Chris & Trish Meyer

CMG Keyframes is a repository for columns, articles, and videos created by Trish & Chris Meyer of the subject of creating motion graphics using Adobe After Effects and other related programs. It also contains articles on typography, audio, and 3D, as well as links to relevant articles Chris & Trish have published elsewhere.

Trish & Chris Meyer are the founders of Crish Design (formerly known as CyberMotion), an award-winning motion graphic design studio that has recently relocated from Los Angeles to the Albuquerque area. 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.

In addition to their motion graphics work, Trish and Chris were among the original users of After Effects, and have written numerous books including "Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects" and "After Effects Apprentice" (both published by Focal Press). They speak regularly at conferences around the country, and perform custom training for studios. Both have backgrounds as musicians, and a close relationship between sound and picture informs much of their work.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

On lynda.com: Extended Vignette Techniques

Multiple approaches to guiding the viewer’s focus.

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Our most recent video course is After Effects: Extended Vignette Techniques, available exclusively through lynda.com. Creating vignettes - darkening or otherwise treating areas of an image in order to focus the viewer’s attention on your desired point of interest - may not seem sexy on the surface, but it is one of the most universal techniques you can learn. This is another one of our “foundational” courses in that rather than going through one whiz-bang project, we demonstrate a basic technique that you can use over and over again in a variety of situations. Vignettes can be used to better frame your subject, fix a poorly-composed shot, give a vintage feel, create “quiet areas” to overlay text and other graphics, blend an image over a new background, or otherwise creatively treat footage.

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Sunday, February 07, 2010

Deeper Modes of Expression, Part 2: Interpolation Methods

This simple method is our favorite replacement for a calculator.

As we noted last month, we’re serializing the Deeper Modes of Expression bonus chapter from our book Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects into a set of 12 posts here on PVC. As February is the shortest month, perhaps it’s appropriate that this us the shortest installment - but we also consider this to be one of the most important, core techniques offered by expressions: A quick and easy way to convert one range of numbers to another.

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Reversing Keyframes in Motion
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Reversing Keyframes in Motion

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And how to find some shy keyframes that prefer to stay hidden

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Motion and Motion Blur in FCP

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Having trouble getting motion blur to show up in your Motion project that is embedded in your FCP sequence? There are a couple of key steps you have to follow to make it work correctly - here they are.

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