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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		Thursday, November 28, 2002 Pulse Rays How to make light ray effects even cooler. Light ray treatments, where streaks of color extend from type, a logo, or image, are popping up everywhere these days. But you’ve no doubt heard the saying “familiarity breeds contempt” - and we have to admit, many of those treatments are starting to look a bit...familiar. At their stock settings, most light ray effects look too solid or static to our eyes. The excellent Shine light ray plug-in from Trapcode has an animateable Shimmer parameter that adds some animation to its rays, but it seems few are taking advantage of this feature. Even with Shimmer, we’ve been interested in finding ways to make rays seem more ghostly and animated. As it so happens, we recently had a client approach us asking if we could make light rays look as if an energy pulse was flowing out from the center. After some experimenting, we hit upon a formula using stock After Effects Professional plug-ins in conjunction with Shine which we think did the trick - see the figures at the top of this page. more » Motion Graphics • (0) Comments • • Permalink Page 1 of 1 pages		3D Audio Budgeting Business Cameras Distribution Editing Hardware Interactive Lighting Motion Graphics NAB '08 Post Production Production Pre-Production Production Training Visual Effects Pulse Rays Chris and Trish Meyer \| 11/28- 10:02 AM *How to make light ray effects even cooler.* Light ray treatments, where streaks of color extend from type, a logo, or image, are popping up everywhere these… Advertisements

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