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Roland R. Kahlenberg Broadcast GEMS Singapore, Singapore
Roland has been in the media industry for the last ten years. After suitably preparing himself with an Economics degree from the University of Toronto, Canada, Roland ventured into the swashbuckling media industry as a copywriter in an Ad Agency. From there he moved on to becoming a scriptwriter/producer with an interactive multimedia company wayyyyyy back in 1992 when AE was still very much an EGG.
Roland is very much into music creation and almost exclusively incorporates his own compositions into his work. Roland has also edited on the Media100 for the past seven years and has done demos (on larger-than-life screens) for Media100 Inc. at Broadcast Asia, Asia's equivalent to NAB. As you must know by now, he also enjoys sharing his knowledge with others. In his 'previous life', he has worked as a Consultant/Lecturer for a local Arts College and as a lecturer with a university in Singapore.
In 2004, Roland setup broadcastGEMs to develop templates for Adobe After Effects. broadcastGEMs was one of the first companies to provide such a solution to the vast number of Adobe After Effects users. Visit http://www.broadcastGEMs.com to find out more about this great product.
Roland is one of the most experienced Adobe After Effects instructors in Asia, having received his certification in 2002. He offers courses in Adobe After Effects, Adobe PremierePr and Adobe Photoshop for Video. Visit Roland's training page at http://www.broadcastGEMs.com/training should you be interested infind out more on his courses. He has also done consulting work related to post production for a number of companies. His recent students include senior management and post production graphics personnel from Disney TV South East Asia, lecturers at University Technology Malaysia and post production personnel from MediaCorpTV.
Today, Roland works as a fulltime freelancer using Adobe After Effects to create cool stuff for his clients. His work has been used by companies such as NBC-Universal, BBC World Service, WorldSport TV, SBS (Austrlia), Animal Planet, Mediacorp, MTV Asia, Silicon Graphics Inc. HP, EDS, Supreme Court (Singapore), Inland Revenue (Singapore) and Lexmark.
Roland likes to work with other professionals in a team environment and simply loves to work with honest and creative folks. Being a freelancer allows him more breadth to work with other like-minded proponents and helps to drive his creative juices and technical knowledge to the extremes.
During his spare time these days, Roland likes to play his guitar and write music. Check out his music at http://www.Myspace.com/RoRKrgbSpace .
In this tutorial, Roland R. Kahlenberg, CreativeCOW's resident Particle Playground expert, shows off the versatility of Particle Playground and Shatter to create a Shattering World Effect. He demonstrates how you can create a little ooomph and wow factor just by using what is already in After Effects.
We've all seen the scene in which everything is black and white except one color, but what if you wanted to have a two or even a three-color special effect? Well, this tutorial from Roland Kahlenberg, which we'll call Coolsville, will show you the way.
Roland R. Kahlenberg, CreativeCOW's resident Particle Playground expert, shows off the versatility of Particle Playground by creating a game that incorporates collision detection against a customized grid.
In this Tutorial, Roland Kahlenberg demonstrates creating an 'as real as you want it to be' audio LED meter using Motion Math and Expressions. At the bottom of the page is a sample of its use in Roland's demo reel -- just to give you a 'real world' example.
Ever wanted to extrude a logo in After Effects but on a tight budget and always looking to tinker about? Read on as Roland Kahlenberg demonstrates a cool way to introduce some z-depth to our objects in AE 5.0 Production Bundle.
As many of you know by now, AE 5.0 has introduced a new feature called Expressions. Experienced users akin it to Motion Math, although they are quite different. In this tutorial, Roland Kahlenberg, who is a non-programmer, intends to show other similarly inclined users of AE 5.0 that Expressions do offer quite a bit to the toolset of the conventional designer.
Roland Kahlenberg demonstrates a small bit of what Particle Playground can do. You should experiment further once you've come to grips with the mechanics involved. You need the production bundle of After Effects for this one.
As part of our Motion Graphics repertoire, we're occasionally requested to perform the traditional right-to-left and bottom-to-top text scrolls. Suffice it to say that it is one of the more frequent client-requests. In this tutorial, Roland Kahlenberg explores a method to add some variation to the conventional look of a scroll while still maintaining a high level of legibility.
