The Fractal Noise effect built into After Effects has been used to displace or generate motion backgrounds, transitions, clouds, fog, fire, water, paper texture, metal and other textures, ink and watercolor effects, etc. There’s a good description of it, and some nice performance tips, in AE Help. As a base to get your own […]
Adam Besserman, Director of West Coast Development for Yahoo, delivered the keynote on day two of the TransVergence Summit at the W Hollywood. Besserman plays an instrumental role in developing, producing and distributing over 50 premium original programs for Yahoo. During his keynote, Besserman essentially breaks down the history of digital mass media, even tracing it […]
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This is the third 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. Resurrecting the classic science fiction franchise of Star Trek is certainly a challenge that any motion graphics and VFX artists would […]
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A useful feature in many cameras is the ability to shoot time-lapse sequences without any additional equipment. Sony’s EX cameras and many of the newer shoulder mount broadcast cameras have the ability to do this using the “Interval Record” function. However the F5, F55, FS100 and FS700 don’t have this feature and at first glance […]
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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: […]
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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“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. […]
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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