As my first post on Motionworks I wanted to throw a question to the forum, regarding rendering in After Effects. All of us whether students, enthusiasts, professionals or aspiring pro’s need to render. In my work place rendering is split between approval files (emailable files) and final exports (for quality checks and final renders). My work generally entails the Read more…

Some of you might have heard that Red Giant Software has released Magic Bullet Looks – a new plugin that is supposed to change the way we do color correction. Well haven’t we heard that a lot throughout the years… My name is Jerzy Drozda Jr (aka Maltaannon) and I am very skeptical about “magical” and “out-of-the-box” solutions. Read more…

This starry background was created using a combination of Fractal Noise and Trapcode Particular and is based on a preset included with Particular.

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In this tutorial you’ll learn a simple technique using grungy brushes in Adobe Photoshop to make some grungy text. If you like this you may like the on-demand e-seminar where I discuss this and other techniques used to create the graphics for a Saw 4 promo.  Watch tutorial