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Ae & Bishoy Nader
1I have fallen in love with creating beautiful graphics. I had the talent for it when I was young and it was then I heard about After Effects from my best friend. When I was in secondary school, I took a course in After Effects and worked through the content in the After Effects Classroom [...]
After Effects and CINEMA 4D
I am super excited about this one – it’s been in the works for quite some time, and I finally get to share a few details. Today, Adobe announced it is entering into a strategic alliance with MAXON, the makers of CINEMA 4D. Here’s why we’re doing it: After Effects works really well with CINEMA [...]
Ae & Miguel Muelle
I first met 2 young software guys back in 1989 or 1990, Dave Herbstman and Dave Simons in Boston, when they came up from Rhode Island to the studio where I was working. They were doing some R&D for a program they were working on that would be like the expensive compositing systems we were [...]
Ae & Maltaannon
As I kid I wanted nothing more but to become an inventor when I grow up. My hero at that time (and perhaps to this day) was Prof. Grumpy. (I have a TEDx talk about that subject and how it led me to After Effects – http://tinyurl.com/aewgpus). My parents sent me to a music school [...]
Ae & Colby Fulton
20 years ago, I was introduced to After Effects. Created by the enigmatic CoSA corporation. After Effects was an artifact from the future – the natural extension of Photoshop, projected into the fourth dimension. It took my work into a radical new direction, allowing me to move and combine imagery in ways I had only [...]
AE & Estelle Baylis
After graduating with a design degree back in ’98, I moved to London and was lucky enough to be offered a junior design position at a tiny post-production studio called Blue Source. It was here that I was introduced to Ae for the first time; the only software I had used till then was Photoshop [...]
Ae & Kevan O’Brien
I was first exposed to After Effects at Passion Pictures where they were using it for compositing animated material into live action commercials. Often a comp would come to me - I was editing at the time – and it would need to be “tweaked” or rendered in a different codec on the network to [...]
Ae & Sherry Hitch
I first got involved in the visual effects industry in the 1990s. I’d gone to film school and art school and thought I might try to be a director someday. I went to work as a PA at a VFX boutique house, Foundation Imaging, which was starting to do visual effects on desktop machines. It [...]
Ae & Sagar Doiphode
I’m from India, Mumbai city. After finishing my Animation course in school, I wanted to become a compositor but had no idea where to start. I started with After Effects 7.0 and foudn it very user friendly. After one year working on After Effects, I realize how powerful it really is! I started my career as [...]
Ae & & Steven Messing
My focus since childhood was a desire to create unique imagery through filmmaking. After studying Film at USC and design at Art Center in Pasadena, I fostered my passion for visual effects. I started my career in small commercial houses and video game studios creating matte paintings for cinematics and marketing campaigns. I quickly latched [...]
