TrapcodeShareLoghttp://www.trapcode.com/sharelog/Members share logen-US2012-02-08T19:42:04ZSquarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Inside the Nebulae – tutorial and AE projecthttp://www.trapcode.com/sharelog/2012/1/11/inside-the-nebulae-tutorial-and-ae-project.htmlPeder Norrby2012-01-11T14:19:05ZFlight Form Nebula Nebulae Preset Space Starglow TrainingAn imagination of flying in the gas clouds of space. Actual images of nebulas taken with the Hubble space telescope were combined in After Effects with CG gas clouds and stars made using Trapcode Form and Starglow.

Tutorial:

Download AE CS5 project file

]]>Trapcode Form Oceanhttp://www.trapcode.com/sharelog/2011/11/27/trapcode-form-ocean.htmlSara Bennett2011-11-27T14:28:52ZAECS5 Ocean Preset Presets Trapcode Form

A little experiment i did to create an semi-realistic ocean using Trapcode Form, fractal noise, vector blur and some clever texturing.

Get the Trapcode Form ocean file here > TrapcodeFormOcean.aep.zip

Drop me a note if you have problems, queries, or just to show off what you've done with it! ^^

]]>Zen Alien by Cassidy Bisherhttp://www.trapcode.com/sharelog/2011/11/17/zen-alien-by-cassidy-bisher.htmlCassidy Bisher2011-11-17T14:25:01ZParticular Preset Presets Shine knoll light factory looks trapcode

This is a trapcode particular experiment I worked on. Really working on the lighting and shading features in trapcode particular.

Vimeo Render http://vimeo.com/31113848

Download CS5 project file here: Zen Alien

 

]]>Form Galaxy II, by Dan Sollishttp://www.trapcode.com/sharelog/2011/11/8/form-galaxy-ii-by-dan-sollis.htmlDan Sollis2011-11-08T14:30:24ZForm Galaxy Lightwave OBJ Preset

My first major test of the new OBJ import functionality of Trapcode Form 2. I created the galaxy object using the "Spray Points" tool in Lightwave, painting them into the rough shape of a galaxy. I then applied a vortex deform to it, to further twist it into the right shape.

This object was then brought into After Effects as an OBJ and I layered a couple of instances of Form to create the richness of the stars. I also used a luminance-tracked version of it with Video Copilot Optical Flares for the bigger stars, seen as you move in closer (as well the hot central star/singularity in the centre).

There's some fractal-noise-derived nebula objects in there too, to add to the overall texture of the piece. I've used Trapcode Horizon for some distant ones, along with some basic masked 3D planes. Anyway, hope you like it - the project files are available to download for free from the Digital Distortion website.

Music is "Cad Goddeu (Revised)" by Nest - serein.co.uk/​releases/​sere001/​nest-retold

]]>Cinema 4D scene to Trapcode Form 2.0.2http://www.trapcode.com/sharelog/2011/10/31/cinema-4d-scene-to-trapcode-form-202.htmlPeder Norrby2011-10-31T18:28:12ZAfter Effects Cinema 4D Form OBJ import

Tutorial showing how to create a scene in Cinema 4D and export an OBJ and Cinema's camera. And import all this in Adobe After Effects so the Cinema render perfectly matches Trapcode Form.

Sorry for my poor C4D skillz!

Note that you need Trapcode Form 2.0.2 to get the "Normalize" checkbox used here.

]]>Kung Fu Panda 2 stylized fire effecthttp://www.trapcode.com/sharelog/2011/9/10/kung-fu-panda-2-stylized-fire-effect.htmlSara Bennett2011-09-10T00:35:02ZCS5 Fire Kung Fu Panda Particular Preset Presets Stylized

I was watching this pretty cool video of how some of the fire effects were created in Kung Fu Panda 2 using After Effects and Particular (link). After a lot of watching i figured out how it was made and set about recreating the effect - which I think came out really well.

As a lot of people were interested in it, I thought I'd share the AE file - it is made in After Effects CS5 using Trapcode Particular.

Download CS5 project file: playingwithfire.aep

]]>FORMv2 exampleshttp://www.trapcode.com/sharelog/2011/8/24/formv2-examples.htmlPeder Norrby2011-08-23T22:48:14ZFORMv2 Form OBJ Preset Strings Thorns horse sequence

Thorns created using Base Form - Strings with tapering. Text from Layer Map. Displaced with Fractal. Shading using Shadowlet.

Thorns created using Base Form - Strings with tapering. Displaced with Fractal. Shading using Shadowlet.

Thorns created using Base Form - Strings with tapering. Displaced with Fractal. Shading using Shadowlet

Download all three thorns examples: AEP

 

OBJ sequence + Textured Polygon particles

]]>Particular Smoke Testshttp://www.trapcode.com/sharelog/2011/8/11/particular-smoke-tests.htmlPeder Norrby2011-08-11T21:40:51ZParticular Smoke Sprite

Just testing some smoke elements as sprites with Particular in AE - there are interesting possibilities here!

These were quick initial tests. Could be improved by keying the smoke in the pre-comp if it needs to be composited on top of something.

Thanks to Andrew Kramer for posting the smoke clips! Get them here.

Download the AEP

]]>3D Set Extensions Tutorial by Andrew Kramerhttp://www.trapcode.com/sharelog/2011/6/22/3d-set-extensions-tutorial-by-andrew-kramer.htmlPeder Norrby2011-06-22T13:31:12Z3D Camera Tracking After Effects Andrew Kramer CameraTracker Fog Matchmoving Particular Smoke Training Video Copilot

Very inspiring and informative tutorial by Andrew Kramer of Video Copilot. It covers 3D camera tracking (using The Foundry's CameraTracker AE plug-in), matte painting, masking, color correction, sky replacement and uses Trapcode Particular for the fog/smoke. Highly recommended!

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/3d_set_extensions/

 

 

]]>Volumetric fractal smoke - 2 approacheshttp://www.trapcode.com/sharelog/2011/6/13/volumetric-fractal-smoke-2-approaches.htmlDan Sollis2011-06-13T19:22:28ZFractal Particular Preset Smoke VolumetricTwo little experiments to create pseudo-volumetric smoke objects in After Effects, one using Particular, the other using the built-in fractal noise plugin in AE and an awful lot of layers.

Both have their own unique look. The Fractal noise version took hours to render compared to the Particular version (which took about 30 mins). The project files are free to download and reuse under a Creative Commons license from the Digital Distortion website.

Particular version:

Fractal noise version:

There are issues with visual artifacts when you get closer in to the fractal noise version (you can see the individual layers, creating an ugly "scanline" effect), so hopefully someone else out there can improve the technique and share it!

Update: Based on feedback, I've done a new version of the Particular one, using a custom smoke comp generated using fractal noise. This gives kind of a hybrid look of the two approaches.

The project file is downloadable here.

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