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3DCircularMotion coming soon

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

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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.

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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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MotionGrabber 0.0.1 available for Mac

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

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There’s nothing more to say. MotionGrabber Prerelease is now available for Mac. Well… nothing to say except reminding you that you use this plugin at your own risk. To check out the details, download the plugin, and watch a short tutorial no how to use it please visit the original post MotionGrabber Preview.

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Plugin development

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

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Finally the things are starting to take the right turn. I’m doing a training DVD, developing a few small apps for you guys, and recently I got in touch with a brilliant software developer and we already build our first AE plugin.

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KeySnatcher

Posted on 11. Jul, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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Since I’m working on Making It Look Great 5 DVD I don’t want to miss any opportunity to make things look their best. I’ve watched previeus editions of this series and most of them where recorded on Mac using some build-in software. The most cute feature was a visual representation of keys that were being pressed during the recording. I wanted that for myself.

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Audition tutorials coming soon

Posted on 04. Jul, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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Hey guys! I thought about doing something different today so I just finished recording Audition tutorial. This one is about creating a chopper (helicopter) sound. Strangely enough just after recording it someone asked in the comments area how to loop a sound file.

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Interactive motiongraphics

Posted on 30. Jun, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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I just got involved in a project that requires interactive motiongraphics. It’s very interesting since it goes beyond AE. Funny thing is that many years ago when I just started to be a cinemaniac I actually wanted to do something like this for the living.

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DVD is now official

Posted on 27. Jun, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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Great news my friends! The day has come! I’m finally putting together my first training DVD. It will be a part of a great series by Motionworks – Making It Look Great.

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YouTube Channel

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

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This is for those of you my dear viewers who do not know that I have my own YouTube Channel. I use it to promote my tutorials so most things you’ll see there are just trailers and teasers for tutorials on this site, but from time to time theres something extra there that you won’t find on this site.

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Big chapter closed

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

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My dear friends. I am very happy to announce that I’m just about to close one of two big chapters in my life. It was something I was working on for a few past years and it was really holding me back from doing tutorials and taking care of you. I’m happy because I’m close to finishing it this week therefor I think I will finally find some time to keep the promises I made to you and my other friends.

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ClipGarden open for public

Posted on 07. Jun, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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If you want to make your own online video tutorials then ClipGarden is the way to go. You’ll even earn money from your videos, so you’re already in a better position than me. Make sure to check it out.

About half year ago I received an invitation to do some beta testing and feedback for ClipGarden. It’s a user-generated equivalent of Creative Cow, Lynda, and iStock, developed for online tutorial junkies by online tutorial junkies who want the very best content from the very best contributors.

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