Jeff Foster

PixelPainter: How to Create a Motion Avatar

by Jeff Foster on February 24, 2009

Due to popular demand (okay, a few “How’d you do that?” and “Cool animated avatar!” comments) I’ve decided to show you the steps I took to animate my PixelPainter avatar in Photoshop CS4; as well as the last few steps in putting your own animated avatar (GIF) up on your Twitter account. *Tip: It’s really [...]

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Complex Green/Blue Screen Keying – After Effects CS4 & Keylight

by Jeff Foster on January 22, 2009

This is more of an advanced chroma-keying (or “Green Screen/Blue Screen”) project, as is done almost entirely in After Effects CS4, but doesn’t require any external or third-party plug-ins. Only Keylight, which ships with the software. There are several tutorials out there that show you how to get a simple Green Screen background keyed-out but [...]

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Rotoscoping Video in Adobe After Effects CS4

by Jeff Foster on December 15, 2008

This month’s video article comes to us courtesy of Jeff Foster, who operates PixelPainter.com.  Jeff has written several books on Adobe Photoshop and other visual art tools.  His latest DVD on After Effects CS4 is now available from the link at the bottom. This tutorial is an advanced one, but one that we feel will [...]

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