Ron Lindeboom
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Trust Bob to preach the absolute truth. ;o)
Ron Lindeboom
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Hey Nick,
Have we told you lately that we love you? :o)
Like you, we still get our minds boggled by the great things that the members of the COW produce. Yes, Walter’s blog posting is remarkable.
We are in a series of meetings right now with our legal team and when we get done, we assure you that Walter’s blog post will be made into an article for the COW Library, it’s just too good to leave only to those who visit the blogs. (But if you visit Nick’s link, you can know that you read it first, before the crowds.)
Walter, you are a true bovine, and I have to say that we cracked up at your promo piece that you sent through for your soon-to-ship Apple Color training DVD for the Creative COW Master Series. It was exactly what I’d expect from you and Abraham, Kathlyn and I all laughed out loud when we watched it. Too funny.
Ron Lindeboom
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Thank you for your vote of confidence in the COW, Wayne. ;o)
I thought that I would let you know that my Father finally passed away. Thank you for coming out from Colorado and getting his story on video. I tried repeatedly to do it but he just wouldn’t open up to me the way he did with you and Ron. Having two vets filming him did the trick. You guys are giants in my book.
Thank you for your friendship and for your being a part of the COW.
The best always,
Ron Lindeboom
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I just went over to Alexa.com and they show us as:
“Speed: Very Fast (86% of sites are slower), Avg Load Time: .9 Seconds”
.9 seconds for a page. That’s pretty close to what I see here. When things slow down, I get a page in two to three seconds.
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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Yes, this reply was also instant, Mark.
Again, I have no direct connection and log in like anyone else.
Ron
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Hi Mark,
I am hundreds of miles away from the server farm and must log in like anyone else.
If the COW took that kind of time, I would be one unhappy camper.
I just made the post in reply to Gary’s question a thread or two below and my reply was instantly added to the board.
You may wish to try turning off Javascript when you surf this site as British Telecom has some screwy filters on Javascript that messes with sites they don’t know. If you are Apple or Adobe or YouTube or Amazon, they don’t mess with you. But if you are a site they don’t know, they filter Javascripts in some weird way.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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For DVDs, you can get 50 great tutorials with project files created by Aharon Rabinowitz that I would put up against anyone’s work — anyone. It’s sells for $39. It is called “After Effects: The Next Level” and is an amazing body of work. 50 incredibly useful video tutorials with the project files for less than the price of some of the books out there.
For books, I have always been partial to Angie Taylor’s Creative After Effects 7 as she doesn’t just teach you which button to push or which bell to ring. She teaches you the why and the how, not just the how. Plus, like Aharon, she’s one of the nicest people in the industry.
Aharon and Angie have worked on projects for Viacom, the BBC and many, many others.
Those are my vote getters.
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Only you can answer that question. It all depends on your drive, commitment, confidence, talent, ability to market yourself — which even as an employee, you will always be in sales, as you have to sell yourself and your ideas — and many other factors.
There are no easy one-size-fits-all answers.
Sorry.
Ron Lindeboom
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I am talking about the community, the tutorials, the podcasts, the magazine, et al.
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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[quicksilver8907] “I will definitely continue my education there is no doubt about that, the problem that I am experiencing is that they dont offer any motion graphics classes or anything similar at my community college.”
Creative COW is an international prestigious non-accredited institution whose curriculum is in use today by teams in film, broadcast and many other fields. We see some shows where the team/user didn’t even bother to change the presets in the project files and just used them, as-is. They got a flunking grade esthetically but got extra bonus points in the business round for being resourceful under dire time constraints.
Best of all, you can sign up for classes just by showing up. :o)
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom