I'm a freelance graphic designer who works at a local production studio in Tulsa, OK. I have a strong passion for understanding the art of creating movies. If I'm not working on a paid project I'm creating something w/ audio or video. I enjoy movies with heart more than movies with a budget, but both together are definitely nice. Simple enough... i hope :)
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In this 3 Part tutorial we’ll be creating a 3D title and guitars using AE and 3D Extruder (a script by Ben Rollason). We’ll start off in Illustrator to create our guitar mattes, use Photoshop to texture and color our guitars, then animate our entire design in After Effects. We’ll be diving deep into 3DX using multiple extrudes, linking expressions, streamlining the process and several other tips you won’t wanna miss. 
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In this tutorial we will be taking some necessary steps to stabilize our footage so we can then rotoscope the dumpster out with ease. After we roto we’ll employ some arithmetic so we can reverse the stabilized matte, add AE’s built in motion blur, and composite our 3D text in the background. To do this we’ll be attaching our camera to a similar stabilized area to fake 3D motion tracking. So let’s get to it 
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In this tutorial we’ll combine basic shapes to make a camera silloutte in Photoshop before bringing it over to After Effects. We’ll learn how to directly select font layers in combination w/ the paths tool to create unique shadows and pick up on some short cuts here and there. We’ll also be, please don’t hate me, making a small sacrifice doing some folder organizing to better help control our creative chaos. But hey, I don’t think anyone truly enjoys losing track of files so lets try and put an end to most of that… This way we can get back to the more important things in life…. Have fun!
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There are many ways to make yourself look cool like rescuing babies, planting trees, or even hiring someone with consistently bad breath to hang out with you so you become the social favorite by comparison… it does work. But I think the comic book super hero method ain’t too bad either and so today you’ll learn some helpful workflow tips integrating Photoshop along with how to take your footage and give it that comic book style.
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