Based on Greyscalegorilla.com’s tutorial for creating the Discovery Channel rebrand cube transition effect, I wanted to see if I could create the effect in After Effects with Element 3D. In the end I had to model the cubes outside of After Effects but that was all. All the mattes, specular, and ambient occlusion was done with …
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Lights Camera Action
A short and simple animation using Lights Camera Action as the starting point. I didn’t have an idea what the animation would be at the beginning. I started with the model of the directors chair and then added things as I went, using Lights Camera Action as something to animate too. Watch on Vimeo here.
Juice in a Can
This is a fun advert for a fake juice drink. I started with the idea of fruit flying into a can and then exploding, I then built the rest of the advert around that. I used Element 3D with the Fresh Foods pack as the custom sprite for Trapcode Particular on a custom path, which …
Merry Christmas
“MERRY CHRISTMAS” Some Christmas animations. Trapcode Particular got used a lot throughout the animations (snow!). For a small part I used Trapcode Sound Keys for the first time, it was fun to use so will hope to use it again for a future project. Christmas Items from the shop Here Watch on Vimeo Here …
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