Post Production
AE Project Diary: 1) Lego, Ninjago
The “After Effects Project Diaries” provide inside details and behind-the-scenes accounts of real projects I have worked on. In...
Post Production
Ghosts, holograms, and the quest for immersion
Not all videos are destined to be broadcast on TV, or even viewed on a computer screen. While building...
Post Production
Building Projections – Preview & Testing
When producing large scale video projections it’s important to establish some type of preview, to guage how the content...
Post Production
Bigger, brighter, bolder – the evolution of large scale video projection
In 2009 I had never heard of projection mapping, or building projections, so when a friend of mine emailed...
Post Production
Hues on first – easy and fast colour correction
Colour correction is one of the most important aspects of compositing and visual fx. This quick tip will show...
Post Production
Automatic versioning in After Effects
No-one likes boring and repetitive work, so this After Effects tutorial demonstrates how to create many different versions of...
Business
Motion Graphics for Business – Part 2: Beyond Hollywood
This is part 2 of a series that looks at trends in corporate motion graphics. Part 1 looked at...
Business
Motion Graphics for Business – Part 1: Inspirational Films
The New Year is traditionally a time for lists, and as many of the articles I published during 2014...
Post Production
The case of the white t-shirt
In an earlier article I said that when I began my career, I found business issues more difficult to...
Post Production
Growing pains – the desktop video identity crisis
Some of the most confusing aspects of a job have nothing to do with hardware problems or software upgrades. ...