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Ben McEwan grew up in Canberra, Australia. He started learning visual effects from a young age and persistantly followed his dreams. Today, Ben does freelance work for feature films, short films and television programs, and one day hopes to win an Academy Award.


Posts by Ben McEwan

Terminate Your Footage With Expressions – Day 3

Sep 25th in VFX by Ben McEwan
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If you’re wanting to help to save Sarah Connor then maybe this tutorial will give you an insider’s perspective on what to do. Here is the Final Day of this 3 Part Series by Ben McEwan. You can view Day 1 here and

Day 2 here.

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Terminate Your Footage With Expressions – Day 2

Sep 23rd in VFX by Ben McEwan
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If you’re wanting to help to save Sarah Connor then maybe this tutorial will give you an insider’s perspective on what to do. Here is Day 2 of this 3 Part Series by Ben McEwan. You can view Day 1 here.

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Terminate Your Footage With Expressions – Day 1

Sep 21st in VFX by Ben McEwan
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If you’re wanting to help to save Sarah Connor then maybe this tutorial will give you an insider’s perspective on what to do. Ben McEwan has created a 3 Day Series crammed full of useful expressions to create the UI found in the Terminator. He’ll skim over some of the basics of shape layers, as well as touch on some more advanced stuff like displacement mapping.

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Create an Illuminating “Light Painting” Effect

Apr 8th in VFX by Ben McEwan
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You’ve surely seen a “light painting” photograph by now. Sprint made it very popular in their latest advertising campaign, but it’s been around for a long time, Picasso made a light painting in 1949. In this tutorial Ben shows us how to easily recreate this effect using particles in After Effects.

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