Richard Harrington, CEO of RHED Pixel, delivers a 40 minute workshop on creating graphics for film editors, providing some useful tips and techniques when using Adobe Photoshop in the edit suite...
Category - Motion Graphics
A beginners introduction to colour grading
Understanding the basics of color grading Aaron Williams gives a fast paced but valuable 30 minute presentation to introduce color grading to relative beginners, giving a ’30’000 ft...
How an animated film is made
How An Animated Film Is Made A short animated film explaining the animation process to new clients and animation students.
Motion 4 Gotcha – Getting the best render settings
Why is my final render bad quality? In Motion 4, there is a very easy way to make your exports look 100 times better instantly. It is called the ‘make it look good button’. If you...
Free digital specification guides and short cut cheat-sheets
If you need help remembering how fast transfer speeds are over firewire 800, or what the target bit rates are for RED-RAW or what the shortcut is for ‘add edit’ in FCP7 then look no...
Free stock footage and After Effects tutorials
If you need some free stock footage for your effects work and you’ve not yet checked out videocopilot.net then you’ve been missing out on a tremendous wealth of free goodies and amazing...
The basics of on-screen typography
Video2brain (a learning company who provided the free tutorials with my wacom tablet – US) have many useful, straightforward tutorials on a plethora of subjects. Here is 3 minutes on the basics...
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo final editorial workflow
Conforming and Compositing A Feature Digitalcontentproducer.com has a detailed article from assistant editor Tyler Nelson (who also used a similar workflow on The Social Network) describing the...
TV Graphics layer by layer breakdown
TV Promo Graphics – Layer by Layer Brett Morris over on Motionworks, walks through a layer by layer breakdown of his work on these text supers for a TV promo for Fast and the Furious 5. Some...
Useful Motion Tutorials
CreativeCow.net is one of THE best resources on the net for creative professionals. Andy Neil has created some useful Motion 4 tutorials which are worth a watch because more than just explaining...
Saul Bass on making money or art…
The legendary Saul Bass was profiled in Brainpickings this week… here he is advising young creatives on how to handle money, beauty, and clients. Ultimately who are you working for? Continuing...
Understanding typography in 3 minutes
For a quick grasp of the basics of decent typography, spare 3 minutes for this kitsch video from Veer. A good example of creating ‘free’ content that teaches whilst selling.
Free Motion templates
There is a mixed bag of free motion templates available on the net, sometimes useful in a tight spot when you’re short of time on an edit but more often than not it takes as much time to adapt...
A brief history of Title