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10% discount for F5 cutting-edge creativity festival in NYC

Eran Stern — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:18:59 +0000

F5, the biennial creativity festival held in NYC this April 15-16, 2011. This fest explores the intersection of art, design and entertainment. Presented by Motionographer, F5 fosters creative collisions — those moments of lasting insight and inspiration that occur when we discover something unexpected.
“This isn’t “another design conference.” It’s a meeting of great minds—it’s about diversifying our perspective. In addition to top studios and individuals you know from Motionographer, we’ll be mixing the party up with talents from places and spaces that exist outside our comfort zones. All in the spirit of creative collisions—those moments of lasting insight and inspiration that occur when we smash into something unexpected.”
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Here’s a short list of what you can expect from this event:

Two-days of inspiring presentations and discussions that will alter the way you think about work, life and everything in between
Re:Play Festival: An international showcase of cutting-edge film, animation and design commissioned by Motionographer
A relaxing bar/lounge to recharge your batteries and make new friends
A reason to visit New York City, one of the great creative centers of the world
An amazing after-party
Cake!

I’m glad to offer all my readers a discount code good for 10% off the ticket price. Use the coupon code “ERANSTERN” on the registration page.
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I’ll be there too (not teaching, just learning). Come and give high5 to F5
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Busy working…

Eran Stern — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:22:15 +0000

Hi guys, a short post just to let you know that my plate is pretty full these days. So updates are a little slow for the English site. I’m working on a few projects, trying to juggle, or should I say wiggle, work and family at the same time. I am working on a new Hebrew training DVD, nurturing the new Hebrew Post Production Forum at the site, and also organizing a user group meeting for my Israeli talented crowd which will take place, for the first time, in Tel Aviv next week.

There’s more happening, but at this stage this is what I can reveal. Anyway, just to let you know, I’m planning to publish a new cool tutorial for Creative COW which hopefully will be ready for the holiday season and maybe another one just after that, who knows?! I guess only god.
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NAB Warp up

Eran Stern — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:46:28 +0000

Another NAB ended and it’s time for summaries. There’s no doubt this was the quietest show I’ve been in and this is my tenth NAB. So it was good and bad at the same time. The up side is that it gave me a chance to catch up with many of my friends and colleagues including John Dickinson, Maltaannon, Aharon Rabinowitz, Jayse Henson and Mark Coleran just to name a few.
My sessions at the Post Production World conference were very successful (I hope) and I wish to thank everyone who took the time and money and participated. I hope it was worth it I sure had a great time teaching, and really appreciate the w

arm feedback you all gave me. It was pleasure to meet you all in person, and I do hope to see you next year and/or at up coming events during this year.

As for the show floor itself, I must say I haven’t seen new ground breaking products that will impact my digital life. Though, I will point out these 4 products which I found most interesting:

Trapcode Particular 2 which should be available this summer from Red Giant Software. you can watch a demo of the product here.
3D Serpentine - A new plug in from Zaxwerks that create fanciful 3D noodles.
Matrox Compress HD accelerator board which encode H.264 video faster than realtime.
Adobe Story - a collaborative scriptwriting tool. There’s no product yet, but it does look very interesting, watch for a beta software soon at Adobe Labs.

Vegas, Anybody?

Eran Stern — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:09:56 +0000

As you know, NAB 09 is just around the corner. For those of you who are thinking of coming to the show, I want to invite you to a few sessions that I’ll be teaching during the Post Production World conference. These sessions require a registration fee, so you can choose what’s best for your budget. From my point of view, I can promise you a great value for your money, lots of fun time using After Effects and a handful of unique tips and techniques.

Here are the the links for each session plus the dates and time to mark in your schedule:

Boot Camp: How After Effects Is Used in TV Commercials and Movie Trailers

Las Vegas Convention Center: N252
April 21 • 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Advanced Tracking Techniques in After Effects

Las Vegas Convention Center: N252
April 22 • 2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Simulate This: Using Simulation Plug-Ins with After Effects

Las Vegas Convention Center: N252
April 22 • 3:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

And just to tease your mind, here’s one of the projects that I’ll be covering during the “Simulate This” session. A cool use for Ball Action, Foam and Caustics plug-ins with some Photoshop Extended 3D objects.

Hope to see you there, come and say hello don’t be a stranger