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Big chapter closed

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

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.

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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I’m baaack! Again…

Posted on 01. Jun, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

Hello my friends. After three days of trying to find a new hosting service I’m finally back. I’ve tested many hosting providers, uploded my site to few of them and wasted a ton of cash just to setup the accounts. Hopefully I’ll get that money back.

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Moving the site… Again…

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

Hello my friends. I’ve got some bad news. Unfortunately my current sponsor said that my site is eating to much resources and that they cannot host me anymore. There for I have to move my site somewhere… again. I need your help.

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Concept for importing 3d models

Posted on 29. May, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

This idea has just struck me like a lightning. We all want 3d models in AE, right? What if we really could? I already took few attempts of expanding the range of 3d features in AE and it’s not up to me to say whether they are useful or not, but I feel theres much more to be done. Well… we all know that there is a lot to be done, but I really think theres something that can be done while waiting for Adobe to introduce a 3d engine inside AE. But I will need your help to make our dream come true.

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Hacking expressions

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

You all know that I’m a expression junkie. You’ve seen my tutorial and my approach to animating things. I hate keyframes, I love expressions. Even though sometimes I find using expressions very frustrating. Theres no way to declare global variables, create your own functions, or extend the build-in functionality. But there actually is a nice way to deal with that that you might not be aware of.

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3D Solar System

Posted on 21. May, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

This subject is as old as the Earth itself. How to create 3D planets? Simple. Just apply CC Sphere onto a texture, right? Wrong! If you want to make it cool you need to do a couple other things as well, which I’m going to show you in this upcoming tutorial.

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More 3D stuff coming soon

Posted on 14. May, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

Some time ago I was experimenting with doing more 3D stuff inside of AE and I ended up with two very cool techniques that will allow you to import any 3D object into AE. But thats not all.

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Would you buy my book?

Posted on 09. May, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

After starting up this website you’ve been asking me same questions: where did I get my skills, what book did I read to learn expressions and AE, and is there anything I could recommend? Since I’m self-taught I simply couldn’t recommend anything else than online resources that I’ve stumbled upon.

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Photoshop brushes in After Effects

Posted on 09. May, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

I’ve recently figured out a workaround to a problem that was bugging AE users since the beginning of time – how do one import Photoshop brushes into AE? Is it even possible? The answer is simple. No. It didn’t bother me that much until I wanted to use one of my brushes in AE.

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Changes are coming

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

Hello my friends! During last few days you’ve probably noticed some strange things happening on my site. Posts disappearing, RSS feed got all messed up. Well… that’s because I’m am planning to change my website a bit, introducing new blog section where you can find some information on what I’m currently working on, small tips, and other news. In fact, I’ve been writing all the posts for past few months, I just didn’t publish them until now.

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