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I'm a freelance motion graphic designer who specializes in start up videos. I live in Northern Idaho so I'm pretty used to working remotely. I love the fact that I get to get up every day and play with After Effects!
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10 Key Tips To Becoming A Successful Video Freelancer

10 Key Tips To Becoming A Successful Video Freelancer

Remington McElhaney on Jan 25th 2012 with 37 comments

You’ve watched thousands of tutorials. You’ve put in countless hours and spent many late nights working on personal projects. You’ve finally come to the conclusion that this may just be something you would like to do for a career. It can seem a little intimidating at first, because how are you going to convince someone to pay you to do this? Up until now you’ve been your only client. How do you get more? I’m going to share my insight and experiences on how to successfully launch your freelance career this year!

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We’ve Spelled Out How To Create Dynamic, Hand-Drawn Text

We’ve Spelled Out How To Create Dynamic, Hand-Drawn Text

Remington McElhaney on May 23rd 2011 with 11 comments

One of the beautiful things about After Effects is how versatile it is. People use it for all sorts of different reasons and with the recent Breath Of Life Series, we saw how to bring your hand drawings to life. Today, we’ll look at applying this same idea of importing hand drawn assets to generate an attractive, dynamic text effect. Would work well with this Quick Tip. :)

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Jump Into An Animated Freeze Frame Sequence

Jump Into An Animated Freeze Frame Sequence

Remington McElhaney on Oct 25th 2010 with 20 comments

Today, were going to take a look at using expressions to simplify and speed up your workflow. We’ll be using an animated jump sequence to demonstrate the use of an “If else statement”. We’ll start in Photoshop creating the sequence, and then jump into After Effects to create an animation…. which will be driven off of just one control layer, with the help of expressions. Let’s get started!

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Writing With The Clouds

Remington McElhaney on Nov 2nd 2009 with 29 comments

I think at some point everybody has enjoyed trying to point out shapes of animals or other random things while looking up at the clouds. Well today you get to decide what that cloud shape will be! Without using any 3rd Party Plug-ins, I’m going to show you guys a simple way create clouds from shapes, text, a logo… anything you want! In this tutorial the main focus will be on track mattes and working with masks.

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