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Breaking Down Tools for Display in Maya

February 5, 2014, 10:59 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/useful-display-bonu...

Autodesk’s Steven Roselle offers a look at a few of Maya’s Bonus Tools that are extremely useful for visibility and display information. Interestingly enough, some of these tools go back to 2012, so these are not really new tools in the Bonus Tools suite, which was a surprise to me as a couple of them I have not even heard of.

Free MagicSwitch Plugin for C4D

February 5, 2014, 10:58 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/magicswitch-plugin-...

Nitro4D posts MagicSwitch as another freebie tool for Cinema 4D. MagicSwitch will let you create a toggle for an objects attributes easily, so you can go back and forth between your two object states. A great example is creating and setting a toggle for object resolution. One click will display a low resolution version of the object, and you can snap back to the high resolution version easily.

Building Dynamic Joint Chains with Maya Hair

February 4, 2014, 01:51 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/building-dynamic-jo...

John Zilka covers the basic of creating joint chains in Autodesk Maya, using the nHair properties for control. Autodesk Maya makes it pretty easy to set up a dynamic joint chain, but it does involve a few steps. First you need to create an Spline IK through the joint chain.

Creating a Rotating Vector Globe in AE

February 4, 2014, 11:30 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/vector-globe-animat...

Creating a muti-use spinning globe can be pretty practical as well as worthwhile project to keep around and if it is one that you can edit or change the style of to fit project needs, all the better. Over the course of this blog I have posted quite a few animating “Spinning Globe” tutorials that use After Effects. The thing is, you can never have too many globe animations in broadcast work.

Maya Tutorial on The Set Driven Keys

February 4, 2014, 11:29 AM

http://www.3dvf.com/actualite-8704-maya-tutoriel-s...

Daryl Obert provides a video tutorial on the Maya set driven keys. After introducing the feature, it shows how to use it to set up a facial rig.

Folding 3D Layers at Arbitrary Angles Accurately i

February 3, 2014, 02:51 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/folding-3d-layers-a...

Showing how you can create a folding animation using 3D layers in After Effects, Ridvan Maloku walks through creating this little animated title effect. Although it looks pretty straight forward, the interesting part is the fact that Ridvan has chosen to have the type fold on an angle.

Have AE Shape Layers Melt Into Each Other

February 3, 2014, 01:02 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/effects-shape-layer...

Mt. Mograph shows how to use After Effects shape layers to create an animation that has the shape layers look like they fuse into one another. If you have seen the effects of “metaballs” in 3d, it is a similar effect in 2d, where the shapes look like they will bleed into each other with a bit of surface tension...

Creating Rigs, Widgets/Effects

February 3, 2014, 05:54 AM

https://www.aotg.com/creating-rigs-widgets-effects/

Rigs, inside Motion 5, allow you to group effects controls, called "parameters," into on-screen controls that can be adjusted in...

Publishing Motion 5.1 Effects Settings to FCP X (1

February 3, 2014, 05:53 AM

https://www.aotg.com/publishing-motion-5-1-effects-settings-to-fcp-x-1/

http://www.larryjordan.biz - One of the most powerful features in Motion 5.1 (and Motion 5) is the ability to publish effects parameters in Motion that you c...

Convert Motion Projects For FCPX (10.1)

February 3, 2014, 05:49 AM

https://www.aotg.com/convert-motion-projects-for-fcpx-10-1/

http://www.larryjordan.biz - A Final Cut Pro 7 feature that was lost with the release of Final Cut Pro X was the ability to directly open Motion projects in...

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