Chromatic aberration: creation and fixes with After Effects
A few years ago there was a spate of interest in chromatic aberration — fixing footage containing the color fringing, but...
The Art of the Cut: “12 Years a Slave” Editor, Joe Walker
It’s not often that Hollywood’s stars publicly recognize the great stewardship that an editor of a film has of...
Autodesk Announces 2015 3D Animation Software
Autodesk Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) unveiled the 2015 versions of its popular 3D animations tools: Autodesk 3ds Max, Maya, MotionBuilder, Mudbox,...
ASSIMILATE Announces Powerful SCRATCH and SCRATCH Lab v8
ASSIMILATE, the industry’s leading provider of DI and dailies digital workflow tools, today announced SCRATCH® and SCRATCH Lab® v8....
Long shadows: adding body to flat design in After Effects
The trend toward flat design hit big in 2013 with newer user interfaces of Windows 8 (“Metro“) and iOS7,...
Harris Broadcast Becomes Imagine Communications and GatesAir
Harris Broadcast, a portfolio company of The Gores Group and a market share leader of media software, networking and...
Useful Tools for Editors – Editors Retreat Edition
If you read my Notes From the 2014 Editors Retreat post then you might have seen the mention of...
Pixar Releases RenderMan for KATANA
Pixar Animation Studios today announced the release of RenderMan for KATANA, providing a fully integrated bridge between Pixar’s Academy...
Kinetic type in After Effects
Kinetic typography can be considered a storytelling technique that broadly engages the literal Illustration, rhythmic embellishment, personification, and disruption...
Fly around CC Sphere in After Effects
As noted by Andrew Devis, “cameras are notoriously difficult to get to grips with in After Effects” (see video...