A new series on Creative Cow looking at how to create a run (or walk) cycle in After Effects.

If you are new to this, start with the Parenting tutorial first which gives you a very basic version of the project and then parent up the character and create your very own run cycle.

Just click on the images to be taken to the appropriate tutorial on Creative Cow :o)

Some new tutorials are on their way starting with this one on the brand new Audition CS5.5 and a new effect to Audition called the Speech Volume Leveler which is one of those FX that you will find yourself using over and over again to get the volume of the speech of your talent right – especially when the volume levels are all over the place.

Coming soon, 'Automation Modes' in Première Pro and a couple of tutorials on understanding and animating transforms in Première Pro. What this space or follow me on twitter ...

A quick update for you, I've been working on a major project for the last month or so which is now coming to a close. However, this has meant that I've not had much time to give to the site or to record new tutorials!

Meanwhile, Creative Cow have continued to drip-feed my Encore Tutorials so that as I write all but one of the 9 tutorials are now live.

If you want to see them, go to www.creativecow.net > Tutorials > and on the right hand side look for the Adobe Encore DVD link and click on that. From there you will find links to all the tutorials :o)

As for what is to come next, I have had to do some rotoscoping work for my latest project and have permission to use a small clip in a training project for Mocha for AE. So, look out for a tutorial in the coming month on the basics of using Mocha for AE to save a great deal of time for roto work. I learned a lot doing this, so I hope in due course you will too.

Thanks for stopping by

Andrew :o)

First of a 6 part series of tutorials on 'Getting Going with Encore' has gone live on www.CreativeCow.net

This tutorial is all about getting your sequences into Encore from Premiere Pro.

enjoy!