In today’s tutorial we’ll matchmove the footage and use basic 3D geometry to create a severed leg, which can then be used as a matte to remove the original leg. The camera data can also be used to create a floor plane with some ground texture to clean up the original leg shadow. This plane will also be used to add ambient occlusion and fake blood. Be it a war zone or a zombie apocalypse, you never know when you might need to take off a leg.

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Create An Awesome Array Of Shattering Strings

We’ll be starting in Cinema 4d to create text fragments and use XPresso to export the Mograph positional data to After Effects. From there, we’ll jump over into After Effects and use expressions to connect 3d nulls to 2d data points… We’ll also be using a macro in Microsoft Word to edit multiple lines of expressions. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Cinema 4d user or strictly an After Effects user, today’s tutorial should be something helpful for everyone!

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Until recently this effect has been created in-camera using specialized lenses. In this tutorial, Richard Bird gives an overview of how the “Tilt-Shift Effect” can be quickly recreated in post-production without the use of 3rd party plug-ins by remapping the depth of field, use of simple color correction and altering the frame rate.

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Hello everyone! In this tutorial we’re gonna show you how you can create 3 awesome circle animations with a few simple steps and default plug-ins such as CC Circle and Radio Waves.

Step 1

Create a new composition clicking by Menu->Composition->New Composition. Name it “Circles”, change the resolution to 200×200 and set the duration to 7 seconds.

Step 2

We don’t need a background solid so we can skip that part and click on the Toggle Transparency Grid button.

Step 3

Create a new solid clicking by Menu->Layer->New->Solid. The color is doesn’t matter....

This is a brief introduction to some of the most unbelievable Visual Effects in Hollywood’s biggest movies. This “Part 2” will describe the making of movies: King Kong, Harry Potter, X-Men First Class and Pirates of the Caribbean.

King Kong (2005)

VFX Team

• Joe Letteri
• Brian Van’t Hul
• Christian Rivers
• Richard Taylor

Development of the Visual Effects

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For this movie, the VFX team of Weta Digital had to improve their working system with regards to hardware, networking and infrastructure. Now, they have a big philosophical change in their pipeline: so they are...