ProVideo Coalition.com: Creating Motion Graphics by Chris & Trish Meyer

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 Keyframes

After Effects Apprentice Free Video: Exploring Shape Effects

After Effects Apprentice Free Video: Drawing Parametric Shapes

After Effects Apprentice Free Video: The Puppet Starch Tool

After Effects Apprentice Free Video: Eraser Tool Modes

After Effects Apprentice Free Video: Tracking with mochaAE

After Effects Apprentice Free Video: Performing a Motion Track

After Effects Apprentice Free Video: Creating 3D Objects using Adobe Repoussé

After Effects Apprentice Free Video: Understanding Axis Modes

Using After Effects as an Advanced Titler for Premiere Pro

After Effects Apprentice Free Video: Creating an Orbit Camera Rig

Friday, February 26, 2010

Making It Look Great 7 Review

Cinema 4D’s MoGraph Unleashed

Last summer I wrote an lengthy review of the Motionworks’ Making It Look Great 6 training series, where Tim Clapham did a great job covering the integration of Cinema 4D and After Effects. I mentioned my wish for Tim to do a full series on using Cinema’s MoGraph module, and little did I know that such a series was already in the works. Not wanting to wait, I offered to proof it as it was being developed (crafty, huh!), and now it’s arrived in a store near you as Making It Look Great 7.

MILG7 consists of six projects produced using a wide variety of MoGraph objects and effectors. Not only will you learn tons of MoGraph techniques as you create some fun animations, but sprinkled throughout are a great many solid Cinema working practices that will serve you well in any project.

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