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Tutorial 128: I Like Turtles (Spline Animation)

This week we explore how you can make interesting folding meshes with MoSpline using a very simple L-System. You might have seen L-systems, or Logo programming language in school as it's often used to...

Elements - June 2018

Sorry for being late on this! But we always come through! We have some glitch FUI elements this month from an upcoming pack. Grab them 2018-06-15 05:27:23 +0000 UTC View Post

Tutorial 127: Tank-Style Wireframes

This might be our longest tutorial ever. It was a difficult edit because I swapped some things around for some clarity, but it's a complicated tutorial involving using some sliders in ways they were n...

Tutorial 126: Number Crawl

This week, we're going to check out an interesting way to make a number crawl using expressions and master properties. I wanted to avoid using time remapping because it can change the speed of our ani...

Tutorial 125: Secondary Motion

This week, we're going to explore adding secondary motion to your animations in Cinema 4D. We take a look at how to do it with clones as well as splines but the technique can be applied to any keyfram...

Complex Elements - May 2018

Here's a few elements for this month, right now there are some presets for trimming paths. There's a simple trim in/ou...

Tutorial 124: Linked Paths

This week, we're going to link paths on different layers using a slider so that we can animate them as if they're a single stroke. This lets us easily pass lines around objects in 3D space without act...

Tutorial 123: Object Blending

This week we're going to blend without an Osterizer. By using the same object in a few different states, we'll use the blend function in a Mograph Cloner to animate clones without keyframing. This is ...

Elements - May

Hi guys, here's the link for our elements for May. We've got a ton of useful, glitchy transitions and backgrounds in here. One or two have been available in the tutorials, but this pack contains about...

Tutorial 122: After Effects Multi-shader

I really wanted to get this one out sooner to you guys. We were working on a heavy 3D spot for the past week or so as well as a few other projects so it didn't happen. That said, next week we should h...

Tutorial 121: Quick Tips 07

Here's another collection of Quick Tips for you guys. The time for each tip is as follows:

+ 0:12 - Center Anchor Point

+ 0:55 - Math (Keyframes)

+ 1:57 - Laptop Shortcuts

+ 2:38 -...

Tutorial 120: One Comp to Rule Them All

This week, we take a look at Master Properties using the Essential Graphics Panel. While you can use them to make things like lower thirds comps with replaceable text, we're going to use them in a dif...

Elements March-April

Hey everyone! Here's the WB Elements as promised from last month and it will include new stuff from this month. It's se...

We finally switched to monthly.

Hopefully this goes smoothly. We've switched up the reward tiers. Most of the tiers you were in have changed so be sure to check them and see if you want to change levels. If you were paying $3 per vi...

Tutorial 118: Text Breakup

I was really hoping to get this out to you guys earlier. But we are a day early, so there's that! I ended up having a project pushed back. That really worked out in my favor because I severely underes...

Tutorial 117: The Power of Vertex Maps

This week we take a look at a really useful technique in Cinema 4D—controlling effectors and shaders with vertex maps. Generally, you're limited to a simple falloff when it comes to controlling the ...

Improvements

I forgot to note this here last night. I wrote this about changes we're making to project files and to our Patreon tiers—which 2018-03-23 18:00:25 +0000 UTC View Post

Project Files Link

This should set you guys up with no-charge project files. If for some reason it doesn't work, the code is patronsrock. Thanks for your support!

Left this here as a record, but there's a post ...

Tutorial 116: Filming Elements

This week, we look at using filmed elements to get some free animation. Get someone to drive you around and film out of the windows. Bring the footage into AE and mirror it, crush it with some levels,...

Lens

I've made a few lens posts but it always seems to get stuck on posting in the app. Have any of you seen them? I can't find them posted on the site within their time period.

Tutorial 115: Audio-Based Glitch Maps 2

This week we build on Tutorial 114: Audio-Based Glitch Maps by using a similar technique to build...

Tutorial 114: Audio-Based Glitch Maps

Our second tutorial of the day is the follow-up to my blog post about The Nugget where I talked about Andrew Kram...

Tutorial 113: Texturing Parametric Faces

We've got a special treat this week—two tutorials! First up, Sev is back with a C4D tutorial. This one is extra to patrons, so it's not charged.

In this one, we're taking a look at parametric obje...

Tutorial 112: Modular Text Systems

I switched around my production schedule, so I was able to get this one out to you guys a bit early this week. Hopefully this is something I can do more regularly.

 This week we expand on a tec...

Tutorial 111: Wood Grain and Visualizers

This week was kind of a tough one for me, since I ended up being way busier than I expected. So I took on a simpler tutorial I was asked about, but I couldn't leave it without adding to it. S...

Tutorial 110: Liquid Write-On

This week's After Effects tutorial shows you how to make a cool procedural liquid-style write-on effect. We isolate letters using a text animator to allow us to do all sorts of things to those charact...

Tutorial 109: Pixel Sorting Shift

Hey guys, I got this one out a little bit early for you patrons!

This week's After Effects tutorial builds upon a previous tutorial, 2018-02-08 17:35:51 +0000 UTC View Post

Tutorial 108: Cinematic Parallax

In this week's After Effects tutorial, we explore a simple technique to fly over a scene using nothing but a still or a locked-off time lapse. A lot of my early career was trying to rub two stills tog...

Tutorial 107: A Plexus for the Rest of Us

 This week we're having a Plexivus (Plexus) for the rest of us. Plexus is an excellent plugin. A lot of things can be done wi...

Color Sampler

After Effects doesn't have a color sampler that can stay put like those from Photoshop, so I made my own. We go through the expression line by line to show you how to do it.

Grab the preset f...