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Pixel Bender: Flash vs After Effects
// Thu 2008.09.25 08:19 // {after effects}// [ ]

This blog usually isn’t for industry commentary and such, but you know, when Adobe starts moving the pixels around in new ways I do get excited.
Adobe’s “Pixel Bender” framework — which facilitates fast, cross-platform, single-frame image-processing filters — will be available in Flash and After Effects, and presumably other imaging apps as well. (It should [...]

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After Effects CS4: Pixel Bender!
// Wed 2008.09.24 18:26 // {after effects}// []

Ah! Ah! Yes. Ok. Here’s the rather understated but incredibly-significant feature added in CS4: Pixel Bender effects.
Keven Goldsmith of Adobe explains.
Pixel Bender is Adobe’s way of packaging up (essentially) OpenGL Shader Language, for use as effects plugins to their imaging products.
The outcome will be a lot of extremely cool effects plugins. Some of these will [...]

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After Effects CS4: Yawn?
// Tue 2008.09.23 21:22 // {after effects}

Ok. Here’s my obligatory chime-in on CS4.
It’s too soon to tell. And I know I’ll upgrade anyway. But So far it looks pretty unspectacular!
When I first started After Effectsing (to verb a product) it was just after expressions were introduced, and just before scripting (scripting!) was added. Those were the days!
And then CS3, that was [...]

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Omino Dialog Maker for ExtendScript
// Sun 2008.09.21 19:35 // {after effects extendscript photoshop}// [ ]

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tv static
// Sun 2008.09.14 22:07 // {after effects}

Sometimes you just have to take joy from trivia. Here’s a little tv-static animated GIF I made, for use with a WordPress plugin.

Feel free to steal and use this gif.
It’s only 6 frames, 128×128, 18k.
It is tileable, and looks pretty good, large!

Here’s the after effects project for it.
It’s just Noise, Fast Blur, Curves, and Offset. [...]

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qt_tools 2.7 released
// Sat 2008.07.26 23:51 // {macintosh qt_tools}

qt_tools 2.7 corrects some incompatibilities with Mac OS X 10.5, “Leopard”.
Particularly, the settings dialog could get stuck in a hidden, inoperable state.
That is all.

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Jumped the Gun
// Thu 2008.02.28 01:53 // {after effects}// [ ]

stargif.swf

click for/pixelblog/content/2008/ominoSuite/stargif.swf
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Omino After Effects Suite
// Sun 2008.02.24 22:19 // {after effects}// [ ]

The next release of the Omino After Effects Suite is finally available! Oh, it’s got a fabulous new Kaleidoscope effect, mentioned in the previous post. But the real excitement is… is… is this:
Mac OS X Universal Binary, and Windows! The two most requested features, doncha know.
In truth the Windows version should be considered Alpha. I’m [...]

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Kaleidoscope Plugin
// Sun 2008.02.3 00:07 // {after effects}// [ ]

My partner (of the non-business variety) recently built a beautiful oversized kaleidoscope for part of an artistic installation. Here’s a picture taken from within:

I can’t seem to find a picture of the device itself, but it stands about 3 feet tall, a foot across. With cardboard mock wrought-iron corners. And fused glass inserts. And a [...]

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Man Versus Computer (another render speed tip)
// Wed 2008.01.23 00:21 // {after effects general}

Here’s another tip for improving render speed. Don’t laugh, this actually does work.
Disable the computer’s “sleep if no user activity” timeout.
I had mine set for three hours, nice and green you know? (On Mac OS X, the control panel for this feature has a light bulb for its icon.) But it turned my 6 hour [...]

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