Tag: red giant

  • Breaking Bad and Southcliffe Presets

    Everyone wants to recreate the looks made famous by hit TV shows like Breaking Bad and Southcliffe. I’m creating a set of these looks right now, using several third-party plug-ins for After Effects and Premiere Pro.

  • Happy Halloween Everybody

    Happy Halloween Everybody

    After Effects CS5 Presets for Halloween   I’ve created some special little Halloween Software Tricks and Treats for you to use in your work. This download contains an After Effects CS5 project and artwork needed to create some spooky Halloween graphics for your projects. I love creating ideas and techniques for the community. In fact…

  • Free Blood Splatter Preset for Halloween!

    Free Blood Splatter Preset for Halloween!

    This free After Effects preset features a complete After Effects Project containing a graphic design idea for a TV Ident. It features a graphic, stylised blood splat made with Trapcode Particular. The blood particles use a light emmitter and bounce against a layer used as a Wall. The blood “bleeds” around the text to reveal…

  • Post Production Magic

    Post Production Magic

    Join Red Giant for an evening of inspiration I’ll be speaking at Red Giant’s FREE Post Production magic event in September. Here’s the blurb! Event Registration is available now on the Adobe website. When a group of amazing animators get hold of a projection system, you’re either going to get an evening of inspiration or a…

  • NAB 2011 Report

    NAB 2011 Report

      Well, here I am, back in the UK after an exhausting trip to Las Vegas to attend NAB 2011. I was speaking at the Post Production World Conference which I’m pleased to say was busier than ever. My sessions were very well attended and I met some great new people who gave me the…

  • Trapcode Particular Free Tutorial

    Trapcode Particular Free Tutorial

    I’ve just watched a great After Effects tutorial, made by my good friend, the great Peder Norby of Trapcode fame. He’s dome a wonderful job of teaching you how to get the best volumetric smoke effects using Particular. I love this tutorial as it was totally improvised so it shows how he had to experiment…

  • Free tutorial – creating a 1960s retro opening title sequence

    Free tutorial – creating a 1960s retro opening title sequence

    My dear friend and esteemed and talented After Effects aficionado, Aharon Rabinowitz has posted my 1960’s retro “Pop-art” tutorial up on Red Giant TV. I actually recorded it in the 1960’s but it’s taken this long for technology to catch up to a stage where it can broadcast a whole hour (almost) of FREE After…

  • Angie’s software favourites of the month

    There are a few nice pieces of software around at the moment that I want to share with you. The first is Beauty Box from Digital Anarchy. An incredible plug-in for video applications (like After Effects, Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro). If you shoot interviews or wedding videos and don’t have a good make…