Ae Anonymous For those addicted to After Effects...

I recently had problems with my firestore drive that I use to capture footage to from my Hvx200. Like a fool I switched the camera into tape mode while the firestore was connected and they not surprisingly lost communication. (I thought I had turned the camera off, whoops) So in doing this I [...]

Last night we had our shoot at expressions in emeryville for the first Change! music vid. It was awesome, the room was bigger than I expected and Nathan who is the equipment room manager that got us the access, provided us with everything we needed to get our shots. Heck, he was even our key [...]

Here is a pretty simple background element I created using the fractal noise and H&S effect with blending modes. It is 10 seconds long and seamlessly loopable. Be sure to select a layer and hit UU to reveal all the properties I’ve adjusted. And for those without After Effects just sit and...

Wow six whole blog posts in one year, no wonder I forgot my user name and password. Anyways I had some free time over christmas and thought I would show an example of a simple 360 degree camera orbit simulation. I just used a cheap greenscreen, some lights, and one of those spinning discs kids [...]

It took me a quite a few tries to get the look I wanted and I’m still not sure its what I want, but sometimes overdoing things just doesnt work. The napalm look was created in 3dsmax with particle flow attached to a collision event and a Udeflector tied to the logo. A delete [...]

Im trying to come up with different ideas for a music video for a friends band. Here is a kaleidescope animation that is tied to the audio amplitude of an audio track. I think this might work as a background for some sort of grateful dead video, but it would be interesting to composite it [...]