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Jim Tierney

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Professional Video Retouching (hair, skin, etc)
by Robert Morris 3 years ago
Does anyone have professional tips or techniques for retouching hair flyaways and skin blemishes in After Effects I can think of several ways to do this, but I was wondering if anyone had real product
Re: Professional Video Retouching (hair, skin, etc)
by Jim Tierney 3 months ago
Beauty Box has been used on many national shows and commercial spots, including a spot for Avena skin care products: http: digitalanarchy.com beautyVID gallery.html#faq14 It creates a very realistic l
Quote for Retouching Skin
by Corbin Gross 6 months ago
I'm working on a video featuring our CIO. We're a wholesale company and this video will be for our customers, not the end user. He's concerned about looking his best, he's got some blemishes and what
Re: Quote for Retouching Skin
by Jim Tierney 6 months ago
Also take a look at Beauty Box: http: digitalanarchy.com beautyVID main.html It's designed to specifically solve skin problems and to be easy to use. We use face detection to automatically identify th
Electronic Makeup Artist or Beauty Box?
by Bob Cole 2 years ago
As a way to do my part in the eternal struggle to make people look like movie stars (and keep clients happy), I would like to use either Electronic Makeup Artist (Sheffield) or Beauty Box (Digital Ana
Re: Electronic Makeup Artist or Beauty Box?
by Jim Tierney 2 years ago
Bob, I'd recommend downloading the demos of all three and trying them. All three products have free trials, so you can see the results on your footage and how intuitive it is to use each of them. chee
best magazines about editing/effects?
by Jim Tierney 5 years ago
Just curious what everyone is reading these days. Any magazines that people really like for editing related content About post production in general cheers, Jim
Re: best magazines about editing/effects?
by grinner hester 5 years ago
+1 on that We seem to have parallel minds. Now if I could just grow big Einstin-lookin' fro.
new Digital Anarchy product at NAB (call for beta testers)
by Jim Tierney 5 years ago
Hi folks, We're introducing a new plugin at NAB called ToonIt!. As you might expect, it gives video various types of 'cartoon' looks, along with different edge styles (or Pen&Ink mode, which is just o
Text Anarchy?
by Jimmy Brunger 5 years ago
Hi, Very quick one..I just got an email from Digital Anarchy offering a discount on Text Anarchy. Had a quick look, but it doesn't look like it can do anything I can't already do in AE 7 Pro as standa
Re: Text Anarchy?
by Jim Tierney 5 years ago
The filters are particle systems that are designed to let you generate, control, and use large amounts of text font characters as design elements. The Matrix stuff is a good example of that, but it's
kuler f
by Frank Sievert 5 years ago
did anyone know a way to use Kuler http: kuler.adobe.com direct in After Effects instead of using the color-picker or export import the files to PS I like the idea to have it as a plug-in, so it would
Color Theory is $99
by Jim Tierney 5 years ago
Not sure where you saw $200. It's always been $99. You can get it through www.digitalanarchy.com cheers, Jim------------------ Jim Tierney Digital Anarchy www.digitalanarchy.com 415-586-8434
Creating plugins
by Patrick Hearn 5 years ago
Hi, I've been thinking about my final year project for university which I will have to start proper next September. I've been considering creating a plugin for after effects as all or part of the proj
idea
by Jim Tierney 5 years ago
This was posted by Gary Reisman awhile ago: why doesn't someone come out with a very basic Line,Circle, Square plug-in that lets ya create shapes via simple target points and all like Circles are Awes
WHAT IS THE DEAL!!!
by Midicon 6 years ago
Hello Creativecow people.... I am just looking to buy a copy of AE 7 for mac... but i have been advised to wait untill intel chips take over as AE will not run because its not "universal". I really do
Re: WHAT IS THE DEAL!!!
by Jim Tierney 6 years ago
You can run AE now on an Intel Mac through Rosetta. It's a bit slow, but not horrible. Whenever Adobe releases a Universal build you can upgrade. Adobe's upgrade prices are usually very reasonable. Ev
SD Footage In HD Comp
by Adam Duguay 6 years ago
Hello, I'm hoping someone can lend some advice, or maybe a trick or two to help out with my problem. I'm doing a series of award show opens and I have footage that was shot at 16x9 standard definition
Re: SD Footage In HD Comp
by Jim Tierney 6 years ago
Also ReSizer 2.0 from Digital Anarchy: http: digitalanarchy.com resizer resizer_main.html cheers, Jim
Help with Screen Text Plugin
by Snowcarver 6 years ago
I am trying to make a digital bathroom scale appear to change weights. I am trying to use Digital Anarchy's Screen text plug in. I have a text document with random weights. The problem is I don't want
Re: Help with Screen Text Plugin
by Jim Tierney 6 years ago
Set the Display Speed to 1.0 Set Frequency of Overwrite to 15.0 Display speed will cause one character to be drawn on the screen every frame. You could also set it to say, 7 characters and have entire
creating a crowd
by steve_at_pru 6 years ago
Hello all, I am trying to creat the effect of build a crowd on person at a time by haveing an induvidual (baby in this case) pop up in the foreground and then many additional individuals pop up and po
Re: creating a crowd - 3D Assistants LE
by Jim Tierney 6 years ago
Actually, to get people to the 'horizon' you may want to change the Z dimension to something like 10000. Adjust X and Z to taste and camera position. Jim------------------ Jim Tierney Digital Anarchy
Animated graph?
by Lee McEachern 6 years ago
Hi, Are there any tutorials that someone here might know about (or other suggestions) that would shorten my learning curve in creating an animated graph, such as an animated bar graph or perhaps a lin
Re: Animated graph?
by Jim Tierney 6 years ago
It's hardly a one trick pony. There's seven different chart types that handle a wide range of data types, from simple monthly sales figures to multi-dimensional scientific data. That's a lot of differ
Trapcode Echo Space
by Henry199 7 years ago
Hi! With the animation on the top left hand side of http: www.trapcode.com products_echospace.html Is it possible to put an image on each side. So you see a full image, then each panle flips over to s
Re: Trapcode Echo Space
by Jim Tierney 7 years ago
One thing you could do is use expressions to link the back side layer to the front sides Position and Rotation. Then set up the Z Axis Position of the back side layer to be -.2 of the front side. This
Distributing 3D objects
by Avrohom Kohn 7 years ago
when I tried to distribute some 3D layers (in the z space) i got an error message saying after effects cannot distribute 3D layers. Could someone please tell me a way to distribute 3D layers Thanx, A.
Re: Distributing 3D objects
by Jim Tierney 7 years ago
There's tutorials and more info on the 3D Assistants at: http: digitalanarchy.com 3Dassist 3Dassist_main.html In addition, I wrote an article for Studio Montly magazine this month which shows how to u
twinkling stars...?
by yamir bhatt 7 years ago
I wanted to create a sky with twinkling stars of diffrent colour glows. any one knows a tutorial on that i guess expression could be used. Thanks
Re: twinkling stars...?
by Jim Tierney 7 years ago
If you have AE 6.5, you can use CC Particle World or CC Particle Systems II to easily do this. Very cool plugins... cheers, Jim------------------ Jim Tierney Digital Anarchy www.digitalanarchy.com 415
Desperate animating flow..
by mirek 7 years ago
Hi, I am willing to animate a flow inside tubes. The problem is, that the thing I would like to achieve, I have done using fractal noise or add grain, but I need this improvised movement to go along t
Re: Desperate animating flow..
by Jim Tierney 7 years ago
Try the Foam plugin with a custom flow map. This probably won't give you exactly what you want, but should look pretty good. cheers, Jim ------------------ Jim Tierney Digital Anarchy www.digitalanarc
Distributing 3D objects in a circle.
by Paul Whishaw 7 years ago
I have a bunch of objects that I want to be placed around an animation of a planet I have. My camera will pan around a spinning globe making it look like the flags are orbiting the planet. Is there an
Re: Distributing 3D objects in a circle.
by Jim Tierney 7 years ago
For a ring, just make a very short cylinder. :-) Of course, if you own AE 6.5, you can upgrade to the full version of 3D Assistants for $99 and be able to make a ring by clicking the 'Make ring of lay
Tutorial: Cell Pattern And Favorites
by Jim Tierney 9 years ago
Adobe After Effects Cell Pattern And Favorites Cell Pattern is a filter that can be used to create all sorts of background animations, displacement maps, track mattes, and many other things. It uses
Tutorial: Getting Jiggy With the Wiggler
by Jim Tierney 10 years ago
Adobe After Effects Getting Jiggy With the Wiggler One of the problems that may plague animators is that their animation is too perfect - too clean. In this article, Jim Tierney demonstrates how to a
Tutorial: Liquid Lines
by Jim Tierney 10 years ago
Adobe After Effects Liquid Lines In this tutorial, Jim Tierney demonstrates using the GridLines filter in Geomancy to create some beautiful sweeping lines. This is something that would work really we
Tutorial: Using After Effects and Flash
by Jim Tierney 10 years ago
Adobe Flash Using After Effects and Flash This is part of a presentation Jim Tierney will be giving at After Effects West. The presentation will be on using AE and Flash together, with some intro tip
Tutorial: Using GridSquares to Create Running Circles
by Jim Tierney 10 years ago
Adobe After Effects Using GridSquares to Create Running Circles Gridsquares is probably the best of the Geomancy filters to start off with. It's the most like a traditional particle system, and in fa
Tutorial: Sand Dune Effects with Digital Anarchy's Psunami
by Jim Tierney 10 years ago
Adobe After Effects Sand Dune Effects with Digital Anarchy's Psunami In this tutorial, Jim Tierney demonstrates a 'non-water' use for Digital Anarchy's newly acquired Psunami plug-in. Follow along an
Tutorial: Caustics: Dropping the Cow into A Pool of Water
by Jim Tierney 11 years ago
Adobe After Effects Caustics: Dropping the Cow into A Pool of Water In this tutorial, Jim Tierney creates the effect of an object dropping into water, using the Caustics and WaveWorld filters in Adob
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Tutorial: Blowing Smoke Using Digital Anarchy's Geomancy
by Jim Tierney 11 years ago
Adobe After Effects Blowing Smoke Using Digital Anarchy's Geomancy The HairLines filter in Geomancy was originally designed to simulate streams of liquid. It does this very well, but that organic typ


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