Etching and Sketching in Motion

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This week on MacBreak Studio, I show Steve Martin from Ripple Training how to build a virtual Etch-a-Sketch© in Motion. Following up from our Spirograph© episode based on a viewer request, I use Motion to recreate a toy that was popular in my childhood that let you draw on a screen by turning two knobs: […]

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Enhance Your Videos With Professional Style Using All-New Animated Lower Thirds

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Digital Juice®, the highly acclaimed developer of digital content for video and motion graphics designers, announced today the release of Animated Lower Thirds, Collection 2 for instant download. Lower Thirds are animations that usually appear on the lower third of a video frame with descriptive details explaining or naming the action on screen. They are […]

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Educators as Producers

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“Transmedia refers to a set of choices made about the best approach to tell a particular story to a particular audience in a particular context depending on the particular resources available to particular producers.” – Henry Jenkins Henry Jenkins’ fairly open explanation of transmedia outlines what educators do in the classroom on a daily basis. […]

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Upping the HUD ante with Adobe After Effects

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This is the second in our series of blog posts highlighting the amazing work done by some of the industry’s best VFX artists using Adobe After Effects in a few of this summer's blockbusters. Stephen Lawes, creative director and co-owner of Cantina Creative and Cantina VFX Supervisor Venti Hristova raised the bar once again on […]

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MHL Consortium Announces New Specification with Major Advancements

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MHL, LLC today announced the MHL 3.0 specification to address the latest consumer requirements for connecting a mobile device to displays, marking major advancements in the areas of audio and video transmission over an MHL® link. With double the bandwidth compared to the previous specification, MHL 3.0 delivers 4K (Ultra HD) resolution and a wider […]

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