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  1. Looking for work? Check out the Motion Exchange.

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Nov 22, 2009

    My good friend Harry Frank just started The Motion Exchange, a new social networking group for people in the motion graphics industry. If you’re looking for work, register there, and start connecting with other people who might just hire you. You can watch a video where Harry explains the Motion Exchange, by clicking on the [...]

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  2. I love the 80′s

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Oct 30, 2009

    UPDATE: Video Rock is now available – get it here. OK – that’s a terrible lie. When I was in the 80′s it was an awkward time. The chicks didn’t dig me. I wasn’t on the football team. I watched Dr. Who and Star Trek, and did lots of other geeky stuff. I was more [...]

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  3. After Effects: Effects from A-Z

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Sep 07, 2009

    Recently 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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  4. Crowd Control Kicks Off the Teen Choice Awards

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Aug 29, 2009

    Recently, our friend Harry Frank, of GrayMachine.com, used Crowd Control to kick off Fox’s Teen Choice Awards. You can see the clip being used right here, in the first few seconds. Yes, that vector-like artwork is actually a video clip that Harry manipulated in Adobe After Effects to work with the color palette and style [...]

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  5. 50% off Crowd Control

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Jul 21, 2009

    In honor of Harry Frank’s Particular 2 crowd scene tutorial, we’re giving 50% off Crowd Control so that you can re-create the effect. UPDATE: The sale is over. Use the code “particular2” when purchasing credits, and get half off the price. BTW – these are the 5 clips Harry used: # 00036_002_10 # 00155_001_58 # [...]

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    RGTV Ep 25: Creating a Crowd Scene with Particular 2

    In this rockin’ episode of Red Giant TV, Motion Designer Harry Frank shows you how to create a realistic crowd scene using Trapcode Particular 2. He’ll also create a similar scene using Trapcode Form. This tutorial is from Harry Frank,  a truly truly talented Motion Designer and teacher, but also a great guy we enjoy [...]

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  7. Crowd Tutorial Coming Soon!

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    Jul 14, 2009

    …But not from me. This one is from my good friend, Harry Frank of GrayMachine.com. Next week’s episode of Red Giant TV promises to be an amazing one  – it covers creating a crowd with Trapcode Particular 2.0. Building off of Harry’s work in the tutorial, I created this scene: A still image doesn’t do [...]

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  8. Reverse Shatter Tutorial by Harry Frank

    By Aharon Rabinowitz
    May 17, 2009

    Just watched a cool tutorial by Harry Frank on creating a Reverse shatter effect. This is the end result: Reverse Shatter Effect from graymachine on Vimeo. You can see the tutorial here:

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