Red Giant | TANK - A New Short Film by Stu Maschwitz

TANK – A New Short Film by Stu Maschwitz

  May 23, 2018 1415 0  

Red Giant Team

Introducing Tank, a new short film from Red Giant’s Chief Creative Officer, Stu Maschwitz. In a visual homage to vector arcade games of the early 80’s (like Battlezone and Star Wars), Tank tells the story of a team of pilots that must take on a weapon of mass destruction in a battle to save their world.

GO BEHIND THE SCENES

Putting aside current 3D modeling techniques, Stu looked to the past and built the world of Tank entirely in Adobe After Effects, using mathematics and code, and hundreds of hours of painstaking animation work. Watch the Making of Tank to learn more about Stu’s journey in telling this visually unique story.

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THE TOOLS OF TANK

Here are some links (and more) that Stu mentioned in his Making Of Tank video:

The Expression that Started it All

Not a link, just an actual After Effects expression you can copy and paste.

thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).toComp([0,0,0])

VectorKit

Want to experience just how crazy someone has to be to make a film this way? Give it a try with this free After Effects template project. Get VectorKit HERE.

Magic Bullet Looks

Red Giant’s flagship color and looks tool was used to create the vignetting, flares and chromatic aberration that make TANK appear to have been filmed off a TV monitor with an anamorphic lens. LEARN MORE.

Building Your Own 3D Particle Generator

A seminal After Effects expressions tutorial from MotionScripts’ Dan Ebberts. READ MORE.

Magic Bullet Film

Red Giant’s film simulation tool created the overall film look of TANK. LEARN MORE.

Prolost EDC

A free collection of handy After Effects workflow presets. Includes Front/Back Visibility, which was used on TANK to automate the visibility of the back faces of the wireframe objects. Get it HERE.

Universe Holomatrix II

Part of Red Giant Universe, this plug-in creates scanlines and realistic video distortion. LEARN MORE.

Triune Scores: 80s Synth

14 royalty-free 80s-inspired music tracks, including stings and risers. LEARN MORE.

Magic Bullet Renoiser

For the most detailed control of 4k film grain, Magic Bullet Renoiser was used to create the film grain in TANK. LEARN MORE.

Prolost Boardo

Bring storyboards to life with this set of After Effects presets that make it fast and easy to animate camera moves and transitions. LEARN MORE.

Universe

74 GPU-accelerated video transitions and effects for editors and motion graphics artists

$99/YEAR

PART OF Magic Bullet Suite

Magic Bullet Renoiser

Cinematic texture and film grain

$99 FULL

PART OF Magic Bullet Suite

Magic Bullet Film

The look of real motion picture film

$199 FULL

PART OF Magic Bullet Suite

Magic Bullet Looks

Powerful looks and color correction for filmmakers

$399 FULL

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