[Kieran]

Jewelboxing is excellent. It’s worth checking out Coudal.com (the company behind jewelboxing) as they run regular competitions and entrants usually get a discount code for jewelboxing.

[Kieran]

walker effects has a plug in which allows for some CMYK functionality within AE. I couldn’t find a way of using it for a CMYK-centric thing I was doing, but maybe it’ll work for you.

If it doesn’t work then I ended up batch processing image sequences in PS as a last resort..

kieran

[Kieran]

I know it can be annoying, but it does actually help. The artistic capabilities of AE don’t really depend on your mathematical abilities, even though almost every AE plugin requires numerical input. Ayato’s tutorials show you which parameters he changed and give you a quicktime at each stage to show you what resulted from those changes. It’s then up to you to play around with the settings and reverse engineer the outcome. In doing this you learn what those parameters actually do and how they interact with each other.

If you do these tutorials, your end result probably won’t be identical to Ayato’s, but you should have picked up enough to see how you can use the same plugins to do other interesting things.

kieran

[Kieran]

I was looking around on the author’s site after I posted that and he recommends using write on too (it’s at least two years since he wrote the tut). It’s certainly a lot more efficient that way.

[Kieran]

I was looking around on the author’s site after I posted that and he recommends using write on too (it’s at least two years since he wrote the tut). It’s certainly a lot more efficient that way.

[Kieran]

I believe that this is actually done entirely in AE, or at least in can be, with the echo . Igor, a poster at mograph.net, wrote a tutorial for a similar effect done in the ultraloveninja piece:

https://www.happygraphics.net/goodies/ninjalove%20tutorial/tut1.html

hope that helps,
kieran

[Kieran]

I believe that this is actually done entirely in AE, or at least in can be, with the echo . Igor, a poster at mograph.net, wrote a tutorial for a similar effect done in the ultraloveninja piece:

https://www.happygraphics.net/goodies/ninjalove%20tutorial/tut1.html

hope that helps,
kieran

[Kieran]

If the dvd is purely video then you can’t. The best you can do is put the address as plain old text so people can write it down.

If, however, you make an enhanced DVD then it would be possible (see here)

[Kieran]

The answer is contained in the terms of the license under which you acquired the stock images. And I would suggest that it is almost certainly no.

All licenses restrict the ability of the purchaser to redistribute the image, as this is the whole point of licensing it, as opposed to transferring the underlying copyright to the purchaser. I would be very surprised if your license didn’t contain something to the effect that you can use the image for commerical purposes, except those that allow the redistribution or reuse of the image.

[Kieran]

You would need to use a new 3d solid as a dummy layer, matched to the movements of the zaxwerks object. The matching of the movement will depend on how easily the 3d coordinates used inside Zaxwerks can be brought into AE. I don’t use zaxwerks, so I can’t be much help there..