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,...

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...

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...

Photography: Time Lapse Tutorial

In this tutorial VideoFort Don covers how to shoot a time-lapse using firmware Magic Lantern in lieu of using an intervalometer, which is usually required for time-lapse photography. He also suggests areas and subjects for best time-lapse results. Then he...

Cinema 4D: Crystal Texture

In this tutorial, VideoFort Don demonstrates how to create a Crystal Texture for your text or logo. The logo that VideoFort Don uses is created in Cinema 4D, but this effect can be applied to any personal logo or text. He starts off by adding a 3D object ...