Winterbourne and Write-on
I’m a big fan of instructional website Lynda.com and am slowly working my way through their Adobe After Effects videos. Yesterday I watched Chad Perkins demonstrate the Write-on effect. The Write-on effect animates strokes on a layer. You could use the effect to simulate the action of handwriting of cursive text or signatures. The effect ...
A Flock of Family
I had to create some images for the Saturday afternoon encaustic painting class that I’m taking at Seattle Community College. With a ton of scanned, old photos of my mom’s family, I grabbed one and added vintage bird heads in Adobe Photoshop. I liked the image so much that I imported the PSD file into After Effects ...
Take the Film Noir Train
Last month I worked on a project using an interior photo of a subway car that I downloaded from flickr.com (Creative Commons of course). Employing Adobe Photoshop I altered the photo to evoke an ominous, film noir quality . Here I’ve posted both the altered photo and the original. – Joe Gast