Creative Director at CreativeCOW.net
CEO Rampant Design Tools
I have over 60 credits in Feature Film and Television as well as over 300 commercial and music video credits. I am both humbled and honored to be a three time Emmy Award winner.
I w... [ more] Creative Director at CreativeCOW.net
CEO Rampant Design Tools
I have over 60 credits in Feature Film and Television as well as over 300 commercial and music video credits. I am both humbled and honored to be a three time Emmy Award winner.
I was born the same month and year that the original Star Wars film was released. I love all things Special and Visual Effects related.
I Currently Run Rampant, You Should Too.
http://runrampant.net/
I love all things Disney.
I used to be a pilot for the Walt Disney World Monorail Transportation System.
I used to be a Jungle Cruise Skipper.
I once towered over the little ones at Playhouse Disney.
I love the visual effects.
http://sean-mullen.com/
I love Themed Attraction Design and Environmental Design. | | | | Member Since: July 4th 2011 Location: PASO ROBLES CALIFORNIA | | | | |
Friends:  Abraham Chaffin  Bob Zelin  Charlie Burket  Eric Hartmann  Kathlyn Lindeboom  Mike Brassell  Ronald Lindeboom  Steve Rhoden  Tim Wilson | | | | |  | Suggestionby Stephen Mann 1 year agoHow about a section in the forums where a customer can post stock requests Steve Mann MannMade Digital Video www.mmdv.com | Re: Suggestion
by Sean Mullen 1 year ago
Steve, That's a great suggestion. Do you have anything specific that you are looking for at this time Sean Mullen Creative Director, Creative COW General Manager, Creative COW StockYard CEO Rampant De
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| | | |  | Stockyard: Form and Functionby Jeff Rogers 1 year agoThe Stockyard header art is H-U-G-E, pushing content below the fold. I realize there are some old fogies like Dave LaRonde who may need large print, but ... the COW needs to shrink that bright, shiny | Re: Stockyard: Form and Function
by Sean Mullen 1 year ago
Doug, That's really bizarre. What version of Chrome I use Chrome exclusively and have no problems with load time. I'll send your findings on to Abraham. Sean Mullen Creative Director, Creative COW Gen
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| | | |  | Audio samples?by Kurt Muller 1 year agoI got as far as the "Play Track" button on the audio section, but nothing happened when I clicked on it. Is there a way to listen to samples of the audio on the various collections Thanks. | Re: Audio samples?
by Sean Mullen 1 year ago
Kurt, I don't think you need a specific codec, I'll double check with Abraham on that. When you click the play track button and it turns into an orange load icon, this is loading the track in to the p
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| | | |  | disappearing rolloverby Phil Sheldon 1 year agohi there when i roll over one of the clips on the right hand column, the window is only half visible and i couldn't scroll across without losing the window apart from that, looks good and worked fast | Re: disappearing rollover
by Sean Mullen 1 year ago
Phil, What resolution is your monitor I'll send this feedback to Abraham. Thanks! The pricing is set by each contributor. Sean Mullen Creative Director, Creative COW General Manager, Creative COW Stoc
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| | | |  | Submission guidelines/formatsby Sean David 1 year agoI have looked but don't see any submission formats, especially for video. Besides the obvious HD, are you accepting SD PAL and NTSC In my case, I especially wonder about anamorphic widescreen SD I'm n | Re: Submission guidelines/formats
by Sean Mullen 1 year ago
Sean, The StockYard is currently hosting up to 3K video files, with no real limit on frame size. I just confirmed with Abraham that the StockYard will take any format that people wish to sell. Sean Mu
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| | | |  | Download comps in QT pleaseby Leah Chapman 1 year agoCongrats! The site looks great and I'm excited to start using it. As for constructive criticism: as already suggested, a lightbox function is essential. Second, please allow us to download low-res com | Re: Download comps in QT please
by Sean Mullen 1 year ago
Leah, The ability to download comps has been added. Thanks! Sean Mullen Creative Director, Creative COW General Manager, Creative COW StockYard CEO Rampant Design Tools www.rampantdesigntools.com
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| | | |  | Credits Don't Expireby Stephen Smith 1 year agoJust read your newly added FAQ, I love that your credits don't expire. This is BIG. I really hate that other sites make you use them in one year. This is really cool! Stephen Smith Utah Video Producti+1 | | | | |
| | | |  | What transition is this?by Joshua Surillo 1 year agoI made this video a while back and I don't remember what was the transition I used that flashes at the 1:16 point. I remember using the orange transition the flashes across the screen, but I can't rem | Re: What transition is this?
by Sean Mullen 1 year ago
You can probably get reasonably close by animating a glow over a transition. Sean Mullen Creative Director, Creative COW General Manager, Creative COW StockYard CEO Rampant Design Tools www.rampantdes
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| | | | | Color Flashesby Robert Paige 1 year agoHi I'm just a curious mind and was wondering the best way to creative these colored effects and flashes used in these videos: http: www.youtube.com watch v=G8_jhbg1BVk&feature=channel_video_title (you | Re: Color Flashes
by Sean Mullen 1 year ago
Robert, There is a product that does this in the Creative COW Master Tools Series. It's called FilmFX and you can find it here. Sean Mullen Rampant Design Tools
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| | | | | Ripping YouTube videosby zeke meginsky 2 years agoI'm ripping a YouTube video using this program called Youtube by Click. I think it makes it an MP4. I'm then using it in a DV timeline. Is there a better way of doing this Zeke | | | | |
| | | | | OT: hosting serviceby Matthew Beall 2 years agoI use After Effects to create large file size HD animations and composites.. For 10 years I've been with Readyhosting as my service provider.. Can anyone recommend a good service for hosting my animat | Re: OT: hosting service
by Sean Mullen 2 years ago
For an actual webhosting service, I recommend HostGator. But it sounds like you could benefit from using a service like WeTransfer or Dropbox too. Sean Mullen Rampant Design Tools
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| | | | | Tutorials at their finest!!by Eric Hartmann 2 years agoI have to say, I've been a big fan of Sean Mullen's for years now going back to his days back at "Juice" and I have to say, this guy still brings it! His last tutorial that was posted (the RGB split) +5 | Re: Tutorials at their finest!!
by Deborrah Glenn-Long 2 years ago
I wholeheartedly agree with Eric. I started following the Cow about the same time that I began watching Sean's tutorials. He's among the best -- quick, to the point and awesomely creative. Sean's tuto
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| | | |  | Congratulations to Creative Cowby Ralph Hajik 2 years agoTo CreativeCow CEO Ron Lindeboom and the entire staff a congratulations are in order for the new facelift of CreativeCow. After 10 years and over 1 million visitors per month, that's a great accomplis+1 | Re: Congratulations to Creative Cow
by Ronald Lindeboom 2 years ago
Thank you for the kind words, Ralph. The facelift is just starting and it will take months to finish all of the various channels and areas of the COW. But we have many areas already designed and we'll
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| | | |  | Tutorial: The Beauty of AE Shapes: Vector Artby Rob Mize 2 years ago Adobe After Effects The Beauty of AE Shapes: Vector Art Rob Mize demonstrates how to use shapes to change low resolution raster art into sharp, clean, high quality vector images. This is a quick and +7 | Re: The Beauty of AE Shapes: Vector Art
by Rob Mize 7 months ago
Hi, Janet... I'm really glad to the tut provided a bit of a confidence boost. It's amazing what you can accomplish with some imagination, and persistence... even without plug-ins. Thanks for the encou
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| | | |  | Article: Film Fading to Blackby Debra Kaufman 2 years ago Cinematography Film Fading to Black ARRI, Panavision and Aaton have all quietly ceased production of their film cameras to focus exclusively on the design and manufacture of digital cameras. Film Fad+4  | @Von Thomas
by Jiggy Gaton 2 years ago
It's true. Most consumers can't tell the difference, but artists can. My wife is a singer, and she is always complaining about iTune downloads. My brother shoots music videos, and hates the way they l
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| | | | | Mocha troubles!!! Cant see video.by Jorge Rosado 2 years agoHi, I'm trying to do some tracking in Mocha for AFX which I've done before but for some reason now when I import my footage I cant see the image. Here's a screen shot of the problem. Thanks in advance | Re: Mocha troubles!!! Cant see video.
by Sean Mullen 2 years ago
Hi Jorge, I've run in to this in the past. If you are using After Effects CS4, it seems that the version of Mocha that comes bundled with it doesn't like certain codecs like ProRes. I've had good luck
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| | | | | Tutorial: RGB Split Effect in After Effectsby Sean Mullen 2 years ago Adobe After Effects RGB Split Effect in After Effects In this tutorial, Designer Sean Mullen shows us how to create the well-known RGB split effect in After Effects without the use of any third party+6 | | | | |
| | | | | Podcast: RGB Split Effect in After Effectsby Sean Mullen 2 years agoRGB Split Effect in After Effects by Sean Mullen (00:09:20) -- 10 17 2011 In this tutorial, Designer Sean Mullen shows us how to create the well-known RGB split effect in After Effects without the use | | | | |
| | | |  | Testing 3D with Anaglyphby charlie davies 2 years agoI don't have AE CS5.5 so when producing and testing Stereoscopic scenes I take both the left and the Right eye, desaturate both and set the channels so that one shows as red, and the other shows as cy | | | | |
| | | | | Movie lookby Reece Wade Allen 2 years agoWhat is being used in this video to give it that film look, I have digieffects damgage which is used but how does he make it look like that. | | | | |
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| | | |  | Video: Llyr Williams VFX Reel 2011by Llyr Williams 2 years agoLlyr Williams VFX Reel 2011 Includes some of my recent vfx work. Music: The Knife Heartbeats Modeling and Texturing: Maya, 3D Studio Max, Zbrush, Vue, Dreamscape, Photoshop Particles and dynamics: Par+12 | | | | |
| | | | | Service: Rampant Design Toolsby Sean Mullen 2 years agoFlorida, United States Photography Animation VFX Rampant Design Tools Stock Images Motion Graphics Visual Effects Sean Mullen is an Emmy award winning visual | | | | |
| | | |  | Video: D. Eric Franks - Trainerby D. Eric Franks 4 years agoD. Eric Franks - Trainer This is an 80-second demo reel highlighting my work as a producer, host and writer. Like many producers today, I'm often forced to wear many hats, including editor, camera, il+5 | | | | |
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