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MILG5 – Official Tutorial List

Posted on 17. Nov, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

Hello my friends. We are getting closer and closer to finally releasing MILG5 as promissed. I thought that I could share the official tutorial list with you, so here I go:

Create a cool-looking gyroscopic element completely within After Effects. Inspired by the work of Mark Coleran, this tutorial includes extensive use of Shape Layers, parenting and simple expressions to create a technical look using almost no keyframes.

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Making the final edits

Posted on 15. Nov, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

I know I know… I haven’t had much time for you during last few months… or at least it looks that way. I was fully dedicated to recording Making It Look Great 5 tutorials to provide you with great training DVD. I’m making the final edits as I’m writing this post.

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Adobe After Effects CS4

Posted on 24. Oct, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

My friend John Dickinson at Motionworks.com.au just started up a series of short insightful tutorials on new exciting features of After Effects CS4. I encourage you all to look into it. It’s more than just a plain overview.

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Assassins Creed

Posted on 08. Oct, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

I took two days off work to relax a bit and restore my strength. Unfortunately my friends showed me this wonderful game. Even though I’m nor much of a gamer this piece is a work of art and it has everything that I like in a game. A little bit of Prince of Persia, a little bit of Hitman… It’s just great.

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Expressions Guide

Posted on 26. Sep, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

Despite my huge efforts to make expressions less distant and less scary for After Effects users unfortunately I still get a lot of questions about them on my hotline and in my email. That’s why I thought that maybe it’s a good idea to start posting articles about them. What do you think?

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The Nobody Hole Video Contest

Posted on 25. Sep, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

Hey guys! Exiting news for all of you who love AE and want to get some exposure. Toolfarm has just launched a video contest where you can win some serious prizes and get noticed as well. All the informations are available at The Nobody Hole Video Contest website.

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Hacking WordPress

Posted on 22. Sep, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

I’ve been helping out John Dickinson from Motionworks with his new site that is going to be up soon. Doing that I took advantage of the legacy my-hacks.php file in WordPress architecture. It’s great that you can still use this file. It allows doing cool things with your post and WordPress in general without going into writing a real plugin.

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Updates on Making It Look Great 5

Posted on 18. Sep, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

We are working hard on Making It Look Great 5 and that’s the reason I wasn’t providing much new content lately. So in exchange I thought I’ll let you in on a little status update with MILG5. We are already halfway through. If everything goes well we should be releasing it in no more than 6 weeks. Unfortunately I became very sick and sometimes I have to give my plans up, go to the doctor and lay in bed for a few days. But I’m not giving up, oh no.

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CE LightWrap

Posted on 23. Aug, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

Learn how to make your keyed out footage blend better with the background by casting light on it from surrounding elements

3DCircularMotion coming soon

Posted on 20. Aug, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

Now that the new cross-platform CustomEffect Installer is finally ready I can soon publish one of my upcoming products. It was laying around ready to be released for a few months. The only thing that was holding me back was not having the CE Installer completed.

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Cross-platform CE Installer

Posted on 20. Aug, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

Good news everyone! I finally got to finish cross-platform CustomEffect installer. No more headakes when installing my expression based presets. Make sure to check it out. It requires Adobe AIR runtimes, so make sure you get them before installing my application.

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