I've dug up another Design Brief assignment that I teach with my College students...This one covers Movie Titles. 

I've been asked on several ocassions what my method is when teaching After Effects in a College. This is a very hard question to answer as I often vary my teaching styles just trying to find the best formula.

The trick is to create spooky-cool effects for your Halloween projects with unreasonable deadlines. The treat is that we have some great Ani Elements by The Alchemist to save you time and energy.

Type Halloween into the Ani Elements search bar to get some tricks and treats!

The Anvel Needs a Vacation!

But since I can't take one, I decided to start the next CD Lesson. Perfect thing to work on as we leave summer behind. Be well, Summer, we will miss you. "Aloha from Hawaii," now in production. In spirit of the islands, we are offering an Ani Element from the CD. Create your own tropical kaleidoscope effect . Hang loose!

Emmy winner Dean Velez presents three substantial projects designed to share some his excellent expert techniques to speed and improve your creation of such things as News Bumpers, Opening Title Sequences, and he even includes a very slick Corporate Identity piece.

As the cost of the technology associated with film and video production continues to decrease, new enthusiasts and professionals continue to enter the field.

Dean Velez is no stranger to the CreativeCow community having contributed much of his knowledge to aspiring graphic artists who come to the Cow for guidance.

If you are looking for instructional CD materials for Adobe's After Effects, you have probably looked around and seen the variety of materials that are online.

In this tutorial Dean Velez, an award winning Animator will show you step by step how to create two abstract backgrounds in Photoshop and then import them into After Effects to animate them. He will then apply these backgrounds in one of his real-world projects.

Total Training has released many new training DVD for Adobe After Effects 7.0.  In the Broadcast Design Secrets title, you not only learn methods for creating fantastic looking titles and logo treatments, you learn them from Dean Velez.

In 2005 I was lucky enough to work with my all time favorite After Effects Guru Brian Maffitt and his team over at Total Training.

I did this interview in 2006...thought I'd repost it here.

One of my proudest moments as an After Effects artist was when Adobe asked me to put some of my elements into After Effects 7.

Extraordinary talent is found in this package of Total Training Masters Collection of Advanced Adobe After Effects 7 Pro "Broadcast Design Secrets" hosted by Dean Velez.

Can ya believe it!?! It's been almost 4 years since the first Anvel website. Since then a lot of things have changed in the industry. Because of this, we decided to rename The Anvel to allow for more clarity in what the site will become.  So now The Anvel is a training product... The AEP section is the Ani Element section... And the Motion Graphics Lab is where all of it will be contained. A few more crazy experiments are being conducted, so stay tuned as the Lab continues to evolve.