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Creating an Animated Intro Title: Series Introduction
 

In this tutorial series, you will learn how to create, design and animate a 3D extruded intro title with Cinema 4D. You’ll render to After Effects for final compositing utilizing Maxon One tools such as Trapcode Particular, Magic Bullet and Universe to build the final look. By the end of this series, you’ll feel comfortable stylizing, animating and extruding text, become more familiar with the C4D sculpting tools to create damage, learn how to render image sequences to After Effects and more about how After Effects and Red Giant can aid in your final look.

 
Nick Harauz Apr 07 2021 00:51 609
Creating an Animated Intro Title: Creating and Designing the Extruded text
 

In this tutorial series, you will learn how to create, design and animate a 3D extruded intro title with Cinema 4D. You’ll render to After Effects for final compositing utilizing Maxon One tools such as Trapcode Particular, Magic Bullet and Universe to build the final look. By the end of this series, you’ll feel comfortable stylizing, animating and extruding text, become more familiar with the C4D sculpting tools to create damage, learn how to render image sequences to After Effects and more about how After Effects and Red Giant can aid in your final look.
In this video, we look at adding a text spline, choosing a suitable font, spacing it with handy onscreen controls and extruding it while exploring bevel presets. We’ll also add a reflective material to our text and illuminate it with a sky object referencing an HDR image from C4D’s Content Browser.

 
Nick Harauz Apr 07 2021 13:14 784
Creating an Animated Intro Title: Animating the Extruded Text
 

In this video, we’ll place our extruded text inside a Fracture Object to animate it using mograph effectors. We’ll tweak our animation in the Dope Sheet and add a camera to decide the final frame of our text.

 
Nick Harauz Apr 07 2021 15:26 489
Creating an Animated Intro Title: Using Sculpting Tools to Damage the Letters
 

in this video, we’ll prepare our spline and extruded text in order to add damage using the sculpting layout. Along the way, we’ll become familiar with the various sculpting brushes as well as how to freeze our results before bringing our geometry back to the main project.

 
Nick Harauz Apr 07 2021 11:32 377
Creating an Animated Intro Title: Creating a Landscape Background and Depth Pass
 

In this video, we’ll use the landscape tool to add several mountain objects behind our text. We’ll then create a depth pass to define the in-focus area that we’ll reference inside of After Effects allowing for a quicker render.

 
Nick Harauz Apr 07 2021 09:28 486
Creating an Animated Intro Title: Sending our Projects to After Effects
 

In this video, we’ll tweak our render settings and send out an AEC file with 3D data to use in After Effects. We’ll render our mountains and text separately to have more compositing options and also enable a multipass render to access our depth pass. 

 
Nick Harauz Apr 07 2021 07:29 340
Creating an Animated Intro Title: Compositing the Landscape in After Effects
 

In this video, we’ll open our AEC file in After Effects and reference the depth pass for our landscape. We’ll also add a stylistic gradient from the Red Giant Universe generator category to blend everything together.

 
Nick Harauz Apr 07 2021 07:05 325
Creating an Animated Intro Title: Referencing the Depth Pass for our Text
 

In this video, we’ll apply the camera lens blur effect to our text referencing the depth pass layer as well as add some glow to our text that we’ll animate over time.

 
Nick Harauz Apr 07 2021 02:59 264
Creating an Animated Intro Title: Adjusting the Duplicate Particle System
 

in this video, we’ll make a duplicate copy of our particle system and make some final adjustments to the particles timing and it’s framing.

 
Nick Harauz Apr 07 2021 02:39 324
Creating an Animated Intro Title: Creating Embers with Trapcode Particular
 

In this video, we’ll work in Trapcode Particular’s Designer to quickly position, visualize and control the movement of some particle embers. We’ll also become familiar with some of the new Trapcode physics options along the way. Once finished, we’ll copy the particles into our main comp and tweak the look.

 
Nick Harauz Apr 07 2021 09:11 376
Creating an Animated Intro Title: Adding the Final Effects
 

In this video, we’ll use Magic Bullets Renoiser, Universe’s Glow and Heatwave to create the finalized look for our text animation. Congratulations you’re done!

 
Nick Harauz Apr 07 2021 02:50 317
VFX Side Quest | Creating A Retro Video Game Look
 

Hashi a.k.a. Action Movie Dad takes you on a trip down 16-bit memory lane in a totally rad new VFX Side Quest, walking you through some simple techniques to turn your modern footage into a retro 16-bit video game using Adobe After Effects and Red Giant tools.
You’ll learn how to stylize the shot using Red Giant Universe and Magic Bullet Colorista, adjust the color palette, and quickly add elements like titles and progress bars that match the retro video game look of the 16-bit era.
Music: Triune digital

 
Red Giant Apr 02 2021 08:41 379
CHEAP TRICKS #17.5 | Building VFX with Expression Controls
 

Advanced Techniques for Creating Awesome Things
Once you’ve learned to create the Holtzman Shield effects using the tutorial and template found in our DUNE Holzman Shield VFX tutorial. We want to make it possible for you to create your own complex effects from scratch using expressions! Afraid of expression? You must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Also, with Hashi’s help, you’ll go from novice to Mentat in 28 minutes flat.

 
Red Giant Apr 02 2021 28:38 302
CHEAP TRICKS #17 | DUNE THE BEST WE CAN
 

Greetings young pups! In this tutorial, Hashi will show you how to recreate some Holtzman Shield VFX seen in the Dune trailer, along with some other cool compositing tricks.

 
Red Giant Apr 02 2021 22:22 326
Trapcode Particular 5- New Features
 

In this video Harry Frank walks you through the new features in Trapcode Particular 5.

 
Red Giant Apr 02 2021 36:23 366
Magic Bullet Looks 5- New Features
 

In this video Stu Maschwitz walks you through the new features in Magic Bullet Looks 5.

 
Red Giant Apr 02 2021 37:29 242
Magic Bullet Colorista V- New Features
 

In this video Stu Maschwitz walks you through the new features in Magic Bullet Colorista V.

 
Red Giant Apr 02 2021 18:10 404
Magic Bullet Looks now in Cinema 4D!
 

For the first time ever, included inside C4D is Red Giant’s Magic Bullet Looks which makes it possible to easily apply one of over 200 preset film looks, import LUTs, or work with individual tools for color correction, film grain, chromatic aberration and much more.

 
Red Giant Apr 02 2021 01:07 365
CHEAP TRICKS #16 | Bill and Ted’s VFXcellent Adventure
 

In this episode of Cheap Tricks, Hashi, aka Mr. The Action Movie Dad, travels the circuits of time to show you how to create the visual effects of Bill and Ted’s Face the Music!

 
Red Giant Apr 02 2021 47:27 227
Getting Started with Universe Modes
 

Get started with Universe Modes! Modes is a tool that makes it easy to combine layers in entirely new ways using powerful features that go beyond the native blend modes found on your editing timeline.

 
Red Giant Apr 02 2021 07:34 211
Getting Started with Universe Hacker Text
 

Get started with Universe Hacker Text! Hacker Text allows you to easily create computer hacker-style scrambled text animations.
Simulate encrypting or decrypting text with many options for randomization and look. And we’ve now added customizable random characters and the ability to auto-animate the encryption and decryption!

 
Red Giant Apr 02 2021 09:03 194
Getting Started with Universe Quantum
 

Get started with Universe Quantum! Quantum is a tool that creates the illusion of an animated light trail in front of or behind a layer. Great for text and motion graphics!

 
Red Giant Apr 02 2021 05:24 184
Getting Started with Universe Chromatic Aberration
 

Get started with Universe Chromatic Aberration! Chromatic Aberration is a tool that allows you to create realistic lens distortion effects with chromatic separation, blur, texture and more.
And it now includes control over the focus area, the ability to split the aberration into multiple passes, and chromatic rotation!

 
Red Giant Apr 02 2021 11:47 196
Getting Started with Universe Glimmer
 

Get started with Universe Glimmer! Create colorful glints and animated twinkling effects at the bright areas of your image for beauty shots, titles, music videos and more.
This update to Glimmer gives you 6 mono or bi-directional glow streaks with variable intensity and color mapping, an animatable shimmer, variable rotation control, and Color maps aligned with Trapcode’s Starglow.

 
Red Giant Apr 02 2021 04:37 166
UNIVERSE 3.3 | Getting Started with Glow
 

Get started with Universe Glow! Universe Glow is a tool that lets you create a diffused glow that softens the bright parts of the image. You can isolate a specific color within your footage and apply a glow to just that color.
Universe Glow now also offers Inverse-square glow falloff, multi-pass chromatic aberration and the ability to glow a single color channel!

 
Red Giant Apr 02 2021 05:59 210
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