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Sean Mullen
October 17, 2011 at 5:42 pm in reply to: 14 Day After Effects Course for high schoolers – looking for project suggestions

On occasion, I teach VFX classes from high school up through college and I can tell you many schools are neglecting core tools, techniques & skill sets in their programs. You can easily make tracking and roto fun. For example, the last high school class I taught tracked fellow classmate’s t-shirts and animated type & characters that jumped from one person’s shirt to the other. We shot everything on the T2i and they had a blast.

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Sean Mullen
October 17, 2011 at 4:48 pm in reply to: 14 Day After Effects Course for high schoolers – looking for project suggestions

Nathan,

Two of the most important topics, in my opinion, would be roto and tracking. Keying is also great, as well as expression basics and an intro to particle systems.

Sean Mullen
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Sean Mullen
October 17, 2011 at 3:10 pm in reply to: Mocha troubles!!! Cant see video.

Hi Jorge,

I’ve run in to this in the past. If you are using After Effects CS4, it seems that the version of Mocha that comes bundled with it doesn’t like certain codecs like ProRes. I’ve had good luck with converting to the Animation codec – just for tracking purposes.

Sean Mullen
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Sean Mullen
October 12, 2011 at 9:32 pm in reply to: Testing 3D with Anaglyph

Thanks Walter, appreciate your input! So I guess I am wrong here, the right is red, not cyan.

Sean Mullen
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Sean Mullen
October 12, 2011 at 6:18 pm in reply to: Testing 3D with Anaglyph

I’ve only shot for anaglyph projects a handful of times – so forgive me if I’m wrong here – but I’ve always shot believing that the left camera is the left eye and the right camera is the right eye. So I’m assuming in this case that left is red and right is cyan.

Sean Mullen
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Sean Mullen
October 12, 2011 at 3:55 pm in reply to: Testing 3D with Anaglyph

I believe that left is red, right is cyan.

Sean Mullen
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Sean Mullen
October 12, 2011 at 2:52 pm in reply to: Testing 3D with Anaglyph

Charlie,

Creative COW has a new product that can help you with anaglyph separation and stereo output. It’s compatible with AE CS3 and later.

Sean Mullen
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Sean Mullen
October 10, 2011 at 11:35 pm in reply to: outlining a silloutte in After Effects

Jamie,

Have you tried using the find edges plugin? You could combine that with minimax to get a unique look.

Sean Mullen
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Sean Mullen
October 10, 2011 at 9:08 pm in reply to: Realistic Organic Ink Flow Brush

I would use a real ink element to drive / reveal your path and lend an organic property, while the path or brush itself is a generated design element.

Sean Mullen
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Sean Mullen
October 10, 2011 at 9:01 pm in reply to: Realistic Organic Ink Flow Brush

I recently shot a handful of ink elements on RED. They might be what you are looking for.

Sean Mullen
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