Man who aint heard of using Adobe AfterEffects? Way back in the beginning, I used to find wordprocessors and spreadsheets, not to mention relational database modelling tough to crack.
But as time moved on nothing prepared me for the fear I would feel for using some of the Adobe Products. Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop and now AfterEffects. It was the terminology that was the most difficult to grasp. Why? Because you also had to understand the concepts behind the terminology, you had to understand that it was a taken from a hands on industry to a computerised program.
I was a point and click baby, always looking for that magic mouse click that would create a work of art within seconds. Hell Yeah! That's kinda like buying a dream car and watching someone else drive it, no fun. I needed to climb the steep learning curve and learn to kick the fear of new things in the butt big time.
All summer I have put off learning Adobe AfterEffects and this weekend I went through some tutorials and man, once I got past the part that put me to sleep hahahaha I would be sat there listening and then the next doing a Homper Simpson, head slumped backwards and snoring away, but I swear I could still hear the guy talking hahahahaha
Anyways I made it past the introduction as to the environment and this does that and that does this yada yada, then got to the good stuff where I got to try things out. That's when it got interesting.
It then got more interesting when I noticed that the trainer for the videos I was watching was a 3DS Max junkie, that put a smile on my face and then got an even bigger smile when from following a Facebook link to some training tutorials found that the developer of that site was also a 3DS Max junkie also.
Oh yer, Max stills rules when it comes to SFX and the need to integrate models
Like Max, AfterEffects is limited by your imagination. The training video I have been watching, the guy doing it, keeps on stressing that there's no limitation on what can be done and he keeps on stressing creativity.
Which brings me back to full circle, both Max and AfterEffects are tools, and like the best video or digital camera in the world, what you end up capturing is limited to how creative visually you are with your imagination.
You would think that with the nimber of books written, that everything has been written about or with the number of films or animations made we would run out of ideas. But not so and as long as someone like you has an imagination, there will always be something you can think of that no one has thought of before.
Back in the 80's it was the Sony Walkman, today it's the Apple Ipod, what can you imagine that it will be tomorrow?
2nd September 2008
cd or tape player? 
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