http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt Kurt Murphy's library of tutorials, articles, reviews and more for media professionals world wide. en-us Fri, 25 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT PHP Script webmaster@creativecow.net webmaster@creativecow.net http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/invigorator_tr_rev.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/invigorator_tr_rev.php Broadcast designer Kurt Murphy has been using After Effects since it went by the name of CoSA, but even then, Kurt found its one big drawback was the inability to create true 3D objects in 3D space. That is until Zaxwerks Invigorator came along. And now Zaxwerks Invigorator Training (Volume 1) by Se Fri, 09 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/glass_globe.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/glass_globe.php When broadcast designer Kurt Murphy received a glass globe as a gift, it inspired him to see if he could create one in After Effects. In this tutorial, Kurt demonstrates creating and animating a glass globe totally in After Effects using Solids and Effects. This project is totally self-contained, ne Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/cross.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/cross.php Kurt Murphy demonstrates the technique of moving layer masks on 2 sides of a glass cross in Zaxwerks Invigorator. This tutorial assumes that you have some previous exposure to the plug-in. If you don't have the plug-in, download the demo so that you can follow along. Kurt also completes the project Tue, 08 Oct 2002 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/basic_text.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/basic_text.php Join noted broadcast designer Kurt Murphy as he continues his exploration of the process of re-creating the on-air identity of a local broadcast affiliate in the Pacific Northwest area of the United States. At the end of the animation, Kurt Murphy adds the titling for each heading (Local News, Morni Sat, 27 Oct 2001 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/logo_touches.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/logo_touches.php Join noted broadcast designer Kurt Murphy as he continues his exploration of the process of re-creating the on-air identity of a local broadcast affiliate in the Pacific Northwest area of the United States. In part seven of the series, Kurt adds a few touches to the logo - a blur, a lens flare, a dr Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/beauty_shot.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/beauty_shot.php Join noted broadcast designer Kurt Murphy as he continues his exploration of the process of re-creating the on-air identity of a local broadcast affiliate in the Pacific Northwest area of the United States. In part six of the series, Kurt integrates the beauty shots into the design. Thu, 20 Sep 2001 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/coverage.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/coverage.php Join noted broadcast designer Kurt Murphy as he continues his exploration of the process of re-creating the on-air identity of a local broadcast affiliate in the Pacific Northwest area of the United States. In part five of the series, Kurt adds some text to his sequence. Fri, 07 Sep 2001 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/hilight.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/hilight.php Join noted broadcast designer Kurt Murphy as he outlines the steps he used to re-create the on-air identity of KVEW television, an ABC affiliate in Washington state. In this on-going series, Kurt explores design issues as well as set-up short-cuts and tricks. In part four of the series, Kurt adds so Tue, 04 Sep 2001 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/background.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/background.php Join noted broadcast designer Kurt Murphy as he outlines the steps he used to re-create the on-air identity of KVEW television, an ABC affiliate in Washington state. In this on-going series, Kurt explores design issues as well as set-up short-cuts and tricks. In Part One, he introduces the subject a Sat, 11 Aug 2001 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/invigorator.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/invigorator.php In Part Two of the series, noted broadcast designer Kurt Murphy expands on the logo that the client chose in Part One. Here, Kurt takes the EPS files into After Effects and uses the 3D powers of Zaxwerks Invigorator to bring the Wow! to the on-air identity Kurt creates for KVEW. Even if you do not h Sat, 28 Jul 2001 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/open.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/open.php Join noted broadcast designer Kurt Murphy as he outlines the steps he used to re-create the on-air identity of KVEW television, an ABC affiliate in Washington state. In this on-going series, Kurt explores design issues as well as set-up short-cuts and tricks. In Part One, he introduces the subject a Sat, 28 Jul 2001 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/natural_selection.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/murphy_kurt/natural_selection.php In this matte painting tutorial noted broadcast designer Kurt Murphy explores some basic compositing and image enhancement techniques using Adobe Photoshop. He focuses on ways to avoid the obvious paste up look of a shoddy compositing cut-job. He also points readers to some of the productivity short Tue, 24 Jul 2001 07:00:00 GMT