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maxr

I find this technique for AE and photoshop really nice

another great AE tuto from Mikey Borup

I couldn't make it work (export the vanishing point for AE part) with a tif image, any other but tif

a quick & dirty test for fun

maxr

Hi there... {and the echo ended the function}
Let's throw some stufff in the stone soup's pot, shall we?

First of all I retroactively want to thank Susana Sevilla =)

Then, The Edge film and titles, classy in best possible way

I know, I know, this guy's all over the internet and furthermore this "tutorial" has nothing to do with titles; but I thought {puf} and felt {ahhh} that this is something worth sharing; father love and absolute tame of AE +)

This is a rather unusual (and interesting) article about a font, ejem I mean a lost type
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31534032

The Doves Press was one of a number of private printing presses operating at the start of the 20th Century.

The press was established by TJ Cobden-Sanderson, with Emery Walker joining later as partner. The pair commissioned Edward Prince to punch cut the single-sized 16 pt text that was used in all the Doves Press publications.

Walker had previously worked with William Morris but the spartan aesthetic of the Doves Press publications were in contrast to the ornately illustrated books of Morris. Paradise Lost and a five-volume Bible were among the publications which used a 'type for today'.

The only decoration in the books were capitals created by Edward Johnston and Graily Hewitt. Johnston went on to design the typeface that is still used on the London Underground.

'Obsession'

Designer Robert Green first encountered the Doves Press type at art college but it was in 2010 that he began an interest which, he says, became an 'obsession'.

There were 40 books and 96 pieces of Doves Press ephemera printed and Mr Green tried to obtain as many examples as he could in order to reproduce the text in a digital form.

Hours and hours of study and countless reiterations of the letter saw him create his first version of the Doves Type in 2013. But Mr Green thought there was room for improvement and he continued to refine it.

A prolonged dispute began between Cobden-Sanderson and Walker began in 1906 and Cobden-Sanderson attempted to end the partnership.

After the partnership had been formally dissolved in 1909, Walker was promised a 'fount of type' for his own use but Cobden-Sanderson was worried that the type could be sold and used on a mechanised press.

'Bequeathed to the Thames'

In 1913, unknown to Walker, Cobden-Sanderson threw the Press punches and matrices into the River Thames. He waited three years before he began to dispose of the type night after night at the same spot from a bridge over the Thames.

It was only in 1917 when Cobden-Sanderson announced he had 'bequeathed' the type to the river that the truth began to emerge.

Cobden-Sanderson died in 1922, his widow Anne was then sued by Walker and had to pay £700 for the loss of the type.

After working on a revised digital facsimile Robert Green decided that he would try and find some of the original metal type. Using the sources available, including Cobden-Sanderson's published journals, Mr Green worked out where he thought the type was thrown from the bridge into the Thames.

At low tide, and with a mudlarkers licence, he scoured the Thames foreshore and found three pieces of the original type.

Due to the dangerous nature of the Thames currents and tides a team of professional divers from the Port of London Authority then spent two days looking for more type and a total of 150 pieces were recovered.

Concrete which was used to make bridge repairs has covered the remainder of the type.

Respect for the type

Mr Green has decided to loan half of the type he had found to the Emery Walker Trust.

The type will be on display at Walker's house, which is preserved as it was in his lifetime, for the public to view. Mr Green says that he is sympathetic with Cobden-Sanderson but Walker 'did get messed about' and it is a 'nice end to the story'.

The typeface used for the text in this video is Doves Type which is now available commercially. Mr Green hopes people 'respect' the type and use it for print.

BBC News went to meet Robert Green and hear more about the origins of his obsession with reclaiming the lost type from its watery resting place.

Video Journalist: Tom Beal Emery Walker still courtesy of the Emery Walker Trust. Emery Walker's house at No 7 Hammersmith Terrace is open from March until June, prior to refurbishment. Cobden-Sanderson portrait by William Rothenstein

Extra (photo and info) resources by typespec:
http://www.typespec.co.uk/doves-type/
http://www.typespec.co.uk/recovering-the-doves-type/

Talking bout types, 10 Free After Effects Typographyc Templates gathered by the PremiumBeat guys

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The funny and beautiful nature themed intro titles from @VK 's safe list Relatos Salvajes - Vitaliy I know the image is huge but also you should know my scissors are rusty :P

Okay, that's enough for 1 blow ow ow ow, neXt time La Isla Mínima breathtaking and fresh aerial intro titles =)

A relapsed pill just for the pips who really really cannot sleep: + 1hr of Saul Bass spanning 40 years of career, BIG thank you to FlaneurSolitaire's great work... and taste :P

ba-bye

maxr

Today's detour seems to get us a bit into design world/concept

making - improoving a showreel // some very nice tips and graphic design with Carey Smith from Division05

the dude's starts the dough

10 Free After Effects Templates: Typography

still on conceptualising a logo

A bit of Hitchcok-Fincher intro study

Spring Breakers, what to say??? Very strange film, not shocking at all, very unsexy people, very very sexy colours and wise use of them; somehow enlightened and somehow very alienated and alienating, voided... talking of which it reminded me of Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void from 2009.
Still one of best compendiums on colour mix and saturation I've ever seen (green, yellow, red - pink, blue, orange - and so on) if only 'cause of that totally worth the exercise class.
BTW, James Franco fuck you!!!

Enter the Void intro Titles, you can get all fancy and clean but not more cool than this :P

Finally - as we got all wacko lsd and shit - something that remotely remind me of Douglas Trumbull's (up-down FXs for) SO 2001

maxr

Sat patat or thirst first = Howdy :-)

Experimenting within some very disconEXEd and discombobulated state of mind, so forgive the unseriosness of the apologies.

In this... "thing" it's good to be aware that the squares are "real" pixels shot with a camera, then cropped and augmented; the subject is a ferrari... seriously, that might be super important. The typing is also in realtime and not an animation.

SOUNDTRACK
Retweaked stream from Soma's SF 10-33 - ambient music mixed with San Francisco public safety radio

This other "thing" is the result of superficially playing around with some Motion Works experiments (link below) and silly ideas inside AE; dust and particles generation, blurs and displacement maps and simple text (non 2.5D nor 3D). Despite the background was layered, didn't rig a camera for better, more realistic zoom in effect... maybe lazy factor, maybe felt good about keeping a bidimensional confinement, maybe sat the bar for tech enough proof of concept, without concept, without bar just time wasted · cough cough, coffin & mind =)

SOUNDTRACK
Tweaked and remixed extract from Caníbal OST
He says "To kill... I kill them (feminine) and I eat them"

LINKS
Check MotionWorks cool experiments' concept - http://motionworks.net/experiments/
SomaFM - http://somafm.com/listen/ - they also provide a really nice free app for tunning their radios

Leaving that BS behind, let's see some letritas:

Watch out, big SPOILERS ahead for Cheap Thrills flick!!!

Classy type from Caníbal, great flick (wonderful script and palette), with some flaws; I'll be posting more diarrhea about it soon

Very nice intro titles sequence from Short Term 12, very good flick (script) with some holes, great deliver specially by the kids

The Spectacular Now title

Cool credits from Bad Day at the Office short

Kerning properly done in Cheap Thrills' intro simple titles - want to know how good are your PC kerning skills?
check them out with this silly game Kerning Game, I scored 91, je je dumb as I am

And awesome final postcard +)

We shall end as we started with canniBALLS; this time EAT, which despite an appealing poster is a shitty flick, better watch Starry Eyes, Blue Ruin, Exhumed or Pieces of Talent for some interesting un-perfect "indie" horror. Nevertheless I very much liked the intro sequence and titles, vaguely reminded me of a very nice music/dancing sequence inside a shop from an 80's classic zombie flick (cannot recall the name); bad quality video, but we can live with that, can't we?

A good weekend for y'all, RTSU2

maxr

Total com-puto-geoparafernalism... but within the highest level as PV's standars require =)
That's some video projection I, for once, would enjoy... more after some spifipuffin ouch ouuuch ouchhh

H OM E OMOR PH ISM
Dome A/V Performance in New Mexico
Direction&Animation: Ouchhh
Director:Ferdi Alici
Concept Development: Eylul Duranagac, Ferdi Alici, Selay Karasu
Project Manager: Selay Karasu
Lead 3d : Bahadir Dagdelen
A/V Artists: Bahadır Dagdelen, Eylul Duranagac, Ferdi Alici, Selay Karasu
Documentation: Selay Karasu
Sound Design: Ali Can Okan, Hakan Ozkan, Mehmet Unal
Sound Samples: Ryoji Ikeda-Data.Matrix
A homeomorphism, also called a continuous transformation, is an equivalence relation and
one-to-one correspondence between points in two geometric figures or topological spaces
that is continuous in both directions.
Many forms observed in nature can be related to geometry. In accordance with classical geometry,
the shapes that found in nature are consisting of lines and planes, circles and spheres,
triangles and cones. These shapes actually are a powerful abstraction of reality, so we need primitive objects to give a form and understand the complex structure that exists in nature.
Our starting point was topography and primitive object’s pertinent points of overlap. The inspiration
comes from the extreme diversity of New Mexico’s landforms (which is divided into four regions; Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, Colorado Plateau, Basin and Range Province), general changes of topography and homeomorphism.
more details

H-OM-E-OMOR-PH-ISM Gallery

OUCHHH TV

Needed some blOOd here, from Dardenne bros - mandatory belgium filmmakers with some milestones (Rosetta, L'infant, The Silence of Lorna, etc.). Despite a phoenix Cotillard and the interesting subject didn't get thrilled with their last delivery

But for effectiveness there's no need for super complicated entanglements; 5 days from Brad Anderson's Session 9, a promising film that sadly looses itself and ends up butchering a solid cast and its great little treasures (dp, visual and sound design and ubber uncanny location - echoes of the shinning); worth a watch nevertheless. Anderson would make up with Fringe and Transsiberian (great action packed flick + mr PVH {power-vegan-harrelson})... the recent stuff I haven't and probably not going to check +)

maxr

@tinbeo cheers mate =)

And super interesting und complex BTS; article at watchthetitles

Looping animations in After Effects from RiverCityGraphix

Cycle:    
loopOut()

Ping-Pong:   
loopOut(“pingpong”)

Cool Morphing Shape Paths from Mount MoGraph

Andrew Kramer did it (whatever that means), his keynote at After Effects World Conference
with some quite interesting stuff/advises buried under usual BS - SPOILER touching ending :)

Finally - @VK don't get mad bro, I had too much stuff accumulated for the thread =)
intro from Toshiaki Toyoda's Nain Souruzu aka 9 Souls (funny flick with soul). Sorry for quality, coudn't find any better.
PUMP UP the VOLUME!!!

tinbeo

Thanks, that render script is working now. It seems to me a little bit faster. I am not sure because I did not compare by hit the render in AE or run the script . Also thanks for this link: http://cgi.tutsplus.com/series/welcome-to-after-effects--ae-28707 help me a lots.

maxr

Hey @tinbeo, in previous version one had to modify script, now it's easier =)

On a mac:

PREVIOUS
In After Effects send the comp(s) you want to renderQ and the SAVE the project file. Close AE

NOW
1. put the AErender app (zip) somewhere you like.
2. Launch AErender app and will ask you 2 question

"where is after effects aerender executable located?" you navigate to path (normally would be inside After Efects Folder) and choose aerender (small unix exe) then
"Select the project to render" so you go and navigate where the .aep project you want to render is and choose it.

Terminal will launch (normally 2 instances) and start render.
If you want to stop process (not loosing already rendered video) "ctrl + C"

2.B optional and even faster, drop AErender app in dock and just drag and drop .aep project files there

Resources:
http://www.andrewandoru.com/labs/ - for more nice stuff
http://www.andrewandoru.com/2010/03/17/labs-aerender/
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS8A8CD670-4A72-4fb5-AE8E-CB9E232EC0B5a.html

Plus the very nice and FREE 3D Pre-Compose script by Andrew Kramer Here :P aka video copilot

Script direct download link

More on http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/

tinbeo

Ha maxr, I used the ae render v1.1 script. While I am in AE, composition added to render, what steps should I do? Trying now, first it asks me where is my ae render, then where is my project time..then it run like a meat cutting in couple second , but I found nothing on desktop I set destination for. -;) Any one could point me how to? I am on CC

maxr

Another great 10 episodes for getting aquaitance with monsieur après efets at cgi
http://cgi.tutsplus.com/series/welcome-to-after-effects--ae-28707

BTW I'll leave HERE 63 scripts legally downloaded mostly from aescripts.
Please if you use them commercially consider proper feedback and even, ta maluco yo!, donation to developers.

Some of them are really useful, e.g. omnio, YY, batchprocessor, Aerender (a render slave that eats peanuts and runs like a horse on speed; the script file needs a bit mod in order to work with CC, but totally worth it), decomposetext, keysmith, layerlibrary is super (however only works with older AE versions), etc, etc... I just saw forgot the ft script that shows when values clip and I inadvertently through latest UT video codecs for mac, oh well =)

Complete list:

In no time everybody will become a Dino Muhic, ja ja ja

maxr

School of Motion fantastic series - Viva el Joey Korenman!!! =)

This one is full of nice tricks to animate stills ,-)

Hyper fast and concise tuto on Adding Graphics, Images, And Textures To Titles in Premiere CS6 and above

More resources:
Premiumbeat at vimeo huge amount of tutos
Worth checking their 10 video episodes on After Effects Fundamentals with chilled Mikey Borup =)

maxr

Very very cool free effect for AE by Sander van Dijk
You can download it ➾➾➾ HERE and also watch an hyper concise tuto on how to use it
Just one thing, transform shape to bezier may not work in all AE versions.

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Source: Premiumbeat

maxr

For much, much more, including videos of trailers, info, etc. - FilmmakerIQ - great work these guys do =)

At vimeo, some interesting chatting

And some profanation heresy, a videogame launching trailer, ja ja ja

GeoffreyKenner

@thorn Or unless tiff has a problem to output correctly a linear workflow... which is in most cases what happens. I remember the headache it gave me in NukeX before understanding that it interpret so poorly the color space probably due to its primary specification: tiff is a print file format. The solution was in the end to choose OpenEXR or Targa (but usually I use OpenEXR as Output and Targa as input [i.e. for Textures]).

Of course nothing is stopping you to use tiff, if you manage to make it work and seems to have no gamma problem with it then it is fine. I'm just putting a warning here.

png as you mentioned is fine and as you said it depends of your project.

maxr

"False" intro movie in The Berberian Sound Studio. Just the whole film is an incredible trip; can't recommended it enough... for anyone interested in sound, cinema history and homages, good lighting and editing or peeping at the intersection of worlds

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COLOUR PALETTES

Colour Lovers
Adobe Kuler

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CloseUp with Edgar Wright

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And finally 1 more tuto from PBeat guys, the possibilities to derive from are many =)

thorn

There's absolutely no reason to avoid using TIF, unless your software can't support it.

While it can be used for print, it can also just as well be used for video. I've rendered tens of thousands of TIFs for use in broadcast; there's nothing wrong with the file format whatsoever. TGA was once the format of choice, but it's a bit dated now - and often the filesize can be unnecessarily larger. PNG is also a good choice, depending on your project.

maxr

@jleo thanks for the heads up =)
{Bobby Mcferrin silly voice mimic} yeah I took it from them and tried to create an embed.

Some AE free SCRIPTS

http://watchthetitles.com also very nice

jleo

If the Soylent Green Title Sequence doesn't play, here it is on Vimeo: found at artofthetitle:

http://www.artofthetitle.com/

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/soylent-green/#

maxr

2 very nice tutos by Joey from School of Motion

A hyperdetailed one on cutting accuretely images in photoshop

IMHO the colour palette chosen is "wrong"; specially with the triangle, which should go in a different hue... maybe orange ish with a touch of yellow-bill. Nevertheless this is a SUPERB look into secondary animation, great tips here!!!

maxr

@GeoffreyKenner thanks for pointing the right direction =)

I tried several export settings for the titles I'm working on, when brought back to the timeline couldn't make them work as a clean alpha; had to duplicate and use track mate... probably I'm doing something wrong, also couldn't notice any difference between OpenEXR, animation, and others. Anyway I am very green in this AE thing :P

The sound is not the right one and also type and size might change, just wanted to have a visual reference. Done in AE with noise, fractal noise (the poor man's particles :P), fast blur, a bunch of keyframes and using stencil alpha opacity option. Mind you this is a hyper compressed H.264 (8MB) 720p version

Though I ended up not using, I'll leave here a tiny research on how to create a trail with expressions and echo effect modes:

Expression-based motion trail in After Effects

Creating Trails

Use Echo To Create A Motion Trail

GeoffreyKenner

Hey, Do not use tiff, this is a print format. Use rather targa (.tga) if you wish to keep the alpha channel information. But if you got some memory and are willing for the best, use OpenEXR (.exr) 16 bit ZIP -> One scanline.

Otherwise, DNxHD and Prores remains the best.

Cya

Peter123456

Thanks, folks. I will go with DNxHD, since I have that codec currently installed. I guess another option would be to keep the title sequence saved as an unredendered project, then plop it into whatever project I'm working on. But that gets a bit more complicated.

BurnetRhoades

I'd second, either ProRes or DNxHD.

maxr

@Peter123456 If your intro sequence is going as an block, not overlaying anything you can use those (UT is very fast) even proRES/DNxHD Codecs (latest MXF DNxHDs supposed to be really good) or whatever similar thing Vegas' working with; if not, probably PNG or TIFF sequence as they preserve alpha channel. Again I'm not remotely best person you'll get advice from - to tell you the truth I have the weirdest unorthodoxly dumb contradictory methodologies imaginable and most important I like to test things by myself, even today while grading I rediscovered the wheel when, by switching to a supposedly less good option codec, I got really much better results out of my workflow ,-)
Above I left 3 links to Vegas threads and users where most certainly you'll find a much better advice • All goody

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Peter123456

Hi @maxr, I'm familiar with some of those lossless codecs, but do you think a lossless codec is recommended for a tagline/intro? Or do I just need something visually lossless like cineform? If I use a lossless codec, then when I preview my full video in my editor, I think the lossless codecs can have choppy playback. But, if that's what's recommended, I'll go with it. I distribute to bluray 1080p 24fps, and to youtube.

Here is the video in question:

maxr

@Peter123456 I'm neither Windows or Vegas user, so I can just feed you links… which BTW you would acces with a simple search

Here at PV Forums:

http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/79604
http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/85091
http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/2659/sony-vegas-12-topic/p1

Now, would you show us yours? The intro seq I mean

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