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About Laurence

Laurence Grayson is a video producer and motion graphics designer with over 15 years' experience in delivering engaging digital media. He currently works as a full-time video producer for a global software development company.
5 07, 2010

After Effects Tip – Cycling blending modes

By |July 5th, 2010|Tips and Tricks|0 Comments

There are 38 blending modes in After Effects - here's a quick tip to finding the one you need quickly and easily.
23 06, 2010

After Effects Tutorial – The Sands of Time

By |June 23rd, 2010|Tutorials|0 Comments

Here's a fairly long After Effects Tutorial showing you how to create realistic engraved text, a text-to-sand reveal and a bunch of other effects.
17 06, 2010

After Effects Tutorial – Freaky flaming face of fire!

By |June 17th, 2010|Tutorials|0 Comments

Everyone knows that you don't get taken seriously as a motion graphics tutorial guy until you've done at least one facial deformation technique.
16 06, 2010

After Effects Tip – Setting a video to loop

By |June 16th, 2010|Tips and Tricks|0 Comments

Using Interpret Footage to set a video asset to loop in After Effects.
9 06, 2010

After Effects Tutorial – 3D motion matching / tracking

By |June 9th, 2010|Tutorials|0 Comments

I'm a big fan of Fringe and there's an embedded title technique that's used pretty heavily in the establishing shots. If you've seen the series, you'll know what I mean. It's massively popular in car adverts as well.
7 06, 2010

After Effects Tutorial – Quick sexy, glitzy title

By |June 7th, 2010|Tutorials|0 Comments

How to create a glitzy title using simple text, layer styles, blending modes and the cell pattern effect.
28 05, 2010

Using Adobe Media Encoder to create iPad video

By |May 28th, 2010|Software, Tips and Tricks|0 Comments

If you're looking to create video for playback on an iPad, here are two Media Encoder presets that are better than using 720P High Quality.
27 05, 2010

After Effects Tutorial – Create an animated box shot from a photograph

By |May 27th, 2010|Tutorials|0 Comments

If you've ever been handed a box shot by a client and wished you could do something to jazz it up a bit, maybe this tutorial will help.
25 05, 2010

After Effects Tutorial – Corner pinning with Mocha for CS5

By |May 25th, 2010|Tutorials|0 Comments

Now that I've got CS5 installed, it seemed like a good time to get to grips with this advanced motion tracking tool for After Effects.
6 05, 2010

After Effects Tutorial – Nightvision city flyover

By |May 6th, 2010|Tutorials|0 Comments

Here's another After Effects tutorial - this time using Trapcode Form and fractal noise to create a combination of mountain or cityscape terrains. Very useful for cockpit composites, sci-fi, action sequences, technology, military-style pieces.