Okay so we’re getting a good idea of what Adobe After Effects plug-ins each other uses on a regular basis. It’s quite understandable that so many of you use utility effects like Curves and Levels, and 3rd party effects like Particular regularly, which is such a versatile plug-in. Now let’s share thoughts on effects we avoid, prefer not to use [Read more]
Okay everyone it’s confession time, answer the following two questions:
1. Which effect included with Adobe After Effects do you use the most?
2. Which 3rd party plug-in for Adobe After Effects do you use most?
For me it is a close contest between Fast Blur and Curves… with Curves probably the winner. I had to think hard about No.2 [Read more]
As a broadcast designer there are many terms one must understand in order to know what the hell a client is asking for. The problem is people use different names for the same thing. When I was first asked for a Clusterbuster I thought the guy wanted some kind of chocolate bar. So once and for all I’d like to create a list of broadcast terminology [Read more]
Here’s the 90 second promo for Bond. Classic Bond. on Fox Classics, edited by Ryan Watson, with the graphics designed by myself and Dan Creighton (who did much of the roto work). All graphics were created in Adobe After Effects with Trapcode Form used throughout to create the fire and smoke elements, and I must say this is the first time I’ve had a chance to use Form [Read more]
You may or may not know that after leaving high school I trained as a ladies hairdresser. The reason I mention that is because last week I had my first chance to use those skills in my current line of work. Check out the movie link below to see my expert hairdressing skills coming into play on set. You’ll also see my even more amazing dance skills. [Read more]
Here’s the last of the 4 Bond teasers for Fox Classics channel. This one took longer than the other three, for obvious reasons. We did a green screen shoot with models then keyed/rotoed the footage and vectorized it using the Adobe Illustrator Live Trace batch feature in Adobe Bridge. All animation was done in Adobe After Effects. To make the spot flow seamlessly, [Read more]
Here’s the Adobe Photoshop file containing the text and layer styles used to create the gold bevel look used in the Enchanted e-seminar.
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In this recorded e-seminar you’ll see the techniques used in Adobe After Effects and Photoshop to create promo graphics for the film “Enchanted”. Topics include creating gold text in Photoshop using Layer Styles, using custom emitters in Particular, creating a light sweep and enhancing the sweep with Shine and color grading. Watch e-seminar
Fox Classics channel will be screening a series of James Bond films over the next few months and one of my roles has been to create 4 teasers which will be screening over the next few weeks. All created in Adobe After Effects of course.
