joe gast http://joegast.com Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:57:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Winterbourne and Write-on http://joegast.com/2012/02/winterbourne-and-write-on/ http://joegast.com/2012/02/winterbourne-and-write-on/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:46:04 +0000 joe http://joegast.com/?p=2391

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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 is often used to make vines appear as though they are growing and that is exactly what I have done here. I drew a vine in Adobe Illustrator and imported it into After Effects, where I added the Write-on effect. The one vine became a jungle of vines with copy and paste. - Joe Gast

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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 and made a quick, little video. The original image is below. Happy birding! - Joe Gast

 

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