Motion Graphics for Business – Part 2: Beyond Hollywood

Written by Chris Zwar

February 5, 2015

This is part 2 of a series that looks at trends in corporate motion graphics.  Part 1 looked at...

Sweeping Up in Motion

Written by Mark Spencer

February 3, 2015

This week on MacBreak Studio Steve Martin from Ripple Training (check out the brand new completely updated website) and...

Motion Graphics for Business – Part 1: Inspirational Films

Written by Chris Zwar

January 5, 2015

The New Year is traditionally a time for lists, and as many of the articles I published during 2014...

Growing pains – the desktop video identity crisis

Written by Chris Zwar

November 12, 2014

Some of the most confusing aspects of a job have nothing to do with hardware problems or software upgrades. ...

Z-Depth from 3D After Effects layers

Written by Chris Zwar

September 20, 2014

I recently posted a video tutorial that demonstrates how to generate a z-depth map from Particular, and then use...

Z-Depth compositing with Particular – Part 2

Written by Chris Zwar

September 2, 2014

Trapcode’s Particular is probably the most popular 3rd party plugin for After Effects, and amongst its many powerful features...

Z-Depth compositing with Particular – Part 1

Written by Chris Zwar

September 2, 2014

Trapcode’s Particular is probably the most popular 3rd party plugin for After Effects, and amongst its many powerful features...

After Effects and Alexa – The Expurgated Version

Written by Chris Zwar

August 11, 2014

OK so you’ve got some Arri Alexa footage in Log C format, and it looks funny in After Effects....

After Effects and Alexa – Part 2

Written by Chris Zwar

August 11, 2014

The Arri Alexa is a hugely popular digital camera, but it records footage in a proprietary Arri colourspace called...

After Effects and Alexa – Part 1

Written by Chris Zwar

August 10, 2014

The Arri Alexa is a hugely popular digital camera, but it records footage in a proprietary Arri colourspace called...