After Effects: Human Eye VFX

In this tutorial VideoFort Don shows you how to track 2D Element onto an eye. In the first step you need to find a good spot to track, VideoFort Don chose a shadow on the eye that stayed consistent through the shot. If the track slips you can tweak the tr...

After Effects Tutorial: Simple Energy Blast

In this tutorial VideoFort Don shows you how to create a blast effect using motion graphics in After Effects. Start out by making a new comp, VideoFort Don chose a comp size setting of 960 by 540. Then you are going to create a white solid the comps size,...

Cinema 4D: Model a Soccer Ball

Learn how to turn a platonic shape into a soccer ball using Cinema 4D. Start out by creating a platonic shape and setting its type to Bucky. From there you need to get rid of the line separating the polygons into halves. To do that select each polygon ind...

Cinema 4D: Light Flicker Effects

Learn how to create a flickering text effect using Cinema 4D. VideoFort Don shows you how to create flickering text by creating a text layer and dropping it into extrude NURBS. From there you duplicate the text, create a circle (approximate radius 2 cm), ...

Cinema 4D: Speed Up & Slow Down

VideoFort Don shows us how to make a group of spheres explode, slow down, then return to speed. Start out by setting a floor and sphere in a new project, from there you clone the sphere into a grid and put a random effector on it to make it less uniform. ...

After Effects: Superman Take Off

In this tutorial VideoFort Don teaches you how to fly using After Effects. Start out by filming your actor jumping into the air, then running out of frame as soon as you land. A tripod is necessary so that frame jumps don’t occur when editing your f...

Cinema 4D: Use Effectors on Any Object

In this tutorial VideoFort.com Don teaches us how to quickly set effectors using a primitive plane in Cinema 4D. Although effectors are often used on MoGraph Objects, they can be used to effect any object. After selecting a primitive plane to effect, Vide...

Cinema 4D: Tron Light Cycle Tutorial

In this video tutorial, VideoFort Don demonstrates how to create the Light Trail effect seen on the Light Cycles in Tron using Cinema 4D. By the end of this tutorial you will learn the basics of creating the light trail behind the Tron Light Cycle and lea...

Cinema 4D: Advanced Lighting Tutorial

In this tutorial VideoFort Don from the UK shows you how to light 3D objects using Cinema 4D. In the process you will learn how to place your key light and 3 additional lights in the 3D space to create a natural light look. VideoFort Don starts by placing...