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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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By Rich Young | December 13, 2011
Here's another summary of the last week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts -- with a new training section on AE Scripts, a new danger in the orange and teal saga, and much more. Please note that there are additional details, presets, and/or projects on the originating websites that are not included in these overviews.
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By Rich Young | December 05, 2011
Here's another week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts -- with a sabbatical, new training service deals, more on iExpressions and Boris FX, Shapes, slow motion, HDR in AE, and more.
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LED lights, 3D shapes, linking objects with lines, users' choice plug-ins, and more.
By Rich Young | November 29, 2011
Here's another week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts and more. Thanksgiving was last week but there was substance from Video Copilot, a start on some broadcast-style graphics, LED light walls & casino-style text lights, green screen tips, 3D cubes and other shapes, linking objects with lines, results of a user's choice survey on plug-ins, and more.
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A collection of a few resources
By Rich Young | November 29, 2011
In a new tutorial, Daniel Moreno shows you how to Create A Glittering Cabaret Light Display with Las Vegas bulb lights and make them shine in different patterns with Trapcode Starglow and Particular.
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With news on wiggles, organization, color, CUDA + more
By Rich Young | November 21, 2011
Here's another week of some of the latest news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts and more. Last week saw a little swarm of news on organization and workflow setups, wiggles & glitches, CUDA and Premiere Pro, and more.
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A roundup on a popular effect
By Rich Young | November 17, 2011
You can use dedicated snow filters or particle systems to create snow that can be stylized or realistic, or something less successful. There are filters built into After Effects like CC Snow, CC Particle World, and Particle Playground -- or you can use 3rd-party filters like Trapcode Particular (which is AE 3D camera-aware), Boris FX Snow, Cycore FX HD Snowfall, DigiEffects Delirium Snow, and GenArts Monsters GT.
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A few resources for Card Dance and beyond
By Rich Young | November 16, 2011
The quick tip for making an animated photo mosaic in After Effects is to generate the mosaic externally and animate with the built-in Card Dance plug-in, which can be a little tricky.
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A news roundup
By Rich Young | November 14, 2011
Here's another week of some of the latest news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts and more. It was a bit slower last week, but there was plenty of news, tools, and tutorials for the restless.
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A mini-roundup
By Rich Young | November 11, 2011
The built-in lens flares in Adobe products are quite long-in-the-tooth, but there are a bunch of tutorials, tools, and real world examples to help you get beyond the common look. The most recent tutorial by VinhSon Nguyen aims to Breathe Life Back Into After Effects Lens Flares. [Plus, two noteworthy plug-in comparisons have been added to the Tools section.]
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Current and future solutions
By Rich Young | November 07, 2011
Adobe research scientist Wil Li has a demo of an experimental technology for creating seamless edits in interview footage that could make working with jump cuts easier. Hopefully, this technology with Content Aware seam-carving goodness will be integrated into Premiere.
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News on After Effects and beyond
By Rich Young | November 07, 2011
Here's another week of some of the latest news (in two parts) on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts, and related items of interest. It was busy again last week, with iExpressions (a new approach to leverage expressions), tutorials from Red Giant, workflow, cameras, and Avid moving things forward.
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from the Boston SuperMeet
By Rich Young | November 02, 2011
Walter Murch spoke at a recent Final Cut Supermeet in Boston, answering questions after his presentation. The entire video is now available, and in HD flavors.
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... and related news
By Rich Young | October 31, 2011
Here's another week of some of the latest news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts. It was busy again last week, dominated by scripts and plug-ins, old and new.
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New from Mamoworld
By Rich Young | October 31, 2011
iExpressions from Mamoworld combines the power of After Effects expressions with the convenience of effect plug-ins. They allow you to use expressions without writing any code -- each iExpression comes with an interface to control everything using adjustable parameters. iExpressions seems like something out of Stu Mashwitz blog on the potential of a nodes property panel, but it's just script UI for each expression.
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A news roundup on AE and beyond
By Rich Young | October 24, 2011
Here's another week of some of the latest news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts and more. It slowed slightly last week, but there's plenty of news, tools, and tutorials to keep even the unemployed busy.
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A reminder from Motionworks and Chris Meyer
By Rich Young | October 22, 2011
Motionworks has a new tip on Twitter noting the limitation of Layer Styles for 3D in After Effects. You can find background this problem in Chris & Trish Meyer's CMG Hidden Gems: Chapter 13 - 3D Space.
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Tips from Joren Kandel and more
By Rich Young | October 17, 2011
Joren Kandel posted 2 short videos on adding motion blur to footage: Free Motion Blur in AE and Reel Smart Motion Blur in AE, looking at built-in options and the surprisingly fast 3rd party plug-in.
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A news roundup on AE & beyond
By Rich Young | October 15, 2011
Here's another roundup of some of the latest news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts and more. It's been another busy week, with news and tutorials on roto and compositing, and much more in inspiration, tools, and related topics.
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A little news roundup
By Rich Young | October 07, 2011
Here's a little roundup of some of the latest news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts and more. It's been a busy but somber week, with news from Genarts, a substantial new animation series at AEtuts, and more.
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Basic "face replacement" courting Hollywood
By Rich Young | October 04, 2011
The Annoying Orange has one of the more popular YouTube series with more than 800 million views, spawning imitators and reaching out with celebrity guests, merchandise, and an iPhone game. The cartoon looks a bit like a descendant of Clutch Cargo, but there's a TV pilot ready to be shopped around Hollywood according to an article in The New York Times, Animated Fruit With Ambition. The article was top and center of the Business section and showed creator Dane Boedigheimer sitting in front of After Effects.
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