Creative COW leader: Chris Bobotis


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Chris Bobotis
Toronto, Ontario Canada

My Bio in note form:

* Started my career in Advertising Agencies (in Canada) in 1984.
* While in Ad Agencies I have worked as a Designer, Production manager and as an Art Director.
* In 1992 I started Mettle Communications Inc. to offer design and Digital Illustration/Image manipulation serices to Ad Agencies. See: http://www.mettle.com

* In 1996 Mettle expands and offers motion-graphics and animation as well.
* 1997 Mettle expands again and offers web animation + design
* 1998 I started Forge Technology. See: http://www.forge.net
* 2000 started VisuAlchemy to supply Creative Digital Backgrounds for Motion-Graphics Pros and Editors. See http://www.mettle.com/stock.html

Awards: Too numerous to list here, both in my ad career and on behalf of our clients at Mettle.

Interesting Notes: I have worked with the 1.0 version of just about every off the shelf software available today. Including but not limited to : After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop, ElectricImage, etc.,etc.

Future Plans: TBA

You can find Chris Bobotis hosting in Creative COW's Forge Freeform forum.

Articles by Chris Bobotis

Forge Freeform

Filmstrip: Creating Film Loops with ForgeFreeForm

In this tutorial, Chris Bobotis demonstrates twisting a filmstrip using Forge FreeForm in Adobe After Effects. This tutorial assumes you are comfortable with the notion of 'Pre-comping or 'nesting' and the After Effects 'Offset filter' and 'Ramp' filters.

Tutorial