Tag: artist
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Read first chapter of Design Essentials book free
Did you know tat you can read the first chapter of my “Design Essentials for the Motion Media Artist” free on Amazon Kindle? Just click here and then follow the link on the right hand side of the page under “Kindle”.
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Design Essentials for the Motion Media Artist
The book is designed as a one-stop, getting-started guide for anyone new to motion graphic design who wants to get the basic principles under their belt so they can get started quickly, making better design decisions as they go. After reading this book you’ll be comfortable with the basic concepts and principles of design, animation…
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Post Production Magic
Join Red Giant for an evening of inspiration I’ll be speaking at Red Giant’s FREE Post Production magic event in September. Here’s the blurb! Event Registration is available now on the Adobe website. When a group of amazing animators get hold of a projection system, you’re either going to get an evening of inspiration or a…
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12 rules of animation
Digital Arts has featured – 12 Rules of Animation – an excerpt from my “Design Essentials for the Motion Media Artist” as their feature article this month. The article is now FREELY AVAILABLE on the Digital Arts website. Animation as we know it has been around since Horner invented the zoetrope in 1834. Since then animators…
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Uprezzing Comps
A question appeared on the Video Copilot website today about uprezzing old projects which can be a bit of a nightmare in AE. You can often find that layers positions get messed up and effects change appearance when you scale your comp. Some of the issues that you’ll come across are hard to avoid but…
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Lip Sync in After Effects
Lip-syncing is something that all animators will be asked to do at some point in their career. The following technique automates the process of lip sync in After Effects and uses only built-in features of Adobe After Effects – no extra software is required! This video tutorial is an updated version for Adobe CS5. Tutorial…
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Creative Constipation:
I was describing a friend of mine as suffering from creative constipation recently. It’s a common complaint, many designers suffer from it Luckily I’ve discovered ways of dealing with this potentially crippling condition.
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Women of Punk 02
Growing up in Scotland in 1975, I had no idea what was going on the other side of the Atlantic. Little did I know that American “women of punk” were in the process of breaking ground so that people like me could find a voice and be accepted despite our inherent weirdness!