Mellenhead Productions

A study of Art and Film: I love stuff that is so Weird and Bad it's Good: Vance Mellen, writer, screenwriter, artist, storyteller, novelist, videomaker, After Effect Expert reviews film and art.

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Saturday, August 6, 2022

Make a Sunstone Sculpture of Cement Clay, Covered with Mosaic Tiles and ...


I made this Sunstone Fountain Sculpture for my koi pond in NV. Step-by-step directions too!
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Sunday, July 3, 2022

SCREATURES Remastered 2000: First Digital Micro-Budget Horror Film EVER ...


My first horror film ever (maybe the very first digital micro-budget #horror film EVER created! year: 2000) remastered with new music, starring my mom, Barbara Mellen​ my brother, Trenton Mellen​ and my wife, Kymberly Luke Mellen​ and me playing two parts. A must-see in horror history. Featuring #Topeka #Kansas St #film #digital #mentalinstitution tunnels and basements, #TopekaHighSchool tunnels, Kansas State Capitol tunnels, Washburn babies in jars. My magnum opus. #horrormovies #microbudget #filmmaking #mentalhealth #scary #digitalvideo #lowbudgetfilm #abandoned #urbex
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Friday, June 3, 2022

Bully at the Kwik Shop - StorySLAM LIVE storytelling in Vegas



This is a story I told about my Childhood #bully in Topeka, KS.
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Friday, March 26, 2021

Embed YouTube VIDEO into Adobe Portfolio: Tutorial MyPortfolio. Just made this short tutorial about how to embed a YouTube Video into Adobe Portfolio / Behance.

Just made this short tutorial about how to embed a YouTube Video into Adobe Portfolio / Behance. #embedvideo
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Embed VIDEO into Adobe Portfolio: Tutorial MyPortfolio How to Upload your videos to MyPortfolio.com

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Thursday, February 25, 2021

After Effects Tutorial: Demo of various KEYFRAMES (Easy Ease, Ease IN, E...


After Effects TUTORIAL: Demo of all the different types of KEYFRAMES (Easy Ease, Ease IN, Ease OUT, Frame Hold). Also includes a little Motion Blur, Graph editor, directly editing layer PATHS right on the stage .#AfterEffects #tutorial #Tutorials #animation #adobeaftereffects #adobe #adobetutorials  #easyease #2Danimation #motiongraphics

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Labels: 2d animation, adobe, Adobe After Effects Tutorial, adobe tutorial, adobeaftereffects, adobesoftware, adobetutorial, after effects, ease in, ease out, how to animate, motion blur, motion graphics, motiongraphics

Friday, February 19, 2021

Adobe Illustrator for After Effects Animators - Draw and Auto trace in I...




BEGINNERS: Learn to draw and autotrace "auto trace" in Adobe Illustrator (2021), clean those images up in Illustrator, then open those drawings in After Effects as layers for animations. Vector shapes are CLEAN and tight, created by bezier / formulaic shapes (PEN TOOL) that can be scaled beautifully with clean, non-pixellated edges in AE (turn on the "Continuously rasterize" asterisk-looking button to the right of layers in After Effects). Use other tools to reshape those paths. Strokes and fills in Illustrator. Transform and Scale those shapes in Illustrator too.

If you want that clean look, this class teaches how to create shapes, use the pen tool, auto trace an object and then save as .PNG with transparent backgrounds (Alpha Channels) or to simple import the entire Illustrator file as layers in A.E. Making groups can help control how those files import into AE too. Making compositions out of adobe illustrator files. Gradients, paths, vector vs. rasterized imagery. Pasting an Illustrator path directly into A.E. onto a solid, creating a mask that can be animated too. Lots of good tips and tricks in this video geared towards those that usually draw and create their import assets/imagery in Photoshop. Lots of fun. The animation is one step away!

TIP: After Effects also allows you to 1) create a SOLID (layer - New Solid), then use After Effects great PEN tool and PEN+ or PEN- tools, etc. to create and quickly modify shapes you draw on those SOLIDS. Go under Mask ("M") and you can turn on the stopwatch, make a couple of keyframes and... BOOM, you have a vector shape animating! Why draw in illustrator then? Because you can get more detail, you can prep the image better (names, layers, groups in illustrator), or export as .PNG (can be transparent) in order to retain the awesome STROKES that are included with illustrator.

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Labels: 2d animation, adobe, adobe tutorial, adobeaftereffects, adobeillustrator, adobesoftware, adobetutorial, after effects, illustrator

Friday, February 12, 2021

COMPLEX After Effects Animation Meyer Valves: by Vance Mellen for KTR Video

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Labels: after effects animation meyer and sons factory process animation solidworks animated cad animated complicated animation 2d animation motion graphics
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