I’ve been playing with motion tracking and wanting to learn how to do a really cool eye effect but I was finding it hard to make one that wouldn’t be a direct rip off of a tutorial that already exists. Then I remembered the bad guy from Last Action Hero had a smiley face in his eye and though it would be a cool idea to try and imitate that in after effects!

So here’s my 2 part tutorial on Making a smiley face in your eye!

Part 1

Read the rest of this entry »

This tutorial follows on from my Importing Photoshop brushes into After Effects tutorial which I’d suggest you watch before this one!

Download the Blood splatter Photoshop brush pack here

Read the rest of this entry »

Ok It’s been a while since my last video tutorial so here’s one to prepare you for my up comming Blood splatter text tutorial! It will be gory

After Effects doesn’t have an official way to import Photoshop brushes but this method works for me and I’ll be using it in upcoming tutorials ^_^

Read the rest of this entry »

Film of the week Zombieland

I just watched this film not 20 minutes ago and I’m already wanting to tell everyone who firkin awesome it is!

The film is set in the present day after a zombie apocalypse. Pretty standard ‘zombie bites you and you turn into a zombie so run away form the zombies’ stuff. The two lead roles are filled to perfection by Woody Harrelson  the big tough “nut up or shut up” zombie killer and Jesse Eisenber the geeky video games player turned comedy side kick. Who along the way meat up with the femme fatale and her younger sister played by Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin.

Read the rest of this entry »