February 2009 Entries
More After Effects fun. I can easily say that this was only fun to film. Light Sabers in After Effects are tedious to say the least. AJ loves it! That is what counts.. I think.
Ok I was going to take a break away from Adobe After Effects tonight. But hey its the weekend why not play some more.
This is what I came up with after using the 'Trapcode Particular' effect in After Effects. You can do everything from that magical dust looking logo in my previous video post to realistic explosions. As seen here. I will tell you that mastering the settings would take more time than I am comfortable using right now. So this does not look as realistic as I might have hoped but here I am Exploding in my foyer. KA...
This came out about 400 times better than i anticipated. Pretty niffy effect with lights cameras and particle engines.
Last night after yelling cuss words for 3 hours solid. I finally started to learn how the After Effects environment works. For those of you not into this stuff ill try to make it simple. Adobe photoshop is used to manipulate photos and make nice 2d images. Adobe Premiere is used to edit movies. Adobe After Effects is used to add simulated effects to 2d and 3d parts for movies. Sooo.. After Effects is like using photoshop filters but in real time and in a 3d environment.
My 1st 6 Second Experiment: Kinetic Typography