I was recently interviewed by John Dickinson of Motionworks for his Unplugged series. John is helping put a face to all the names that make up our awesome After Effects community and was honored to be asked to be part of it.

Goes through the currently selected composition, and any precomp contained within and checks every text layer for proper spelling.

It’s been a busy around here since we re-launched last month. Overall I am proud to say the relaunch has been a big success. Traffic to the site has more than quadrupled what it used to be and the crazy “Name Your Own Price” idea has actually worked, so thank you all for the support.  [...]

This script displays a palette with controls for jumping to different times in the composition. There are buttons for jumping a specific number of frames forward or back from the current time, as well as 7 favorite buttons for capturing different times (set from the current time) and jumping to them easily.

Displays a palette with controls for slicing the selected layer into a grid. Slicing works best with non-rotated layers. If a parent null layer is created, it will be anchored at the layer’s current anchor point.

If you’ve been here before then surely you will have noticed that we just underwent a massive face lift. If this is your first time then welcome. We aim to be a one stop destination for the best scripts available for Adobe After Effects. Besides the new pretty graphics, the site is designed to be [...]

A floating palette that lets you search for effects throughout a project.

Rename and number all the markers on selected layers.

This script will execute the “Time-Reverse Keyframes” Keyframe Assistant found under the Animation menu. If you assign a shortcut to this script you can execute this command via the keyboard.

This script creates, sets, or unsets proxies for the selected footage and composition items.

I had the privilege of speaking at the January 29, 2009 AENY meeting. My presentation was about using scripts to improve workflows. I also showed how to quickly and easily write a simple script from scratch (at the end of the presentation in case you want to jump ahead). In case you were not able [...]

I am proud to announce that Zorro and BG Renderer are featured in Mark Christiansen’s just released and totally excellent Adobe After Effects CS4 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques book. This is one of the best books available for After Effects and a must have for intermediate and advanced users. Anybody that takes AE [...]