Create realistic DOF and Fog effects manually
The guys over at Rampant Design Tools made this nice tutorial about create realistic DOF doing depth maps by hand. If you dont have any cg layer to do this, here have how do it manually.
The guys over at Rampant Design Tools made this nice tutorial about create realistic DOF doing depth maps by hand. If you dont have any cg layer to do this, here have how do it manually.
James Whiffin from ae.tutsplus.com “Today’s tutorial will show you how to create a zombie headshot. We’ll start by first rotoscoping out the head using his makeup line as a guide. From there we’ll add some stock footage of a decapitated head to create the illusion of a hollow skull. Lastly, we’ll use blood stock footage to mask the transition to the headless result.”
Harry from graymachine.com show us how replace the environment of a shot using a few plugins (the Foundry’s CameraTracker, a keyer and Trapcode Horizon) the result is that you can totally change the environment of a shot fast and efficiently.
Barket Skorupa posted in ae.tutsplus.com a presentation of a bundle of three Pixel Bender plug-ins: “bs-Smart Set Matte“, “bs-Mix Color” and “bs-Mix Layer“. The tutorial shows the parameters and some example where I show the technique of compositing where those plug-ins can be helpful.
Rich Young from aeportal.blogspot.com had collected a series of posts and articles about explosions compositing, one of this collection is a BlueCast Studios posted a 2 parts tutorials on YouTube, Realistic Explosions. But he talk about other articles very interesting, see it too.
Nick Vegas show you how Rich used After Effects, color correction, blurs, RSMB Motion Blur, Frischluft Lens Care and Lens Flares to turn his simple grey primitive 3D animation into a beautiful, atmosphere rich finished composite.
Rich Young says that AEtuts Premium posted Downloadable Tracking Markers, and link us some interesting tutorials about tracking
In this tutorial, Jon Walker shows you how to add a creative twist to any green screen footage using After Effects and a variety of elements from three different Digital Juice libraries.