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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: Exploring Shape EffectsAfter Effects Apprentice Free Video: Drawing Parametric ShapesAfter Effects Apprentice Free Video: The Puppet Starch ToolAfter Effects Apprentice Free Video: Eraser Tool ModesAfter Effects Apprentice Free Video: Tracking with mochaAEAfter Effects Apprentice Free Video: Performing a Motion TrackAfter Effects Apprentice Free Video: Creating 3D Objects using Adobe RepousséAfter Effects Apprentice Free Video: Understanding Axis ModesUsing After Effects as an Advanced Titler for Premiere ProAfter Effects Apprentice Free Video: Creating an Orbit Camera Rig
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Seeing the Future - In ColorWhat are the “in” colors this year? This group knows…
We’re still recovering from the HOW Design Conference in Austin last week, where temperatures hit 107. After the ice packs melt, we’ll post a summary of interesting things we heard there. In the meantime, for those who have color-focused jobs (or color-fussy clients), you may be interested in the work of the Color Marketing Group: a global consortium that attempts to determine what the hot trends in color for various market segments will be in different parts of the world. Click here to see their predictions for 2009 (white for business, blue is the new green, etc.). They also have a free weekly newsletter of color trends and ideas. The Case of the Two Licenses“Royalty-free” music may still require a performance license.
A question came up recently about what sort of licenses are required when marrying music to motion graphics (or any imagery edited or animated in time with music). It so happens there are two, which you may or may not need to worry about: more »
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Font PoliticsTypefaces with issues and attitudes.
These humorous videos by the crazies at College Humor gives insight into the interpersonal politics of font families. more »Unsafe AreasCorrecting the safe area guides in After Effects CS4.
Two of the more intriguing new features in After Effects CS4 (and other members of the Adobe Creative Suite 4 family) are updated pixel aspect ratios, and the ability to display 4:3 “center cut” safe area guides inside 16:9 widescreen compositions. I applaud both. But as I work with them more, I realize there are some slight errors in where the safe area guides are being drawn, particularly in light of the new pixel aspect ratios. First I’ll cover the relatively minor 4:3 case, and then move on to the far more egregious 16:9 case. more »
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Advertisement After Effects 9.0.2 UpdateA major update to RED support, plus numerous bug fixes.
If you have disabled Adobe Updater - and I wouldn’t blame you if you had - you may not be aware that Adobe recently released a maintenance upgrade to After Effects CS4. Known as version 9.0.2, it contains a lot of bug fixes (including a cure for the crash-if-script-UI-open bug I reported earlier), plus a few new features: more »Page 1 of 1 pages Advertisement |
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