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.
Monday, March 23, 2009

Unlearning by Example

Sometimes it’s just as important to learn what NOT to do.

Just stumbled across a fun blog about bad logo design: Your Logo Makes Me Barf. It’s not just about poking fun at bad design; quite often the critiques contain useful advice and explanation (note: they prefer simplicity…). Experienced designers will get a laugh; newcomers will get a useful education and potentially learn to avoid common mistakes.

As long as we’re talking about bad examples, I have to mention the classic Gallerie Abominate: a collection of truly horrendous 3D modeling and animation with matching lowbrow sense of humor. It hasn’t been updated for years, but it doesn’t matter: Unlike some flavor-of-the-month “good” designs, bad design seems to always endure.


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