Category Archives: Blog
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Major Site Improvements Coming!
3 commentsHi folks- Just wanted to let you know that we have major site improvements planned for All Bets Are Off Productions – specifically with the speed of the Crowd Control site. Over the last 3 weeks (since we launched Crowd Control) we’ve been receiving your feedback about the way the site works and what you [...]
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Light Wraps
1 commentNot sure if I’m obsessed or just really bent on trying to help people get better compositing results, but if I can get these done before I head out for 3 weeks (2 for the holidays, 1 for NAB), I’m going to be putting out 2 tutorials on better Light Wraps. If you’re not familiar [...]
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Crowd Control Takes on Adjustment Lights
2 commentsEran Stern just did a great Creative Cow podcast tutorial on the subject of adjustment lights. And I’m proud to say that in it, he uses Crowd Control to help illustrate it. And if you’re more of a “Full-res” tutorial kind of person, it should be up this Friday in all of it’s full-sized glory. [...]
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Andrew Kramer at After Effects New York
13 commentsLast night, Andrew Kramer paid a visit to After Effects New York, the group I co-run with Jim Geduldick. We had an awesome turnout – over 300 people. His training was, of course, fantastic. I especially enjoyed his use of Windows Paint to show some high-end compositing techniques (if you think I’m kidding – I’m [...]
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Crowd Control is Here!
20 commentsOK folks- You’ve heard a few rumbling here, and our library of keyed out footage is finally here… but as of today, what was called “All Footage Keyed Out” is now called “Crowd Control.” 45,000 keyed out clips ready for use in all of your projects! This was a tremendous undertaking, and we at All [...]
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All Footage Keyed Out!
18 commentsIf you watch this week’s tutorial, you’ll see that I make a reference to a new product we’re working on bringing to you. A huge library of pre-keyed alpha footage – actors filmed on a green screen and then keyed out – so all you have to do is drop it into your projects. If [...]
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If you subscribed to any of my RSS feeds…
1 commentHi folks- If you subscribed to any of my RSS feeds, please re-subscribe. There was a bug in the feeds and it was fixed today. I want to make sure you get the most up to date tutorials…etc. Sorry for the trouble. the site is still in beta.
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That Baby DVD
3 commentsYou may have caught in one of my recent tutorials (Creating looping Particle System) that I’m a new Dad. In that tutorial, I mentioned creating a DVD to entertain my daughter Noa (now 6 months old). Well, I was contacted by an animator named Rob Wolf to say that he had, in fact, made a [...]
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After Effects New York January Meeting
No commentsWe had an awesome AENY meeting tonight. I’m too tired to write a lot about it, other than to say that we had 2 great presenters…
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Microsoft Comes Through
10 commentsI had a shockingly good experience with Microsoft tech support today. I was having trouble installing MS Windows XP SP3 (Adobe’s strong recommendation for CS4). No matter how many different ways I tried, it would not install. There was some sort of permissions issue. So I did the unthinkable: I called Microsoft and asked for [...]
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My Students
2 commentsI love teaching. In my professional life, nothing gives me more pleasure… with the exception of one thing: When I see some of the awesome work my old students are doing. Yeah, maybe I’m taking too much credit, but I like to think I helped. Here’s a couple of my favorites: “Billy Bombo” by Dan [...]