QHQ Superglue (tutorial+preset)
April 16, 2014Motion,Tutorials&Presets,Featureddigital,expressions,design,preset,motion,graphics,vfx,optics,Tutorial (Industry),Adobe After Effects (Software),Visual Effects (Film Company Role Or Service),parenting,sticky,attach,connect
In this episode I will share with you a simple After Effects preset I designed to help me stick 2D layers to a variety of sources without the need for parenting. While the technique itself is trivially simple, I will explain in-depth the mechanism behind the script and walk you through a number of examples of how it can be used.
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QHQ Chromatic Aberration Rig (tutorial+script)
March 20, 2014Motion,Tutorials&Presets,Featureddigital,expressions,design,preset,effect,motion,graphics,lens,vfx,camera,optics,Chromatic Aberration,Tutorial (Industry),Adobe After Effects (Software),spript,JavaScript (Programming Language)
In this tutorial I will discuss the optics of chromatic aberration and common ways of reproducing it in vfx. I will also introduce the brand new Chromatic Aberration Rig in form of an After Effects script that automates the creation of this effect into a simple 2-click procedure.
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Macula Lutea
June 9, 2011Video Bits,Motion,FeaturedAfter Effects,Adobe,light,color,abstract,slow,flares,Justin Bieber,Nick Pittsinger,U Smile,800%,slower,optics,experimental,Video Copilot,Optical Flares
Macula Lutea started as a happy accident - I've been working on one of the projects and wrote a small script to control the movement of the lens flare. Due to the calculation error (my bad) the light source ended up in completely wrong spot, resulting in highly exaggerated flare on the screen. Rather than discard the mistake, I decided to pursue intentionally misusing flares and discovered an entire world of cool abstract imagery that can be created in this style.
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