Chapter: Paint, Draw and Design

Topic: Paint or Draw on Video

Kathlyn Lindeboom takes a look at some of the tools in Cult Effects 1.5. This tutorial uses Cult Effects CE Paint along with ‘Wiggle’ Controls and the CE Checker filter. CE Paint is the new Vector Paint in Adobe After Effects 5.0 Pro Bundle. With Cult Effects Paint, you can paint directly in After Effects. It is a vector based, nondestructive tool that allows easy dust removal, matte touch ups, rotoscoping and animated masks for revealing objects, logotypes and much more. And sometimes, it’s just for having fun

http://www.creativecow.net/articles/lindeboom_kathlyn/ouwiggle/index.html

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Chapter: Paint, Draw and Design

Topic: Type and Typography

When you’re creating text using Illustrator, it’s easy to simply type it out and call it a day. Lon Clark demonstrates by spending a little time fine tuning your letter spacing by making tracking and kerning adjustments, you’ll wind up with a slicker and more professional type treatment.

http://www.creativecow.net/articles/clark_lon/kernandtracking/index.html

TAGS: tight, loose, kerned,

Chapter: Titling

Topic: Fonts and Design

When you’re creating text using Illustrator, it’s easy to simply type it out and call it a day. Lon Clark demonstrates by spending a little time fine tuning your letter spacing by making tracking and kerning adjustments, you’ll wind up with a slicker and more professional type treatment.

http://www.creativecow.net/articles/clark_lon/kernandtracking/index.html

TAGS: tight, loose, kerned,

Chapter: Paint, Draw and Design

Topic: Type and Typography

When you’re creating text using Illustrator, it’s easy to simply type it out and call it a day. Lon Clark demonstrates by spending a little time fine tuning your letter spacing by making tracking and kerning adjustments, you’ll wind up with a slicker and more professional type treatment.

http://www.creativecow.net/articles/clark_lon/kernandtracking/index.html

TAGS: tight, loose, kerned,

Chapter: Titling

Topic: Fonts and Design

When you’re creating text using Illustrator, it’s easy to simply type it out and call it a day. Lon Clark demonstrates by spending a little time fine tuning your letter spacing by making tracking and kerning adjustments, you’ll wind up with a slicker and more professional type treatment.

http://www.creativecow.net/articles/clark_lon/kernandtracking/index.html

TAGS: tight, loose, kerned,

Chapter: Titling

Topic: Fonts and Design

When you’re creating text using Illustrator, it’s easy to simply type it out and call it a day. Lon Clark demonstrates by spending a little time fine tuning your letter spacing by making tracking and kerning adjustments, you’ll wind up with a slicker and more professional type treatment.

http://www.creativecow.net/articles/clark_lon/kernandtracking/index.html

TAGS: tight, loose, kerned,

Chapter: Visual and Creative Effects

Topic: Simulating Displays

Mark Simpson uses ‘Card Wipe’ effect and Adobe After Effects Production Bundle’s “Motion Math” to simulate an LED style Audio Meter. Motion Math is disabled by default in After Effect 6 but can be re-enabled by removing the character ahead of the folder name in the install. Card Wipe was a 3rd party plug-in at the time this tutorial was written but has since been included with After Effects 5 and later

http://creativecow.net/articles/simpson_mark/jamrack/index.html

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Chapter: Titling

Topic: Path Animation

As part of our Motion Graphics repertoire, we’re occasionally requested to perform the traditional right-to-left and bottom-to-top text scrolls. Suffice it to say that it is one of the more frequent client-requests. In this tutorial, Roland Kahlenberg explores a method to add some variation to the conventional look of a scroll while still maintaining a high level of legibility. Let’s proceed.

http://www.creativecow.net/articles/kahlenberg_roland/rorknscroll/index.html

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Chapter: Titling

Topic: Titling Tools

Compositors and editors faced with the prospect of creating text in their compositions often rely on applications like Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand, rather than creating the text directly in programs like Apple Final Cut Pro or Adobe After Effects. Why? The text tools in NLEs and compositing applications are simply too time-consuming. Plus, creating text in a graphics application is quite simple.

http://www.creativemac.com/2001/06_jun/tutorials/psaepdf/psaepdf-page1.htm

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