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Creative COW Web Writer, Contributing Editor

Lee Roderick
www.runawaytraining.com
Walnut Creek, California USA

In 1983, Lee “Rod” Roderick pointed a live studio camera at vinyl peel ‘n’ stick letters on posterboard fastened to a music stand to luma key a lower 3rd… and he hasn’t left production since.

Principally self taught and always hungry for knowledge, Lee absorbed everything he could while working 13 years with Viacom’s Cable Division. Not content with one full time job, he produced and directed independent documentaries when ADO page peels ruled the world! During his personal projects, Lee had the opportunity to pick the brains of genre icons Frank Darabont, Clive Barker, Stuart Gordon and many more.

In 1996, Lee jumped ship to start his own operation, North Gate, to provide visual effects and motion graphics for corporations such as Apple, Maxtor and Charles Schwab. He also served as Lead Compositor on a 20th Century Fox feature film. Lee is a Certified Discreet Training Specialist for combustion and in 2003 he launched combustion 3 for Discreet in New York and Los Angeles. Always the busy instructor, Lee wrote and presented the New Features Presentations that ship with Discreet combustion 4 and is co-author of combustion 2 and 4 Courseware for Autodesk Press.

Along with his demanding production schedule, Lee is co-owner of the Las Vegas based Runaway Training where his combustion training DVDs bear the Discreet Certified Learning Materials label. As a combustion forum leader at creativecow.net and a founding member of both the Los Angeles and San Francisco combustion User Groups, he’s a familiar name and face in the combustion community.
You can drop L”R”R an email: rod@northgatestudios.com

Articles by Lee Roderick

Autodesk Combustion

Creating a Promo Transition with Combustion

As the lines between television and the internet continue to blur, it seems like every TV channel wants you to look at their website. Whether you're CNN or community television, you'll have to rise above the straight cut or dissolve to get the viewer's attention.In this tutorial, Lee 'Rod' Roderick will show you how to use Discreet combustion to create a promo transition that combines digital video and motion graphics. Once you set it up, you can substitute your own clips and text.

Tutorial