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Tip #1761: Boris FX Offers Three New Tutorials

Larry Jordan – LarryJordan.com

Three free tutorials covering a panoply of effects software.

The team at Boris FX recently released three new free video tutorials covering Particle Illusion, Sapphire’s Builder Effect and Mocha Pro Silhouette.

Combine 3D Particles & Text in After Effects

John Dickinson shows how Continuum 2021.5’s new Particle Illusion features allow you to easily integrate 3D particles with After Effects 3D text. Includes AE project file to follow along.

Here’s the link.

Stylized Text Effects Using Sapphire Builder Effect.

Ben Brownlee jumps into Sapphire’s Builder Effect to share an insider tip. Use the Quick Text Effect preset (new to 2021) to transform simple boring text to striking. 

Here’s the link.

LIVE STREAM: Mocha Pro + Silhouette for Nuke Compositors

Dan Smith, CraftyApes senior compositor and author of NUKE Codex: Nodes within Nodes, joins the Boris FX team to show how he uses Mocha Pro and Silhouette to supercharge his compositing workflow inside Nuke. (Live Stream – July 7)

Here’s the link.