Jeff Sengstack is a video and audio producer. He is an Adobe certified expert in After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Photoshop. He also works with Adobe Audition, Encore, and SpeedGrade. He taught digital media and HTML courses in a community college computer studies department. He is a former TV news reporter and radio station disk jockey. He is an author with O'Reilly Media and lynda.com and has written six how-to books on digital media topics including books on Premiere Pro and Encore for Adobe
... morePress. He wrote the Adobe Digital Video Higher Education Curriculum Guide.
Jeff Hurd is a Product Manager based in Chicago. He has been an author of creative courses for Pluralsight and Digital Tutors since 2014, where he emphasizes scenario based learning. His portfolio includes work for: Stouffers, Groupon, Radio Flyer, Porsche, Howl at the Moon, Four Loko and State Farm.
Chad Troftgruben is a freelance animator and screencaster who specializes in Animate CC, Moho, After Effects and Premiere. He has been working with Flash since 2002 which resulted in the creation of several cartoons for both entertainment and commercial purposes. Chad is mostly known for his online video tutorials for Flash and Anime Studio, which were distributed on YouTube and his website. In addition to authoring several courses for Pluralsight, Chad has produced video tutorials and eBooks fo
... morer companies including Smith Micro, VTC, and Packt Publishing. Chad is currently working on a new animated series and continues to produce tutorials for Adobe software.
Laura is a passionate visual effects and motion graphics author at Pluralsight. Ever since her first exposure to After Effects in college, Laura has had an eternal drive to learn more about motion graphics, and teach others what she has discovered. Laura began working at Digital-Tutors (now a Pluralsight company) as a motion graphics artist, creating visually-appealing advertisements and informative art for the site.
Throughout her time at Digital-Tutors, Laura contributed greatly to both the
... moreAfter Effects and NUKE libraries of content – their own digital David Blaine, breaking down the “movie magic” and sharing it with others. She has also written content for 3D Artist Magazine. Her favorite projects are her two in-depth After Effects introductory courses on Pluralsight, which were each built around training motion artists and VFX artists, respectively. Using her vast skill set, Laura has taught thousands of artists everything from shot-tracking and rotoscoping to motion design. If you ever need to reach out for questions or comments feel free to find Laura on Twitter @LauraHawkDesign.
Jason has spent most of his life in and around the nation's capital. After a stint as a Creative for Apple, Jason became an Apple Certified Trainer in 2009, followed shortly thereafter as an Adobe Certified Instructor. In 2012, Jason published his first training book, the Final Cut Pro X Cookbook, and currently produces online training courses for PluralSight, writes for screenlight.tv, and works as an independent certified trainer of Adobe and Apple software. He's also presented at NAB and the
... moreGovernment Video Expo. In his spare time, Jason loves to drink chocolate milk, play old school video games, attend concerts, and travel near and far by train, plane, and motorcycle.
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