Hold for a week

i am sorry, this week is very busy, and i won't type anything long or even whine about how busy i am.
just to let you know, i am in progress of making a new tutorial. it's just that i need some time to experiment more.

well, i have to update once in a week, better something than nothing. i will make it on time next week. until then, please wait and enjoy your life.

Optical Illusion

not really how-to video this week, i am having trouble as electricity in my house have some problem, thus affecting internet connection and upload process is a bit delayed.

I'm always like and interested in creating optical illusion, so I just started one on my home. i think this is a great practical art, i hope this can last.

I am taking a time lapse photo of the process, really had fun making this. I am using duct tape that i haven't use a lot, and this take about 30 minutes to make.

I hope you enjoy it.

Journey mountain matte painting tutorial

at last, i finish this tutorial. i think that it is better to make a real time tutorial than pre-recorded than speak into it.
maybe because i am still learning to make tutorial that i have some difficulties making one.
what i learn was i mumble a lot when talking and working at the same time, haha.

well, in this tutorial, i want to show you how to make a painting out of a movie, then import to photoshop, then import back to after effect.
and some idea to make this mountain look epic. please enjoy.

Mountain Matte Painting

i was going for holiday at ciawi, indonesia yesterday and found this cool looking mountain (the real one of course).
after saw this incredible mountain, i remember the mountain from journey game which make me feel awesome when remembering it!
so i decided to record and make a matte painting out of it.

this turn out to be very great, i just love the looking of this mountain.

for the time being, tutorial coming 1-2 weeks from post time, hopefully i can make it just 1 week.

I will cover step by step to draw the mountain and setting up the lighting (hope you are interested in this),
please wait for me and keep checking this blog. thank you

Favorite + Favorite = EPIC

well, i cannot think of any other title for this post. i do want to share something related to the title.

i always a big fan of motion capture and i wish i can be one of the actor someday.
my another favorite is game, i love playing video games and so 1 of many is assassin's creed series.

what happen when assassin's creed meet with motion capture (shorten mocap)?
i'll say its EPIC! super awesome and not to mention the fluidity of animation inside assassin's creed game.

please see it:
sadly, embed is disabled, so i can only give you the link.
http://youtu.be/IxJrhnynlN8

i also like and enjoy watching the making of avatar from james cameron, its just so awesome that those people can make that kind of creation with that kind of technology. what's more stunning is the person who is making the technology itself. it sure is a game changing era!

Super Slow Motion in After Effect

at last, this video is finished, wow. another great job done.
this is really need a lot of will power, but it's all for sharing.

this is a video of how i can make the effect like in the previous post. i hope that you can learn something or two from this video. in the previous post i mention that this effect was creating a still animation, but the more i think about it, this is more of a super slow motion effect. its still basically a still animation, it is depend how you will use it or how you will call it.

i am creating this super slow motion from still image using after effect and puppet warp, and a little bit of cropping with photoshop. this video is not really beginner as i am not mentioning any detail step on creating this effect.


if you are interested in learning some of the basic, this list will help you to learn what is nessecary (this is just a list, not a link)
1. introduction and concept behind puppet warp
2. how to crop your image using photoshop
3. fill feature in photoshop cs5
4. keyframing and animating in after effect

thank you for watching this video, i hope i can make more tutorial in the future.

Creating Still Animation

Still animation, or you can say create an animation from a photo.
yes, you can create an animation from a photo, beware that it is easier to have multiple photo of the subject and the background separated.

have you ever heard of still animation, yes? maybe? because videocopilot.net have 1 similar tutorial to make animation from still.

maybe it is the same principal, but my inspiration is come from this:


if you curious about how he achieve such beautiful effect, you should check him out.

and this is my version using same method with different application, because why not? people love inspiration.
i have done those 3 example for this past 2 weeks because things suddenly become busy lately, so please wait for me and stay updated!