Archive For: tutorials
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Lizard Man Tutorial Part 1: by Ran Ben Avraham
Ran Ben Avraham shows us how to create a Lizard Man transformation in After Effects with FreeForm Pro. We learn how to motion tracks a sequence and then use FreeForm Pro to wrap the texture of his choice around the …
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 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 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 …
New Features Tutorial for FreeForm Pro Version 1.5 by Klaus Brandenburg
Klaus Brandenburg, Editor and VFX artist from Munich, Germany, was kind enough to put this tutorial together to showcase some of the new features in FreeForm Pro Version 1.5. He creates a terrain and lake in After Effects using FreeForm …
New Features Tutorial for Version 1.5 ShapeShifter AE & FreeForm Pro | Kevin Schires
Here’s an in-depth tutorial that goes over the new features in Version 1.5 of FreeForm Pro and ShapeShifter AE. Kevin Schires, who worked on the programming at mettle as part of the engineering team, has put the tut together for …
3D Mist and Fog | After Effects| FreeForm Pro
Tim Harris shows how to use the new fog and mist features in FreeForm Pro Version 1.5. He starts things off by creating 3D terrain with FreeForm Pro. He makes a 2D Displacement Map that will be used to create …
A Second Career for a First Love
Mr. Eric D. Kirk recently completed work on closing credits for Treachery, a film starring Michael Biehn (Terminator, Tombstone, Abyss) under Blanc Biehn Productions. Eric used After Effects, with Mettle’s FreeForm Pro and ShapeShifter AE to get the job done.…
Character Animation with FreeForm
You may already know that character animation is possible in After Effects, using mettle’s FreeForm Pro. But did you know that you can also use FreeForm, the light version of FreeForm Pro, for basic character animation?
Here’s a simple tutorial …
Design a Superman Logo in After Effects with Trevor Coates: Part 3, 4 and 5
We continue with Trevor’s great tutorial series, currently being hosted by aetuts+. Trevor explains the steps he goes through in designing his Superman logo, from concept hrough creating and rendering the 3D design in After Effects, with mettle’s ShapeShifter Ae …
Design a Superman Logo in After Effects with Trevor Coates: Intro & Part 2
There’s a great tutorial series from Trevor Coates, being hosted on aetuts+. In it, Trevor explains how to create and animate a 3D logo in After Effects. The logo just happens to be his version of the Superman logo, inspired …
Dan Gies Tutorial Series: Making of Flight of the “Rocket-Dees”
Dan Gies has put together a great tutorial series, which is being hosted on aetuts+. The series explains step-by-step how to animate his Rocket-Dees bird character in After Effects. Dan uses FreeForm Pro, Trapcode Particular, Expressions, and the After Effects …
Kevin Schires Tutorial: Elementary for AE
To go along with our Man of Steel and Style Design Challenge, we have a Superman-themed tutorial put together by Kevin Schires. Kevin is the creator of Elementary, a script that allows 3D plug-ins to cast shadows and create reflections …
Mamoworld AE tutorial: Superman in Manhattan
Mathias Möhl of mamoworld has put together a great After Effects tutorial. It’s a familiar scene: a camera doing an aerial fly-through of New York City. But something’s different… we see a rotating Superman logo on top of a skyscraper. …