Corgi Idents

422.TV asked me to animate and composite two sequences for broadcast TV.  Featuring the loveable Corgi dog, these are playful, on brand idents, to be shown either side of the London Weekend Weather forecasts.  I used After Effects, Illustrator and Particular to bring these scenes to life. The original, static illustrations, were by the very talented Nicola Anderson with whom I have worked a couple of times now.

Adobe After Effects 2015.3

OK - so I don't know what has just happened with the latest update of Adobe After Effects - BUT - having just updated to 2015.3 (version 13.8.1) I have got some very weird behaviour.  Primarily After Effects is now not correctly seeing the alpha channels of some previously imported .mov files.  Just yesterday I was happily using these PNG codec .mov files - with built in alpha channel - and they were working perfectly. But now it is as if they are set to around 10% opacity, which they are not!  Plus they have undergone a colour shift towards a kind of ghostly blue.  All very strange.  SO I have just installed the previous version of 2015 onto my system to try to get back to a version of AE that allows me to use these video clips - especially as I am mid-project!  If you have a similar problem and you don't know how to install a previous version, of any Adobe product, using your Creative Cloud subscription, I will write another blog post shortly, explaining how to do that.  But right now I have to test my new install to ensure I can render out what my client needs!