About steve holmes

Award-winning British designer Steve Holmes, creative director of Energi Design, started his graphic design career in the United Kingdom. After studying design and typography for print, he worked through two full-time design and print production companies over 7 years, before setting up Energi Design in 1994.

3D Motion and Position of Text Characters with After Effects

Typography is one of the qualities upon which we base most of our design work.

From Text to a Cool Extruded-3D with After Effects

We’ll show you how to turn simple text into a cool extruded-3D scene inside After Effects.

Create a Photo Montage with After Effects

Instead of using another program or plug-in, or you want something a little more creative (yet still as easy to replicate and reuse), why not use a software program you already own?

Popping Animation Effect in Adobe After Effects

This tutorial will set up the popular “popping” animation effect and will use the new CS4 Wiggle Transform operator.

Keep Your Eye on the Ball … 3D in After Effects

Animating your After Effects design in 3D space is fun and easy, with a few camera tricks, to create pure, cool cinematography…

Animated Swirls in Adobe After Effects

Animated swirls are all the rage in the motion graphics world, and there are some pretty cool things that can be done with them.

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