whalerider
08-24-2005, 01:49 AM
To everyone who works with After Effects and Particle Illusion I'd like to recommend particleIllusion Fusion volume 1 - a great learning resource created by Aharon Rabinowitz. You can find out more about the DVD at http://www.pillusionfusion.com/home.html
I already had experience integrating the two apps, but still found useful techniques, tips and tricks in virtually every tutorial. The DVD comes with QuickTime video tutorials (both high-quality and low-quality for slower machines), project files, and lecture trascripts in PDF format. The DVD design was very professional. I also really liked the humour sprinkled here and there to keep the tutorials from becoming too dry. The pace of instrucion is brisk, I had to pause a few times, because Aharon talks quickly. That's good, because you get more material than the length of the tutorials suggests.
The DVD sells for an intro price of $29.95 + shipping. Overall, well worth every penny. I personally look forward to volume 2 (which will follow up if there is enough interest in volume 1).
Update:
If anyone at PixelCorps is interested in seeing a sample of Aharon's teaching style, they can check out 2 video tutorials, found at the Wondertouch Website and Creative Cow:
Using pIllusion with 3D:
http://www.wondertouch.com/tutorial...PI_with_3D.html (http://www.wondertouch.com/tutorials/aharon/PI_with_3D/PI_with_3D.html)
Creating an Old TV look in After Effects complete with scan lines, interference...etc.:
http://www.creativecow.net/show.php...d_tv/index.html (http://www.creativecow.net/show.php?page=/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/old_tv/index.html)
I already had experience integrating the two apps, but still found useful techniques, tips and tricks in virtually every tutorial. The DVD comes with QuickTime video tutorials (both high-quality and low-quality for slower machines), project files, and lecture trascripts in PDF format. The DVD design was very professional. I also really liked the humour sprinkled here and there to keep the tutorials from becoming too dry. The pace of instrucion is brisk, I had to pause a few times, because Aharon talks quickly. That's good, because you get more material than the length of the tutorials suggests.
The DVD sells for an intro price of $29.95 + shipping. Overall, well worth every penny. I personally look forward to volume 2 (which will follow up if there is enough interest in volume 1).
Update:
If anyone at PixelCorps is interested in seeing a sample of Aharon's teaching style, they can check out 2 video tutorials, found at the Wondertouch Website and Creative Cow:
Using pIllusion with 3D:
http://www.wondertouch.com/tutorial...PI_with_3D.html (http://www.wondertouch.com/tutorials/aharon/PI_with_3D/PI_with_3D.html)
Creating an Old TV look in After Effects complete with scan lines, interference...etc.:
http://www.creativecow.net/show.php...d_tv/index.html (http://www.creativecow.net/show.php?page=/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/old_tv/index.html)