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Infinity Diesel Trucks logo,
Made with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects.
This is someone else’s logo. I did the Photoshop layering and motion graphics work in After Effects, But I did not do the actual logo design.
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This a presumably modern video made for an old song… I wonder how they did this?
I am assuming it was done in after effects with some kind of “old film” filter / LUT applied on top of it?
How you think they did it?
The tunnel effect at 25 seconds in particularly intrigues me….
They could have used just any kind of 3D app, but I wonder if it wasn’t something in After Effects. One way they could have done would be to make a light grey and black striped surface at the top of a Photoshop file and then colored stripes on the bottom half of the image- then apply a cylinder effect in After Effects. But they had the camera move like it was a round donut, and then the tunnel does an “S Turn” after a point. Can this be done in after effects?
My attempt to duplicate the shot with a grey and black striped Photoshop image with the After Effects “CC Cylinder” effect applied to it. I made it a 3D object and had the 3D camera move through it:
I still haven’t figured out how to make a curved tunnel in after effects.
www.mattkprovideo.com/2025/08/21/cartoon-octopus/
Animated cartoon Octopus made for an upcoming music show promo.
I hand drew the octopus in Adobe Animate, and composited into the scene by making the octopus a “3D Object” with a “floor” (water surface) made as a “cloud” in Adobe Photoshop. I added a ripple effect to the water in After Effects.
In front of the octopus I added a layer with bubbles.
The I added a brief fade in glow behind the octopus by duplicating the layer, and adding stylize> glow and radial blue and light streaks. I had it dissolve in by moving the TRANSPARENCY from zero to 100 a second later, then back down to zero another second later after that.
This was my first attempt:
I realized that the front arm of the octopus looked odd in a 3D scene.
So i sunk the octopus lower, so that it was partially under water. I duplicated the water layer and reduced its opacity to 75 percent. ( i had to make a copy of that water later and move it lower and under the first water layer. That way the black background wouldn’t make the water look darker.
This was my second render attempt.
You will note that I didn’t add the band logos over this render attempt. This time, I rendered that as a separate composition (with an Alpha channel) to be added later.
Final (?) Version:
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I create these animated paintings in Photoshop and After Effects.
I paint ONE paint stroke on a layer in Adobe Photoshop. I duplicate that layer and then paint over it. Then I duplicate THAT one and paint over it as well.
And so on, and so on and so on….
then I import the (eventually huge) PSD file into After Effects and sequence the layers…
Surely there must be a simpler / faster way to do this?
Can you think of an app/plug in or some other way I can just paint in Photoshop while SOMETHING records what I’m doing…
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Motion graphics globe, made with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects.
I made the continents in Photoshop, imported the photoshop file into After Effects, and then added the “CC Sphere” filter and rotated it!
www.mattkprovideo.com/2025/03/01/killing-of-president-book-cover-animated/
This is an (unauthorized) experiment in making an animated book cover.
I took and old internet image of a book cover for Robert Groden’s THE KILLING OF A PRESIDENT and cut it up into Adobe Photoshop layers and animated them in Adobe After Effects.
This may or may not be used in a documentary or ongoing webseries I work on.
This is almost the same project, but rendered in a vertical format.
http://www.mattkprovideo.com/2025/01/04/itex-promo/
Made with Adobe animate, flash, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe after effects and premiere
This a REVISED version:
In the original version, The coffee shop woman is in a barren, empty room.
I changed it that she is surrounded by tables, empty tables.
In the original version, at .14 seconds, the coffee shop girl looks down then we cut to a shot of her phone in her hand.
I changed it so that now the coffee shop girl looks at her phone in the front shot, then we cut to a close up of the phone.
In the original version, at around .45 seconds, 2 of the characters on the left side of the coffee shop, they accidntally “glitched off the screen” ( they disappear for two frames) I fixed it so that they dont disappear.
I have added new electronic “beep” sound effects, and and “engine trouble” sound effects
In the original version, at 1:32, a character glitched off the screen for a second. I fixed that.
In the original version, the end words were gray. I have changed them to outlined white ( thought it looked better).
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Coffee Shop scene
The graphic designer shows off his coffee shop logo to the Barista/Owner and the camera pulls back to see the coffee shop full of customers.
Newer, slightly revised version:
Original version with some slight video animation defects:
This animated shot is going to be a part of a commercial/promo video for ITEX barter in San Antonio.
This cartoon was made with old school paper drawings, traced in Adobe Animate (Flash) and composited in Adobe After Effects.
www.mattkprovideo.com/2024/12/30/president-jimmy-carter-stop-motion-claymation/
Jimmy the C, President Jimmy Carter sings
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076230/
This is a 1979 stop motion animated film from Jimmy Picker. It shows (then) President Jimmy Carter singing Ray Charles classic song “Georgia.”
Jimmy Carter was of course the Governor of Georgia before he was elected President.
Directed by Jimmy Picker and written by Robert Grossman, Jimmy Picker and Craig Whitaker.
It was nominated for a “Best Animated Short” Oscar in 1979.
www.mattkprovideo.com/2024/10/17/jailed-for-kennedy-why-you-should-read-it/
What stories await you when you read JAILED FOR KENNEDY?
Nic Ciacelli spent a lifetime amassing the worlds most complete collection of John F. Kennedy Memorabilia, including a, exact replica of Kennedy’s limousine.
This brought him into contact with Presidents and film directors who wanted to use his limousine.
Ir also landed him in Jail
Jailed for Kennedy is available on amazon.com, Barnes and Noble and other fine booksellers
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What stories await you when you read
Jailed for Kennedy
Nic Ciacelli spent a lifetime amassing the world’s most complete collection of John F Kennedy memorabilia
including an exact replica of Kennedy’s limousine
This brought him into contact with presidents and film directors who wanted to use his limousine it also landed him in jail
On a summer day a SWAT team came to my house
I said what do you hear from for
they said we got you for contempt to court
I said for what
when I was in jail for a civil order for divorce to save my Kennedy collection
this mean guy with a grill came up to me and said
I want those Staples and those magazines
I said no you can’t have them and I said
I tell you what I’ll play you a game of chess we’ll see who wins
You know it was taking an hour to feed all the inmates the real criminals and you know what I said
I tell you what since I used to own McDonald’s let me take over the Food Service give me three people to help me and I’ll get you guys out of here in 35 minutes but I want all the free food I can get plus my three helpers and they gave it to me
A couple of times a secret service called me up they wanted to use my car for a parade in Miami
I let them use it one time a secret service agent fell off the back of the car
I got a I got a call at my McDonald’s from Oliver Stones production company called Camelot Productions and they wanted to use my car for the movie JFK
I said yeah right this is born in the 4th of July right
after I believe them we shipped the car to Dallas Texas
I was at the inaugeral of h Bill Clinton and uh I wanted to get up on that platform to take pictures as he went by
that all the news media was on International and in national news media
So I pumble myself with cameras and I had a press certificate from one of the discovery movies okay and I walked right in act like I belong there
I got a pictures of the president
I met Jim Leavelle on the set of JFK when we were filming that in Dallas Texas
who became friends we used to go eat chicken fried steak together and you know he was a kind of guy that uh he talked in short sentences but they were a volume of of what he was saying okay of material
Jailed For Kennedy is available on amazon.com at Barnes & Noble and other fine book sellers
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