Shadows of the past.

Posted by on Aug 27, 2014 in Blog | No Comments
Shadows of the past.

Or what codecs you shouldn’t use for back-up. I recently rescued my 1997 diploma thesis movie from digital oblivion. It took me a couple of days and required the use of a 15 years old Mac with OS 8, Quicktime 4 and After Effects 3 & 4 installed, that i luckily kept in a hidden […]

Building a reel, start to finish

Posted by on Okt 6, 2013 in Blog | No Comments
Building a reel, start to finish

Carey aka Binky from mograph.net made a brilliant, four part tutorial on building a showreel. He covers all aspects from reviewing the available footage, designing an intro, selecting and editing audio tracks to the final edit – and he did it using footage from my own (pretty outdated and much too long) showreel. The result […]

Tutorial – Fake camera mapping in After Effects

Posted by on Jun 25, 2013 in Blog | No Comments
Tutorial – Fake camera mapping in After Effects

A feature that has been high up on my After Effects wish list for some years now is camera mapping. Unfortunately Adobe hasn’t listened to my feature requests yet so i came up with a super simple approach for faking camera mapping using AEs corner pin effect. 01 – Final shot This is the final […]

Hello iWhatever!

Posted by on Mrz 7, 2013 in Blog | No Comments
Hello iWhatever!

Good bye Flash After years of ignoring the fact, that all the fancy iPhones and iPads of this world don’t like Flash and that flash sites are a nightmare to maintain – i finally migrated my website to WordPress. That means that all my excuses for not updating my portfolio more frequently are now gone. […]

New After Effects error world record?

Posted by on Mrz 6, 2013 in Blog | 4 Comments
New After Effects error world record?

It’s one of those days again: 1541 render errors and 43 minutes to open up an AE project? Time for a jolly cup of tea.