Category Archives: Blog
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Good Robot
No commentsPart of my job at Red Giant has me looking through the content on Vimeo to see what people are working on. It’s how I find great user stories and great people to work with. But also how I find inspiration – often from people who are still in school, working on student projects. Students [...]
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Free Textures (not from me)
No commentsYesterday, Angie Taylor tweeted out these cool bokeh textures from JenniStock on deviant art: Lot’s of cool things you can do with this, such as applying and animating After Effects’ Turbulent Displace. Or you can use them as displacement maps. Or as textures for VideoCopilot’s Optical Flares. Be creative. JenniStock’s got a lot of great [...]
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Digital and Analog Inspiration
No commentsJust saw both of these videos this morning and felt inspired. One is done with camera angles and well planned concept, prop and set design, the other is entirely digital and abstract. NatGeo ID’s 2012 from Lumbre on Vimeo. 2012 – National Geographic Channels International commissioned LUMBRE to create four new ID’s. Plexus Test from [...]
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MGMT – All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
No commentsIt’s been a while since I’ve blogged, but today, I caught this on Photoshop product manager John Nack’s Blog, and I wanted to make sure more After Effects users saw this. MGMT – All We Ever Wanted Was Everything from oneedo on Vimeo. Taken from the album Late Night Tales – MGMT Info at www.latenighttales.co.uk [...]
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Plot Device is Online!
26 commentsMany of you may have caught that I was working on a film with Seth Worley for Red Giant. I’ve not been able to say much until now, but today, the film has been released online as a part of the Magic Bullet Suite 11 Launch. Here it is: I am truly blessed to be [...]
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Hang Out with Red Giant (and me, if your in NYC)
No commentsWhat’s new, cool & delicious? Find out in NYC, SF and Portland Ever wonder how certain people always know things before you do? That’s ’cause they go where the buzz, big shots and booze are. On Monday, June 27, you can be the first to know about something really cool. Join us for a fun [...]
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Where’s Ralph Waldo Emerson?
4 commentsJust a moment of cheesy randomness this morning… “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Dear L.A. Times: Motion Capture is Animation
11 commentsHey folks – I know I’ve been silent lately – I’ve just been quite busy and under water (or as I prefer to say, “creatively engaged”) but I read an article by Steven Paul Leiva in the LA Times on the subject of how motion capture is not animation, and it made me surface. This [...]
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Video Blog: February 2011 Update
18 commentsIn this video, with some help, I give a very quick update on my goings on. Filmed in high quality iPhone 4 (lo-res front facing camera), and cleaned up with Magic Bullet Denoiser and Looks:
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Happy Holidays!
18 commentsFirst off, just wanted to wish all of you a happy holiday! Here’s a special song for you (yeah – it’s me singing – sorry): Listen to We Wish you a Happy Holiday Thanks so much for a great year, everyone. Looking forward to a great 2011. For those that asked, yes – we did [...]
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Off the Grid for a Bit (sort of)
22 commentsHey folks – I had a bunch of stuff well planned for the site through the end of the year, so naturally, my son (name TBD) decided to come into this world, 3 weeks early. He was born on Saturday, December 4th weighing it at only 6 lbs, and 19″ tall.We’re all excited and exhausted. [...]
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Film Flash: New FREE Preset For After Effects
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 01, 2010
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Views: 17090
17 commentsPlain and simple, Film Flash is an automated, dynamic preset for After Effects that bumps up the exposure of the footage to create a cool transition effects between two video clips. All you have to do is add a layer marker right at the point of transition, and Film Flash does the rest. The effect [...]
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Do you choose the people you work with?
3 commentsHey folks – I’m at the point in may career where I get to choose a lot of the people I work with on projects, but that wasn’t always the case. I’m interested in finding out your situation. It will really help me in creating some new content for my site, and may even allow [...]
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Spy Photo: New FREE Presets For After Effects
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Nov 21, 2010
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Views: 14253
24 commentsIntroducing Spy Photo, a new set of FREE presets for Adobe After Effects that makes it easy to create the look of snapshots taken by a spy or private investigator, as seen in film and TV. The presets are dynamic, and require no keyframes. Just marks where you want the effect to happen. After Effects [...]
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FREE Template Project: Movie Magic
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Nov 09, 2010
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Views: 9348
13 commentsA template project I’ve been working on with 3D text and cool light-based transitions. Has a bit of a movie theater messaging vibe (like “please turn your cell phones off” and “Buy Popcorn”), or maybe a futuristic holiday feel. Uses Trapcode Form, Knoll Light Factory and Magic Bullet Looks. Get it for FREE at Red [...]
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How to Start a Software User Group (or Die Trying)
7 commentsGiven that I co-founded After Effects New York, the worlds largest software user group, I get asked this question a lot: How does one start a user group? In the interest of full disclosure, I need to say that it didn’t hurt that by the time I co-founded AENY with Denis Radeke, I’d already put [...]
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I Wish Someone Would Make one of These About After Effects
8 commentsThe title of this post pretty much says it. This is pure awesomeness. Come one people – someone must have enough free time to do something this cool about After Effects!
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Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Plagiarism
32 commentsIf you follow my blog, you probably know that I’m working with Red Giant Software these days. That was a choice I didn’t even have to think hard about. The opportunity to work with guys like Peder Norrby and Stu Maschwitz, the creative geniuses behind Trapcode and Magic Bullet respectively, was just too good to [...]
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How I See the World, Once a Month
17 commentsAbout once a month I suffer from a condition called Ocular Migraines. Scientifically, it is essentially the same as a standard migraine but, in addition to the headache, it makes me temporarily blind for about 20 minutes. It starts off as a small shimmer of geometric shapes in the corner of my eye, and within [...]
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Tron 2.5D
3 commentsMore than ayear ago (wow has it been that long) I made a blog post called After Effects and Tron 1.0 where I showed a project I was playing around with. Well, I left it alone for a long time because I wasn’t having a lot of luck. But then friday I had some ideas, [...]
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Adventure Now!
1 commentI just watched part of a web series from Seth Worley, called “Adventure Now” and I really enjoyed it. While the series has religious undertones, which is not generally something I’m a fan of, it’s truly well written and well filmed. Also, it’s funny, smart, and original which is something you don’t see too often [...]
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Layers Magazine Gives Holomatrix a 5/5 Rating
6 commentsSome of you might not know this, but Dan Ebberts and I created Red Giant Holomatrix, a plug-in for creating the look and feel of a Sci-Fi hologram. We spent months agonizing over how it would look and behave. People seem to love it, so I know we did OK, but I was really happy [...]
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Crowd Control is Back!
14 commentsCrowd Control is back, baby! It took a lot longer than we wanted, but it’s working even better than we’d hoped! You can now get Crowd Control clips at http://footage.toolfarm.com/. You’ve probably noticed that it’s now hosted and operated by ToolFarm.com. First off, I wanted to let you know that if you previously purchased credits, [...]
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I am an Unfunny Sellout Turd
49 commentsHey folks – every once in a while I get a really nice thank you letter. I thought I’d share this one: Message: If you’re going to be such a little sellout turd and throw products in my face all the time, could you at least please like, TRY to be funny. “Im this guy [...]