Saudi morning newspaper review show, Tabaat Al Mushahid, shows a really practical use of FreeForm. The newspaper sequence was shot with a Canon 5D, with some blank areas left on the newspapers. The text and …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Dave Legion and the amazing folks at Funky Medics are behind the inspiring and informative animation: “A Story of Hope” for the FH Foundation. FH is short for Familial Hypercholesterolemia. It is an inherited disorder that leads to aggressive and …
Here’s a simple …