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3DCircularMotion coming soon

Posted on 20. Aug, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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Now that the new cross-platform CustomEffect Installer is finally ready I can soon publish one of my upcoming products. It was laying around ready to be released for a few months. The only thing that was holding me back was not having the CE Installer completed.

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3D Muzzle Flashes & MuzzlePlug Review

Posted on 29. Jun, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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There comes a time in visual effects artists life when he’s bound to create firing guns and muzzle flashes. Learn how to build your own muzzles… in 3D.

Concept for importing 3d models

Posted on 29. May, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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This idea has just struck me like a lightning. We all want 3d models in AE, right? What if we really could? I already took few attempts of expanding the range of 3d features in AE and it’s not up to me to say whether they are useful or not, but I feel theres much more to be done. Well… we all know that there is a lot to be done, but I really think theres something that can be done while waiting for Adobe to introduce a 3d engine inside AE. But I will need your help to make our dream come true.

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Advanced 3D Planets

Posted on 21. May, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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I bet you’ve seen a gazillion tutorials on creating 3D planets, but I also bet you’ve never seen it done this way before. Find out on your own.

3D Solar System

Posted on 21. May, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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3D Solar System

This subject is as old as the Earth itself. How to create 3D planets? Simple. Just apply CC Sphere onto a texture, right? Wrong! If you want to make it cool you need to do a couple other things as well, which I’m going to show you in this upcoming tutorial.

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More 3D stuff coming soon

Posted on 14. May, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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More 3D stuff coming soon

Some time ago I was experimenting with doing more 3D stuff inside of AE and I ended up with two very cool techniques that will allow you to import any 3D object into AE. But thats not all.

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Growing 3D Vines

Posted on 12. Apr, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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Do you think you know all about creating 3D vines? Well think again. Watch this amazing tutorial to learn how I did it using only After Effects.

Book pages in 3D

Posted on 19. Feb, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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My studio is currently working on a TV commercial for one of our clients. The concept is great but putting it all together is quite a challenge. The main theme in this ad are floating book pages that display images and videos on their spines. Although I figured out a way to create non-flat 3D pages in After Effects and a clever way to animate them, we didn’t go with that because it took forever to render. On the other hand creating the animation in a 3D application lacks the flexibility that allows to change the pace of motion and the videos displayed on the spines. Since I don’t like our own creations taking control over us and limiting our creativity we had to find the mid-ground to this problem.

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.mocat in progreess

Posted on 12. Feb, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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Three years ago me and my friend started to work on our very own, low cost, high quality motion capture application. Our goal was to create easy to use scalable application, that would take a video sequence, analyze it, and export a BVH motion capture file than can then be used in many 3D applications for character animation. Reason? We simply needed it for one of our projects.