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First anniversary

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

Well… one year has pased since I’ve published my first tutorial and I havent even noticed, but I’m sure you’ve noticed that I havent beed posting new tutorials lately. That’s because I’ve been very sick, and I had a lot of things to do. I got tons of emails which I really like to read and respond to, but the depressing thing was that all of the emails followed similar pattern

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Adobe AIR 1.0

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

Finally! The official Adobe AIR release is here. Now I can take this seriously. I my previous post I mentioned that I started to create CustomEffects Deployer application and that I plan to do a CustomEffects Installer. Now I can. Adobe AIR opens up new perspectives and I hope we can all benefit from them. Keep your fingers crossed. New CustomEffects Installer coming soon.

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Book pages in 3D

Posted on 19. Feb, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

My studio is currently working on a TV commercial for one of our clients. The concept is great but putting it all together is quite a challenge. The main theme in this ad are floating book pages that display images and videos on their spines. Although I figured out a way to create non-flat 3D pages in After Effects and a clever way to animate them, we didn’t go with that because it took forever to render. On the other hand creating the animation in a 3D application lacks the flexibility that allows to change the pace of motion and the videos displayed on the spines. Since I don’t like our own creations taking control over us and limiting our creativity we had to find the mid-ground to this problem.

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.mocat in progreess

Posted on 12. Feb, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

Three years ago me and my friend started to work on our very own, low cost, high quality motion capture application. Our goal was to create easy to use scalable application, that would take a video sequence, analyze it, and export a BVH motion capture file than can then be used in many 3D applications for character animation. Reason? We simply needed it for one of our projects.

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Falling in love with AS3

Posted on 06. Feb, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

I just got my hands on brand new release of Adobe AIR. I just love it. At the beginning AS3 was a bit scary for me. Many things have changed and I was avoiding doing anything in AS3, because my coding history in Flash goes back to Flash 4, so I have strong old habits. But then along came Adobe AIR and everything changed.

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New server

Posted on 05. Feb, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

Just wanted to say that I finally switched servers and this site now runs from ToolFarm server. It was all possible thanks to Michele Yamazaki (VP Marketing & Web Development Czarina at Toolfarm) who was kind enough to host my video files for you to watch and learn from.

Everything is running smoothly. Thanks Michele!

Please not that moving sites between servers is very complicated so temporary problems in viewing tutorials and downloading files may occur. Hopefully not for long.

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Studying ShapeExtruder

Posted on 19. Dec, 2007 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

Learn how to create 3D logos, texts and packshots. ShapeExtruder does it all. See it in action. Watch, learn, enjoy… and comment.

Particle Playground: Ice

Posted on 25. Nov, 2007 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

Christmas are coming so it’s about time I show you how to create nice snow that will stick to the layers that you have in your composition.

CE ColorCorrection

Posted on 07. Nov, 2007 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

Learn how to change the look and feel of your footage easily with this useful CustomEffect. Color correction made easy… Finally!

Particle Playground: Fire

Posted on 02. Nov, 2007 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

Join me and George in this interesting experiment. Learn how to generate particles from motion. No keyframes, no expressions. This one is hot!

I’m baaack!

Posted on 15. Oct, 2007 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

Most of you know that on 5th of October 2007 I had to shut this website down due to bandwidth over usage and I had to pay a huge hosting bill. I wanted to thank all of you who generously donated some money to help me pay my bill and get this site back online.

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