What Professionals are Saying about AE Essentials
Dear Jayse; The program showed up a couple of days ago. I'd have written sooner, but I haven't been away from the computer since it arrived. I did it all in one sitting just about, baloney it's 9.5 hours! I spent at LEAST 18 hours in the first disc jumping back and forth with your excellent sections. I liked it SO much, that I wrote a short review up on the COW. I put it in the AE forum and the Trapcode forum, Kathlyn asked if she could post it as a standalone to which I agreed. THANK YOU! This is truly one of the best, (No, THE best) AE tutorial that I ever used, and dude, I've used them all! Way cool! Not enough adjectives to describe it! Jim Harvey and Steve Gotz wrote: http://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=103072757278816&forumid=2 |
Jayse:
- Mack |
| I can testify to the
great quality of the training. I have taken the tutorials in the online version.
I learned enough to get a lot more than the Meyer books. Steven L. Gotz Adobe Premiere 6 / After Effects 5.5 / DVStorm / Hobbyist |
I recently bought your training program for After Effect 5 and 5.5 and I just want to say BRAVO. I really enjoyed your approach, tutorials and so on. It gave me confidence to try things and experience AE in some areas that I would never thought of and most of all have a good time with it. It clarified most of the basic and non-basic gray zones that I had - even with my reading on certain AE features. Claude Boudreau |
| Hi Jayse, I have just finished my VTC AE5/5.5 lessons by you, they are a great work. I have learned much more than just myself messing with AE. Anyway, if you are doing it again, do let me know. I will be the first one to get the CDs. Well done. I am new on AE and long being an Adobe customer and fan, training material like yours comes in handy for me to jump start the application. Well, I guess I have to call you my "師傅 (shi-fu)". (it mean - master teacher in Chinese) Thanks mate. Cheers,
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Hello Jayse, Just wanted to say that I have really enjoyed pouring over your tutorials in Creative Cow and just recently going over (and over) the VTC online University thing for After Effects. Great stuff. Thanks again, |
Dear Jayse: I am an executive with an International Communication and Education Company. I have been going through your VTC AE 5/5.5 essentials online. I am very impressed with your teaching abilities. Great work! Richert E. Goyette, MD |
Hi, really cool effects. I want to use it on my demo reel, with my own variation of course. I appreciate the trouble you went through to teach others how to make realistic visual effects. I went to Seneca College in Toronto, and my compositing teacher taught us almost nothing of how to make effects such as this one. Thanks. |
Thanks Jayse for completing this CD. I purchased it last week and enjoy the method you use to teach. I also enjoy the fact you use demos and projects we can use in the real world. I am looking forward to the portion with the photo montages with the depth of field/out of focus effect. This looks completely different from any photo montage I have done. Also thanks for sharing your skills
with us, really enjoyed the clouds tutorial. By the way, I sure like the price,
I did not want the $600 training from (you know who)
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Jayse, I bought your VTC AE Essenstials CD's last week and I'm almost through all of them. I've been a participant of the CreativeCOW and I own numerous books on AE including both books by Chris and Trish Meyer. I've been able to get a lot out of these resources but I'll tell you what I really got out of yours...confidence. I've always thought my work was crap(honestly some of it was) so I would never take that "step" to get it out to the world. But the sections in your cd's concerning demo tapes and interactions with the motion graphics community have really set me straight. You've renewed my love for AE and motion graphics in general. I'm 24 years old working for the Department of Energy building Coldfusion and jsp websites...but my real love is motion graphics and now I've got that fire back. Damn, I sound pretty mushy. Anyway, thank you for a wonderful product and for paving the way for us. Ryan Nowak P.S. Your shine wall is the s**t! |
Hey, I just finished your VTC.com class on Adobe After Effects and I couldn't be happier. You did a great job and I certainly came away with a lot from it. Right now I'm on to Cinema 4D and the teacher isn't nearly as interesting or intuitive as yourself. Thanks for the help and hopefully you'll be teaching some more software on VTC soon. |
Thanks a lot for the reply.. I saw your CDs on the Cow after I e-mailed you, and the next day I ordered them!! I can't wait to get my hands on them!!! I can remember posting several months ago about how much I wanted to see a product such as the one that you have just produced created and made available. I'm glad to see that it has finally happened! I do a lot of :30 second spots for TV, lots of animated logos.... it's my bread and butter. I am very much looking forward to the new ideals and skills that I will gain from your product. Thanks a lot and take care. |
Jayse, That was really cool of you to respond... thanks a whole lot.... I am just getting into all this AE stuff, and I loved what you did, so if you don't mind..... I will be using your tutorial on developing an intro for our company. Thank You,
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Jayse, Very Nice Tutorial !! With compliments ! - Massimo Cruciani |
Hello Jayse, Your CD looks like it will be a great help for me to progress fast with the learning process of AE. I currently use Quantel HAL and I'm excited to learn After Effects too. |
Hallo! I have bought your training CDs for aftereffect 5,5. They're really great! I have learned very much from it. I wonder if you are going to make an advanced training CD for pro bundle as well? I was also wondering if you going to make some more CDs with cool projects. I have not so much time to find out by myself so it should be nice to get some more CDs with example projects. Thanks Niklas |
Hi Jayse, would just like to say that I really, really admire your tutorials. bye bye // Tobbe |
Jayse, I'm in the process of purchasing your AfterEffects 5/5.5 Essential Training Video. I've compared to others like that of "Lynda" and "After Effects BootCamp", and from what I've seen thus far is that your information packs a bigger punch! Thanks for creating the training video. Keep 'em coming! Sincerely, Jeff Harris Dallas, TX |
Awesome work. Very inspirational. I am just starting out with After Effects. Thank you for the cool site. |
You rock!! I really appreciate you taking time out to assist me:) Your VTC CDs helped me lots too, I pick up tons of valuable info you can't get from any books. Thank you again |
| Jayse: Still think you've written the best damn AE tutorial I've ever read. Can't believe how much it has helped me out. I just finished a piece for Sean Hannity (the radio and Tv Talk show host) that incorporated some camera work that was made far easier for me after your tutorials. They LOVED it and that's the bottom line, YOUR program made MY work a level better than it was ( and it was damn good BEFORE! <G>). Thanks again. Keep pluggin away, it's like having an extra brain in my head Jim Harvey JHV Digital |
From Amazon.com: This is a must have for anyone wishing to know every single facet of the Adobe After Effects program. The narrator breaks everything down to it's simplest elements to ensure that nothing is missed. If you are serious about learning After Effects then you definitely need to get this. You will not be sorry!! ~ Ed Paten |
Jayse Hansen does such a good job, that I felt guilty for what I quickly learned spending such a small amount of money. Jimmie Mitchell |
| Your work is AWESOME!
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| Just saying thanks. I received your
After Effects CD-Rom’s, plus the premiere one from vtc just weeks ago. In
time for a major project due in my department, I had used Photoshop and worked
in the web industry for years, but never motion graphics. Two weeks later I ended
up entertaining 600 people for a major presentation night for 18 minutes!!!!!
To rave reviews! I might get a promotion out of this yet (and have had many offers
on my services privately)
Anyway I hope your working on a new series. Thanks again!
Regards Stefan Jeannin |
| Dear Jayse:
I finished the tutorial and again want to thank you for the time and effort that you put in. I particularly liked the practical aspects, the constant reinforcement of the keyboard shortcuts, and the practical aspects at the end. Surprisingly, one of them spoke to me. I enjoyed the course so much I immediately wanted to learn more (as you warned), rather than actually do something. Thanks again, Rich Goyette |
| Hey- First, your AE 5/5.5 Essentials kicks ! I can't believe how much I got for $99. I really appreciate FINALLY not getting ripped off. I bought AE 5.5 about a year ago and haven't used it because I use Cinestream 3.1 and I consider myself a pro with it. I have been able to quickly create the equivelance in AE effects and such in CS until now where I have reached the second CD of your training. Blah, blah... I guess I could have just said "I like it and thanks" :-) Roderick G. Barbanica |
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| Jim Harvey at www.creativecow.net |
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| Jayse Hansen, as some of you already know, is one of the Cow's contributing "editors" here at Creative Cow. His tutorials are well thought out and straightforward in their implementation. Jayse is thorough and incredibly well versed in the subject matter. When I first played the CD, I thought to myself: "Oh Man, each little segment is only a couple of minutes long, I'm NEVER going to learn anything from this!" I couldn't have been more wrong! The introduction covers what
anyone who has a passing relationship with AE will already know, hence, that nagging
"Ahh, just another rehash...." Sure the interface is
well done but where's the meat? Jayse knows AE inside and out and the tips and examples he presents are just so well thought out that unless you are a complete bonehead, you're going to learn more about AE than you knew was available. The package claims that there are 9.5 hours of instruction on the set. Maybe if you just sat there like a drone and watched like it was re-runs of 'Leave it to Beaver.' I do know that the ability to work along with the tutorials cost me lunch, dinner, my late night snack and most of my sleep time. I've got at this point, 18 plus hours invested at the computer and I still have another full disc to go There are 274 QT movies on the set that take you from the very basic of basics to advanced beyond anything I've encountered in books or online tutorials. I scanned around on the second disc and was amazed at the depth of knowledge that Jayse Hansen possesses with AE. He not only shows you HOW to create effects, but he makes you ask WHY?
There were a couple of glitches on the discs (a couple of segments were repeated, but one right after another so it wasn't a big deal, I watched them as well in case I missed something from the previous one).
The lesson plan is laid out so that it doesn't look or feel like a lesson. It is as if Jayse is right there next to you showing you how the program works, and how to get the most from it. I am going to finish this set tonight (well into tomorrow I'm sure) but as far as I can see, this is one tutorial set that you need to get if you are at all serious about working with AE. This one is a winner! |
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Major
thanks to everyone that has written
me. I really appreciate hearing from you.
It truly inspires me to continue to improve training products in the future.
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