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Green screen compositing with chroma key effect
VideoMarch 1, 2013, 2:18 pm
This week's tutorial is all about the chroma key effect. If you're shooting green screen, you're going to want to check out this tutorial as Axel takes you through the basics, explaining how to achieve high quality keys in only a handful of steps. He also delves into the spill suppression features, which can really help to bind your composited layers together.
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3D Titles in AE
VideoFebruary 6, 2013, 11:55 am
Nancy presents the intro to the tutorial series, where Trevor explains how to create his 3D Superman logo. He walks us through his meticulous design and creative processes, where he explains the importance of research in redesigning a logo. This includes his reviews and critiques of classic Superman logos. Technically, Trevor’s comfortable working in Maya and ZBrush, but he chooses to work with ShapeShifter AE. He’s truly inspiring, and a great teacher!
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Inspiring me to enable myself
BlogFebruary 4, 2013, 7:46 pm
"My journey with After Effects is a reflection of my journey as a creative. Fear, skepticism, blood, tears, mocking, understanding, confidence. The cycle repeats sometimes, but it expands and contracts too. Some days it's a thing of wonder and beauty, other days it's collapsing in on itself like a dying star.
Check it out at: http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/inspiring-me-to-enable-myself
AE Basics 65: Expression Controllers PART 2
BlogJanuary 30, 2013, 8:22 am
AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 65: In this second follow-on tutorial, Andrew Devis continues to demonstrate how to apply a color Expression Controller to one part of the production and then how to quickly apply it to other parts of the same composition.
Check it out at: http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-65-Expression-2/1
The History of After Effects
EventsJanuary 28, 2013, 2:12 pm
Join After Effects creators, Dave Simons and Dan Wilk, as they take you on a trip down memory lane to see how After Effects started—from concept to initial user interface. See how much After Effects has changed throughout the years and why things are simply the way they are.
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Basic Training AE CS6: Curso Videotutorial Gratis
VideoJanuary 28, 2013, 8:45 am
(In Spanish) ¡Nueva entrega del curso gratis Basic Training After Effects! En este nuevo vídeo tutorial veremos como podemos modificar el aspecto de las luces traseras de un autobús, utilizando la herramienta vectorial de clonado conjuntamente con los trackers.
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Happy Birthday, After Effects!
VideoJanuary 27, 2013, 4:01 pm
“I can’t believe I’m talking to these guys,” I thought. “They’re spending their time talking to me–and they’re so down-to-earth!” That was in 2000, when I first met the brains behind After Effects. (I’d just joined Adobe, aspiring to build “AE for the Web.”) 13 years later, I still feel just the same. In any industry full of half-hit wonders acting like they’ve just cured cancer, I find Dave, Dan, and all the AE guys as relentlessly humble and passionate as can be.
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Get Buff with Adobe After Effects
VideoJanuary 26, 2013, 9:47 am
The VFXBro whips you into shape – adding muscle mass in post production without doing all those push-ups.
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AE Basics Extras: More Repetition PART 2
BlogJanuary 26, 2013, 9:44 am
AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. In this second 'Extra' tutorial in the AE Basics series, Andrew Devis shows how to create shapes from text, how to rotate that shape into a circle...
Check it out at: http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Basics_Extra-Repeater-2/1
AE Basics 64: Expression Controllers PART 1
BlogJanuary 26, 2013, 9:42 am
AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 64: Expression Controllers are a way to simplify the animation controls for a given composition. Although some people are initially worried by the idea of using Expressions...
Check it out at: http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-64-Expression-1/1