We don't get much rain in Southern California but today it poured. Luckily I had my audio gear handy and I recorded a few high quality clips for your stormy productions.

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Some of you may have noticed our mobile site now includes access to all 84+ tutorials and basic training in a small podcast form. The brand new tutorials (like the one coming out in a few days) will be added a week or two after they launch on the site. They seem to work best on Apple flavored phones but some people have been successful with other mobile devices.

The mobile forum has a few more functions like "edit" and we are adding even more so you have something to do while sitting in meetings.

I think our homepage automatically directs you to the mobile version of the site or just type m.videocopilot.net

Here's a another free project that utilizes various masking techniques to create a friendly heart design.

Today is of course Valentine's Day and I want to remind everyone to do something nice for someone special in your life. Could be your wife or girlfriend, mom or grandma, even your sister.

Now, if you don't celebrate Valentine's day... DO something nice anyways. Just don't do something nice for your friend's wife... that gets a little tricky.

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Depending on your source, there are about 195 Countries and 61 territories spread across the planet not including lost or fictional cities.

According to our web statistics and my astrology skills, Video Copilot has been viewed in 224 Countries and territories throughout the world.

I think it's incredible to live in a time that makes this kind of connection possible and I'm glad to be part of such an amazing community!

Despite working on some TV shows, I don't actually get to watch very much television. Something you may not know about me is that I am a big Law & Order fan, mostly of the older cast but some of the new stuff is pretty good. Lucky for me, the cable network TNT plays tons of reruns all day long.

So, earlier this year I noticed network graphics had changed, and the new ones were simply amazing. It seems the design studio TROIKA created the incredible work that very much inspired me. After playing around with the concept, I realized there were a lot of great techniques that I thought would be useful to share. Although the original design seems to use a lot of 3D, I'll be using just After Effects with a little bit of Particular in the upcoming tutorial. Release date will be soon.

Even the metallic ring is built in After Effects.

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The music and sound FX are from: Pro Scores and Designer Sound FX.
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