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.
Thursday, March 19, 2009

Circling Around the Drain

The recession hits the worker bees in Hollywood.

I felt what is referred to as “the shock of recognition” while reading this first-person account on Newsweek.com about life in The Industry during the current recession: This sounds a lot like what our life was like just a few years ago. Although we work(ed) in the motion graphics side of the business rather than production, it was a similar situation: we lived from job to job, every job was paid in full, and we hoped another job came in before the money ran out. During the good times, we had a steady stream of jobs, with very little breathing room in-between. But as the years went on, the highs got higher (more jobs in at the same time), and the lows in between got longer. Fortunately, Trish is a wizard at calculating cash flow (hint: it’s not about knowing how much money you have in the bank today, and spending based on that; it’s about knowing the date when the money runs out, and throttling your expenditures based on that), so we managed through the lulls just fine before the phone rang again - but the trend was disturbing.

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