
Looking back, I’ve learned that it’s also not something you need a four year CS degree for - although having a head start on the fundamentals will help. It was hard, I learned a lot, and I certainly had a boat-load of fails.īut, I found it immensely rewarding.

What I found was reassuring for code-dummies like myself.Īfter a lot of starting and stopping, I’ve now built something with walls of scary symbols that, until recently, broke me out in cold sweats. On what must have been a slow day, I finally took action and looked into Adobe development some more. My yardstick was Andrew Kramer’s amazing Element plugin, which is wildly complex and (as far as I know) has a team of people far smarter than me working on it.īut as I tinkered myself towards the edge of the coding cliff, I learned that this was really just an outlier in a sea of relatively simple but useful third-party apps.

Building a plugin for Adobe After Effects was never something I seriously considered.
