We all love a variety of nice fonts, don’t we? However most times it comes in more than handy to have about ten fonts you’re familiar with and that work well in multiple situations such as kinetic typography or 3D applications. If you’re still looking for your favorite ten check out this roundup because it’ll give you collection of my favorite FREE fonts for Motion Design (apart from Helvetica Neue :D )

NOVECENTO

TitilliumText

RBNo2

Hegel Ultra Light

Corki

In this tutorial you’ll be learning how to create a realistically animated and composited helicopter
from a 2D image. We’ll cover how to extract the helicopter from the background using Photoshop before diving into After Effects to get started. In After Effects we’ll look at how to create your own rotor blades for the helicopter, keyframe animation, tracking, and key compositing techniques to integrate the helicopter seamlessly into our footage.

Beyond just the tutorial, I’ll be discussing workflow tips, and topics that are important to understand as a compositor and/or visual effects artist.

Tutorial

Continuing the Lord of the Rings series, we will be creating the Eye of Sauron with fractal noise, vector blurs and CG fire. This will then be exported into Maya and composited back in after effects with the CG tower, lighting and background HDRI.

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In this tutorial we´re going to adopt a fairly common technique used in 3d compositing tools such as Nuke. We will start off by tracking the shot using the After Effects CameraTracker plug-in by The Foundry to get our 3d Camera properly solved. With this data we extend this shot and create a clean plate, which we´ll use to project onto our “proxy geometry” to clean up the shot. We´ll build a fairly simple “projector rig” with some expressions to make life easier.

Tutorial

In the Aetuts+ section of this tutorial we’ll be compositing our render passes that were created in Maya. We will then use every tool in our arsenal to dirty up the image to make it look a hybrid of 50′s scifi and 80′s television. To view Parts 1, 2, and 3, head over to our sister site Cgtuts+ where James covers the Maya section.

Part 3.5

Part 4

Part 5