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Rich Young is a long-time After Effects user from the San Francisco Bay Area. His After Effects weekly round-ups provide viewers with an easy-to-digest summary of what developments have been taking place with After Effects. He also supplies info and links for tutorials that allow users to do things in After Effects they never thought were possible....
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Apprentice training, color matching plug-in, Image Based Lighting, 3D particles, and more
By Rich Young | December 08, 2012
Here's another part of the last few weeks or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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A roundup
By Rich Young | November 30, 2012
There are a variety of ways to get a sunburst effect or radial rays in After Effects, and methods in Illustrator and Photoshop are sometimes similar. Here are some resources on making them.
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Catching up is hard to do
By Rich Young | November 28, 2012
Here's another part of the last few weeks or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old. Check out also the November 18 installment, Recently in After Effects.{C}
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By Rich Young | November 18, 2012
Here's part of the last few weeks or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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Some Resources
By Rich Young | November 12, 2012
There are a number of ways to generate the Matrix text effect, and reflex dictates a list. Several tutorials have been done using particles with Particle Playground and CC Particle World, and other built-in and 3rd-party tools.
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Particular update + tutorials, Element 3D, OrientWorld, cover flow, add & remove blemishes, and more
By Rich Young | October 31, 2012
Here's the latest week or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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'Avengers' HUD, Orient World, Particular, shortcuts, error codes and more
By Rich Young | October 23, 2012
Here's the latest week or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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Wiggles, twitches, color, 3D, scripts, Premiere, & more
By Rich Young | October 18, 2012
Here's the latest week or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.{C}
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Beats, plug-ins, son of Ken Burns, roto, Production Premium news, 3D
By Rich Young | October 10, 2012
Here's the latest week or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.{C}
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A different 'film-look' plug-in, Trapcode Particular training, Dynamic Link, presets, and more
By Rich Young | September 30, 2012
Here's the last bunch of news from September in assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old. You can catch other recent AE roundup at After Effects Lately #1 and After Effects Lately #2.
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AE Scripts hits stride with Plexus 2 and more
By Rich Young | September 28, 2012
Here's the latest from this month in assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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Catching up to IBC and other news: a new full-featured 3D renderer & more
By Rich Young | September 23, 2012
Here's the latest week or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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Product discussion + Adobe Anywhere, KinectToPin, 3D camera tracker, Auto-Save, Particle Playground galaxies, one matte for multiple layers, and more
By Rich Young | September 05, 2012
Here's the latest week or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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One matte for multiple layers
By Rich Young | August 31, 2012
Many people don't seem to know the Set Matte effect plug-in exists, maybe because it officially exists only to provide compatibility with earlier projects. That seems to have changed since Set Matte was upgraded to support 32-bpc color depth in After Effects CS6.
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Lining up the usual suspects + Elementary
By Rich Young | August 26, 2012
Here's the latest week or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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Knoll lens flare update, AE Scripts redesigns + Plexus 2, matte extraction, fake guns, & more
By Rich Young | August 15, 2012
Here's the latest week or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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By Rich Young | August 11, 2012
Muzzle flashes and other gun effects have been popular topics. Muzzle flashes by themselves are useless -- you need the flash, smoke, a shell, a gun, bullet hits, audio, and more.
Here's a few resources to help you put together something believable.
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A big new training series, Trapcode Mir debuts, Element 3D marches on, + more
By Rich Young | August 06, 2012
Here's the latest week or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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A fractalized 3D mesh for real time experimentation
By Rich Young | August 03, 2012
Trapcode Mir 1.0 was released this week. Mir creates 3D shapes that are built from a simple polygon mesh. Using fractal noise for distortion, texture mapping, repeating and wrapping geometry, and After Effects light integration -- all accelerated by your OpenGL hardware -- Mir generates smoothly shaded objects or flowing organic elements, bendable tubes & tunnels, nebulas, abstract landscapes, bar charts, and so forth, animated with light and depth. Shader options include Ambient Occlusion and wireframe mesh and point fills.
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By Rich Young | July 30, 2012
Here's the latest week or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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DBA Createasphere