We have all came across the need for Vector design elements. so like most other people i collect all my sources to be reused and shared at a later date.

Doodles and Sketches :

[Download]

Ribbon Graphic :

[Download]

Ornate Florals and Swirlys :

[Download]

Found This Amazing Tip on How to Make This in 10 seconds I used to do it in Illustrator by manually copying lines in a radial path or in AE by drawing masks and copying them over and over

This was originally posted on AE region of interest as a written tip so i decided to make a short video to speed things up View Original [here]

I was searching the Internet and came across a very interesting article about the most common mistakes new CG artists make. The thing that caught my eye on this article is that it was very technical and not like , here’s whats right and here’s whats wrong. The author knows his staff. Check it out

Read full article [here]

Hey, So i don’t know about you guys but if there is one thing i learned over my not so long career that i flow without question above all else is Reference. I cant say it enough your work will look feel and flow much better if you reference something and i am not saying copy something quite the opposite. I find that sometimes i am trying to do something and i just cant see what it would look like or how it would behave so seeing a real life example of something or looking at some one eases work that nailed a specific look helps allot in knowing how something should feel and look. I look at other motion designers work on daily basis going to sites like Motionographer and the Art Of The Title Sequence. looking at other peoples work at the very least it motivates me to say holy crap i want to try and make something like this and more often then not it spawns a cool concept or a very nice piece of work so i invite you to see what inspired me this Thursday

This is a fan made, no budget music video which is my diploma project for my university to the great music of Soko.

showreel montage

[Angelina]

[Colorful Soul] by Eric Vasquez

As as Per my new fond tradition of posting a new cool useful freebie link i give you font Wednesday were all your font dreams may come true. I often find myself looking for a font that matches and idea rather then looking for and idea with a cool font but that’s just me i go through allot of fonts to find something that suites my mood at the time so here are some resources for you guys to do the same. Enjoy

Oassis :

[Download]

Sansation :

[Download]

That’s all the  fonts i used this Wednesday See you next week

I came across this problem a couple of times before and its always hard to find an answer how every after some  pro googling i found this tutorial on the issue itself and how to fix it hope this will help you guys as much as it helped me.

[illustration courtesy of VideoCopilot.net]

View Tutorial on VideoHive [here]

Like ever were else on the internet Tuesday is Texture day. Textures From all over the world are shared on this magical day … Tuesday. I am no exeption when i get more time i might start making my own textures but for now i will refrence you to my soruces enjoy.

Old Films Texture :

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Beach and Sand Textures :

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Grunge Texture :

Click on the image or [here] to download

Carbon Fiber Texture :

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See you next Tuesday Enjoy

Hello to all,

If you have been using after effects for more then 20 min you probably ran into an out of ram issue on your windows xp 32bit box. As i have and so many people before me.  there are two solutions you can enable the 3gb switch on your xp system or you can switch to a 64bit system witch i do recommend. When i was having this issue i had to look for a solution for about and hour so to save you guys some time i decided to write this

Windows Xp 32bit -

Step 1 :

Click Start and Go to Run

Setp 2 :

Type “C:\boot.ini ” and Press Enter

Step 3:

Once Notepad opens locate the last line in your operating system list and add this to the end of the line ” /3GB” Save and reset the Computer

Step 4:

You have just Enabled your XP system to address more ram when next you start AE it should take effect

Here are some useful links for troubleshooting and Information

[Microsofts Help Files on the 3gb switch]

[AE CS4 Help Files on Multiproccesing]

Windows Xp 64bit -

If you did switch to windows 64bit then you have no problem. xp64 can address much more ram then its 32bit brother so put in as much ram into your pc as your mother board allows and go to school. AE is still a 32bit App so to address more ram then it is capable of AE lets you open instances of itself So on a 4 Core System with 16GB or ram

you can ran 4 instances of AE with 4 GB of Ram per instance and that makes life sweet you can read up on the instancing and multiproccesing futures in AE [here]

Hope this Helps and saves some one time cheers Guys

Hello this is my first freebies post so here we go i am gonna try and make something up for every day of the week like vectors and textures and so stay tuned i may not always post my own staff it might be links to other sites an blogs. I keep track of about 300 blogs that post free textures and such so it kills like 2 hours of my day keeping up to date on all free staff on the internet so i will try to pick what i think is the best and most useful staff and post some links hope you like it , if you do register for my RSS

Bloody Photoshop Brushes :

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Curly Floral Brushes :

Click on the image or [here] to download

Grunge Texture Brushes :

Click on the image or [here] to download

Water Color Brushes :

Click on the image or [here] to download