Digital Video / After Effects Abuser Group
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

What Do Explosions and Hummingbirds Have In Common?

(No, not Exploding Hummingbirds!)

In Terry's World they both need After Effects
Improving On Reality: Fun with Visual Effects may pay off in the future.

We've all seen those great effects they do on TV and in films and wondered "How'd they do that?" If you don't have big budget feature film "chops" to do that, you can "teethe" on some creative ideas with family video and photos that provide "Over The Top" squeals of laughter from your family fans, while practicing needed skills.. The funny thing about creative ideas, you never know when or where that useful opportunity will come from.

Digital Video / After Effects Abuser Group - Pushing Pixels Beyond
Tuesday, March 27 . . . Another 2-in-1 Meeting

Amazon eBook Author Shares Marketing Success, Expanding Product Revenue

After Effects - Creating shadows from nothing

eBook - Getting published at Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and Finding new ways to increase the sale

Our special guest presenter for March will be published author, Curtis Kastner, who has broken through the technology barriers and actually has produced his eBook, “Demystify Wine In An Hour.” He will share his process for producing an eBook, including getting published on Kindle and Nook, and how he was able to market his book through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Next Up: A video-based Wine Tasting Program

Digital Video / After Effects Abuser Group - Pushing Pixels Beyond

Tuesday, February 28

Getting Your Good Idea on TV for Weekly Syndication

 

Ever dream of having your own show on TV? This month we are fortunate to have Jeffrey Lehmann, Producer and Host of the multi-Emmy and multi-Telly-awarded "Weekend Explorer" travel series. Jeffrey was able to take something he loved to do, traveling the world, and figured out a way to get paid for it. His travel series is provided free and airs on more than 200 PBS stations nationally and airs in syndication to commercial stations across the United States and in over a dozen foreign countries.

Jeffrey will be regaling us with some fun war stories. Learn about the upside as well as the downside to producing a travel series for television.

Terry Syndergaard will be continuing the After Effects compositing series showing part of another Gareth Edwards tutorial - creating armies from 4 guys, creating shadows from nothing.

Digital Video / After Effects Abuser Group
Tuesday, January 24

THE MAGIC & WONDER OF COMPOSITING

Not Just for the "Big Guns" of Hollywood Anymore

Continuing our movie compositing adventure, Terry Syndergaard will show new excerpts from Gareth Edwards' great compositing tutorials and apply those very same techniques to his own footage, enhanced with Internet photos, bringing the "Wow" of European castles to a Pasadena canyon, on a shoestring (zero) budget. Techniques include motion tracking, match moving and more. Other uses: changing your subject's head size (with favorite actor Robert DeNiro)

Gareth is the Director/Visual Effects Artist of "Attila The Hun", Monsters, and the next Godzilla.His audacity in creating all the FX from his bedroom computer has made him an international sensation.