Joseph W. bourke
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Sure…but you won’t find the information out there for free, unless you plow through countless websites. Focal Press is just about the best publisher to find this sort of information in book form:
https://www.focalpress.com/books/details/9780240808390/
That said, you can often find a copy of any of their books on the various auction sites for less than cover price.
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You might give the Puppet Tool a try. It will allow you to warp your arrows, but you would have to do all the keyframing of points by hand.
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That’s what, in the newspaper and printing industrie, was called a Halftone. It was created so that continuous tone images could be printed and maintain their greyscale values. There’s a Red Giant plugin Toon It! which has a halftone setting – Toon It! Roto Toon Droplet setting is a good looking halftone effect:
https://www.redgiant.com/products/all/toonit/
There’s also a free plugin, Retrodots, but it doesn’t grade the size of the dot based on the contrast of the scene:
https://www.philipp-spoeth.de/photoshop/retrodots.php
There’s also the Omino Suite, which has a Halftone, but it doesn’t look as if it’s been developed for CS5 yet, let alone CS6:
I could swear there’s another free halftone plugin floating around, but I can’t find it – try search on “Halftone” and “After Effects”.
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I haven’t tried this before, but could you use the body graphic as a custom Displacement Map?
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The way to do it easily – and the way I think it was done – is to shoot this as a practical effect. In other words, put the background art on a table and use a charcoal pencil to draw the line in slow motion (the original was probably shot with a high-speed camera). It could also be done with a couple of particle effects and a 3D hand and charcoal pencil – which would be much more time consuming, and nowhere near as convincing as the real thing.
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While you can do it with the built-in color correction tools in After Effects, Magic Bullet Looks seems to be king of the hill in the presets department:
https://www.redgiant.com/products/all/magic-bullet-looks/
Once you have MB Looks, there are a number of preset libraries available in addition to the presets (a large number of them) which come with MBL:
https://www.redgiant.com/products/all/eeindiefilmlooks/
Joe Bourke
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I think it may be due to the job market, to some degree. When a company can get a “Marketing Manager” fresh out of school, or their first job, for short money, they often do. Along with the green-ness comes a total lack of business acumen, including the awareness that you’re never too busy to reply to a polite email from a vendor, even if it’s just to say “I’m busy right now…”. I’m going through that with a long-term client right now – it’s very frustrating.
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Chris –
You don’t say whether you’re on a Mac or PC, so I’m going to work from my experience (PC). I personally don’t use a font manager, and have upwards of 1500 fonts on my system. I use Windows Character Map – a free utility which comes with Windows, and allows me to view the typefaces, and cut and paste them into AE, once I have a blank type layer. Works great for the occasional © needed when I don’t remember the ASCII code for it (ALT-0169).
There’s a script which allows you to view fonts within AE – looks pretty useful – I may pick it up:
https://aescripts.com/fontlist-plus/
Then, to your real question – font management. There’s nothing within AE to help with that, nor do I see any third-party scripts for font management. Nexus Font is a freebie for Windows, and allows for all sorts of management (I just downloaded it – looks useful):
https://www.xiles.net/nexusfont/
NexusFont allows you to achieve the type of folder-based font management you asked about. It also removes duplicates, even if they’re not the same filename – pretty useful.
There do not appear to be any freebies on the Mac side, but here’s a good discussion of the options:
https://www.batchframe.com/quick-tips/tip.php?t=32
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First time I’d heard of it as well – this is about all I could find. Looks as if it’s being used as a clever way to turn 4 HD quadrants into “4K”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2160p
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I would suggest selecting the buzz in Spectral Display, and hoping for the best. Sounds like it might have been a bad mic cable. Just in case, here’s some info on the technique:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/audition/cs/using/WS58a04a822e3e5010548241038980c2c5-7f30.htmlJoe Bourke
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