Joseph W. bourke
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I think you have it backwards, Daniel – the executives that are out of touch seem to be at Apple. Check out labs.adobe.com some time – they listen to their users, and they actually give us what they’re working on to see whether it works. With Adobe, it’s Design, Test, Ship – with Apple it’s Design, Ship, Test.
Joe Bourke
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My best guess would be that is is an oversized 3D comp, with a paper like textured background probably created in Photoshop (in fact the entire still version could well have come from PS).
The camera starts out the move, since you can see the paper texture moving – and swings to the point that the dollar sign is sideways, then the various elements start to move through (it could also be that it’s the camera which is animating). The dollar sign might be from Illustrator as a vector element, so that the top of the sign (the line) which begins to extend could just be animated nodes of the vector art.
Each of the other elements might be separate comps, or at least Photoshop layers, which, when brought into After Effects as a comp, would be separate layers. The text can be converted to Editable Text once it is brought in, so the text animations would be simple. It really is made up of simple elements and transitions which, when combined, make a more complex look. There are probably a few other ways it could have been done as well.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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Or you could buy ArtRage Studio Pro for 59 bucks:
https://www.artrage.com/artrage-studiopro.html
and have a set of some of the best natural media tools out there, and you can record your animations from a Wacom tablet, bring them in to AE, then do what some of the answers above suggested – I particularly like Unmult – use it all the time.
Joe Bourke
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Sorry Frank –
I didn’t read your post carefully.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Good news Frank –
Red Giant released Denoiser II recently just to address the instability issue. It’s available as a free download:
https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/blog/2012/02/28/magic-bullet-denoiser-ii-is-here/
They actually removed Denoiser I from the market last year and rewrote it from scratch.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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Hi Jim –
I have a suggestion, and it’s right in your back yard. The Foundry makes a plugin for After Effects called Camera Tracker for AE:
https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/cameratracker/
If you’ve got a decent ground plane with your objects, you have a good chance of pulling a very nice track, which you can then (the nightmare part) use to add the reflections in, which will of course need to move with the motion of the camera. You can test it out for 15 days and get a good handle on it by religiously studying the large number of tutorials on the site. The track part is fairly easy, given a good source for the track. Good luck!
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Aaron –
I wish you well with your build – I am 6 or months or so away from taking the DIY plunge and building my next graphics box, so I’ll look with interest on any follow ups you post. You may want to check out these guys:
https://www.videoguys.com/Guide/E/Videoguys+DIY9+Sneak+Peek+Its+Time+for+Sandy+Bridge+E/0xe9b142f408a2b03ab88144a434e88de7.aspxThey seem to know what they’re talking about, and, more importantly, they don’t seem to be trying to sell the hardware they are suggesting for the machines. I’ve learned a fair amount from their testing. Good luck!
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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And don’t forget a set of drives off-site. No amount of backup will do you any good if it’s melted and crispy in the basement of a burned out facility.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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And don’t forget a set of drives off-site. No amount of backup will do you any good if it’s melted and crispy in the basement of a burned out facility.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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An issue to bear in mind is that, depending on the size of the element in the shot, it may be smaller than a pixel, in which case I don’t think that any paintbrush would work.
You might try taking a still frame from your project and bringing it in to Photoshop, then zooming way in to pixel level. That will tell you if it’s possible purely from a pixel standpoint. I don’t believe that the paint tool works at subpixel level, but I may be wrong.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com