
Member Since: April 11th 2011 | | | | |  | Useful Functions in AE Render Queueby David Alex 4 years agoHai guys! I wrote a post on some useful functions in the After Effects Render Queue that you might find useful. Right here: http: ideastocreations.blogspot.com 2014 05 ae-7-useful-functions-in-render- | Re: Useful Functions in AE Render Queue by David Alex 4 years ago True. I started using Bridge a while ago and wondered why it's not as popular. Especially the "import from bridge" option in all their applications. Hmm. Ideas to Creations Motion Graphics, Visual Eff
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| | | |  | David Alex 4 years ago I have a new tutorial up explaining how Expression Controls are used, and how they work. It's easy to follow! Right here:
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| | | |  | Free AE Expressions e-bookby David Alex 5 years agoHey guys! Here's a free ebook I wrote. It explains the basics of using expressions for the very beginner who's never used them before. Covers some of the fundamentals and prepares you for the future o+5  | Re: Free AE Expressions e-book by David Alex 5 years ago Thank you, Todd :D Really appreciate it Ideas to Creations Motion Graphics, Visual Effects and Digital Art inspiration, tutorials and much more! http: ideastocreations.blogspot.com
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| | | |  | C4D Crashingby Jacqueline Winslow 6 years agoHi there! I'm new to C4D, and have the R13 version of the program. Whenever I attempt to switch the view (from one screen to four), it shuts down. Every time. As long as I don't do that, it's fine. I  | Re: C4D Crashing by David Alex 6 years ago What card was it I experience the same problem with my Sapphire Radeon 6850 when OpenGL is on. My solution was one of two: 1. Switch off openGL in Preferences. 2. Rollback to old driver 12.3. Same pro
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| | | |  | Problem with Materialby David Alex 6 years agoHello! So I'm trying to texture this modified cylinder with tiles, and I'm getting some very weird weirdness with the material. Some areas it looks big, others it looks small. Attached the C4D file fr | Re: Problem with Material by David Alex 6 years ago Wow thanks! For some reason I assumed Cubic wouldn't move with the object. Thanks for the learnings :-D Ideas to Creations Motion Graphics, Visual Effects and Digital Art inspiration, tutorials and mu
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| | | |  | graphics card recommendation?by sergio juyak 6 years agoI'm buying a new workstation and I thought i'd go with the Nvidia GTX 560Ti, but someone on Tom's Hardware said i should get a 'real' graphics card (whatever that means ). There are so many options. D | Re: graphics card recommendation? by David Alex 6 years ago Hi! A graphics card doesn't have much impact with Cinema4D, so the 680 690 would be overkill. I'm also a gamer, so I'm going for the 670, best value:performance ratio according to reviews online. If y
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| | | |  | Best graphics card for AE and C4Dby Nate Vander Plas 6 years agoMy company is buying me a new Mac Pro (the barely upgraded 2012 one). They are willing to drop a nice chunk of change for it, so I'm pimping it out. I'm going for 12 cores, 64 GB of RAM, and a RAID sy | Re: Best graphics card for AE and C4D by David Alex 6 years ago I'd say go NVIDIA. If you can afford it, get a Quadro. If not, get a GTX 670. Best price:performance you can get in the current generation. I'm actually planning to get one of those :-D Ideas to Creat
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| | | |  | Please Critique my render.by Dustin Zalesky 6 years agoI'm doing a grocery Aisle short animation, I will fly down the aisle then turn and face some product. My main concerns is just overall quality and realism, good lighting, and render times. I'm using g | Re: Please Critique my render. by Brian Jones 6 years ago it looks like you'd probably want to turn on Details Enhancement in GI to control the bright spots at the back of the front shelves make sure your GI settings are not overly strong (the defaults are m
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| | | |  | Adobe After Effects Rendering Problemby Ian Leo 7 years agoWhile rendering a video about 2 minutes and a few seconds, halfway through, the software said: After effects has encountered an error And then after that some stuff like manger files or something like | Re: Adobe After Effects Rendering Problem by David Alex 6 years ago Check your compositions. You could have a comp with a framerate that doesn't match the comp it's nested in. I've had issues with that before, could be your problem Ideas to Creations Motion Graphics,
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| | | |  | Script for Animation Presetby David Alex 6 years agoHey everyone! I've created an animation preset, but it has a pretty long method for setting up: 1. Precompose Source Layers (Move All Attributes). 2. Duplicate Precomp twice 3. change the duplicates' | | | | |
| | | |  | How can I make this look more realistic?by Chris Wood 7 years agoThis is my first time bringing a 3D object into a 2D scene in After Effects, I was wondering how I can make this logo of Cartoon Network that's flying through the sky look more realistic Thank you. ht | | | | |
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