About marcus geduld
Marcus Geduld is a jack-of-many-trades. He works as a freelance programmer and designer. He also teaches programming, design, animation, compositing and video editing at Future Media Concepts (www.fmctraining.com).
About marcus geduld
Product Reviews
FAST ANIMATION SOFTWARE Toon Boom Animate 2 is the gold-standard tool for creating Flash animations. As there’s some confusion surrounding the word “Flash,” you should know that it’s both a file format (used to display animations—and other kinds of multimedia presentations—on the Web and other platforms) and also a program used to create those files. [...]
You can try any of the hundreds of plug-ins right in After Effects. This is both a blessing and a curse.
Holomatrix is an After Effects plug-in that does one thing well: It gives footage that produces ghost-like, scan line, holodeck, and help me Obi-Wan Kenobi looks.
Partigen 2 ships with more than a hundred presets (fire, water, explosions, bubbles, etc.), which you can modify as it suits your needs.
After Effects has such a powerful built-in text engine, what more could an animator need? Noise Industries has answered that question by taking a close look at existing features and augmenting them with their Motype 1.2 plug-in.
Beauty Box, a plug-in for After Effects, has a built-in, face-recognition engine. Just park on a frame in which the actor is facing the camera, click the Analyze Frame button, and you’re done.
