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Key Concepts from the Archives

We have written numerous articles and columns for a variety magazines over the years, including our previous long-running “Motion Graphics” column in DV magazine plus currently a monthly “Tips n Tricks” article for Artbeats.com.

It is our intention to move the “key” articles in this archive (with updates, where appropriate) over to this site to ensure you have reliable access to them in the future. Although some were written years ago, they still contain useful tips and concepts on both technique and design. We will also be adding new articles as subjects come up; shorter takes on subjects will appear over on our Creating Motion Graphics channel.

If you can’t find an article on the subject you’re interested in, let us know in a “comment” to this post. Also, there’s always our books Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects and After Effects Apprentice. You can see summaries of these - including samples - on the books page of our website.

The content contained in our books, videos, blogs, and articles for other sites are all copyright Crish Design, except where otherwise attributed.

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A former student of mine emailed asking me to give him “the specs for a theatrical main title.” He doesn’t realize what he’s asking, of course. As I began a reply I realized this was way to large a topic for any short simple answer. I want to refer him to your books and training materials. My old coy of CMG 1st ed. has great info in chpt.9 on working at film resolution, but the download chapter PDFs for your later editions don’t list the same subject. Is film work well covered in the later editions? What your best resource on this topic?

PS: miss you guys at MGLA (DMA/LA), but Ko, Warren and Tony are doing a great job. Just miss you anyway.

Posted by Karl Shields  on  04/04  at  12:37 PM

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The short answer: The specs are what the film output house tells you to deliver. Some houses have different specs, so this is a clear case where you start at the end and design your production chain backward from there.

The film chapter was last seen in Creating Motion Graphics Volume 2, 3rd Edition (available used for under $10 on Amazon.com). It was one of the chapters that got cut when we re-merged the two volumes back into one (hey - only a quarter as many people were buying Volume 2 as Volume 1!).

Trish will be speaking on film title design and issues as part of PostProduction World at NAB next week. We hope to turn it into an article to add to CMG Keyframes here down the road.

take care -
Chris

Posted by Chris Meyer  on  04/06  at  10:32 PM

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