Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects Hidden Gems: Chapter 5 – Animation Assistance
The Heartbreaking Beauty of Pixar’s Films
In 1995 Pixar released their first feature film, Toy Story. Since then, this amazing group of creatives has led...
ARRI Alexa vs Canon 7D latitude & grading comparison
It seems a little absurd to be comparing a $1500 camera to the ARRI Alexa, but such is the...
Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects Hidden Gems: Chapter 4 – Keyframe Velocity
As you are probably aware by now, we’re going to go through our book Creating Motion Graphics with After...
Creating Motion Graphics Hidden Gems: Chapter 3 – Basic Animation
As you are probably aware by now, we’re going to go through our book Creating Motion Graphics with After...
Christmas gift ideas for the editor
It’s very close to the Christmas holiday but my guess is there’s still a lot of shopping to be...
Creating Motion Graphics Hidden Gems: Chapter 2 – Creating a Composition
As we mentioned last week, we’re going to go through our book Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects 5th...
The SE-500 in Studio and Live through Fiber Optics!
Ralph Score, video production and web coordinator at Valley TeleCom Group produces video programming exclusively made for Community Channel...
An Illuminating Discussion
It started as a simple-enough email question from writer Kevin P. McAuliffe to the rest of the PVC crew:...
Creating Motion Graphics Hidden Gems: Chapter 1 – After Effects 101
Our book Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects 5th Edition (“CMG5” for short) is not a quick read: It...
Deeper Modes of Expression, Part 12: Expressive Text
Finally, we’d like to demonstrate ways to use expressions to manipulate text created with the new Type tool. We’ll...
Deeper Modes of Expression: The Index
This year we’ve been taking the Bonus Chapter on Expressions from our book Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects...
Using RED Footage Proxies in After Effects
Many people like to shoot RED source footage these days, even if the final destination is lower-resolution video. I...
Blend Modes in Adobe Premiere Pro
As a motion graphics artist, one of our favorite tricks to enhance an uninspiring clip is not to use...
Daily Inspiration – The most realistic CG you’ve ever seen
This commercial spot was done entirely with CG, and it’s simply beautiful. I would never have guessed this was...