Visual Effects Supervisor William Powloski helped create one of the most eye-popping worlds ever seen on TV, as part of a feature film aesthetic on a TV budget and schedule. Although it was canceled after only two seasons, "Pusing Daisies" remains one of the most beautiful and innovative programs to ever air on US television.
We're not the only ones who think so. In 2008, it received 22 Emmy nominations, the most for any comedy, and won three (Directing, Music Composition, and Picture Editing). Among the handful of other other nominations and awards for "Pushing Daisies:" Directors Guild (won, Barry Sonnenfeld), Writers Guild, Art Directors Guild, Visual Effects Society, Casting Society of America (won twice), and many, many others.
We still can't believe that it's gone! The good news is that the "Pushing Daisies" Season 2 DVD and Blu-ray sets, as well as sets for the complete series, were released today. To celebrate, here's an expanded version of Williams's original article in The Visual Effects Issue of Creative COW Magazine, an exclusive look at how he and his team helped pull off the look of this truly amazing series.
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 Motion Tracking and Stabilization in After Effects
$49.95
Pete O'Connell has assembled all the most useful 2D tracking skills, the most important ‘Real world’ techniques you should have at your disposal when you are striving for a perfect result when stabilizing or match-moving. Learn to motion track text on your video images, seamlessly introduce moving video images into your existing video timeline, stabilize troublesome video images, and so much more...
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  Creative COW Podcast
Episode #085 - July 20, 2009 by Franklin McMahon
(23:18) -- 7/20/2009
Producing Documentaries with Walter Biscardi, Panasonic AG-HPX300 update, LinkOptimizer for Adobe InDesign, Amazon ironically deletes 1984 from Kindle, Astroscope DSLR night vision, Microsoft Silverlight 3, Expression 3 and more creative news. - Walter Biscardi is a professional Video Editor, Producer and Director, he is the owner of Biscardi Creative Media. He talks with Franklin about documentary moviemaking, tracking a big project, production tips, learning resources and tools used such as Final Cut Studio and Apple Color.
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File Management in After Effects by Carl Larsen
(09:46) -- 7/17/2009
In this video tutorial, Creative COW contributing editor Carl Larsen shows you how to archive a project with shared assets using the consolidate footage and collect Files commands.
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Tony Ross
Tony Ross is an animator, educator and all-around-artist who is originally from Arlington, Virginia. He earned a BFA with a concentration in Computer Art from the Atlanta College of Art in 1997. His broad-based background includes extensive studies in the areas of drawing, painting, illustration, de more... |
 In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to improve the look of the Customized waveform and talks about how to get real control of your audio keyframes with Trapcod more...Get help with, or discuss this tutorial in the COW's Adobe After Effects Forum. |
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