Trish Meyer has granted Motionworks permission to post the Story of CoSA – the original company behind After Effects. Written by After Effects team member, Dave Simons, and originally published in Creating Motion Graphics Volume 3, it gives a wonderful insight into the early days of After Effects and the team behind it. Download PDF SFMoGraph Pics
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The Foundry has released 3D Camera Tracker and Kronos, two exciting new plug-ins for Adobe After Effects.

Alexander of Amateurmedia.net has created a stylish new font named Typograph Pro. Also check some of the great usage examples created within Cinema 4D.

Red Giant Software has released Colorista 2, with some exciting new features and improvements. Use motionworks10 for a 1o% discount.
Fontfeed.com has an excellent column “Screenfonts” which discusses the use of fonts in movie posters.
Industrial Light and Magic has a new site. It’s quite amazing just how many productions ILM has been involved in.
Australian’s interested in buying or upgrading Cinema 4D this winter can get a sweet deal.
Urban Dirty has terrific free grunge stock images and also provides color themes for various images with a downloadable .ASE file. You can import the .ASE file into After Effects using Swatch You Want.
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4 Responses to this post
November 11, 2009 at 7:00 am |
A fantastic read! Thank you John, Chris and Trish for pulling this out of your archive.
November 11, 2009 at 2:26 pm |
You’re welcome Eran.
November 11, 2009 at 7:38 am |
That was a lot of fun reading that. The history of software…hmmm?
Thank you!
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