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Chris & Trish Meyer Chris & Trish Meyer are the founders of CyberMotion, an award-winning Los Angeles motion graphic design studio. Their design and animation work has appeared on shows and promos for CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, The Learning Channel, HBO, and PBS. CyberMotion was one of the first studios to create major release film opening titles using desktop tools (including major films such as The Taleneted Mr. Ripley), and they have also created promotional and trade show videos for corporate clients from Apple Computer to Xerox. They specialize in unusual format videos, having animated for 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 have written the books "Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects" and "After Effects Apprentice" (both published by Focal Press). They have written numerous articles on motion graphics for DV magazine, Artbeats.com, and others, and have spoken at AFI, MacWorld, BDA, NAB, and other conferences. Trish founded CyberMotion after an extensive career in print as a magazine art director for music technology magazines. Her partner Chris, a refugee from the music industry, specializes in sound design and 3D work as well as dealing with multi-format technical issues. Both Trish and Chris have backgrounds as musicians, and a close relationship between sound and picture informs much of their work. They were one of the original beta sites for CoSA (now Adobe) After Effects, and continue to work with that team as well as others to this day. August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 July 2007 May 2007 November 2006 September 2006 August 2006 January 2006 November 2005 September 2005 July 2005 June 2005 April 2005 November 2004 September 2004 November 2003 September 2003 July 2003 December 2002 November 2002 October 2002 September 2002 November 2001 July 2001 June 2001 March 2001 October 2000 May 2000 January 2000 July 1999 January 1998 February 1997 July 1995 Complete Archives Category Archives After Effects Tips - Installment 2 After Effects Tips - Installment 1 Fractal Noise Tutorial Layer Styles in After Effects On Artbeats.com: Article on Editing to Sound On Artbeats.com: Article on Frame Rates Q&A: Audio Queries Pasting Paths from Illustrator to After Effects On Artbeats.com: Article on Color Management in After Effects Non-Square Strategies Key Concepts from the Archives Motion 3 = 3D The Shape of Things to Come: Shape Layers Introduction Brighter Whites; Richer Colors Part 2: sRGB Brighter Whites; Richer Colors, Part 1: 16-235 Work Smarter, Not Harder: Nucleo Pro Camera Control, Part 2: Graph Editor & Dolly Rigs Camera Control, Part 1: Auto-Orient & Orbit Map Exploration The Hi-Def Checklist Visual Rhythm, Part 2: Motion & Cinema Tricks Visual Rhythm, Part 1: After Effects Tricks Motion + MIDI The Almost Perfect Font A Different Light: Gamma-Corrected Compositing CMG-Blog The Art of the Opening Title 09-23-08 = CS4? TED Talk: The Power and Beauty of Organic Design Migrating After Effects Between Macs Spotlight: Fox Sports HD TED Talk: Using Biology to Make Better Animation Adobe MAX, motion 08 Awards Shows 20% off Artbeats Footage TED Talk: How creativity is being strangled by the law After Effects CS4 Will Be Intel-Only		Friday, August 29, 2008 After Effects Tips - Installment 2 Learn something new everyday… Here is a second installment of random tips for working more productively with Adobe After Effects CS3, including the best place to find Help information (surprise: It’s not the Help file installed on your hard drive alongside After Effects...). Please feel free to add your own questions and alternative solutions in the Comments field at the end. more » Motion Graphics • Visual Effects • (1) Comments • Most recent comments by: Todd_Kopriva, • Permalink Sunday, August 17, 2008 After Effects Tips - Installment 1 Learn something new everyday… In contrast to the columns and tutorials we’ve been posting so far in CMG Keyframes, we thought it would be useful to also post quick-hit random tips for working more productively with Adobe After Effects CS3. This is the first installment; hope you enjoy it. Please feel free to add your own questions and alternative solutions in the Comments field at the end. more » Motion Graphics • Post Production • Visual Effects • (0) Comments • • Permalink Monday, August 04, 2008 Fractal Noise Tutorial Using the Fractal Noise effect to create seamless background textures. The Fractal Noise effect in Adobe After Effects has to be one of the beloved plug-ins among power-users for its ability to create everything from abstract backgrounds to realistic natural phenomena. Here are a pair of ideas (from our After Effects in Production book) for creating the former: a blocky pattern, and a soft blurry pattern that we like to use for a “lighting” effect. In Part 1 of this bonus tutorial, you will learn how we created these layers, and in Part 2 we’ll offer some tips on making the Fractal Noise effect and other sources seamlessly loop. more » Motion Graphics • (0) Comments • • Permalink Sunday, July 13, 2008 Layer Styles in After Effects The secret to getting better shadows, bevels, and glows. Adobe After Effects has long featured Drop Shadow, Bevel Alpha, and Glow effects, as well as various ways to fill layers with colors or gradients. However, they’re hardly the fanciest options available. Meanwhile, Adobe Photoshop has long featured a powerful Layer Styles module, which includes far fancier shadows, bevels, glows, and fills, which allow you to create more photorealistic effects such as the badge shown at left. What not many users realize is that there has long been a back door to get some of those Photoshop layer effects into After Effects. And even fewer realize that After Effects CS3 includes support for virtually the entire Photoshop Layer Styles engine. We’d like to let you in on these well-kept secrets. more » Motion Graphics • (0) Comments • • Permalink Tuesday, June 10, 2008 On Artbeats.com: Article on Editing to Sound Over on Artbeats.com, we’ve written an introduction to editing audio. Every month, we write a Tips N Tricks article for our friends at Artbeats.com. This month we wrote a piece about spotting hit points in music and dialog, plus a series of pointers on how to place edit points, transitions, and animation keyframes based on these hit points. We strongly believe the tight integration between audio and video is a secret weapon that can be used to raise your productions above the rest; we hope you find this introduction worthwhile. Click here to download a 333 KB PDF of “Editing to Sound” from Artbeats.com. While we’re talking about Artbeats, Steve Holmes (formerly of Total Training) also just created for Artbeats a new video tutorial that shows you how to “step through time with an innovative look at the evolution of energy.” You can download the 36+ minute tutorial from Artbeats.com by clicking here. By the way, if you’d like to share one of your own projects with Artbeats and their customers, email them - if they choose yours, you’ll get $1000 worth of free Artbeats footage of your choice! Artbeats has a monthly email newsletter which contains links to each of our articles for them as they are released, plus a link for registered users to download a free full-size clip every month. Click here to register. Audio • Editing • Motion Graphics • (0) Comments • • Permalink Thursday, May 15, 2008 On Artbeats.com: Article on Frame Rates Over on Artbeats.com, we’ve written a treatise on frame rates. Every month, we write a Tips N Tricks article for our friends at Artbeats.com. This month we’ve written a brain dump on where those funky frame rates came from, and issues to watch out for as you get assets from 3D artists, stock footage libraries, film composers, and even well-meaning camera or tape operators that have frame rates that might be just slightly off from what you expect - and how to correct them. Click here to download a 212 KB PDF of “Frame Rate Follies” from Artbeats.com. Fellow PVC writer Mark Christiansen also recently wrote a piece for Artbeats’ NAB 2008 Show Guide on creating ramping speed effects in After Effects; click here to download the 1.1 MB PDF. In a similar vein, we also wrote an article for Artbeats on using the same underlying technique to bend the time of a clip to match a soundtrack; click here to download the 2.3 MB PDF of it. By the way, Artbeats has a monthly email newsletter which contains links to each of our articles for them as they are released, plus a link for registered users to download a free full-size clip every month. Click here to register. Motion Graphics • Production • (0) Comments • • Permalink Thursday, April 17, 2008 Q&A: Audio Queries Real users have the best questions. During the Post\|Production World conference that ran alongside NAB 2008, I gave an extended session on audio connections, microphones, and other related issues. At the end, the attendees hit me with their individual problems. I thought the questions and their answers might be useful to others, so I decided to add them to the archives up here, amended with additional thoughts and research I’ve gathered since returning from NAB. Note that essential companion reading to these comments include my previous article on audio wiring and connections, plus my blog on dealing with ground loop hum. more » Audio • Production • (0) Comments • • Permalink Wednesday, March 12, 2008 Pasting Paths from Illustrator to After Effects The essential trick to paste multiple paths to After Effects Shape Layers at once. So what’s so interesting about a feature we’ve had for eons? We all know you can copy and paste vector paths from Illustrator to After Effects as mask paths and motion paths (you did know that, right?). But with the new Shape Layers in After Effects CS3, you may run into a little snag when trying to paste paths to shapes. more » Motion Graphics • (1) Comments • Most recent comments by: Mez, • Permalink Page 1 of 6 pages 1 2 3 > Last »		3D Audio Budgeting Business Cameras Distribution Editing Hardware Interactive Lighting Motion Graphics NAB '08 Post Production Production Pre-Production Production Training Visual Effects Nikon D90 vs Red’s Scarlet - Specdown! Mike Curtis \| 09/06- 02:14 PM *Does the Nikon D90 pose a threat to (the specs only of) Red’s Scarlet?* Nikon is about to ship the D90,… Nikon D90 - nice DSLR that also shoots HD video Mike Curtis \| 09/06- 02:09 PM *Nikon’s new stills camera shoots nice 720p movies* Nikon is about to ship their new DX format DSLR, the D90. So why should you care? … Too Much Data! Art Adams \| 09/05- 02:07 PM *In a world where tape is disappearing, how do I inexpensively backup all my data shoots?* I’m going into a RED shoot this weekend and I’ve realized… Advertisements

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