Animating Skies and Writing Text With Light!

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by Mark Simpson, JAM Digital, Redondo Beach, California, USA ©2001 by Mark Simpson. All rights are reserved.Used at CreativeCow.net by kind permission of the author.

ARTICLE FOCUS: Mark Simpson uses The Foundry 'Tinderbox' plug-ins, T_Sky, T_Rays, & T_Blur filters to create some unique text effects against an artificial sky. In this first look at the new TinderBox series from The Foundry -- Mark Simpson explores some of the powers of the incredible fractal skies plug-in and the beauty of the TinderBox Rays plug-in. Mark's conclusions give high praise to a new set of AE plug-ins just beginning to grow in popularity among After Effects users.

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