Archive for the ‘ProAnimator FX’ Category

Video Tutorial: Prepping Illustrator Files for 3D

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Having trouble turning your Illustrator logos into 3D models? Watch this comprehensive tutorial and learn how to turn your vector logos into professional, billable 3D works of art.

Topics discussed:

• Determining which Illustrator vector paths you need to keep in order to create a well made 3D object.

• Organizing paths into layers, and how to move vector paths between layers.

• Why you would leave some paths grouped and some paths ungrouped.

• Cleaning up Clipping Masks, and cropping the shapes correctly with the Pathfinder tools.

• Saving the Illustrator file and importing it into ProAnimator.

• Creating and assigning Materials, and applying multiple materials to a single object in ProAnimator.


Click on the image above, or the link below to watch the video tutorial.

Click to watch the Illustrator Tutorial

Digital Juice Fonts in ProAnimator

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

For those of you who has worked with Digital Juice Fonts, you may have wondered “These are great looking fonts, but is there a way to get them to work in ProAnimator?”

For the people not familiar with Digital Juice Fonts, DJ Fonts is a program packed with high resolution fonts that are customizable for your project needs. There are a wide variety of creative fonts that include metallic type, ribbon type, ornamental, all the way to watery and cookie fonts. There are a ton of fonts to play with, and now you’ll be able to integrate them all into ProAnimator!

Even if you do not own the Digital Juice Fonts, it’s highly recommended that you watch the trio of tutorial movies that we’ve released. There are so many tips into ProAnimator, and how to export files in Photoshop so you can open them in ProAnimator. You can’t afford to miss out.

With the techniques you’re going to learn, you’ll be able to take the DJ Fonts, and with a couple of steps, be able to bring them into the 3D world of ProAnimator.

Learn the following:

• Creating the text in DJ Fonts, and saving it as a Photoshop layer.

• Setting up the work path for ProAnimator in Photoshop.

• Creating texture maps.

• Loading the file in ProAnimator to extrude the text to 3D.

• Applying the texture maps to the 3D Text.

• Customize lighting, and creating shadows.

• Setting up and customizing the animation.

• Handling special cases in Digital Juice Fonts.

Click on the link below, or the image below to watch the video tutorial:

Digital Juice Fonts in ProAnimator Tutorials

ProAnimator Pivot Point Tutorial

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Ever wondered what’s the best way to set up pivot-points in ProAnimator or 3D Invigorator? Serge Hamad’s new video tutorial will guide you through how to set up a precise point for all your animation needs.

Learn the following:

• Creating a sphere and placing it where the pivot-point should be.

• Moving the pivot-point object to the same track as the objects that need to be animated.

• Scaling the pivot-point object so that it forces ProAnimator to generate a new pivot-point.

• Grouping the objects together.

• Making the pivot-point object invisible.

• Animating your objects.


Click on the image above, or the link below to learn how to set up a precise pivot point!

Click to watch the Pivot Point Tutorial

Update: ProAnimator FX version 4.9.1 and 3D Flag FX 1.1.2 now available!

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009












Both ProAnimator FX and 3D Flag have been rebuilt. Both programs are now fully compatible for Motion 4 and Final Cut Pro 7.

Visit our download page: HERE

Below are the release notes for both programs.

ProAnimator FX Version 4.9.1 Update:

- Full compatibility with Motion 4 and Final Cut Pro 7.

- Contains new presets for Materials and Object Styles.

- Updated authorization dialog messages.

- Fixes an issue where the Material and Object Style Swatches can become corrupted.

- Fixes Display issues in Motion and Final Cut Pro where the image may become pink, blue or upside down.

- Fixes a Field rendering issue where the ProAnimator FX objects are not being rendered.

- Fixes an issue where the project settings are not displayed properly within the ProAnimator FX interface.

- Fixes an issue where rendering with compressor or batch may cause memory leak issues and / or freezes.

3D Flag FX Version 1.1.2 Update:

- Fixes an issue where duplicating layers containing 3D Flag will lead to a crash in Motion 4.

- Fixes a memory leak issue while rendering in Motion 4.

ProAnimator FX Tutorial Movie

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Embryo has released a new tutorial on Noise Industries Generators combined with the effects of ProAnimator FX. Watch Zak Peric’s tutorial on how to to create a news reel for a imaginary TV Station.

Zak Peric is a freelance artist and lecturer teaching for Creative Computing at Tower Hamlets College and London College of Communication.

You can follow more of his tutorials on his website:
Embryo

Watch the tutorial from the original source below:
Tutorial Movie

Watch the completed animation below:
Completed Tutorial Animation

ProAnimator FX Quickstart Movies

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

ProAnimator FX Quickstart Movies

ProAnimator FX video tutorials are now available!

These two tutorial movies show the basic setups of how to work within Motion and Final Cut Pro.

The Motion quick start movie will guide you as you create a Color Solid Generator and apply ProAnimator FX to the Color Solid. You’ll learn the basics of creating a 3D text, how to apply an animation preset, apply a material to the 3D text, and also seeing your animation in the Motion interface. You’ll also learn where to change your render settings to improve your workflow.

The Final Cut Pro quick start movie will show how to apply a Color Solid from the video generators and how to apply ProAnimator FX from the video filters. This introductory movie will show you the general layout of the new interface as well as where the basic controls are located. You’ll also learn how to change interfaces to improve your work flow. In addition, this movie will guide you on how to apply preset animations, object styles, material swatches, and also how to work with the animation controls and the timeline. Finally, when you are finished applying all your changes within the ProAnimator FX interface, you will see how to change rendering settings for ProAnimator FX.

After watching these two tutorial movies, you’ll be ready to create 3D animations inside of Motion and Final Cut Pro!

Hot Release: The ProAnimator FX

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

ProAnimator FX












It’s 3-D Time in FCP.
The future has arrived.
Final Cut Pro can now
do 3-D!

The award-winning motion graphics software, ProAnimator, has been re-written to become a native FxPlug, so users of Final Cut Pro and Motion can now create real-time 3-D title and logo animations directly inside of their favorite program.

ProAnimator brings capabilities to your fingertips that will upgrade your projects and increase your value. Now in a single plug-in you can offer a completely new service to your clients.

Keep your clients.
Attract new clients.

Traditionally adding high quality 3D animation to a video project has been time consuming and expensive. It’s required extensive training and practice to use the complicated 3-D programs available.

ProAnimator FX breaks new ground by giving Final Cut Pro editors and Motion artists a way to easily create stylish 3-D animations in the editing suite, with familiar looking tools and methods.

  • Breakthrough product!
  • Create true 3-D titles and logos inside Final Cut Pro and Motion.
  • Easy to use. Real-time rendering.
  • Works like editing software not animation software.
  • Dozens of object and camera motion templates.
  • Create billable work right away.

If you own ProAnimator AE (Standalone and Plug-in for After Effects), you can side-grade your program for just $199. If you don’t already own ProAnimator, here’s your chance to get your hands on the new FX version!