They won't make me an overnight star

Have You Heard From Johannesburg?: Free at Last on Independent Lens might have put you in the mood for The Specials (or abc). You can hear a few here, though the originals are more interesting:




'Gangsters' was a reworking of a Prince Buster tune. In the same period, The Specials had a talkative baby with The Go-Go's:

And just for fun (choosing sound over visuals), coming full circle with the producer of The Specials 1st album:

Last week in After Effects

There’s another summary of news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts, etc at PVC. Someone already modified Grenade Throw, the latest from Kramerica:

After Effects weekly roundup at PVC

There’s another week or so of news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts -- with new tools, tutorials on Mocha tracking, "radar" animations, lens flares, wood patterns, and more. See After Effects weekly roundup at ProVideo Coalition, which includes Genarts flare presets by Mylenium:

Another week in After Effects

A return to the regular After Effects news cycle caught idle hands by surprise, with a promise of a big CS6 release, snakes in AE, tracking offscreen, plug-ins, and more. See the rest at ProVideo Coalition, except for this preview of a new tool for AE:

How to Light Wrap

This mini-roundup has been updated and moved to Pro Video Coalition, How to Light Wrap.

Recently in After Effects

There's news on a script for MIDI imports, free projects, type, shapes, and more at PVC in another summary of the last week of news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts.

Please note that these roundups are for quick review and comparison, and that there is almost always vital information from the originating authors at the links provided—and often free presets, projects, or stock footage too.

Last week in After Effects

At PVC, there’s another summary of the last week of news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts— including new plug-ins, scribble & write-on, Motion 5, a few “Best of” roundups, and more.

Please note that these roundups are for quick review and comparison, and that there is almost always vital information from the originating authors at the links provided—and often free presets, projects, or stock footage too.

Another week in After Effects

Over at PVC there’s another summary of the last week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts -- with lots on color, explosions, ambient occlusion, tracking, and more.

Recently in After Effects

There’s another summary on PVC of the last week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts -- with a new training section on AE Scripts, a new danger in the orange and teal saga, and much more.

After Effects weekly roundup

At PVC there’s another summary of the last week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts -- with a key communicator on sabbatical, new training service deals, more on iExpressions and Boris FX, Shapes, slow motion, HDR in AE, and more.

See After Effects weekly roundup...

LED and Casino light text effects in After Effects

LED and Casino light text effects in After Effects @ PVC is a collection of a few resources that share treatments on LED or light walls, casino lights, or Jumbotron-type looks using AE filters like CC Ball Action or Vegas.

Last week in After Effects

Thanksgiving was last week but there was substance from Video Copilot, a start on some broadcast-style graphics, LED light walls & casino-style text lights, green screen tips, 3D cubes and other shapes, linking objects with lines, and results of a user's choice survey on plug-ins.

Here’s another week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts and more...

Andrew Kramer posted 2 new tutorials on Video Copilot. In Dynamic Machine Gun he creates "a particle system for emitting specific particles based on a surface type.

Read the rest at PVC...

Another week in After Effects

With news on wiggles, organization, color, CUDA + more.

Another week in After Effects shares some of the latest news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts and more. Last week saw a little swarm of news on organization and workflow setups, wiggles & glitches, CUDA and Premiere Pro, and more.

Create snow in After Effects + Photo Mosaics @ PVC

Creating snow in After Effects has been updated on PVC.

You can use dedicated snow filters or particle systems to create snow that can be either stylized or realistic. There's filters built into After Effects like CC Snow, CC Particle World, and Particle Playground -- or you can use 3rd-party filters like Trapcode Particular (which is AE 3D camera-aware), Boris FX Snow, Cycore FX HD Snowfall, DigiEffects Delirium Snow, and GenArts Monsters GT.

Read the rest on PVC...

Also posted recently at PVC was the mini-roundup Animate a Photo Mosaic in After Effects.

Last week in After Effects @ PVC

It was a bit slower last week in After Effects, but there was plenty of news, tools, and tutorials for the restless posted at PVC.

Be sure to catch the Earth | Time Lapse movie at the very bottom.

Up On The Sun for a music break

Here's the Meat Puppets' version of a Touch of Grey: