www.mattkprovideo.com/2026/04/13/john-f-kennedy-on-the-cover-of-mad-magazine/
This started off as a cover of MAD Magazine cover with President John F. Kennedy, October 1961.
Made with #photoshop and #aftereffects
I of course don’t own the image, I hope this falls under fair use.
I am not profiting off of this. It was just an experiment to challenge my photoshop and after effects skills.
www.mattkprovideo.com/2026/02/22/anything-for-love-book-cover/
Anything For Love animated Book Cover
Proof of Concept piece for book author Deanne Stillman.
I did not do the original design. Layered in Adobe Photoshop and animated in Adobe After Effects.
Blue Background Version:
Electric Honeycomb Motion Graphic
www.mattkprovideo.com/2026/02/17/electric-honeycomb-motion-graphic/
An electric/glowing honeycomb motion graphic I created with Adobe Photoshop and then added lighting a glow masks in Adobe After Effects.
This is my original creation, but it was inspired by someone else’s work I saw on YouTube.
www.mattkprovideo.com/2026/01/21/john_paul-pagano-compares-anti-semitism-to-conspiracy-theories/
John_Paul Pagano compares anti-semitism to conspiracy theories
http://www.mattkprovideo.com/2025/10/20/infinity-diesel-trucks-logo/
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.
mattkprovideo.com/2025/09/21/howd-they-do-that-19th-nervous-breakdown/
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:
mattkprovideo.com/2025/06/09/animated-photoshop-painting-question/
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…
www.mattkprovideo.com/2025/03/08/globe-motion-graphics/
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.
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