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Chris & Trish Meyer Chris & Trish Meyer are the founders of CyberMotion, an award-winning Los Angeles motion graphic design studio. Their design and animation work has appeared on shows and promos for CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, The Learning Channel, HBO, and PBS. CyberMotion was one of the first studios to create major release film opening titles using desktop tools (including major films such as The Taleneted Mr. Ripley), and they have also created promotional and trade show videos for corporate clients from Apple Computer to Xerox. They specialize in unusual format videos, having animated for IMAX, CircleVision, the NBC AstroVision sign in Times Square, and the four-block-long Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas. In addition to their motion graphics work, Trish and Chris have written the books "Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects" and "After Effects Apprentice" (both published by Focal Press). They have written numerous articles on motion graphics for DV magazine, Artbeats.com, and others, and have spoken at AFI, MacWorld, BDA, NAB, and other conferences. Trish founded CyberMotion after an extensive career in print as a magazine art director for music technology magazines. Her partner Chris, a refugee from the music industry, specializes in sound design and 3D work as well as dealing with multi-format technical issues. Both Trish and Chris have backgrounds as musicians, and a close relationship between sound and picture informs much of their work. They were one of the original beta sites for CoSA (now Adobe) After Effects, and continue to work with that team as well as others to this day. August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 July 1999 Complete Archives Category Archives Welcome to Creating Motion Graphics TED Talk: How creativity is being strangled by the law After Effects CS4 Will Be Intel-Only XScriptorium: New AE Script/Expression Resource TED Talk: Where does creativity hide? Spotlight: Promos for FOX’s “Fringe” Spotlight: Nordisk Panorama Filmfestival 2008 Adobe will support RED Mobile Animation for Comics Focus On Design Leaving Los Angeles Two Pieces of Eye Candy Mainstream Media’s new correspondent: YouTube AFI Digital Content Lab Sessions At Last - Someone Who Gets Web Advertising A Retro View of the Future Compression Artifacts & Pulldown Who Will Rule The New Internet? A Distorted View of the World Rethinking the Music Video mocha AE to CC Power Pin What Is Art? Web Video: The New “Skip Intro”? The Myth of 1% Multithreaded Information Keyframes Key Concepts from the Archives After Effects Tips - Installment 1 Fractal Noise Tutorial On Artbeats.com: Article on Mixing Sound Layer Styles in After Effects Recently Added: Introduction to Expressions in After Effects Recently Added: Introduction to Parenting in After Effects Recently Added: Gobos and Gels in After Effects On Artbeats.com: Article on Editing to Sound On Artbeats.com: Article on Frame Rates		Monday, February 25, 2008 Dynamic Range and the RED One Stu Maschwitz ponders what would be a good digital cinema workflow with the RED One camera. Stu Maschwitz (he of The Orphanage, Magic Bullet, and The DV Rebel’s Guide fame), is one of my go-to resources when I want greater insight on digital film production workflow and its corresponding correct practices. He recently wrote an excellent article on his ProLost blog about Digital Cinema Dynamic Range, in the context of learning how to use a RED One camera in way that would give him the same latitude of exposure control that we would expect when working with film (or other digital cameras). Click here for the short version Click here for the long version (and you really should read the long version – it’s very instructive) Cameras • Lighting • Post Production • Production • (0) Comments • • Permalink Thursday, February 21, 2008 The Public Domain, Fair Use, and Other Bedtime Stories Finding sources without breaking the law. We’ve all been there before: We really need a particular source image to realize an idea. And we don’t have a copy of one ourselves. But look - there’s one on a web site! Or a client gives us one that they picked up “somewhere.” Or there’s a book lying around the office that we could scan. And if anyone involved feels a twinge of guilt, someone else tries to excuse it as “public domain” or “fair use.” more » Motion Graphics • Post Production • Pre-Production • Production • (2) Comments • Most recent comments by: Chris Meyer, Jan-Peter Ewert, • Permalink Friday, February 15, 2008 Favorite Technical References When you need to settle an argument, there’s nothing like the facts. The video industry has saddled us users with some truly ugly numbers to deal with (such as 720x480, 29.97, and so forth) when working with digital video. Making matters worse, these numbers are often misquoted or misunderstood. Thankfully, there are a few web sites out there with some truly valuable, correct information on digital video standards. Here are the sites we refer to most often when we need to know the inside scoop: more » Distribution • Hardware • Production • (0) Comments • • Permalink Saturday, February 09, 2008 The Second Revolution in Desktop Video It’s harder to make money this time around. If you’re reading this blog hoping to learn - with post-humus apologies to Douglas Adams - The Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything (view on Amazon), I’m afraid we may disappoint you from time to time: We don’t know all of the answers. But sometimes just asking questions is important, because it starts the discussions which eventually lead to the answers. One question that’s floating around these days is “How the heck do I make money creating video content for the web, such as podcasts?” Indeed, it seems there is more money in teaching podcasting than in podcasting itself! more » Budgeting • Distribution • Motion Graphics • Production • (0) Comments • • Permalink Friday, February 08, 2008 Motion Graphics concepts demonstrated…on a trampoline. Video training at its finest. This isn’t new, but we just stumbled across it, and thought it would provide some comic relief going into the weekend. It’s a live, one-take, in-front-of-an-audience music video (for the song “zZz is playing: Grip") that is also a demonstration of common motion graphics techniques and video transitions, performed by folks on a trampoline. Ya gotta watch it more than once to pick up all the details, like the musicians on the left and right (the drummer on the left is also the singer), and the person painting the progress bar in real time underneath. Hang around until the end to see that it was indeed in front of an audience. more » Motion Graphics • Production • Visual Effects • (1) Comments • Most recent comments by: Scott Gentry, • Permalink Wednesday, January 30, 2008 Free 7-day Passes for Lynda.com We’ve been dipping a toe in the online training world… Sorry for the blatant plug, but there’s a payoff: A free week of as much online video training as you can watch! We’ve been getting into creating online video training, focusing on specific topics and techniques rather than creating long-form courses (that’s what our books are for). Our current titles are available either pay-as-you-go through Toolfarm or to subscribers of the Lynda.com Online Training Library. If you’re not currently a Lynda.com subscriber, and are curious to check them out before signing up, you can try them out for free for seven days by clicking here. Feel free to pass this link around. In addition to After Effects, they offer training on a variety of 3D, DVD authoring, NLE, and business applications - even tutorials on operating systems. For those who are considering creating their own tutorials that they’d like to make money off of, we’ve been testing the waters for the past year trying out a couple pay-as-you-go services in addition to Lynda.com’s subscription model, and - with all due respect to the excellent folks at Toolfarm and other places - Lynda.com has been the hands-down winner from the content creator side. We’ve found them to be a great company to work with, and we plan to be doing a lot more with them in the future. We’ll keep you apprised as we release more titles, or if our opinion changes. Budgeting • Business • Motion Graphics • Post Production • Production • Training • (0) Comments • • Permalink Page 1 of 2 pages 1 2 >		3D Audio Budgeting Business Cameras Distribution Editing Hardware Interactive Lighting Motion Graphics NAB '08 Post Production Production Pre-Production Production Training Visual Effects Composition Occurs in both Space and Time Art Adams \| 08/16- 05:30 PM *No shot stands alone. A little planning makes all compositions stronger.* I first became aware of composition over time while watching the film Wired Magazine Gets the RED Totally Wrong Art Adams \| 08/16- 02:45 PM *Did anyone fact check this article, or is that just old-fashioned?* I’d like to encourage everyone reading this to pick up a copy of this month’s… The Swing of Things Art Adams \| 08/14- 02:45 PM *Using tilt/shift lenses for good instead of evil* I recently shot a museum project where the style required almost exclusive use of tilt/shift lenses. (We occasionally… Advertisements

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