Tag: video2brain
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Typography Video Training
Creative Graphic Design: Essential Typography is a workshop on the principles of designing with text. I’ve just finished recording my latest typography video training workshop with the fantastic team at video2brain. It’s a workshop with a difference. If you want the salient points delivered to you quickly so you can get on with your work.…
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Wacom Masterclasses
I’m pleased to announce the release last week of the new Wacom Masterclass series of workshops. I’ve worked with Wacom tablets for years and love the creative flexibility they provide to my work. In these tutorials I share some of the techniques I’ve learned over the years. If you want to check out some free…
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Font Links for Kinetic Typography
I recently published my Kinetic Typography Techniques for After Effects course. In it I used a wide selection of fonts that are freely downloadable from various websites, just to make sure everyone following the tutorial could get access to the same fonts. Unfortunately one of the websites I recommended is no longer in operation. Below…
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Kinetic Typography Techniques for After Effects
I was asked to create a workshop on Kinetic Typography techniques for Adobe After Effects by several people including the lovely people from video2brain who produced this epic workshop for me. I’d like to thank them all for their patience and professionalism throughout this long project! I’m pleased to say that I have finally finished…
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FREE After Effects Stereoscopic 3D Workshop
In this week’s newsletter I’ll be giving away a complete workshop about using the Stereoscopic 3D workflow in After Effects CS5.5. That’s four chapters – a total of 16 training movies absolutely free to subscribers of my software tips and tricks newsletter. Sign up today to make sure you don’t miss out.
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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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Speaking at Flash on the Beach 2011
I was very pleased to get a call from John Davey, the organiser of the amazingly successful and entertaining “Flash on the Beach 2011” conference, asking me to speak at his event. It’s an annual conference, held in my home town of Brighton. Bringing together the best designers, developers and minds in the Flash, design…
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A busy After Effects week
Tweet Wow, what a busy week. I’ve just finished the first day of Broadcast Video Expo 2011 where I’ve been presenting After Effects and the Production Premium workflow on the Adobe booth. It’s been great being back with the Adobe UK team again and seeing lots of friendly faces. I’ve also got a brand new…
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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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‘Sculpting’ paths in Adobe Illustrator
Here’s another free tutorial from my first venture into making video tutorials for Adobe Illustrator. My tutorials are probably what you’d call non-standard! I’m not going to teach you how to ‘the cool look’ that we’ve all seen a million times before, that doesn’t really interest me, and there are plenty of other websites that…
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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…