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Chris & Trish Meyer
Creating Motion Graphics is the blog for award-winning motion graphic designers Chris and Trish Meyer of Crish Design (formerly CyberMotion). Here is where they share not just their latest tips, tricks, and gotchas for the tools they use, but also discoveries that help them run their business, sources that inspire their designs, and musings on the future of the motion graphics industry. Chris & Trish Meyer founded Crish Design (formerly known as CyberMotion) in the very earliest days of the desktop motion graphics industry. Their design and animation work has appeared on shows and promos for CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, HBO, PBS, and TLC; in opening titles for several movies including Cold Mountain and The Talented Mr. Ripley; at trade shows and press events for corporate clients ranging from Apple to Xerox; and in special venues encompassing IMAX, CircleVision, the NBC AstroVision sign in Times Square, and the four-block-long Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas. They were among the original users of CoSA (now Adobe) After Effects, and have written the numerous books including "Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects" and "After Effects Apprentice" both published by Focal Press. Both Chris and Trish have backgrounds as musicians, and are currently fascinated with exploring fine art and mixed media in addition to their normal commercial design work. They have recently relocated from Los Angeles to the mountains near Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico. CMG KeyframesAfter Effects Apprentice Free Video: Rendering a 4:3 Center Cut Movie from a 16:9 CompositionAfter Effects Apprentice Free Video: Using Parenting to Animate Layers as a UnitAfter Effects Apprentice Free Video: Working with Nested 3D CompositionsAfter Effects Apprentice Free Video: Copying Paths from Illustrator to After EffectsAfter Effects CS6 Tutorial: Exporting 3D Camera Tracker Data to Cinema 4DAfter Effects CS6 Tutorial: Targeting Properties in the new Ray-Traced 3D EngineAfter Effects CS6 (P)ReviewAfter Effects Apprentice Free Video: Exploring Shape EffectsAfter Effects Apprentice Free Video: Drawing Parametric ShapesAfter Effects Apprentice Free Video: The Puppet Starch Tool
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Spotlight: Promos for FOX’s “Fringe”Buster Design brings the print ads to life with excellent 3D animation and sound design.
As mentioned earlier, we will be discussing motion graphics projects executed by other studios. This time around, it’s Buster Design and the on-air promos they created for Fringe, a new series premiering this September on FOX - click here to view movies of the final animations. I had the chance to chat with Brandon Pleus of Buster about what went into this project. more »Spotlight: Nordisk Panorama Filmfestival 2008Silhouettes and particles are two main features of this film festival promo.
As we mentioned in a recent post, we’d like to start featuring projects by other motion graphics artists, including some background on what went into their creation. First up is a promo for the Nordisk Panorama 5 Cities Film Festival 2008 created by André Hedetoft. Two of the components of this promo that particularly caught our eye were the use of silhouetted figures, and the lovely particle effects. more »Advertisement |
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The Future of Visual Effects
Automatic matte extraction, touchup and rig removal?
Some very smart folks in the University of Washington’s Computer Science department are cooking up some pretty amazing procedures that could well revolutionize the process of creating visual effects.
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Learn the ins and outs of Final Cut Pro’s SmoothCam filter
Remove unwanted camera movements from your shots using technology inherited from Apples’ Shake.
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