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Video: STARS FROM DIFFUSE MATTER - microClocks
by Dimitri Nachtigal 3 years ago
STARS FROM DIFFUSE MATTER - microClocks microClocks is a german rock-band. First I illustrated all the members - and than of course the animation. Used Photoshop, After Effects and Cinema to let em ro
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Mark Simpson liked this 3 years ago
Nice!
by kay strong 3 years ago
I would love to know how they did it.
Video: RAISE THE DEAD - Colin Devlin
by sebastian lopez 3 years ago
RAISE THE DEAD - Colin Devlin Raise The Dead is a music video that i directed for Colin Devlin's new song, taken from his debut solo album ''Democracy of One'' It's all shot on Green Screen and compos
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Re: RAISE THE DEAD - Colin Devlin
by Linda Baker 2 years ago
I love this video! Thanks for featuring him. Colin Devlin is a very talented singer and songwriter. There is a free song download from him at http: www.misharamusic.com Mishara Music loves to spread g
Video: CHIMNEY SWEEPER - Vinegar Socks
by Jonathan pannacciò 3 years ago
CHIMNEY SWEEPER - Vinegar Socks music video for the rock band Vinegar Socks - directed and animated by Jonathan Pannacci - Rat creatives - www.ratworld.tv watch music video
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Mark Simpson liked this 3 years ago
nicely incorporated motion graphic with green
by sami uddin 3 years ago
nicely incorporated motion graphic with green screen.
Video: A LHE ESPERAR - Os Paralamas Do Sucesso
by Eduardo Souza 3 years ago
A LHE ESPERAR - Os Paralamas Do Sucesso This 2009 music video was conceived and created by Eduardo Souza and Rodrigo Lima, founding partners of Rio de Janeiro based design and animation production com
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@Flavio Crestani
by Harvey Wiesenberg 1 week ago
Even though I don't speak spanish,I enjoyed your fun music,along with the colorful and captivating images,Well done. hw
Video: MEMORY - Zoot Woman
by Mike Kren 3 years ago
MEMORY - Zoot Woman 'Memory' is a music video to the song of the same name by the internationally acclaimed British band 'Zoot Woman' that tells the story of a man who can't let go of a lost relations
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@MEMORY - Zoot Woman
by Harvey Wiesenberg 3 weeks ago
I'm impressed with the graphics and VFX .Just the right touch to keep the video-story board flow along with the bands music.Its nice to be young. hw
Video: FOUL WATER, FIERY SERPENT - documentary trailer
by walter biscardi 3 years ago
FOUL WATER, FIERY SERPENT - documentary trailer FOUL WATER FIERY SERPENT is a new documentary feature film that follows the stories of dedicated health workers engaged in a final battle to eradicate a
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Re: FOUL WATER, FIERY SERPENT - documentary trailer
by Angelica Carson 2 years ago
Hi Walter, This documentary is fantastic. I love also your "Good Eats" production. You are great, I wish to be at least 50% like you. My videography is a new passion and I am hoping to improve it soon
Video: BEN 10: ALIEN SWARM - Cartoon Network film trailer
by Dan Monro 3 years ago
BEN 10: ALIEN SWARM - Cartoon Network film trailer Trailer cut for the Cartoon Network original live-action movie "Ben 10: Alien Swarm" Director: Vincent Aricco. Editor: Dan Monro. Sound Design: Reid
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Video: VERTICAL - pre-vis trailer
by sebastian lopez 3 years ago
VERTICAL - pre-vis trailer This is what i achieved after 20 exhausting hours of shooting on a green screen stage in Buenos Aires, in a single day. No budget at all; just me and some friends. I composi
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Re: VERTICAL - pre-vis trailer
by Bozhidar Atanasov 2 years ago
great job man.i suggest to edit sound and music from me .just send me a file with out music and soundFX.just voices on actors.
Video: Perpetual Harvest
by Jason Jenkins 3 years ago
Perpetual Harvest The fragile nature of the world economy; food sources ever more under corporate control those are just two of the many reasons we should be growing our own food, year-round! Whole gr
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Video: REQUIEM - shark documentary
by Bryce Groark 3 years ago
REQUIEM - shark documentary Requiem displays the common misconceptions the public has regarding sharks. This film portrays what beautiful creatures sharks are, why they are so important to our earth s
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Video: Obsession Trailer
by Tudor "Ted" Jelescu 3 years ago
Obsession Trailer An obsession is an unwelcome, uncontrollable, and persistent idea, thought, image, or emotion that a person cannot help thinking even though it creates significant distress or anxiet
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Video: PUNKS - child's action-comedy trailer
by Ron Rothstein 3 years ago
PUNKS - child's action-comedy trailer A trailer for a kid's comedy film. watch trailer
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Video: MACBETH
by ciaron davies 3 years ago
MACBETH MACBETH, an immortal tale of power, lust, greed and twisted morality. The king is dead, murdered by his 'loyal' general, Macbeth. The land is barren and the people starving under the new tyran
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Video: Schadenfreude
by Bill ONeil 3 years ago
Schadenfreude Schadenfreude is a popular comedy troupe here in Chicago. I spent a morning with them at my home and we shot some silly trailer crap. Complete with cheesy explosions and pointless dialog
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Video: LA308
by Douglas Smoot 3 years ago
LA308 Every Orphan craves it... unconditional love. Its power lays out an emotional obstacle course for Paul Matthews. He devotes himself to military black ops even though killing makes him ill. The f
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Mark Simpson liked this 3 years ago
Your audio needs work.
by Mark Nancetor 3 years ago
A good trailer but the audio needs work. Actually, a lot of work. But it communicates the story and the voiceover is good.
Video: FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER - movie trailer
by Anthony Fang 3 years ago
FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER - movie trailer 720x480 trailer for the Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer watch trailer
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Video: STRAYS - film trailer
by Sutharsan Bala 3 years ago
STRAYS - film trailer "Strays" is a story about freedom and impossible love. When Nazeeya, a young muslim girl is forced into marriage with a friend of her grandfather, her only chance of escape is th
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Mark Simpson liked this 3 years ago
STRAYS- film trailer
by Jako Krull 3 years ago
Nice!I live in Estonia myself, make videos myself aswell.Cool work.
Video: SINGULARITY - film trailer
by Shian Storm 3 years ago
SINGULARITY - film trailer Two men, seeking refuge from an unidentifiable attacker, find themselves trapped in a suburban garage where the real nightmare begins. Starring Robert Joy (CSI:NY, The Hills
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Singularity
by Cris Mcae 3 years ago
Good work, no establishing shot needed. Trailer language is ok for the intended audience. Your trailer would succeed in getting people who like this genre to want to see the movie, and that's what its
Video: A FOUNDLING (The Mojave Experiment) - feature film trailer
by Carly Lyn 3 years ago
A FOUNDLING (The Mojave Experiment) - feature film trailer Virginia - a young Chinese woman in the Old West - rescues her long lost sister, Mattie, from a brothel in Arizona. On their journey home to
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@A FOUNDLING (The Mojave Experiment) - feature film trailer
by Harvey Wiesenberg 3 weeks ago
The warmth of your imagery,those sunny- bleached- reddish- pinks,the rocky location, along with the young women who were the central characters.Gave the story a film festival quality.Good Luck. hw
Video: TOMORROW IS TODAY - film trailer
by Frederic Lumiere 3 years ago
TOMORROW IS TODAY - film trailer Tomorrow Is Today , is a drama about love, loss and survival of the spirit set in a small town on the Jersey shore. Greg Jerdon (Mark Hefti) is a man who has lost ever
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Mark Simpson liked this 3 years ago
Traditional - Not bad, but definitely safe
by Larry Eisner 3 years ago
There's absolutely nothing wrong with this trailer, because it's very vanilla. If anything, I'd say you may linger on scenes too long The argument between the (mom she's young...) and the daughter is
Video: Creative Cow: The Movie
by Jamie H. 3 years ago
Creative Cow: The Movie Only one man can save the world from creative self-destruction. A trailer unlike any other...paying homage to a fantastic website. A vote against this trailer for the grand pri
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Stefani Rice liked this 1 year ago
Very good trailer. And very funny.
by Mark Simpson 3 years ago
Very funny but there is a huge quality drop from the opening scenes to the barn follow-up. So, the 3 rating. Sorry. But I love the humor and the sentiment. The COW rocks.
exporting object data to afx.
by jhm1977 8 years ago
just a quick question. Is it possible to export object data from cinema4d to afx (like maya to afx) Thx julian
Re: exporting object data to afx.
by Mark Simpson 8 years ago
YOu mean like in an RLA file What data are you interested in exporting
help exploding things
by Tanis 8 years ago
Can anyone help me out with a suggestion. I need to "explode" a cube. I need it to have volume and basically break into peices and settle into a rubble pile. The application is explosives blowing up e
Re: help exploding things
by Mark Simpson 8 years ago
all I can say is you must have 'a lot' of pieces for it to be an issue with the explosion FX, either that or a pretty outdated system... My experience with that deformer is that it is pretty light on
Best way to Introduce Myself to True 3d Apps??
by marty simpson 8 years ago
Hello all, Please advise - - - I am a Final Cut veteran and extremely experienced with Quasi-3D applications like Boris RED. I have made very complex spline extrusions successfuly to model bull dozers
Re: Best way to Introduce Myself to True 3d Apps??
by Mark Simpson 8 years ago
Cinema probably has a more intuitve and easier to learn workflow and toolset than either maya or Lightwave....I would suggest downloading demos of all the packages you are considering, and get to know
HELP! Camera flythru in a tube
by account_closed_no_realname_used 8 years ago
hi all, i'm trying to make a camera flythru a bendy tube, as if simulating how data travels thru an ethernet cable or blood thru a vein. I've been trying this for like 4 days and nothing seems to work
Re: HELP! Camera flythru in a tube
by Mark Simpson 8 years ago
I have always just created a duplicate spline to the one my camera is on, and had a target null travel along the duplicate just in front of the camera....the camera always points at the target null ju
prism
by jhm1977 8 years ago
Hi everyone. Just working on a project relating to prisms and their lightdividing capapbilities. Just wondering if anyone has played around with these kind of effects (from white light breaking it int
Re: prism
by Mark Simpson 8 years ago
It might be possible to do using caustics as that uses refraction within cinema...I 'think' I've seen light dividing, but not sure..It is probably not very controllable, and would definitley be render
Animated objects in (so they appear)
by Scott Wright 8 years ago
Hi there, Just trying to get to grips with Cinema, and have the basics to hand. One thing I struggle with, is actually finding a way to "Build" objects onto the screen. With like a fade in, or flash i
Re: Animated objects in (so they appear)
by Mark Simpson 8 years ago
you could always just animate the visibility.. Mark Simpson
edges look crappy with i import into AE
by Michael Duff 8 years ago
hi all - I've made an animation that has an alpha and I'm importing it into AE. But the edges aren't very smooth. Very "staircase" like. Not a crisp clean edge. Can someone please suggest export setti
Re: edges look crappy with i import into AE
by Mark Simpson 8 years ago
make sure the quality switch for the layer in your timeline in ae is set to 'best' quality. Make sure your composition window is set to full resolution also... short of that, check your AA settings in
Object reveal??
by Jon Herron 8 years ago
I have a simple thin rectangular bar that I want to reveal from thew left to the right. I know I could do a sweep....but is there a way with animated texture I have been experimenting with a texture w
Re: Object reveal??
by Mark Simpson 8 years ago
I've done similar things like this before using booleans..... You use a large invisible (boolean visibilty switches turned off) boolean object that completely envelpos the object to be revealed...then
Pyrocluster flickering
by soloporhoy 8 years ago
Hi, I'm having this flickering in the shadows of the clouds everytime I render a sequence. I've tried with antialiasing 2x2 and it helps a little bit but the flickering is still there. sorry for my en
Re: Pyrocluster flickering
by Mark Simpson 8 years ago
Are you using net render Mark Simpson
Fractals ---
by Nicholas Toth 8 years ago
Hey anyone know any good fractal generating tutorials And one other thing --- I opened a c4d9 file in c4d8 b c I could use radiosity on it, and now when i open it in v9 all the textures are gone. Any
Re: Fractals ---
by Mark Simpson 8 years ago
I know what fractals are...but there are million kinds, and even moore ways to use them....for instance noise is often fractal based...You used AE as an example......the fractal noise effect is fracta
turning off bbackground page in illustrator
by Mark Simpson 8 years ago
Hi all, Using Illustrator 8..How can I turn off that pesky page layout outline that's in the background Thanks, Mark Simpson
Re: turning off bbackground page in illustrator
by Mark Simpson 8 years ago
joe "PS- By the way its Saturday, take the afternoon off and enjoy!" That sounds nice "in theory"....LOL I'm trying to create some blueprint sized documents, so the document setup page did the trick.
a better sound board?
by PantherEdit 8 years ago
Need a more capable sound board- what would you recommend- what would you NOT recommend... Currently using Mackie 1202-VLZ Need to be able to output directly to a digital deck- a router and a DVD enco
Re: a better sound board?
by Mark Simpson 8 years ago
Digital Mixers are getting less expensive all the time.....A mixer I've had my eye on for a while and will probably get eventually is the Tascam DM24...... sixteen mic pres, 24 analog ins...upgradeabl
Did a HOUSE fall on this Forum??!!
by Thax Clave 8 years ago
Its been about a WEEK and no activity here so... -------------------------------------------------------------- As a poster in the Aud Pro Forum In the county of the land of COW I welcome you most reg
Re: Did a HOUSE fall on this Forum??!!
by Mark Simpson 8 years ago
I'll have whatever Thax had..... :-)
Limited Success!
by Mark Simpson 8 years ago
Okay.......so I was able to successfully instal 10.3 to an empty firewire partition and it launched from there. Over on my main internal HD, it appears that everything of importance is still there. So
Serial Numbers?
by Mark Simpson 8 years ago
Where do I find all my ols Serial Numbers (for various apps) If at all possible, I'd really prefer not to have to dig out all the boxes, etc. and reenter a kazillion SNs again. Thanks much, Mark Simps
OSX 10.3 install problems
by Mark Simpson 8 years ago
Okay, so I decide to install 10.3 on my dual 867 G4 toady.. It currently runs 10.2.8. So I insert the CD and follow all instrucitons...install seems to go well, say it will restart in 30 seconds..rest
How to bypass OSX and launch OS9 during reboot?
by Mark Simpson 8 years ago
How can I choose OS9 during a rebbot....Unfortunately, all apples manuals are electronic now, so unless your computer is working fine you can't read them..Of course if your computer is working fine, y
Tutorial: Mark Simpson demonstrates modelling arches
by Mark Simpson 10 years ago
Cinema 4D Mark Simpson demonstrates modelling arches In this article Mark Simpson discusses a technique to to model arches using Cinema 4D. Tutorial   03 14 2003 Author: Mark Simpson
Problems with this tut
by Dan Bantner 4 years ago
I am not one to be picky about free stuff, but when it's here to learn I often get frustrated when I try to complete it and I can't due to oudated app version and instructions. DO you think you could
Article: Maxon Cinema 4D 7: A Workshop for 2D/3D Graphics Pros
by Mark Simpson 11 years ago
Cinema 4D Maxon Cinema 4D 7: A Workshop for 2D 3D Graphics Pros In this article, Mark Simpson thoroughly explores the book Maxon Cinema 4D 7:A Workshop for 2D 3D Graphics Pros by Arndt von Koenigsmar
Tutorial: Simulating Fluid Dynamics using the BhodiNUT Proximal Shader
by Mark Simpson 11 years ago
Cinema 4D Simulating Fluid Dynamics using the BhodiNUT Proximal Shader In this article, Mark Simpson demonstrates how to use the BhodiNUT 'Proximal' shader in the displacement channel of a standard m
Tutorial: Revealing a Logo with a Sweeping Beam of Light
by Mark Simpson 11 years ago
Adobe After Effects Revealing a Logo with a Sweeping Beam of Light Mark Simpson uses The Foundry Tinderbox plug-in T_Beam filter to sweep a narrow beam across a logo, eventually widening the beam to
Tutorial: Trapcode Shine: Write it with Light
by Mark Simpson 11 years ago
Adobe After Effects Trapcode Shine: Write it with Light Mark Simpson has written this tutorial in response to the many requests for info on a sample movie he posted in the Trapcode Forum using Shine
Tutorial: Simulating a Tornado in After Effects
by Mark Simpson 12 years ago
Adobe After Effects Simulating a Tornado in After Effects Mark Simpson uses the masking capabilities of After Effects along with some 3rd party plug-ins to simulate an animated Tornado. This tutorial
Tutorial: Using Cult Effects 'CE Lightning' & Evolution 'Foam' to grow a tree
by Mark Simpson 12 years ago
Adobe After Effects Using Cult Effects 'CE Lightning' & Evolution 'Foam' to grow a tree Mark Simpson uses Cult Effects 'CE Lightning', 'CE Radial Shadow' and Atomic Power Evolution 'Foam' effects to
Tutorial: Using the SplinMotion Plug-in to build an Animation Rig in Cinema 4D XL6
by Mark Simpson 12 years ago
Cinema 4D Using the SplinMotion Plug-in to build an Animation Rig in Cinema 4D XL6 This article will demonstrate how to set up the SplinMotion Plug-in to build an animation rig allowing you to animat
Tutorial: Evolution 'Card Wipe': Simulating an LED Style Audio Meter
by Mark Simpson 12 years ago
Adobe After Effects Evolution 'Card Wipe': Simulating an LED Style Audio Meter Mark Simpson uses Atomic Power Evolution 'Card Wipe' effect and Adobe After Effects Production Bundle's 'Motion Math' to
Tutorial: Creating mattes in Adobe Illustrator
by Mark Simpson 12 years ago
Adobe Illustrator Creating mattes in Adobe Illustrator Mark Simpson shows users how to create mattes in Adobe Illustrator for use in Adobe After Effects. If you're trying to do Mark's tutorial 'Anima


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