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Ae & Dave Helmly
0I’m not even sure where to begin or how to put in words what After Effects has meant to me and my career. I’m working towards my 18th year with Adobe and for me After Effects has been such a huge part of the “cool factor” of my job. I run a senior field team [...]
Ae & Kevin Kutchaver
I’m the owner of HimAnI Productions, Inc., a studio that specializes in the creation of original visual effects for feature films, television projects, and home entertainment releases. In the past 30 years I’ve worked as an animator, visual effects supervisor, roto artist, digital compositor, 3D supervisor, and more. When I look back to where it [...]
AE & Steven Beckett
Well when I realized being an RAF Pilot really wasn’t my life choice (and more my Dad’s), I decided on looking into 2 things I truly loved: computers and art. Over the years, I developed my Photoshop skills, diving into multiple creative arts till I found somewhere I was comfortable in. Photography/ Digital Art/VFX/ and [...]
Ae & Eran Stern
My love affair with After Effects began in 1996. I worked as a designer for a large newspaper, and after four years in the print business, I sensed there was nowhere to advance to. I was looking for something that would create movement in my designs. It was an election year in Israel and got [...]
Ae & Bob Donlon
If it wasn’t for After Effects, I just might be serving you up a burrito today. 17 years ago, I had become burnt out from my professional life as a touring musician and found myself exercising my newfound chops in multimedia design, creating interactive presentations for investment bankers at Smith Barney on Wall Street. I [...]
Ae & G. Blayney
In 1999 I installed a demo of After Effects and within two minutes of playing around, I had a huge rush of excitement when I realised I had found the tool by which I could show my imagination to people in a way more direct than I ever thought possible! Tens of thousands of hours [...]
Ae & J.C.Burns
I’ve worked in broadcast television graphics since the dawn of time. And I choose the word ‘dawn’ deliberately. I used to have to book overnight sessions at an Atlanta production house where I could laboriously create layered animation using video switchers, multiple rolling VTRs, a $140,000 Quantel Paintbox, and a lot of luck. I’d stagger [...]
Ae & Terry Coolidge
I enrolled as an Illustration student at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in the early 90s specifically to pursue a career as a computer graphics artist. My primary interest was 3D animation, so I took as many Alias classes in the SGI lab as I could. Since I had room in my schedule [...]
Ae & Michele Yamazaki
How do you become a Pluginologist? For me, it’s been a journey that started in 1995 when I went to work at Postworks as a motion graphics artist. For 10 years I learned After Effects on the job. I used it daily and I just loved it. I had a website called AE Freemart, which [...]
Ae & Dennis Radeke
Prior to using it, I had looked at After Effects from afar for quite a while. It was powerful and a little bit intimidating but also very attractive. Seductive. It was empowering. I thought it was “painting with all of the colors.” While working at a professional video reseller, I remember After Effects back in [...]
