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After Effects, Illustrator: Grid Background

John Dickinson — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:17:07 +0000

This After Effects CS4 background is based on a 3×3 Grid created in Adobe Illustrator. Click the thumbnail to view full size images.Take a look at this on-demand e-seminar for tips on how it was set up and how to work with the Illustrator file to change the shapes. Download project

Particular: Snowflakes

John Dickinson — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:34:09 +0000

Summer is almost upon us here in Australia but I know that many of you on the other side of the world are heading into a long cold winter. So I thought I’d make a pretty snowflake background for you to use. It’s based on a very handy confetti background created by Peder Norby from Trapcode.
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Ease & Wizz

John Dickinson — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:37:21 +0000

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 for After Effects that give you more ways to interpolate between values. The obvious use is in motion, but they can be used on animated properties of any kind. They’re applied with an After Effects-ish palette that can be docked, so it’s very easy to use.” Ian explained to me that these scripts are based on popular Flash scripts created by Robert Penner.
You can read more and download the scripts for free here. Oh and don’t let the word “script” frighten you, they are very easy to install and greatly enhance the After Effects feature set, so if you’ve never used them, now might be a good time to start.