Do Not Adjust Your Set: The Studios
In the main article, we discussed some of the more interesting design topics brought up during the 1999 BDA Conference in San Francisco. In this companion post, we focus on…
Spinning Gold
In a perfect world, clients supply gorgeous video clips for you to use in the graphics they’ve hired you to create. When that doesn’t happen, there…
Getting Behind the Color Wheel
Ever composite a number of clips, only to have the result like an explosion in a paint factory? This month we’ll search out a variety of plug-in…
Field Order – Who’s on First?
If you thought most NTSC video ran at 29.97 frames per second, that's only half the story – literally. It actually runs at a speed of 59…
Playing Squash: Blobby Text Effect for NBC
Back in 1997 – still fairly early in our motion graphics career – one of our more enjoyable gigs was creating promotionals for NBC. These promos didn’t appear…