My buddy Aharon Rabinowitz has moved on from Creative Cow and is now hosting Red Giant TV, a brand new tutorial hub for Red Giant Software. Aharon will be adding one new tutorial every week to help us create some cool motion graphics and visual effects and get the most out of our investment in Red Giant plug-ins. Check out the beta here.

This project is another good example of taking poor quality 4:3 vision, making it 16:9 and giving it some polish. The tools included Adobe After Effects, Zaxwerks ProAnimator, Trapcode Horizon and Shine, and Maltaannon’s Screenify effect (featured in MILG 5). The vision was treated with the Screenify effect— which adds a realistic jumbotron Read more…

Yesterday I had a surprise visit at Foxtel by Ian Haigh, a fellow Sydney-sider and the creator of the very cool Ease & Wizz scripts for Adobe After Effects. I had no idea Ian worked just up the road from me and as it turns out he is a 10 year veteran of After Effects. So what is Ease & Wizz? According to Ian’s website, “Ease and Wizz is a set of expressions Read more…

Making It Look Great 5 (MILG5) is now available for download. This is the biggest, most jam packed MILG release so far, with over 7 hours of After Effects tips and techniques from the master Jerzy Drozda Jr. (aka. Maltaannon). Whether you’re an After Effects beginner or expert you’ll learn valuable techniques that will make your work look great. Read more…