Motion graphics in C3

#1

Hey guys,

I’m reasonably new to Combustion, having recently got my teeth into version 3. I’m trying to focus my attention on Combustion’s motion graphics capabilities - I’ve been told that AE is better for this, but I hate the interface.

I’ve been trying to find some decent online resources that could help me unlock the motion graphics potential of Combustion, but I’m drawing a blank - any suggestions of sites (or books) that deal with Combustion in a primarily motion graphics capacity would be much appreciated.

#2

Anything that can be done in AE, can be done with Combustion. If you need some AE special plugin to work, almost every AE plugin works perfectly with Combustion.

I hate AE interface also… :slight_smile:

Xian…SuEtEr

#3

I have had the pleasure of looking at Ken’s 8 disk combustion 2 set training set and alot of the principals applied to combustion 3 (and four). Unfortunatly he literally spent 15 or so minutes on motion graphics which involved the blur operator and the speed channel. VTC’s training by Dwayne (something) has a section on motion graphics but i havn’t had a chance to view the set (yet). The most i can say is to get comfortable with the operators and the timeline, particularly in graph mode.

#4

Hi
I wrote a tutorial about a similiar look like the ipod ad with combustion - no flying text but a start.
http://www.wormfx.com/tut_comb.htm

I think one plus for AE is that edited AI files are updated on save.
But I prefer to draw the shapes with combustions paint operator. And the most important stuff like blurs and glows are in all compositing applications.

#5

There are only a few here but it’s a start. I’ve looked around a lot recently and I think if you want some in-depth tutorials you should consider looking at paying for some training or DVDs.

#6

Thanks, Doc. I have seen these already, but thanks anyway. And as for training, I was going to look into some DVD packages, although from what others have said within these virtual walls, motion graphics (as a technique / discipline) seems to be massively overlooked by Combustion documentation - why is this? I mean, AE seems to get all the attention despite an inferior interface, although the quality of Adobe’s customer and product support does better Autodesk’s. Grrrr!

I did just land a job that deals with a lot of motion graphics work using AE, so I guess I’ll have to suck it up and deal with that awful interface in the name of getting on-the-job training… Anyways, thanks for bothering to drop the link in here. Might be useful for other Combustion users. Combustion forever! Death to After Effects!

#7

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