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askaboutmeFeb 19, 2009
I love Noupe! One of the best designer blogs out there. Next to the Envato Network of course.
drdustbunnyFeb 19, 2009
Who the f**k on DIGG is using AE?
splinechaserFeb 19, 2009
Well, I don't think you need to go to school. Just get good, anyway you can. Listen, read, and understand. Look at the world around you all the time and notice things. This will make one a better VFX artist. That being said, its very easy to find AE people with no clue how to comp, doing this job for a living. I would recommend as I snarkily said, getting to know a node based application like Nuke or Shake. You will have a better sense of the fundamentals of compositing if you do. AE does a little too much for you, and is too kludgy to work with most of the time. Also it's not scriptable from the shell... this makes it suck hard for a facility.Great for a kid in a basement.
roxgod666Feb 19, 2009
Adobe premiere = video editingPremiere is great as well
secret7000Feb 19, 2009
All of the roto was done in AE. It was experimental at the time - motion blurring roto mattes in AE is a nightmare. Since the footage I was working with was 25i, I halfed the framerate of the footage & rotoed each field separately. This reduced the need to motion blur.I've now been working with Silhouette Roto, which is a far more competent tool. The reel, as you will see, is a couple of years old now. My new reel will be up within a few months, & less than 3 minutes (I hear a lot of opinions on the length of the reel). The breakdowns are great for unsavvy people, but at the most I need 1 or 2 of them. I understand this - the rest can be explained on the breakdown printout I send along with the reel.
secret7000Feb 20, 2009
Employees of Emmy-winning effects house Stargate Digital?The effects house I hope to eventually work for (Double Negative) use a modified Shake build as their compositing tool. I don't have the money to run Shake at the moment.
dotcommerFeb 21, 2009
Fine.. have fun comping with processes out of your control because AE does them for you, not to mention auto-premulting everything you comp.
vailancio248Sep 17, 2009
You missed this one <a class="user" href="http://www.thepixelart.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thepixelart.com/</a>