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These motion designs were created with some of our After Effects plugin sets: 3D Assistants, Geomancy, and Anarchy Toolbox. Click below to see the artist's work and information about how our product helped his project.

Total Training, 2004
www.totaltraining.com

Started by After Effects guru Brian Maffit, Total Training has been teaching motion designers for over 10 years.

For their After Effects 5.5 training set, Total Training used the 3D Assistants extensively to design the DVD interstitials. At left, the Cylinder Creator Assistant was used to create a 3D video wall. The After Effects 3D camera was placed inside to create visual interest.

A spinning video wall [play]

Rob Birnholtz
Absolute Motion Graphics, 2003
www.absolutemotiongraphics.com

An award winning designer, editor and animator, Rob Birnholz has over 25 years in the film and video industry. Rob had this to say about his work for the Palm Springs Film Festival project:

Rows of palm trees [play]

"In about 30 minutes, with the help of the 3D Assistants, I was able to create and animate a full grove of palm trees. Trying to manage that many 3D layers would have taken forever, to say nothing of trying to animate them all by hand. The 3D Assistants were a real life saver on this project."

Scott Frizzle
Artifact Studio, 2004
www.artifactdesign.com

Scott Frizzle is president of Artifact Studio, a design outfit that creates some really cool work using, among other tools, the 3D Assistants.

“This project involved a great deal of 3D and we were looking for faster, more intuitive tools, specifically for accomplishing some of the complex 3D shots.” [play]

"We saw an exponential increase in our productivity as we no longer had to manually arrange the 3D layers. It's an amazing, time saving design tool." [play]

Gino Guarnere
Pixel Dust Films, 2006
www.pixeldustfilms.com

Gino's design company is Pixeldust Films, and his day job is with the company that owns Market Express. Gino said this about his project, "We need to raise excitement about the Market Express platform (sales support and materials), and I'm creating a series of 30 second spots to raise platform awareness, generate excitement, and help get new users onboard.

"Creating the cube using your 3D Assistants was a total cakewalk. The text is parented to each square. I used the Box Creator to create the cube. Then I added a camera, parented the 'squares' to a 3D null, and rotated it around using the orientation parameters.

Gino's cube at work [play]

"Had it not been for the plugin, I would have either came up with a different concept altogether or would have spent a lot of extra time creating the cube the 'old fashioned' way."

Tim Clark
GMTV, 2006
www.gm.tv

This project was created for Entertainment Today, a 40 minute strand on one of the National Breakfast shows in the UK. It's a sophisticated composition that features animated spirals and circles made out of cubes. Tim Clark said this about his work:

"I used the Spheriod Creator and Cylinder Creator for this project. "Instead of flat planes I used a 3D box, created using After Effects' 3D layers. In some shots the boxes multiply as they animate, which was quite cool."

Entertainment Today spot [play]

Bryan Ebzery
salesforce.com, 2006
www.salesforce.com

Bryan Ebzery heads up animation and video production at salesforce.com, the technology and market leader in on-demand business services. He used 3D Assistants to design a product promotion for the company's homepage.

salesforce.com message [play]

Bryan said this about his work: "For this project, the 3D wall was huge and consisted of fairly heavy files which made up the individual screens in the matrix. The plug-in was fast and allowed me to create an environment that I could easily move around in with the camera.

"Corporate websites, most especially in the software sector, tend to market their wares via a relatively boring 2D methodology. I'm trying to use After Effects and other sophisticated applications to create a more cinematic experience for the user."

Trish Meyer
Cybermotion, 2004
www.cybmotion.com

CyberMotion, a Los Angeles motion graphics design studio, was founded by Trish and Chris Meyer. The studio specializes in high-impact, multi-layered 2D and 3D graphics for video and film, pieces which are often tightly integrated with music. The Meyers used our Geomancy plugins in a video created for the introduction of the Isuzu Ascender SUV at US auto shows.

Trish used the GridSquares plugin as a matte for still images of the vehicle. Then she mixed the matted images with displaced ones, and processed original images to create a sense of depth.

Isuzu Ascender video [play]

Ryan McFaul
Ryantown
www.ryantown.com

Ryan McFaul is a director-designer in New York who makes commercials, short films and videos. About this project, Ryan said, "This is a commercial I did for a Broadway musical called 'Wonderful Town' a couple years ago. The project makes great use of the Anarchy Toolbox's Designer Blur to create hexagonal, cinema-style blurs in some of the close-up shots."