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Michael SzalapskiMichael Szalapski
SZALAMproductions
COW member since May 22nd 2003 from New Jersey, Devon England, and now Springfield, MO

I've had almost a decade of heavy duty experience with Adobe Photoshop and several years of After Effects as well.

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System Details: Windows XP Professional,
After Effects 7 Professional Edition with Zaxwerks Invig, Shine, Lux, Particular, and more fun thingamabobs.
Wondertouch's ParticleIllusion, Photoshop 7,




Favorite Forums:

•   Adobe After Effects

My Recent Posts:

Re: How to make this animation by Michael Szalapski on Nov 17, 2009 at 5:17:56 am
Re: Person being blown up like ballooon effect by Michael Szalapski on Nov 17, 2009 at 5:16:10 am
Re: motion tracking by Michael Szalapski on Nov 17, 2009 at 5:08:35 am
Re: 1st time trying motion tracking, need to add # to soccer player shirt in certain areas of video.... by Michael Szalapski on Nov 17, 2009 at 4:56:52 am
Re: How can I do this? by Michael Szalapski on Nov 17, 2009 at 4:53:55 am
Re: Upscaling a DV composition by Michael Szalapski on Nov 16, 2009 at 10:29:08 pm
Re: shatter and object positioning by Michael Szalapski on Nov 16, 2009 at 7:28:32 pm
Re: Mountain of Balls by Michael Szalapski on Nov 16, 2009 at 3:21:37 pm
Re: Black and White Conversion by Michael Szalapski on Nov 6, 2009 at 11:06:32 pm
Re: help with a couple of affects on youtube kinetic typography video (let the frummer kick) by Michael Szalapski on Nov 5, 2009 at 5:11:19 am
Re: Underwater ripp[ling light effect by Michael Szalapski on Nov 3, 2009 at 2:13:39 am
Re: S-l-o-w RAM Previews by Michael Szalapski on Oct 23, 2009 at 5:56:05 pm
Re: logo by Michael Szalapski on Oct 23, 2009 at 4:02:33 pm
Re: How to make Glass Panels by Michael Szalapski on Oct 14, 2009 at 7:37:55 pm
Re: Blacks on Export by Michael Szalapski on Oct 14, 2009 at 7:32:27 pm
Re: Blacks on Export by Michael Szalapski on Oct 14, 2009 at 7:25:18 pm
Re: anamorphic lens flare by Michael Szalapski on Oct 14, 2009 at 1:55:21 pm
Re: Water Wall by Michael Szalapski on Sep 29, 2009 at 2:27:48 am
Re: dividing footage into cells by Michael Szalapski on Sep 28, 2009 at 6:09:36 pm
Re: After Effects Question by Michael Szalapski on Sep 19, 2009 at 9:04:11 pm

My Tagged Posts

3d photo slideshow tutorial with EXAMPLE PROJECT ATTACHED
by Michael Szalapski on Jul 25, 2009 at 1:12:52 pm
in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
This is a really easy effect to do without any sort of extra plugin. It just takes time. There are a few tricks you can use, that might not be obvious, to make things easier down the road. Simple...
first tagged as a 5 COW post by Cheryl Lombard

Re: Camera movement in one comp. not working in MAIN comp.
by Michael Szalapski on Jun 6, 2009 at 7:30:46 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
After Effects treats a composition like it's a piece of footage. Whatever camera and layers you have in your main comp will not be affected by anything in your precomp. It's as if the precomp is just some...
first tagged as a 5 COW post by Kristian B. Nielsen

Re: Eurovision 2009 Effect
by Michael Szalapski on Jun 3, 2009 at 7:23:32 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
If you want to make a video unfold in After Effects you are a little limited on what you can do, but you can still make it work. It depends on how complex you want to make it. In AE...
first tagged as a 5 COW post by Andrej Spilevoj

Re: rendering in HD
by Michael Szalapski on May 17, 2009 at 7:30:17 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
According to YouTube's help page on uploading higher quality videos they do, in fact, accept .mov files. Rendering your video out as mpeg4 would be a good option. You may also choose to do .wmv, that also works. And,...
first tagged as a 5 COW post by Serguei Nevarko


My Videos

Michael Szalapskis MoGraph, SFX, Cinematography and more
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Michael Szalapski's MoGraph, SFX, Cinematography and more
by Michael Szalapski
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This is a (slightly long) demo reel that shows some of my work in motion graphics, cinematography, and special effects. Everything you see here was shot, edited, designed and put together by me. (Except for a few of the logos.) I am interested in working anywhere in the world doing...
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