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Happy Birthday George Pestana

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Happy Birthday George Pestana

Made for George Pestana of the Austin Surf rock band THE NEMATOADS.

http://www.nematoads.com/

2D Animation made in Adobe Flash and Adobe After Effects,

The drum of course is based on the drum kit of Ringo Starr of the Beatles.  George’s actual drum kit doesn’t really look this.

 

mattkprovideo.com/2017/12/16/happy-birthday-george-pestana/

Bernard Purdie and The Beatles

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Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles

 

https://mattkprovideo.com/2017/12/10/bernard-purdie-and-the-beatles/

“There are four drummers on the Beatles records. Ringo’s not one of them.” So says Bernard Purdie

Taken at face value, this is a bold claim, if not a crazy one.

Purdie also stated: “I overdubbed the drumming on twenty-one tracks of the first three Beatle albums.”

Bernard Purdie is one of the must influential and famous drummers in recorded music history. This author details Purdie’s claims, explains why he said what he did, and separate fact from fiction.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Purdie

 

https://bernardpurdie.com/

 

Merry Christmas from Artex Funding

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Merry Christmas from Artex Funding

mattkprovideo.com/2017/11/29/christmas-artex/

 

Drawn in Adobe Flash ( Adobe Animate) then exported as a “.swf” file,

It was a little bigger than 1920 by 1080 so I brought the flash  “.swf” file into Adobe After Effects. I scaled it down about 80 %.  Then I added the website url and phone number, luckily Adobe After Effects had the same font installed as I used in Flash.

I felt the white lettering didn’t stand out enough from the bright white background. So even though it was drawn line art already, I added an adjustment layer with the Stylize > Cartoon filter over everything.  It gave the lines a greater thickness.

Then I added another adjustment layer with the ” CC Snowfall” effect on it. White snowflakes against a white background?  I put the snow effect layer UNDER the cartoon layer- this giving the snowflakes a thin outline.

https://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tutorials/Adding-snow-using-CC-Snow/104216/108662-4.html

I rendered it all as a  Quicktime H.264  “.mov ” so it could be uploaded easily to Youtube.

 

Then I shared it via Twitter and Google Plus.

 

This is a “Christmas Card”  that ArTex Funding can send out to their clients.