Editor’s note: The following guest post is written by Shashi Seth, the senior vice president of Search products at Yahoo! Previously, Shashi worked at Google where he developed the monetization strategy for YouTube and was also the product lead for search. Search is about to change quite radically. For more than a decade, search has […]
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I’ve always thought of personalization as a good thing. If Google knows something about me then it can provide results that I’ll find more relevant, right? Watch this TED talk by Eli Pariser and, like me, you might start having second thoughts. Pariser is former executive director of MoveOn and is now a […]
Gareth Smith, who helped create titles for Thank You For Smoking, Juno, and Jennifer’s Body, posted 5 tutorials on Vimeo on select topics on creating text animations in After Effects. For more on text and title design, see Type & After Effects Resources at AEtuts. Here’s Gareth’s first tutorial… Animated type tutorial 1: Raining type […]
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Mathias Möhl published the first of his “guru” lessons, a free After Effects training series dedicated to beginners. Mathias aims to teach the basics starting from the very beginning and make it entertaining. In the first lesson (embedded below) you learn importing footage, creating a composition, and moving and scaling layers to create a fire […]
We’re going through our book Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects 5th Edition (CMG5) and pulling out a few “hidden gems” from each chapter. These will include essential advice for new users, plus timesaving tips that experienced users may not be aware of. One of the strengths of After Effects is that it can be […]
Read More… from CMG Hidden Gems: Chapter 23 – Effects Roundup
Let’s face it, a lot more editors, artists and animators have Premiere Pro loaded on the systems they use every day than are actually using it. And yet over the last few years-and in particular over the past year, since Adobe started demoing real-time playback of all kinds of files, including 4K RED .r3d source, […]
