Animating a TV Turning on and Off

A CreativeCOW After Effects Video Tutorial

CreativeCOW presents Turning on a TV with AE--Video Training by Aharon Rabinowitz

Aharon Rabinowitz
New York, USA

©2007 Aharon Rabinowitz and Creativecow.net. All rights reserved.

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In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz revisits one of his first AE tutorials (the Old TV Look) and shows you how to animate the TV turning on and off.

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Re: Animating a TV Turning on and Off
by Melenie Maher

Great Tutorial Aharon,
This helped a lot :)

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