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Adobe Beginner Classes Episode #38 is live!

Dennis Radeke — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:48:07 +0000

This one is another one of those catch up kinds of episodes – something I had developed some time ago for a seminar or what not and didn’t have time to record until recently. This is a great tutorial for getting a grip on the basics of After Effects.

During this 20 minute tutorial, we cover a decent amount of ground and it helps give you a basic understanding of such things as ramps (gradients), layers, 3D position, null objects, parenting, nesting and several more things. As always, I love to hear from people who view it for ideas on other episodes or questions.

Adobe Beginner Class #36 is live on Adobe TV!

Dennis Radeke — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:33:47 +0000

(UPDATE – The episode is temporarily in limbo as i return from vacation and the Adobe TV team is presumably at Adobe MAX. I’ll get it back up on Adobe TV soon. Until then, check it out on Vimeo!)

This episode is about animating a still, a classic, timeless look. With CS5, we have some new tools that make this work much easier than in times past. To that end, I developed a tutorial in two parts to cover it.

In this part, we dive into the Photoshop aspect to create our separate and distinct layers for animating in After Effects. As always, rate the video via Adobe TV and feel free to make lengthy (or pithy!) comments at the blog here.

Adobe Beginner Classes Episode #35 is live! (and has been for a while)

Dennis Radeke — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:40:27 +0000

Well, I’ve pontificated about the ongoing work of the blog revamp and all of that. Well, I’ve also been working on tutorials and so now the two have collided, I think.…When last we saw our intrepid tutorializer, he was busy trying to finish an episode on animating an Encore menu inside of After Effects… Well, nearly a year later (10 months to be exact) I’ve finally come back to finish what I’ve started. The fruit of that labor is below:

One of the coolest things about this episode after the long hiatus is that it is now HD. Most likely you will see the stream as MED for medium when you view it at Adobe TV. You can change it to HD and it’s at 2MB/s or so. Sweet! Here’s the link: ABC Episode 35

You can also check out the same thing at Vimeo.

Let me know what you think – I’ve already got a few more in the pipeline as a kind of mental catch up…

Cheers,
Dennis

FREE After Effects Reflection plugin

Dennis Radeke — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:46:50 +0000

You did the word free don’t you?

Simply click the ‘download project’ button on the link below to get the plugin. To install, simply drag it into your AE plugin’s folder.

Happy reflection day,
Dennis

Reflection plugin

Adobe Beginner Classes #29 is live!

Dennis Radeke — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:16:19 +0000

This looks to be another four part series. The first part here is covering some of the building blocks, but trust me they are still very interesting! Click Play below and view the final composition and then read on for some more detail.

I have to say that I am really bummed that my screen recording did such a horrible job of capturing the actual playing of the QuickTime file. However, I put it up on YouTube and hopefully you get a sense of what we’re trying to do. Let me know what you think as always.

I’ve been blessed to hear that a lot of big companies have said that they’ve watched the videos and it’s always gratifying to learn that your work is being consumed and appreciated. No, this isn’t a call for compliments – rather a chance for me to say thank you for watching.