Introducing Xoey4G
I really enjoyed conceptualizing and building these videos. I’m catching up on MadMen, watching season four, and I felt like Don Draper in the midst of a new campaign. Built in Adobe After Effects with lots of flickr photos, moving type, and a breezy soundtrack (ccmixter.org/files/Pitx/6465), the final results are a watchable thirty seconds each. ...
Sit Hank, Sit!
My All Goods spot was an exercise in getting Illustrator shapes into Adobe After Effects. Yes, you can easily import an Illustrator file into AE, layers and all. But once in After Effects you can’t manipulate the pen points or handles created in Illustrator. What I did here was create a random shape in an ...
LiveTrace and CoCola
I used the LiveTrace feature in Adobe Illustrator to create most of the imagery for this video. LiveTrace takes a raster image, say a jpeg, and turns it into a crisp, vector illustration (the finished product is reminiscent of the posterize effect in Photoshop). I imported the vector images into Adobe After Effects, where most ...