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Morphing 3D Shapes

Posted on 04. Oct, 2012 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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Creating truly three-dimensional shapes in After Effects was always a task with no perfect, fast and convenient solution. With CS6 we now have the option to extrude vector shapes. But there’s a better way to create awesome 3D. About time!

Studying 3D Camera Tracker

Posted on 28. May, 2012 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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I’ve tried many match-moving applications over the years, and nothing beats the build-in 3D Camera Tracker in After Effects CS6, eventhough it’s fully automatic with no manual control over the tracking process. Simply amazing.

The Matrix Raining Code

Posted on 02. Aug, 2011 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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Have you ever felt that theres something wrong with this world? Have you ever felt you know something, and that what you know you can’t explain? Now you can. Sort off…

Creative Breakdowns

Posted on 03. Dec, 2009 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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Best session up to this point. We’ve talked for about 4 hours. We discussed the movies you posted links to on my FaceBook fan page. Of course most of the fun stuff happens in the Questions and Answers segment, that never gets recorded. That’s one of the many reasons why you want to join the LIVE sessions.

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Rotoscoping made easy

Posted on 26. Nov, 2009 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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Rotoscoping principals along with some tips, tricks and techniques I developed over few years. Learn how to create a perfect roto without killing yourself on the way.

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Zaxwerks Plugins vs. 3D applications

Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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Presenting the advantages of using Zaxwerks 3D plugins (Like Invigorator, ProAnimator and 3D Serpentine) as a replacement, or along with regular 3D applications like 3D Studio Max or Cinema 4D. We also had a giveaway of Red Giant Software Holomatrix plugin. To bad you missed it. Make sure to catch the next live show.

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Simple Camera Rig

Posted on 17. Nov, 2009 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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If you ever struggled with your After Effects 3D camera than this tutorial is for you. Learn to rig your camera in seconds or buy a my script that will do it for you.

Expressions, particles, and random numbers

Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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A couple of tips and tricks to improve your workflow with Trapcode Form and Trapcode Particular using expression and randomly generated values. If you missed the live session you also missed an additional hour of questions and answers. It was awesome.

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Know your 3D

Posted on 23. Sep, 2009 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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Discussion on how to improve the After Effects and 3d environment workflows for better compositing and faster rendering. UV Passes, Normal Maps, RPF format… all that good stuff. Question and answers was also very very cool, but it was not recorded. It never is. If you want to ask me a question and get an answer make sure to register and join the next live session of “Happy AfterEffecting with Maltaannon”

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Creativity, education and success

Posted on 16. Sep, 2009 by Jerzy Drozda Jr.

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The show went for over 2 hours. Too bad the first part (that you see here) didn’t work out as planned. Had some technical problems at the beginning of the show and forgot to say all the things I wanted to say. Next time, watch it live. (Oh. And by the way – the professor I mentioned is cool and we still keep in touch – forgot to mention that)