We’re on fire! MILG4 is not yet available and we’re already making plans for MILG5. This time it’s going to be hosted by me – Jerzy Drozda Jr (aka Maltaannon). I am truly honored to do my part and I’d like to thank John Dickinson for giving me this opportunity. MILG5 is going to be a bit different than the previous editions. Read more…

In this recorded e-seminar I walk through various techniques used in Adobe After Effects and Photoshop for creating the grungy, dark look of Saw 4. Topics include sourcing and combining stock images, using Photoshop brushes to give text a grunge look and create blood splatter, color grading and lighting.
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Here’s a quick boxing promo I just completed for Main Event Pay-Per-View. As is often the case, I was given the edited promo in 4×3 frame aspect ratio that needed to be converted to 16:9. That was done using a combination of scaling footage and mirroring the left and right sides. The mirroring is hidden using blur and a soft feathered mask applied to an adjustment layer. Read more…

This week I was asked to create some graphics for Alien Vs Predator 2 on Foxtel Box Office. I got some inspiration from the opening title sequence for AVP, where the Predator-style text is “decoded” into English. The HUD (heads-up display) was created using pro-emitters from ParticleIllusion, rendered as Quicktime movies and combined with Read more…