In this tutorial, we take a look at how to track an object that goes off screen with Adobe After Effects.
If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to ask!

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If it leaves your sight | Disappeared, it is not | Lock it to your plate

In this tutorial we take a look at how to make a Cinemagraph with Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. Cinemagraphs, a term coined by Jamie Beck & Kevin Burg, are not quite photographs, and not quite video. They straddle a line somewhere in between. For more information, check out this article, and see the site where they originated. Some very cool stuff!

If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to ask!

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It’s not quite a video | A Cinemagraph | It’s not quite a Photograph

A few Tips and Tricks | To make your shots come alive | Blur, Blacks, and Film Grain…

In this tutorial, we look at a shot from a recent video game trailer I created. We take a look at some of the compositing techniques I used to make the pixel art look like it’s part of the filmed plate.

If you have any comments or questions, please let me know!

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Projecting Texture | Those Clones are Misbehaving | A Trick to Help You…

In this tutorial, we look at how to use Projection Mapping and how to get that projected texture to stick to Cinema 4D Mograph Cloner objects.

If you have any comments or questions, please let me know! If you know of another better way to accomplish this same technique, Let me know in the comments!

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Look on the Bright Side | If it’s Cloudy, bring the Sun | Track, Comp, Perfection

In this tutorial, we look at how to do a complex sky replacement with Adobe After Effects CS5. We take a look at a variety of tools, including Tracking, Displacement maps, exposure, Refine Matte, Edge Blur, Colour Correction with Curves, and applying a vignette.

If you wish to download the project file for this tutorial, you can grab it here: SkyReplacmentTutorialv001.zip

If you have any comments or questions, please let me know!

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Stabilization | From Shaky Beginnings | A Tranquility

In this tutorial, we use Eyeon Fusion 6 and take a look at stabilizing a piece of footage. Once the footage is stable, we “paint” out two unwanted objects from the shot using a quick and simple technique. We then complete the shot with some quick colour corrections.

Hope you enjoy it!

If you want to see the same tutorial, but using After Effects CS5, check out this tutorial here:
http://vfxhaiku.com/2010/08/stabilization-and-object-removal-with-after-effects-cs5/

In this tutorial, we take a look at my personal workflow on how to run Fusion on OSX. I use a wide variety of tools including Bootcamp, Parallels, NTFS-3G, and MacDrive to make this possible. If you have any comments or questions on this workflow, just let me know.

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Fusion on OSX? | On many people’s wish lists | It *IS* possible

Bootcamp: This allows you to boot your Mac as a windows PC. It’s essentially the same as buying a PC with windows when you’re in boot camp. You have access to the full hardware, and your software can run to its full potential

Parallels: My tool of choice for running Fusion along side OSX. Parallels allows you to use your boot camp partition in a virtualized environment. This is extremely handy so you can boot into Bootcamp when you need full power to your PC apps, or use the same partition and run windows apps along side Mac OSX apps.

VMware Fusion: Another virtualization software similar to Parallels. I haven’t used this one, so I can’t tell you if it’s better for running Fusion or not. If anyone has any experience with it, let me know in the comments!

NTFS-3G: An system pref for OSX that allows OSX to read/write to NTFS partitions.

Mac Drive: A piece of Windows software that allows you to read/write to HFS and HFS+ formatted drives. Mac OSX drives are formatted with HFS+

Stabilization | From Shaky Beginnings | A Tranquility

In this tutorial, we use Adobe After Effects CS5 and take a look at stabilizing a piece of footage. Once the footage is stable, we “paint” out two unwanted objects from the shot using a quick and simple technique. We then complete the shot with some quick colour corrections.

Hope you enjoy it!

If you would like to see the same tutorial, but done in a node based compositing application, check out this tutorial here:
http://vfxhaiku.com/2010/09/stabilization-and-object-removal-with-eyeon-fusion-6/

Old Thirty Five stock | A Plastic Revolution | Magical Photos

This is a thorough video review of the new Lomography Spinner 360.
http://microsites.lomography.com/spinner-360/

I spent about a week or so with this camera, and have blown through over 8 rolls so far, and I absolutely love it.

For some more detailed information about this camera, with links to high res film scans, check out my blog posting about it here:
http://blog.isotropy.ca/2010/06/lomography-spinner-360-review/

To see some shots taken with this camera, check out my flickr feed, or check out this flickr search.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kgartner/
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=Lomo+360&m=text

If you have any comments or questions, just let me know!

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A Puppet Master | Not through Strings, but a Keyboard | Making our Comps Dance

In this tutorial, we use Adobe After Effects CS4 and take a look at the wiggle expression, and show how it can be used with the Puppet tool to add some life to otherwise static objects.

Hope you enjoy it!

Here’s a link to the animation which is used in this tutorial:
http://blog.isotropy.ca/2010/06/i-could-jump-out-a-window/