http://themographblog.com A Fine Motion Graphics Blog Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:56:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en UPDATE: Tickets are all gone, congrats to the winners. I've got some free tickets to giveaway for some lucky readers. Insane score, these tickets are valued at $199 - if you are going to be in NYC on November 10 - 11, don't miss this bus. If you can't ... http://themographblog.com/2008/11/05/free-tickets-to-pause-ideas-in-motion/ So due to my semi-inconsistent posting, I want to try and make it as easy as possible for everybody to get updates when I add stuff around here.  In honor of that, I created a Twitter account for The Mograph Blog to tweet out updates when I post new articles.   ... http://themographblog.com/2008/09/08/follow-the-mograph-blog-on-twitter/ Back from the dead!  Thanks for stopping by, here's a new one for you that I think you'll find very valuable if it's not already in your workflow.   I use this literally everytime I'm moving particles on a path, I find the technique much better than emitting particles from a ... http://themographblog.com/2008/09/05/linking-particles-to-a-null-with-particular/ First thing is first, sorry for going so long without a post. Life has been pretty crazy lately (in a good way) and I've neglected some important things and people unfortunately, one of them being TMB. Not to worry, here's a tip that hopefully will excite you as ... http://themographblog.com/2008/06/03/cinema4d-layer-browser-trick/ I'm a hotkey fanatic, in case you haven't noticed. Yesterday Aaron Knapp dropped a shifty unknown-to-me photoshop hotkey right on my head, so in honor of that, here are my top 10 favorite underground* After Effects hotkey combos. cmd+up / cmd+down with layer selected in timeline What it does: Selects the ... http://themographblog.com/2008/05/08/top-10-semi-underground-after-effects-hotkeys/ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe said, "God is in the details" (although some in the design crowd incorrectly attribute it to Hillman Curtis). Details matter, especially in software design. Good little things like Adobe changing the "image sequence" checkbox default to "checked" when importing image sequences, go ... http://themographblog.com/2008/05/07/new-icons-for-net-render/ I use this technique in a lot of my projects, and I have seen others use it too it's a pretty common task - but what I don't see very often is people using the activeCamera property. If you don't use activeCamera and instead write your expressions with hard-coded ... http://themographblog.com/2008/05/02/nesting-cameras-in-after-effects-using-expressions/ In Cinema 4D, you can nudge forward and back in your timeline using the 'G' and 'F' keys, respectively. This is the equivalent of using 'Page-Up' and 'Page-Down' in After Effects. GET DEM KEYFRAMES! Coming Soon - cut a new video last night covering using nested cameras with expressions in After ... http://themographblog.com/2008/04/29/cinema4d-hotkey-othe-day/ The other day I was poking around in the Plugin Cafe forums and I saw somebody request RSS feeds for the forums. Later the same day, I asked a question regarding a little plugin I'm writing to help improve the 3D pipeline over at one of my favorite studios. ... http://themographblog.com/2008/04/22/rss-feeds-for-plugin-cafe/ Download the After Effects file for this tutorial: Download particular_loop.aep (6.5) I've seen this question floating out on the web a few times, and I personally run into it often when I'm working on broadcast stuff. Most of the time I see people recommend just fading your particles off, or crossfading ... http://themographblog.com/2008/04/15/loop-particular-the-right-way/