Music and Animations

  • Filed under Videos

  • June 30, 2017

Here is some original music made by Jake South titled Poly-Tune with animations in time to the music.  I used Trapcode Sound Keys to generate key frames to drive some of the values of the plug-ins Trapcode Tao, Trapcode Mir, and Element 3D.

 

Rainbow Woods

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  • June 15, 2017

Here is a short video of Rainbow Woods in Bath.  I used my DSLR for the timelapse and a Gopro Hero 3+ Black on a gimbal for some smooth shots. Unfortunately the Gopro has some exposure and colour problems now.  So I had to pick and choose the shots that didn’t go too funny and applied RE:Vision Effects Match Color which helped in Premiere Pro.  The photos for the timelapse were edited in Lightroom then brought into After Effects to scale them down and animate.

 

Particular Weather

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  • May 31, 2017

A weather cloud made with Trapcode Particular.  The cloud, rain, and snow are on there own Trapcode Particular layer.  The rain and the snow both have aux particles for the rain drop splashes and the snow settling.  The sun is a lens flare from Optical Flares.

Trapcode Tao Octopus

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  • April 20, 2017

Here is another character made with Trapcode Tao in Adobe After Effects and inspired by Hank the octopus from Pixar’s Finding Dory.  Created with animated Tao lights and the repeat paths option for the tentacles.  Trapcode Particular was used for the ink. 

My 100th Video on YouTube

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  • April 13, 2017

This is my 100th Video uploaded to YouTube.  

My first video I uploaded was the Mini Bond short film in 2009, which has so far been viewed 1,403 times.

My top 5 most viewed videos so far are –

1 – Avengers Tesseract Cube Tutorial

2 – Element 3D Transitions Tutorial

3 – Lights Camera Action

4 – Popcorn Animation

5 – Mini Bond 007 “A View too Short”

The first 100 videos were fun to make and I look forward to what the next 100 will be.

 

Trapcode Tao Penguin

  • Filed under Image

  • March 28, 2017

Another character made with Trapcode Tao in Adobe After Effects, this time a Penguin.  Made the same way as the Snail and the Robot with Tao lights.  Trapcode Mir was used for quick and simple ice bergs in the background and Element 3D for the one that the penguin is standing on.

Trapcode Tao Robot Character

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  • March 13, 2017

A classic robot character made with Trapcode Tao.  Animated Tao Lumi lights were used for the robots eyes and control panel.

Trapcode Tao Snail

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  • February 9, 2017

A Snail character, made with Trapcode Tao, animated lights and null objects in Adobe After Effects.

Retro Logo Animation

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  • February 2, 2017

A retro logo animation with Element 3D.  The mountains in the background are done with Trapcode Mir and the stars with Trapcode Form.  The Tron Light Cycle was made in 3DS Max and it’s light trail is made with Trapcode Particular.  The TV model is from The Pixel Labs free Vintage pack  which was imported into Element 3D.  The retro look on the TV screen was done with Red Giant Universe.

Mandelbulber Fractal Images

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  • January 24, 2017

Been experimenting with Mandelbulber for Linux.   Mandelbulber is free software for creating 3D fractals. Mandelbulb 3D is also available for free on Windows and Mac.

http://mandelbulb.com/

http://www.mandelbulber.com/

Here are some images I’ve rendered out with only a few settings changed from the original fractal.