Giveaway: Paint Party
What you’re looking at is 14 high resolution scans of paint drippings, splatters, sprinkles, and smears. My wife and I created these in our kitchen a few years ago, and I’ve got to be honest, I’ve used these a ton in my artwork to breath just a little more life and color. Just drop them on top of your artwork in Photoshop [...]
Continue ReadingWallpaper Photoshop actions
Lately I have been making a few desktop and mobile wallpapers to promote a few things and have realized just how tedious of a task this is. The first time it took me almost an entire day to just modify the same file to work within the different sizes and export the different sizes. Finally, I decided to make my first pass at automating the [...]
Continue ReadingDefining guides in your own presets in Photoshop
Everyone who has used Photoshop in the last decade is familiar with the new document dialog box. Here you define the size, resolution, pixel aspect ratio, and color profile of the soon to be masterpiece that you are going to make. Adobe as even done a fairly decent job of compiling a list of presets for you to use for print, web, and video. [...]
Continue ReadingCamera Cheat Card tutorial
I made a camera cheat card a while back ago that had different shot types of shots on it that I could use to train our volunteers on proper camera techniques. It’s proved to be very useful, and I have been getting questions on where I got the cards or how I made them, so I thought that I would show how I made them here. Step 1 – [...]
Continue ReadingDissolving in C4D
My friend Kasey showed me this little trick for making things fade out in Cinema 4D. Before, I would render a scene in two passes: one with the object I wanted to dissolve out in the scene and one without and merger them together. Or, I would use External Compositing tags and Object Buffers. But this method is a little easier! In your material [...]
Continue ReadingSnapshots in After Effects
Complex loops can be difficult in After Effects, but at least they are possible. Pretty much anything can be looped using their parameters: layers, effects, even expressions. But, for me, probably the hardest part is getting that last frame to look perfect, so that your loop will be perfectly seamless. Well, After Effects can help with that, [...]
Continue ReadingFree Illustrator T-Shirt Template
After scouring the inter-webs to no avail for a good T-Shirt template, I decided to make one. All of the ones that I found before were too difficult to overlay layers quickly onto (for showing clients), were completely raster, or the looked to unrealistic and the entire vision could be lost to a client with a bad sense of future-think. After [...]
Continue ReadingStage Object in Cinema 4D
About a year ago I discovered a little talked about object in Cinema 4D that I believe deserves more credit. Up until then, my workflow for my 3D animations has been: Create a scene Fly a camera through it Render it Create a new camera/fly through Render it Repeat until desired shots are met Then use Final Cut Pro to edit the renders together. [...]
Continue ReadingGurus of Tech
The church tech world can be frustrating sometimes*. I think one of the main reasons for this is loneliness. It’s often said in church that “we were made for community” or we weren’t made to “go it alone”, and I think that speaks to the techie at heart as well. Most of the time there are only one or two [...]
Continue ReadingText at random Y Positions in After Effects
I have been working on a project recently that required tons of text boxes to be placed at random y positions on the screen. I wanted to be able to reuse the project for different composition sizes (HD, SD, 2K, etc), and needed to also factor in a “title-safe” area… Instead of manually doing all of this, I wrote this little [...]
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