Archives: September 2009
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The People I Work With (and Who You Should Work With Too)
3 commentsOver the years I’ve worked with a lot of people, and I’m at the point in my career where I can be a little picky about it. Aside from the team at Red Giant Software (which I am honored to be a part of) there are a few people and companies that I have really [...]
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Free After Effects Project File: Microscope
7 commentsYears ago (2006), I had planned to do a tutorial on creating a microscope look with After Effect. I put together a project file, but then got pretty busy with work. When I was finally ready to do it, Andrew Kramer had already done a fantastic tutorial on the subject, so I moved on to [...]
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Interview on AEtuts+
8 commentsAdam Everett Miller, the editor for AEtuts+, was in NY last week and asked to stop by my office to talk for a bit. I wasn’t expecting to be interviewed, but then the dude whips out a camera, and well… you know me. I’m an attention whore. If you’ve got nothing better to do with [...]
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Free After Effects Project File – Page Rip
14 commentsA long time ago, I wanted to do a tutorial on creating a page rip effect. People were emailing me about it, and while I managed to get the project file together, I never got around to the tutorial itself. Not sure when I will. But in the mean time, here’s the project file so [...]
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Free After Effects Project File: Old World Map
14 commentsA while back I did at tutorial for Creative Cow called Shape Layer Tip #3: Trim Paths. In that tutorial I did an old-school map animation using shape layers to create the animated red line. Recently I was asked to share how the map itself was created. The short version is that I read a [...]
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Audio in After Effects
5 commentsRecently I ran into a problem, where I discovered that Audio Levels in After Effects can’t work with expressions. I had never tried it in all the years I’ve been using AE. But for a tutorial I have planned, in which the video effects the audio, I needed to use expressions to effect my audio [...]
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The Art of the Editor
5 commentsI think it’s safe to say that, as animators, who focus on single effect shots, most of us tend to forget how important the final edit can be. While the work we do helps support an overall project, the editor has the repsonsibility of taking everything created for a project, and arranges it to tell [...]
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Mojo Rising – Magic Bullet Mojo
1 commentThe latest from Stu Maschwitz and Red Giant Software is finally here – Magic Bullet Mojo . Mojo is a plug-in that allows you to easily create the film look seen in almost every action/sci-fi/blockbuster movie made in the last few years. The look is characterized by any non-skin toned colors being pushed it into [...]
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After Effects: Effects from A-Z
1 commentRecently I heard about a series of tutorials being done at Motionworks, John Dickinson’s website. The series is called After Effects: Effects A-Z, and it’s an ambitious undertaking of going through every effect that ships with AE, and explaining it’s purpose. There are several contributors so far – Maltaannon, Topher Welsh, Harry Frank, Eran Stern [...]
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Haunted Audio
- By Aharon Rabinowitz & Harry Frank Sep 03, 2009
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Views: 11786
11 commentsIn this video, Harry Frank and Aharon Rabinowitz do a tag team tutorial in sound design. Aharon covers how to create that scary audio heard in Poltergeist using audio software, and Harry shows you how to recreate that effect in Adobe After Effects. You can watch the tutorial in the window below. You can expand [...]