Free Presets
Everyone wants to recreate the looks made famous by hit TV shows like Breaking Bad and Southcliffe. I’m creating a set of these looks right now, using several third-party plug-ins for After Effects and Premiere Pro.
I’m giving away a couple of these presets here for registered members of Effect Café. Registration is free to download these and other goodies.
The preset illustrated in the picture above is named MethLab and is based upon the color treatments used in the hit TV series, Breaking Bad. This image is taken from “Breaking Bad Contest Video” (Extended, Non-Color Corrected) Written and Directed by Taylor Perkins https://vimeo.com/72596888
Here’s a before and after image for my Southcliffe preset, inspired by the recent UK crime drama of the same name. Hop on over to Effect Café to download these free presets today.
It’s not like me to be subtle but here ‘s my Subtle Blurs Collection for Sapphire Edge V2.
Sometimes you don’t want to overwhelm a shot and you just need a subtle effect. This month my collection provides you with more gentle blurs, some combined with motion.
These presets are free to download at FX Central for anyone who owns Sapphire Edge software.
Well, it’s that time of year again – time for my gift to you – free, festive, After Effects animation presets. It’s my way of thanking everyone who has supported me throughout the year by buying my books and tutorials. I’d also like to thank everyone who’s helped spread the word by sharing my free tips and techniques on Twitter, Vimeo, Facebook and Google Plus.
Here is a free After Effects project, complete with animation presets, expressions and some custom vector artwork. Download Winter Holiday After Effects Presets.
This project is not intended as a finished design piece but rather as a way of presenting a few little ideas I’ve been experimenting with. I’ll provide you with the ideas, it’s your job to take these experiments & make them look cool! Please post them on my Facebook page if you do use them in a project you’d be happy to share.
It contains some interesting techniques to help add a little festive cheer to your seasonal animations. All the effects used are native After Effects plug-ins so no extra software is required and it was created in After Effects CS4 so can be opened in any version from CS4 upwards.
It includes a couple of particle animations. One using a custom snowflake-shaped layer as particles, creating a 3D snowstorm with CC Particle World. The second uses Particle Playground’s Persistent Property Mappers to make particles of snow stick to layers as they fall from above. I also use these to create a wind effect to blow the particles around as they fall.
The third composition features some cool expressions that create a realistic blinking effect on some 3D festive lights. the 3D lights were created in Illustrator. I’ve even included the Illustrator file so you can see how it was created. Enjoy and Happy Holidays!
I’ve just uploaded a new preset to Red Giant People. It’s my first foray into creating presets and projects as opposed to tutorials. If they prove popular I’ll create more for Halloween! I’m also going to be creating some presets for Genarts FX Central so keep and eye out for those before Christmas! I love coming up with ideas so if you have anything you’d like to see please feel free to contact me via the comments page.
This preset features a complete After Effects Project containing a graphic design idea for a TV Ident. It features a graphic, stylised blood splat made with Trapcode Particular. The blood particles use a light emmitter and bounce against a layer used as a Wall. The blood “bleeds” around the text to reveal it and then another text layer animated on along a lower third strip with Logo.
