Digital Tutors – Creating Vibrant Fractal Transitions in After effects

Digital Tutors – Creating Vibrant Fractal Transitions in After effects
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Category: Digital Tutors

Software used
After Effects CC and up, Element 3D Plug-in, PFTrack 2011, Maya 2013
What you will learn
In this series of tutorials we will composite a shimmering fractal reveal in After Effects utilizing assets generated in Maya. We will be matchmoving a live action plate and creating proxy geometry of the scene in Maya. We will then export the geometry as OBJ assets and assemble them in After Effects. We will animate a fractal pattern to act as a matte for our transition and apply that to our 3D geometry using the Element 3D plug-in. To create vibrant glows we will be using plugins such as Radium, Sapphire, and Starglow whilst taking advantage of linear color-space to achieve the best results possible.

Guest Tutor
James Whiffin

01. Introduction and project overview 00:40
02. Matchmoving in PFTrack 12:03
03. Refining and exporting the camera solve 05:22
04. Modeling geometry in Maya 08:46
05. Modeling more complex geometry and UV mapping 12:42
06. Exporting our assets from Maya into After Effects 09:40
07. Animating the ink texture 09:47
08. Refining the ink animation 13:21
09. Compositing a bright rim 09:25
10. Compositing motion blur and chromatic aberration 09:37
11. Compositing Radium glows 10:40
12. Compositing Starglow 04:33
13. Compositing the screen replacement 08:42
14. Creating a custom glow 05:36
15. Adding dust particles 06:44
16. Animating glow intensities and adding a pull focus 07:26
17. Adding lens effects, color correction, and lens distortion 09:09