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Mark ChristiansenMark Christiansen is the author of After Effects Studio Techniques (Adobe Press). He has created visual effects and animations for feature films including Pirates of the Caribbean 3, The Day After Tomorrow and films by Robert Rodriguez. Past corporate clients include Adobe, Cisco, Sun, Cadence, Seagate, Intel and Medtronic, and broadcast work has appeared on HBO and the History Channel. Mark's roles have included producing, directing, designing and effects supervision, and his solo work has appeared at film festivals including L.A. Shorts Fest. Long a Contributing Editor at DV Magazine during its heyday, Mark has been contracted as a marketing and technical writer on numerous occasions for Adobe Systems Inc. as well as related companies such as Red Giant Software. He has taught at fxPhd.com and Academy of Art University. His career began at LucasArts Entertainment and he is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Pomona College. 
Adobe Media Encoder - another hidden gem?After Effects Script of the Week: Add Parented Null to Each Selected LayerUse Dynamic Link to bring Warp Stabilizer to Premiere Pro CS5.5After Effects Script of the Week: Tracker2MaskAfter Effects Script of the Week: rd_MergeProjectsAfter Effects Script of the Week: Get Sh*t DoneAfter Effects Script of the Week: pt PanoramaAfter Effects Script of the Week: pt TextEditAfter Effects Script of the Week: Change Render LocationsAfter Effects Script of the Week: pt ExpressEditAfter Effects Script of the Week: MochaImportAfter Effects Script of the Week: KeyTweakAfter Effects Script of the Week: pt EffectSearchAfter Effects Script of the Week: ImmigrationScript of the Week: Shortcut Key ReferenceScript of the Week: True Comp DuplicatorScript of the Week: 3D ExtruderScript of the Week: BG RendererIntroducing: After Effects Script of the WeekRed Giant’s newest Plot Device: Magic Bullet Looks 2Free Stereo Footage from Artbeats, and an After Effects tutorial showing how to use it in CS5.5Premiere Pro for DSLR in a few easy stepsASSIMILATE announces Mac support for SCRATCH, updates product line and pricesAfter Effects CS5.5 in ProductionASSIMILATE SCRATCH first out of the gate with RED Epic HDRx support
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Tip: Force an After Effects Render to Fail (and Save!) on a MacTrigger a segmentation fault, win a prize: your project back. No doubt you already make liberal use of the After Effects Auto-Save feature, which incrementally stores sub-versions of your current saved project in set increments of time. By default, the last 5 20 minute increments are saved, with the oldest replaced by the newest, but you can freely change the interval and number of saves. Still, what happens when your session hangs up and you have valuable unsaved information? more »Tip: Force an After Effects Render not to FailHad it with Out of Memory errors? Here’s a hack to help in CS3 and CS4. If you’ve ever tried rendering a composition made up of one or more large images - say, a single huge matte painting or several layers of 4k footage - you have probably encountered the dreaded Out of Memory error causing your render to fail. What to do about this? more »Convert RED Camera R3D Footage Losslessly, Painlessly, ConfidentlyDo it the way Autodesk recommends and don’t fret about lost data If you’re a regular at this site you may recall 5 Tips to Maintain Sanity in RED Post.. The key point of that article was to assert that since you cannot write an R3D file, you must convert and it is best to do so early in order to save many wasted cycles processing full 4K (when the output is actually HD or less). Today’s tip tells how to convert an R3D losslessly to either 10-bit Cineon or 16-bit TIFF, and it’s backed up by a whitepaper from Autodesk. more »
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NAB 2009 RED Reel OnlineNot the same as 4K, but definitely entertaining and pleasing to the eye. The RED reel that showed at NAB 2009 is now viewable online (right click to download it). There are even a couple of shots on there from a shoot I was on as fx supervisor. It’s a gorgeous, cinematic reel and an entertaining viewing. Advertisement Tip: Use More than One Processor with Apple CompressorIf you’re rendering with the defaults, you’re doing it the slow way. Today’s tip is prompted by a tweet that appeared last evening from Jim Geduldick of finalcutuser.com and AENY, the NYC After Effects user group, reminding the owner of a new 8-core Mac that Compressor works best when using fewer than all 8 cores. The thing about that tip is, by default, Compressor only uses a single core to render regardless of how many are on your computer, so first you must understand how to get past that limitation. more »Tip: Browse After Effects Scripts as if Looking for Plug-insRedefinery.com makes it easy to find what you need. The point of scripts in After Effects is to reduce tedious tasks, although the best of them effectively add functionality because what they allow you to do would never be worth the trouble to do manually. Therefore if you find yourself faced with a tedious task, it’s not a bad idea to try and find a script that will help. Some sites do this better than others, and today I’m highlighting Jeff Almasol’s Redefinery as a site you can go visit right now and find the solution to one or many problems you’ve faced in the past, and are likely to re-encounter. more »Tip: Play Anything – YouTube included - in QuickTime Mac with PerianOpen-source tool makes QuickTime playback nearly universal – but only on a Mac.
The QuickTime file format can be the cause of trouble in a production pipeline, with its moving-target gamma and all-or-nothing file integrity (if there’s one corrupted frame in an .mov, forget about opening it and recovering the rest). QuickTime Player Pro, however, has many great features missing from other standalone players (including the fantastic VLC); it just requires that anything it opens be readable as a QuickTime movie. Although it seems at times to support other formats, they will often tend to open blank. Wouldn’t it be great to just be able to double click any moving image file and open it in QuickTime? more »
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NAB 2009 - The Foundry Demos 3 Upcoming Versions of NukeCompositing software will soon have many new features. At a private demo on Wednesday, Matt Plec demonstrated several of the major new features that will be in Nuke 5.2 and 6, as well as the new NukeX. Here’s what I learned. more »Page 1 of 5 pages 1 2 3 > Last » Advertisement |
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Convincing Lawmakers with Motion Graphics
Clean, simple 3D animation sells a rolling stop
Before you get all engulfed in the new product announcements sure to flow out of the NAB frenzy next week, take a look at a beautifully executed animation in support of what appears to be an incredibly sensible law that only one state has passed in almost 30 years - allowing bikes to come to a rolling stop. Made by Spencer Boomhower and found on the Bike Portland site, it’s really worth checking out.
Motion Graphics Mix
A Little Visual Inspiration
From Smashing Magazine, here are some very different examples of great motion graphics and visual effects work.
Enjoy.
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