• LINKS! Where to go for the good stuff…

    Hi there.  However you’ve found your way here, you’ll probably notice that this site’s looking a bit neglected.  That’s mostly because I’ve been too busy to do anything about it, but who can complain about having too much work? However I have my own channel at the ProVideo Coalition, which hosts all of the video tutorials I have made more recently and ensures they’re compatible with all browsers, phones and tablets. In addition, you can check out the After Effects project templates I have for sale over at VideoHive. More recently, I’ve started authoring After Effects scripts for the AEScripts site, which are powerful workflow tools that I originally wrote…

  • Thoughts on keying part 1- Technology

    For a long time I’ve subscribed to the Media Motion After Effects email list, an invaluable resource for all things After Effects as well as being a friendly online community.  The other day I found an email I posted there about 2 years ago, in which I listed some of the changes I’ve seen in keying throughout my working career.  I’d written the email to kill time while I was rendering, and I’d forgotten I wrote it until the other day.  It’s always weird to read things you can’t remember writing, but it did make me think about how technology changes some things and not others.  So here I’ve taken…