| CreativeCOW Contributing Editor: Barend Onneweer
Creative COW Forum Host, Magazine Writer, Web Writer, Contributing Editor
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Barend Onneweer
Rotterdam, Netherlands
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When
the Creative Cow site first began, one of the key leaders responsible
for its speedy take-off and high reputation, was Barend Onneweer. "I
don't think he slept much back then as he was in the After Effects
forum and elsewhere in the Cow site answering as many questions as he
could with all the expertise he could offer. As an instructor at the
Art Academy in Rotterdam, Holland, his expertise is definitely high
calibre and we're proud that he has been with us from the beginning,"
says Kathlyn Lindeboom, director of the Creative Cow site. "Other
leaders, even those as illustrious as Brian Maffitt, have spoken highly
of Barend and give him high praise; he's definitely one of the
brightest in the Cow site. He's also a great person whose attitude and
graciousness equals his talents as a creative artist."
About
himself, Barend says: "From a very young age all I was interested in
was drawing and playing the piano. Actually all through high school I
was drawing and painting and playing in all sorts of bands. I thought
for a long time that I would become a graphic designer -- but somehow I
landed at the teacher training course for art education. For four
years, I was mostly painting and drawing until deep into the night."
About his independent studio, Raamw3rks,
Barend offers: "Around this time I also set up a sound studio with two
friends, which has now grown into a full 24-track digital sound
recording studio. Today, it serves both as a facility for other people
and outside bands, as well as the homebase for our own projects. We're
not getting rich on it, but we've been running even for a change…"
As
mentioned earlier, Barend also teaches at the Art Academy in Rotterdam,
a short drive from his home in Gouda. How he ended up there, Barend
explains: "After getting my degree, I decided to continue studying
Audiovisual & Interactive Design at the Art Academy. I started out
with conventional cinematography but over the years I began getting
into computer graphics and digital imaging more and more. When it was
time to develop a graduation project, I got myself into making an ultra
low-budget science fiction adventure short. Armed with a Sony VX-1000
and a lot of gaffer tape, we shot around 10 hours of footage against
cardboard and some greenscreens. Today, I teach at the Art Academy to
put bread on the table."
"On the side, for the last two years, I've been working to finish editing and animation for Fragments Of Paradise.
In the future I hope to do a variety of other projects. I'm now
currently working on some story ideas for television and feature films
and will do some short video and music video projects. For this, I work
in our studios at raamw3rk."
In regards to his other interests, Barend states: "My
interests include all kinds of digital media but I tend to combine
digital techniques with live-action material, so digital compositing
forms a big part of my activities. I
write the concepts and scripts of my projects myself and take a lot of
interest in the script-development. Besides this, I'm a general film
fanatic and I have taken a special interest in Asian cinema over the
last few years. Favorite films include "Fallen Angels" and the rest of
the Wong Kar-wai oeuvre, "Cyclo" by Tran Anh Hung and the works of
Kitano Takeshi. But
of course, I also pay attention to the more 'special-effects-heavy'
films, I have a weakness for the Star Wars series -- which must have
its roots somewhere in my childhood when I was playing around with the
action-figures on the carpet. I also spend my time making and listening to music of all sorts." For an impression of Barend's activities check out his website.
You can find Barend Onneweer hosting in Creative COW's and IBC Expo Forum.
Articles by Barend Onneweer
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Adobe After Effects
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Cycore Effects HD 1.0 Review
This article by Barend Onneweer investigates the improvements and new additions in Cycore Effects HD and tries to evaluate whether the new additions and improvements are worth the price. Although Cycore seems to aim for After Effects users at this point in time, the article might be of interest for Discreet Combustion users, too.
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IBC Expo
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Barend Onneweer looks at IBC 2004
Creative Cow's Barend Onneweer gives Cow members his look at some of the things he saw while visiting IBC 2004 which were noteworthy -- some, even quite impressive, while others were great time-savers for those in the production bay. While most of what Barend reports on are Windows tools, he makes a quick detour by the Apple booth to take a look at the latest version of Shake. Here is Barend's complete report...
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Adobe After Effects
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Keylight
Adobe has announced that The Foundry's Keylight will be bundled with the upcoming release of After Effects 6.0 Professional Edition. In this article, Creativecow leader, Barend Onneweer gives us a sneak peek at Keylight.
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Adobe After Effects
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Matrox Parhelia with Adobe After Effects 6.0
The Matrox Parhelia board has been around for about a year now, and an in-depth evaluation of its functionality in conjunction with After Effects was long overdue. With After Effects 6.0 on its way, Barend Onneweer takes a look at the value of this popular animation and compositing application with the Parhelia graphics board.
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Motion Graphics
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Color Correction for Digital Video
Barend Onneweer reviews: Color Correction for Digital Video by Steve Hullfish and Jaime Fowler and published by CMP Books. Barend concludes with, ...this book will get you through the necessary color theory and technicalities and then straight through to the real works.
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Adobe After Effects
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Magic Bullet 1.1: A review by Barend Onneweer
Barend Onneweer takes a look at Magic Bullet v 1.1. This is the first release for both Windows and MacOS. The review is angled towards PAL users, although it may be of equal interest to NTSC users.
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Adobe After Effects
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Color Grading in After Effects: Basic Color Control
This series is discussing a couple of approaches towards color grading using After Effects 5.5. Barend Onneweer starts out with a rather mathematical approach to match the overal color balance between shots. This procedure can also be put to good use to correct badly white-balanced video.
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Adobe After Effects
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De-Interlacing the COW
Barend Onneweer describes the how, what and why of several methods of de-interlacing video-footage using Adobe After Effects.
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Lighting Design Pros
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Shooting for Chromakeying
In addition to his tutorial on how to pull a usable matte from badly lit blue or green screens, Barend Onneweer has put together a list of things to consider when shooting for chromakeying.
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Adobe After Effects
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Procedural Matte Creation
Barend Onneweer explains Procedural matte creation by combining multiple keying types into a single matte for extensive control over the final matte. This is essential for pulling those difficult mattes from badly lit greenscreens.
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