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Here is a looping sequence of flipping tiles or squares made with after effects that we displayed on our netbook pcs we were giving away at our booth.
I figured I have done enough 'fun' stuff and need to get adobe after effects basics down.
The particles that come with AE cs4 are pretty impressive. My biggest obstacle right now is how to move the camera around quickly and 'ease'ily. I am doing better. I figured out that if you attach a camera to a null object it removes the complexity if you simply move the null object around.
Video Copilot Basic Training
This may look really simple but it took me 2 hours. :
Here is more fun with particular. A tutorial from aetuts.com helped me create this effect. Here is my finished ae file for those of you who like to cheat. :) download aetut
Cheap After Effects Thrills. I have not had as much time as I have wanted to devote to motion graphics lately. I ran across this ae tunnel tutorial and thought I would share. The possibilities are intimidating with after effects. You really have to have the mathematical side of the brain to complete the other half. Sort of like Adobe Flash but this has sooo many more possibilities.
More After Effects fun. I can easily say that this was only fun to film. Light Sabers in After Effects are tedious to say the least. AJ loves it! That is what counts.. I think.
Ok I was going to take a break away from Adobe After Effects tonight. But hey its the weekend why not play some more.
This is what I came up with after using the 'Trapcode Particular' effect in After Effects. You can do everything from that magical dust looking logo in my previous video post to realistic explosions. As seen here. I will tell you that mastering the settings would take more time than I am comfortable using right now. So this does not look as realistic as I might have hoped but here I am Exploding in my foyer. KA...
Last night after yelling cuss words for 3 hours solid. I finally started to learn how the After Effects environment works. For those of you not into this stuff ill try to make it simple. Adobe photoshop is used to manipulate photos and make nice 2d images. Adobe Premiere is used to edit movies. Adobe After Effects is used to add simulated effects to 2d and 3d parts for movies. Sooo.. After Effects is like using photoshop filters but in real time and in a 3d environment.
My 1st 6 Second Experiment: Kinetic Typography
This morning AJ was complaining about his first loose tooth. I was going to pull it with some pliers so he said "NO WAAAY DAD" and pulled it himself. See the video below. ;)
Our 1st lamaze class was Saturday morning. It went great! (remember the baby is due Nov 8th)
We took a trip down to North Carolina ( Coralla, NC Outer Banks )
Mandy's ( Jays wife as of today) parents rented 2 beach houses (pictures below are of the house Christy and I stayed in) It was beuatiful! I went in the hot tub, we went to the lighthouse down the street had ping pong tournaments with John, Christy's uncle. All of the kids were at our beach house which was 6 miles from the beach house they rented for the wedding.
Christy's grandma...
That is not how you spell chucke cheese, but you would be surprised how many people search MSN spelling it wrong.. I get like 300 people a week visiting my site from this mistake.. take a look, I am # 4 on the search list >( MSN ) My computer is fried so you wont get the whole bday video yet.. only the drive to chuckee cheese as follows. (Mom, I would love to know if you can see this video below!)
We are all bundled up and going out to play in the snow (the snow is thick and packing!).. I am hoping that the snow will let up so I can see my dad and marcia again one last time before they leave tonight.
here is a shot of us on Christmas eve going out to Bakers Crust for dinner>
here is a video of AJ's “BIG DAY“>
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We opened an early gift from Chris, Stacey, Marcia and Mike. It was a Samsung digital camera! That link is the exact camera I now have!!! Yaaay Adobe Premiere here I come!.. I have already spliced a video together from last night, all editing is in line with how the night went.. except one little spot that didnt actually happen in sequence.. let me know if you cant find it :)
Grandpa Fred and Grandma Jody gave me a Household fix it book, it has everything you can imagine in it! They gave Christy a nice bird calendar and AJ got...
Video Editing is my next endeavor, Didint have much time because I am practicing some new flash load methods for stratum.net tonight .This video is my first try.. kinda sux but I am learning dang it,
It wasnt anyones b-day but chuck e cheese is known for birthday songs.. so I thought I would put some old time video/audio clips from when they first opened..
we had fun.. and Christy was right.. she had this look in her eye and ended up spending like $10 at this 1 machine.
Halloween was fun, little AJ got a big bag full of candy and Christy tolerated my camera taking all night.. hehe
I worked all day so I am not in the mood to talk that much.. I will write more soon.. we all had a great night! (man I am irratating.. i didnt notice till I watched this video a couple times)
Special Thanks to Jim Keown for letting me use is great little camcorder!