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

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Trish & Chris, Unplugged

A two-part interview by John Dickinson of Motionworks.

We recently had the pleasure of being interviewed via Skype by John Dickinson of Motionworks for his excellent Unplugged series, where he chats with people who either create After Effects plug-ins (such as Peter Norrby of Trapcode or Zax Dow of Zaxwerks) or training (such as Brian Maffitt of Total Training or Andrew Kramer of Video Copilot). It was a freewheeling affair - we thought he was going to cut out that intro when we were making faces at him, and yes, those are margaritas we’re drinking - and we covered a lot of ground, including the early days of After Effects, how we got started in the industry, what we do for inspiration, our opinions on the training market, and our philosophy of learning a complex program such as After Effects for motion graphics production. We hope you enjoy it.