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Red Giant People

Jeff McIntosh — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:06:43 +0000

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 for Cinema 4D

Jeff McIntosh — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:56:41 +0000

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

Trapcode People Resurrected Part 3

Jeff McIntosh — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:53:25 +0000

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

Trapcode People Resurrected Part 2

Jeff McIntosh — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:34:53 +0000

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:

Download file

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

After Effects Lexus Tutorial by Barbecue

Jeff McIntosh — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:24:49 +0000

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:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Spinning globe

Jeff McIntosh — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:58:28 +0000

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.

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Let the party begin

Jeff McIntosh — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:32:44 +0000

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.

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Free Vector World Images

Jeff McIntosh — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:39:15 +0000

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/

Free Audio Loops

Jeff McIntosh — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:17:51 +0000

I found a great site today offering over 3500 free sound files and audio loops.

Free-Loops.com

If you have any other great sites for free royalty free music please let me know.

Quality Free Resources

Jeff McIntosh — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:15:44 +0000

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)