The great folks at Red Giant Software put together a useful resource for motion graphic designers called Red Giant People. Much like the now defunct Trapcode People website, Red Giant People is a place where anyone can submit their own After Effects presets. The library is already off to a good start and is a growing resource of free goodies.
XBreaker is a fantastic plug-in for fracturing geometry by Nitroman. It works with primitives, nurbs objects, splines and polygons. Integrating seamlessly with mograph and modynamics, it takes just a few quick clicks to set up an entire scene. Integrating seamlessly with mograph and modynamics, it takes just a few quick clicks to set up an entire scene. (Requires Cinema4D 11.5 and Mograph)
Download: XBreaker ver. 1.71 (Put the file in maxon/library/scripts)
Nitroman’s official website: Cinema4D Plugins
Pariah Studios: XBreaker updates
Version history: XBreaker forum thread
Tutorial videos: Nitroman’s YouTube
This is the last part of my three part series on found projects files from the now defunct Trapcode-People.net website. Enjoy!
Download Trapcode People Part 3
alphabet.aep, aonfire.aep, aqua.aep, audioanimation.aep, audioanimation2.aep, blowingtext.aep, boxecho.aep, counter.aep, dis-texted.aep, disintegration.aep, dofbubblesae6.aep, dofdust.aep, fizz.aep, flowerstroke.aep, fractalglow.aep, fractualsun.aep, green_fluff.aep, ice.aep, impulse.aep, latitude.aep, lighttrail.aep, magictest.aep, meteor.aep, money.aep, multiswoosh.aep, myparticles.aep, nebula.aep, particlularwomen.aep, pastel_checkers.aep, photo_ball.aep, rain2.aep, reigneoffirekiki.aep, smoketrail.aep, snow.aep, sparklingbubblesver2.aep, spectralave.aep, spinning_disks.aep, waterfall.aep, word_1.aep
Download Trapcode People Part 1
Download Trapcode People Part 2
I found some more project files that were once hosted on the Trapcode-People.com website.
Here are all the screen shots from the files the zip contains:
arrows.aep, backlit.aep, constellations.aep, crazyrainbow.aep, creating design.aep, disintegration.aep, dofbubbles.aep, dust.aep, fallinglights.aep, flaresmoke.aep, fractalsun.aep, galaxy.aep, glitz.aep, glowball.aep, growth.aep, lighthouse.aep, lighttrail.aep, lighttrail2.aep, lines.aep, metaballs.aep, northernlights.aep, orbproject.aep, particlecolor.aep, particular4dfmcol.aep, phoenix.aep, seseesse.aep, sparkler.aep, style.aep
Trapcode People Resurrected Part 1
Trapcode People Resurrected Part 3
Barbecue Design created an amazing commercial for Lexus Toyota Hybrid Drive using After Effects and Trapcode plug-ins. Ruediger was nice enough to put together a three part tutorial on how he did a lot of the effects in the commercial. What is even more exciting is that he is allowing me to provide downloads for these videos.
Here are the links:
I found this great tutorial by Jerzy Drozda Jr to create an advanced 3D planet. So I took the .AEP file and modified it a little and rendered the video for you. It is 25 seconds long at 720p and 24fps. Enjoy.
We just launched our new JMDesign website and we wanted to celebrate by giving away a free 1080p video. This video is pretty wild. It is a 30 second video clip that includes an array of dazzling colored light glows, trails and sparkles. I hope you enjoy the video download and like our new website.
It is common to need vector images of world maps, countries and globes. Here are links to a load of free map downloads.
A collection of 13 free vector world maps
http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/free-vector-world-maps-collection/
A collection of 11 free vector world maps
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=1518
Dot world map
http://qvectors.com/misc-vectors/vector-map-2/
I found a great site today offering over 3500 free sound files and audio loops.
If you have any other great sites for free royalty free music please let me know.
The web offers a lot of free resources for designers, but they are not all created equal. I wanted to put together my own list of free resources and goodies. If you know of anymore please let me know and I will add it to the list.
Keepdesigning.com (Images and vectors)
Blog.spoongraphics.co.uk (Images and vectors)
Vecteezy.com (Images and vectors)
Videocopilot.com (After Effects projects and presets)
Graymachine.com (After Effects projects and presets)
