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Point Position Pass in After Effects using Trapcode Form

by Jeremy Cox

This is a workflow that uses a specialized point position shader to create a perfect point cloud of your 3D scene in After Effects. You will need Trapcode Form for this to work. I am using Cinema4D, but any 3D application should be able to create a shader like this. C4D shader setup: http://www.jeremycox.com/stuff/PointPositionFiles/pPOS_shader.c4d.zip - tested in R12 and R13, but should work fine in older versions AE script: http://www.jeremycox.com/stuff/PointPositionFiles/Point_Cloud.jsx.zip - Only tested with Form 2 on After Effects CS5. May not work with older versions of Form, but should work with AE CS3 and newer. This is very much a work in progress, so please leave feedback on how you use it, or any ways in which it could be improved. The crazier the better! NOTE: If you're having trouble getting it to work correctly, make sure your AE bit depth is set to 16bit. I forgot to make that clear in the video.

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Using the Cinema 4D Inheritance Effector Part 3: Make Particles Swarm Along Splines w/ Mograph

by EJ Hassenfratz

The Inheritance Effector is probably one of the most underrated and underutilized effectors in the effector menu. In part three of my Inheritance Effector tutorial, I show you how you can fake particle movement that follows or swarms along side a spline path that would normally only be able to be achieved with an Emitter or Thinking Particles and Xpresso. Using a combination of the Inheritance & Spline Effectors along with other Mograph Effectors, you can achieve close to the same effect as an Emitter or Thinking Particles as a simpler alternative in your normal workflow without having to touch Xpresso. Specifically, this tutorial demonstrates the powerful combination of using the Spline Effector along side the Inheritance Effector to achieve a "swarming" effect. As in Part 2 of this series, you can add a Dynamic Tag to the Cloner Object to make sure your clones don't intersect each other with this technique. Here is a sample video where I utilized this technique to make a swarm…

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Using the Cinema 4D Inheritance Effector Part 2: Faking Thinking Particles with Mograph

by EJ Hassenfratz

The Inheritance Effector is probably one of the most underrated and underutilized effectors in the effector menu. In part two of my Inheritance Effector tutorial, I show you how you can fake particle movement that would normally only be able to be achieved with an Emitter or Thinking Particles and Xpresso. Using a combination of the Inheritance Effector and other Mograph Effectors and Deformers, you can achieve close to the same effect as an Emitter or Thinking Particles as a simpler alternative in your normal workflow without having to touch Xpresso. Here is what I created using this technique: https://vimeo.com/31156992 Part 1: http://eyedesyn.com/2012/02/09/using-the-cinema-4d-inheritance-effector-pt-1-trigger-or-offset-keyframed-cloned-objects/ Part 3: http://eyedesyn.com/2012/02/23/using-the-cinema-4d-inheritance-effector-part-03-make-particles-swarm-along-splines-w-mograph/ Blog: http://eyedesyn.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/eyedesyn