Entries in Form (19)

Wednesday
Jan112012

Inside the Nebulae – tutorial and AE project

An imagination of flying in the gas clouds of space. Actual images of nebulas taken with the Hubble space telescope were combined in After Effects with CG gas clouds and stars made using Trapcode Form and Starglow.

Tutorial:

Download AE CS5 project file

Tuesday
Nov082011

Form Galaxy II, by Dan Sollis

My first major test of the new OBJ import functionality of Trapcode Form 2. I created the galaxy object using the "Spray Points" tool in Lightwave, painting them into the rough shape of a galaxy. I then applied a vortex deform to it, to further twist it into the right shape.

This object was then brought into After Effects as an OBJ and I layered a couple of instances of Form to create the richness of the stars. I also used a luminance-tracked version of it with Video Copilot Optical Flares for the bigger stars, seen as you move in closer (as well the hot central star/singularity in the centre).

There's some fractal-noise-derived nebula objects in there too, to add to the overall texture of the piece. I've used Trapcode Horizon for some distant ones, along with some basic masked 3D planes. Anyway, hope you like it - the project files are available to download for free from the Digital Distortion website.

Music is "Cad Goddeu (Revised)" by Nest - serein.co.uk/​releases/​sere001/​nest-retold

Monday
Oct312011

Cinema 4D scene to Trapcode Form 2.0.2

Tutorial showing how to create a scene in Cinema 4D and export an OBJ and Cinema's camera. And import all this in Adobe After Effects so the Cinema render perfectly matches Trapcode Form.

Sorry for my poor C4D skillz!

Note that you need Trapcode Form 2.0.2 to get the "Normalize" checkbox used here.

Wednesday
Aug242011

FORMv2 examples

Thorns created using Base Form - Strings with tapering. Text from Layer Map. Displaced with Fractal. Shading using Shadowlet.

Thorns created using Base Form - Strings with tapering. Displaced with Fractal. Shading using Shadowlet.

Thorns created using Base Form - Strings with tapering. Displaced with Fractal. Shading using Shadowlet

Download all three thorns examples: AEP

 

OBJ sequence + Textured Polygon particles

Monday
Nov012010

QuickTip: How to make a spiral using Trapcode Form