LANDESCAPE teaser by John H. King

Peder Norrby comments: "Exceptional work from John H. King. He seems to use matchmoving to integrate wonderful abstract Trapcode Particular elements into city scenes. One impressive thing is how he works with light so that the sun seems to illuminate and shine through the elements and shadows seem to be cast."

John H. King writes:

"At the very end of all things, like in the first beginning, No one knows
Everything is about to be written.

So, slowly, the vail of illusion fades out.

Thoughts and memories mix up, an immutable dance of time, space, shadow and light, and in the core of vacuity, the invisible world rebirth.

The world that never was."

Teaser for a short movie I'm working on for months now on my personal free time. Still a lot of work to do... Hope to release a Final cut on the fall 2011. After so many hours working on it, just sharing some of the shots! Hope you will like the mood of the "invisible".

Adobe After Effects CS5
Particular 2.1
5D Mark II
The priceless support from Somepling
Ten thousand cups of Coffee

J.H.K 2011

Afloat by Barbecue

An amazing piece by German shop Barbecue.

Barbecue notes:

"The Setup are 3 Layers with a 7000*7000 particles wide Form. Every Form instance has also two additional layers in Z. At the end we would tweak the setup a little and let it render for 5000 frames. That took 12-24 hours on a 8 core (16 instance) MacPro. After 4 weeks we had enough footage to pick the best parts and edit the material."

Peder Norrby notes: "This is mind-blowing work by Barbecue. Warning Kids! Don't expect to create stuff like this if you are a newbie at Trapcode, these guys are super pro's. They blow my mind, and I created the software!"

New sweet suite installer - AE CS5.5 compatible

Finally all Trapcode products are now in one installer! No more tedious one-by-one installs. We also fixed a number of bugs - for example Sound Keys can now handle longer audio clips better. And it supports AE CS5.5 of course. Get the new installer with updates and read more on the bugfixes here:

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/downloads/updates/ 

Trapcode Form 1.1.1 CS5 maintenance release - bug fixes

This update fixes two bugs in CS5 (no need to update if you have CS3/CS4 - these were in CS5 only):

- the undo bug (also caused problems in 4-view mode)
- the aliasing / moire / cross rendering artifact

Get it from Red Giant: http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/blog/2011/02/14/showing-great-form-1-1-1-update-available-now/

Trapcode Particular 2.1.1 maintenance release - bug fixes

Today we released a maintenance update for Trapcode Particular for AE. Bugfixes include:

- the crash bug with Textured Polygon and Sprite particle types
- the aliased/moire rendering error
- the input z-buffer problem (was only a problem in CS3/CS4) 

Read more and get the update from Red Giant:
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/blog/2011/01/18/trapcode-particular-2-1-1-goodness/