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I'm an aspiring digital artist from Latvia mainly concentrated on motion graphics.
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Give Your Video A Pencil Sketched Look

Give Your Video A Pencil Sketched Look

Eddie Bogdanov on Mar 16th 2010 with 42 comments

I think we all used to create little cartoons in school by drawing on each page of your text books and flipping through them to animate. Well, lets all save a tree. In this tutorial we’ll be creating a similar looking animation in AE using Trapcode Particular’s Aux Particles. From there we’ll bring it over into Photoshop and learn a little bit about how to apply filters to video with the help of Filmstrip format.

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Freeze Your Logo With A Snowy Transition

Eddie Bogdanov on Jan 28th 2010 with 116 comments

Even though we’re past the Christmas season, many still have snow on the ground. Well this little effect would be a perfect opener for any “winter-themed” project. I understand that life can be tough because you can’t please everybody… but! you can freeze every logo! And we’re gonna show you how.

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Use Lights To Project Your Logo

Eddie Bogdanov on Oct 23rd 2009 with 29 comments

This tutorial basically involves three things that could be useful – Use of Light Projections (text projected onto white solids), Text Writing with particular and Use of Exported Camera from cinema 4d. There are some good principles you can take from this example.

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Integrating Cinema 4D into After Effects

Eddie Bogdanov on Aug 31st 2009 with 49 comments

The more you get into After Effects, the more you realize how cool it is to bring in stuff from outside the program. This tutorial shows how take a scene from Cinema 4D and bring it over into AE. After Effects is a compositing program and this is a perfect example of how to take a basic animation and add some “after effects“!

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Create Fairly Realistic Fire using CC Particle World

Eddie Bogdanov on Jul 22nd 2009 with 54 comments

Using the built-in plugin CC Particle World and a few tricks, learn how to create this fairly realistic looking fire shot.

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Create a Radar Screen Logo Reveal

Eddie Bogdanov on Jul 1st 2009 with 55 comments

Using only built in plugins, learn how to create a radar screen which then reveals a logo. You will learn how to use 32-bit mode and few other tricks to simulate a real screen glow.

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Create a Burning Building VFX Shot

Eddie Bogdanov on Jun 24th 2009 with 58 comments

Starting with nothing more than a few still photographs, learn how to create this dynamic burning building VFX shot.

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Create an Underwater Scene

Eddie Bogdanov on Jun 10th 2009 with 98 comments

We try to provide tutorials for users at all levels of After Effects. In this tutorial you will learn some good fundamentals on how to create a type reveal with an interesting background and environment. You will learn how to use all built-in tools and plugins to create a faux underwater scene complete with a bubbly type reveal. Simple.

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