After Effects adventures

After falling in love with the in between loading movies on Call Of Duty World At War, I dove into the world of motion graphics. Simply put, I am in love. I can now combine my passion of design and illustration with my other passion of animation! So many fucking ideas in my head! It's only a matter of learning how to use the tools to have my ideas come to life. It will take time, but I'm so excited to execute ideas that I'm going to learn as much as I can all Winter before school starts. NOTE: I know Randomentity recently got into After Effects as well, however I was unable to see the video he posted in his after effects thread, which made me sad. So maybe all you After Effects artists can use this thread to post some of the projects and exercises you have. =) Anyways, here is my VERY FIRST After Effects exercise to a 4 second clip of Grand Master Flash's "The Message." I don't think it came out too bad at all for a first timer! <object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2736554&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2736554&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/2736554">Don't Push Me After Effects Test</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user534642">Jerome Villagracia</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>. Tell me what you all think. Thanks! 2009-01-07T15:23:43-05:00

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dude i would kill to be able to shred at AE. the clip you posted is definitely inspiring for a first attempt. the only thing i can say about it is that its doable in flash and what i love about AE is all the stuff you cannot do in flash. keep at it though, you may inspire me to quit playing xbox and actually learn this junk. 12532

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that's cool! keep with it, it looks fun :) 12532

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Short and simple. I like it. 12532

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<blockquote><cite>skull with hair said:</cite> dude i would kill to be able to shred at AE. the clip you posted is definitely inspiring for a first attempt. the only thing i can say about it is that its doable in flash and what i love about AE is all the stuff you cannot do in flash. keep at it though, you may inspire me to quit playing xbox and actually learn this junk.</blockquote> Thanks man. Yeah, I'm skimming the net for some tutorials and I'm going to go out this weekend to look for a good book to learn this program. I have a pretty good DV camera too so I hope within a couple of weeks I'll be able to film some test footage that I can play with. Also, thanks everyone for checking it out. I'm planning on using my vimeo account to post nothing but After Effects exercises. 12532

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You might also like Cinema 4d It's one of the easiest programs I found to do mograph 12532

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I like this site for AE tuts: <a href="http://aefreemart.com/">http://aefreemart.com/</a> I started to get into AE a while back, but then I completely forgot about it. I have CS4, I just have yet to try to learn it again. 12532

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looks good. i guess got me a copy of AE about 2 months ago. this is my first time using it. hopefully i can create what i have in my mind. 12532

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Yeah I'm in the same boat. I've been trying to teach myself AE on and off since last summer and got a few things down. If you want some great tutorials check out Creative Cow's podcasts. There are hundreds, all for free, and really helpful. 12532

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its such an intense programme, that can do so much, i've done a few things in it, but nothing ott, text animation is awesome in it! 12532

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check out my vimeo page www.vimeo.com/randomentity for some of my After Effects work. Videocopilot.net is THE source for AE tutorials. Andrew Kramer is pretty amazing, and a good teacher. <object width="350" height="263"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1835043&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1835043&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="350" height="263"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/1835043">Skin Crawl Study</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/randomentity">RandomEntity Design</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>. 12532

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<blockquote><cite>logan said:</cite> Yeah I'm in the same boat. I've been trying to teach myself AE on and off since last summer and got a few things down. If you want some great tutorials check out Creative Cow's podcasts. There are hundreds, all for free, and really helpful.</blockquote> im so tempted to leave work early for this 12532

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this is a really awesome first try. keep at it dude. 12532

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yeah, i have yet to try any kinetic typography, maybe someday, but i prefer compositing and special effects. 12532

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I'm sure you already know about it, but Andrew Kramer from <a href="http://www.videocopilot.net/">http://www.videocopilot.net/</a> as some killer tutorials for AE and some very nice plugins too such as "twitch" which is a MUST HAVE for anyone who likes Electrik Suicide's work. 12532

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This is all great. When I get home from work I'm gonna check out all those sites you all recommended. I'm starting off with videocopilot's basics tutorials so that's helping a lot. I wish I still had a lynda subscription though =( 12532

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<blockquote><cite>MarginalLeger said:</cite> I'm sure you already know about it, but Andrew Kramer from <a href="http://www.videocopilot.net/">http://www.videocopilot.net/</a> as some killer tutorials for AE and some very nice plugins too such as "twitch" which is a MUST HAVE for anyone who likes Electrik Suicide's work.</blockquote> Oh definitely I had to go purchase the TWITCH plugin its awesome! 12532

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gomedia has some good tutorials. 12532

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<blockquote><cite>skull with hair said:</cite> <img src="http://www.robrob8.com/pictures/images/video_professor.jpg" /></blockquote> Dude, fuck that guy. 12532

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aren't they called IN-GAME CINEMATICS?!?!??!?! not inbetween loding moviz? 12532

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<blockquote><cite>asdafkid said:</cite> aren't they called IN-GAME CINEMATICS?!?!??!?! not inbetween loding moviz?</blockquote> Haha yeah. 12532

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awesome dude, my course of study in school was broadcast design so i did a lot of stuff in after effects. In retrospect i was pretty crappy at it. 12532

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Im thinking of trying this out, I saw some of Hydro's new after effect videos, very inspirational. 12532

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AE is just insane...VideoCoPilot does ahve some great tutorials and does make it much easier to learn AE. Definately an extremely powerful program , I gotta get back into it as well. 12532

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There's a good tutorial <a href="http://aetuts.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/design-rhythmic-motion-typography-in-after-effects/">here</a> on motion typography. 12532

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heres another good one <a href="http://www.smouch.net/lol/">aftereffectztutz</a> 12532

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Thank you pzn! Here is another exercise I did today. <object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2747342&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2747342&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/2747342">The Ghoul Gang Promo camera test</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user534642">Jerome Villagracia</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>. This shit is so fun to do. 12532

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This is something I made at Parsons for my midterm. I think it's my best animation to date. <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/2177891">The Piper's Waltz</a> Check out my profile, I got some other decent motion graphics stuff in there that you might like: <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/user911375">Ray's Vimeo Profile</a> 12532

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<blockquote><cite>RAWRoutLOWD said:</cite> This is something I made at Parsons for my midterm. I think it's my best animation to date. <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/2177891">The Piper's Waltz</a> Check out my profile, I got some other decent motion graphics stuff in there that you might like: <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/user911375">Ray's Vimeo Profile</a></blockquote> This is so rad!! 12532

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Thanks guys! I worked really hard on it 12532

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Great job Rawr!!!! 12532

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