Create a Muzzle Flash using Adobe After Effects video tutorial.| flv | 135 MB
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If you haven’t built muzzle flashes yet I’m sure the day will come. Why not be ready for it? Creating muzzle flashes is a never dying subject of VFX, especially for low budget action movies. There are loads of tutorials [...] [...more]
After Effects’ 3D lighting feature creates pools of light generated from light sources in 3D space - but you can’t see the light itself or the cone it produces. Enter Trapcode Lux: a speedy plug-in that adds volumetric lighting effects to projects that require realistic spotlights, point lights, or stage lighting of all kinds.
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Image Lounge contains a set of over 20 After Effects filters to give greater impact to your images. Replicate natural elements like fire, smoke, and water. Add realistic touches using shadows, displacement, color mapping, or use accurate camera blur and focus effects to replicate out-of-focus images shot with a film camera.
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Simulate: Illuma is 5 effects that deliver
light and filter options you didn’t have in the field…
Halo: one effect with both bloom and focus controls
Lightracer: enhance visible light sources, particularly in dark settings
Radiance: the stuff of dream sequences…a gentle glow with a versatile set of tools you’ll find multiple reasons to use
Photogust: fast and easy point [...] [...more]
Many editing programs offer basic particle-generation features. But Trapcode Particular goes way, way beyond the basics, with real-time interactive previews, bouncing particles, 3D camera integration, particles that emit particles, custom shapes, air resistance, gravity and turbulence controls, depth of field, and more! As seen in Spider-Man 3!
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Created by John Knoll, Photoshop co-creator and Star Wars effects guru, Knoll Light Factory is one of the industry’s most popular motion graphics tools. It is most famous for its high-fidelity simulations of light effects called flares, which simulate reflections from a very bright light source as seen through a camera’s lens. Knoll Light Factory [...] [...more]
Unlike most glow filters that just blur your source video, Radium Glow gives you pinpoint control over the glow, with editable shapes that can generate precise outlines or create glimmering points. Includes advanced edge controls, built-in masking, and output controls that mimic real light behavior. Choose one of three separate glow plug-ins to add nice [...] [...more]
Echo Space takes the tedium out of working with multiple layer instances in After Effects. Begin with an image, text, footage, or even compositions, and Echo Space will create multiple versions of that layer which can be controlled as a group or individually. Movement and effects can ripple through the stack — with offset and [...] [...more]
Words dissolve into sand, logos catch fire, and water droplets ripple to bass guitar. All of this is possible with a single powerful plug-in that generates animated 3D shapes to mesmerize and entice viewers. Choose from 61 customizable presets, or tweak your own to get just the look you want. Full integration with After Effects’ [...] [...more]
Audio-intensive animations no longer require time-consuming hand-tweaking of keyframes. Trapcode Sound Keys, a plug-in for Adobe After Effects, makes it easy to synchronize motion and sound using either amplitude or frequency ranges. Unlike palette-based audio-sync products, Sound Keys is applied as a regular effect, making it possible to save settings with your project, generate keyframes [...] [...more]