Tag: Creative Pro
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Free After Effects & Premiere Pro Performance Workshop
I’m excited to be able to offer a free top-up course on my website to all my lovely visitors. In this free course, Adobe Technical Support Lead Todd Kopriva offers dozens of tips for optimizing Premiere Pro, After Effects, your operating system, your computer, and your workflow for maximum speed and performance. He makes recommendations…
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20% off new Todd Kopriva After Effects workshop
This week I’m giving a 20% discount to anyone who wants to buy the fantastic new workshop on Motion Tracking & Stabilisation by Todd Kopriva which is now available to buy from my video training store. Just enter MOTION into the Coupon Code box when buying from my shop. It’s valid till July 15th 2011.…
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Premiere Pro – real-time for After Effects?
Premiere Pro – real-time for After Effects – Quite a question!Well this week I hope to answer it.
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Uprezzing Comps
A question appeared on the Video Copilot website today about uprezzing old projects which can be a bit of a nightmare in AE. You can often find that layers positions get messed up and effects change appearance when you scale your comp. Some of the issues that you’ll come across are hard to avoid but…
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Animating a line drawn on a map – Indiana Jones Style
I contribute to the Creative Cow Basic After Effects forum (amongst others) where this question was posted recently; “Hi I am newish to after effects and I have created a old map effect that pans from the UK to africa now I want to add a red line that reveals like in the Indiana Jones…
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Basics on Solids in Adobe After Effects
When designing motion graphics in Adobe After Effects there are times you just need to create a plain old layer to apply effects to. Solids are just right for this purpose, and for lots of other uses in After Effects. This video is aimed at a basic level. It shows you how to create solid-color layers…
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Animated Character Design in Adobe Illustrator
I’m very pleased to offer my readers a couple of free tutorials from my very first video2brain workshop on Adobe Illustrator. This workshop will teach you how to use Illustrator’s tools and features to prepare 2D files for animation in Adobe After Effects. You’ll learn how to make the most of Illustrator’s drawing tools and…
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Hand-drawn animation with After Effects Paint tools
Week four of 2011 brings my fourth FREE Giveaway Tutorial. This tutorial comes from my Adobe After Effects CS5 Learn by Video DVD from video2brain. The paint tools in After Effects are usually used for cloning or filling in mattes, but they can also be used to create stop-motion-style animation. In this movie you’ll see how…
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Lip Sync in After Effects
Lip-syncing is something that all animators will be asked to do at some point in their career. The following technique automates the process of lip sync in After Effects and uses only built-in features of Adobe After Effects – no extra software is required! This video tutorial is an updated version for Adobe CS5. Tutorial…
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Reviews for Design Essentials for the Motion Media Artist
5.0 out of 5 stars on Amazon Design Essentials for the Motion Media Artist: A Practical Guide to Principles & Techniques, By m franks – See all my reviews I found this to be a really great book and is suitable for anyone who works or has an interest in motion graphics or animation. It…
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Creating a Cityscape in 3D
I want to share an example of one of my tutorials that I’m very proud to say inspired a great piece of work, “Black Day to Freedom” by the amazing Rob Chiu. I met Rob after watching a very inspiring talk he gave at the Flash on the Beach conference a few years back. I…
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Adobe After Effects Training DVD and book
Well, it’s all happening this week! My new book, “Design Essentials for the Motion Media Artist” finally went on sale. As well as the book, I also have a new training DVD on the way which I worked on with the amazing Todd Kopriva from Adobe. As a little taster of what’s to come is…