pacific wrote:Cartoonkid98 wrote:pacific wrote:AE is the market-leading compositing software. You can use it in your job, you can use it in your hobby, it's just a universal piece of software that is widely acclaimed and a masterpiece on the part of Adobe.
Do you work for adobe? And in any regards, Adobe Premier is being phased out of near all professional video production, Final Cut took over it's place years ago, and to be honest I wouldn't be surprised if AE followed Premier out the door. Software comes and goes all the time, you can't assume that AE will still be a prominent part of VFX production in 10 years.
Most people here are in their early teens and don't have a job.
--> I meant it with regard to a future job. AE is a very useful skill and the earlier you start using AE, the better you'll get.
Sure that is true, but when you're 12 or 13 years old making brickfilms, you probably won't even enter the VFX, or the film industry at all. Spending a grand on a bit of software for a hobby while you are 13 years old is absurd.
I agree with you that there are good brickfilms out there with very bad picture quality. (e.g. Citizen of the year IMO) but you can't deny the fact that good picture quality makes a film much more pleasant to watch!
What?
Regarding the wealth of young people: The situation may be different here in Austria but out of all the 15/16/17-year-olds that I know, most get around and sometimes more than 80 euros pocket money A MONTH. Of course, if you're only 13 then you may be worse off.
Pocket money? at 17? is that like a a joke? jesus christ, if you're still relying on your parents for pocket money by the time your 17, something is really wrong. I stopped getting pocket money at 11 and got a damn paper route.
I agree with you, though, that AE needs a good PC for it to run smoothly. But so does an HD webcam in live preview.
... I'm not sure how on earth you came to that conclusion. If you want to be able to run AE at optimal performance, you need a pretty strong PC. Yeah it might not be too expensive for people like us to order parts and build a PC ourselves, but when your 12 that's not a viable option.
My main point is that it's ridiculous to tell a professional Visual FX artist to provide tutorials for free software. That's plain ridiculous.
He's not a professional (at least as far as I'm aware, I did have a look at some of his stuff) and I'm not trying to tell him to make tutorials for free software on here, I'm telling him that this isn't the kind of forum that would really appreciate that kind of effort. Besides, most of the people here who are interested in AE and own it should be going to sites where there are people who actually know how to use After Effects back to front. Go to CreativeCow if you're actually interested.
This is an amatuer film making site which is made up mostly of 11-15 year olds who aren't interested in spending hundreds of dollars on a piece of software, especially if they're not going to get into the film industry.
And it seems like you're implying that films with a high level of polish can only be created using premium software, and if you truly think that, you should not be working in video production. Sure, using something like AE makes it a lot easier, but if you have any brains or talent you can create an effect or illusion you need to to pull off what you need to.
Didn't Smeagol use like almost entirely freeware to make Unrenewable. Like Photoshop Elements was the only paid software he used. I might be wrong about that, but I know he did use a lot of freeware to produce it.