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Apr 10th

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Tree Killer of the Week: Kinko's

I try to conserve as much as the next guy. If I can avoid printing a receipt or confirmation, I’ll opt for that. If I can simply email or use a USB drive to transfer a document rather than burning a CD or DVD, I’ll take that option. Granted, there are resources used either way, but I still like to think that I am doing some sort of good by not needing to chop down a tree to print out a...

Mar 25th

“Don’t try to be original. Try to be good”

– Paul Rand

Mar 24th

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Feb 11th

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Harry Frank Joins Red Giant

Dear Readers, As many of you well know, my current professional career is split between two distinct sides of the same coin. One one side, I mostly spend my days working as a freelance motion designer. This has garnered many memorable experiences of working with tremendously talented people — from my roots, working with the unrelenting post-production and design professionals of Detroit, to...

Feb 5th

Feb 2nd

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This is a work-in-progress experiment using Particular and Form to create a freely moving tunnel. The motion is driven with expressions, without any keyframes. The color is driven by the music. It’s not quite there yet, perhaps because of the music selection. Once tweaked, I’ll post the project and some variations for download.

Jan 16th

Jan 7th

Dec 17th

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AENY Tomorrow!

Giving away some Video Rock tomorrow at AENY. All you NYC folks get out and see @nickvegas work some great motion design and win some cool stuff!!

Dec 2nd

Nov 30th

The Motion Exchange →

As a newly transplanted freelancer in LA, I’ve seen my credentials emailed out routinely to various shops in the area, and I’ve seen the same shops posting for jobs looking for people with my exact credentials. As I’ve seen over and over, there is a lack of cohesiveness to the motion design industry that connects those that need talent to the talent that is out there. There are...

Nov 18th

Nov 17th

Free Tea-Stained Paper Texture Set from Designm.ag

A very nice looking set of tea stained paper textures over at the good folks at designm.ag http://designm.ag/freebies/tea-stained-paper/

Nov 14th

Nov 12th

Video Rock Inspiration #2 : Trapper Keepers

I got a surprising amount of inspiration from the old 80s Trapper Keepers. I love the illustrated and air brushed design styles found in these relics. If you are a little too young to remember what these things are, they are 3 ring binders mixed with some brilliant marketing. Yeah, there was the trademark design of the folders that had pockets that were large and sideways, to “Keep”...

Nov 12th

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Video Rock Inspiration #1

I’ll be posting a lot of the places where I found my inspiration in producing the elements and designs for Video Rock. First is Michael Orduña at Fatoe.com

Nov 12th

Adobe & Toolfarm eSeminar - Trapcode Particular

Here is a still frame example of the type treatment I’ll be making at the eSeminar today for Adobe and Toolfarm. I’ll go through a lot of different custom particle effects, as well as lots of simple particle glow effects. I’ll also show just a few elements from Video Rock, as well as some elements from Video Rock 2, already in progress. If you’ve not signed up, check it...

Nov 10th

P.S. The drawing may be picked up from the museum... →

No matter how hard the rejection you receive, remember letters like this. Andy Warhol was snubbed by MoMA when trying to give them a gift of one of his drawings.

Nov 10th

The Colors of Andy Gilmore →

Nov 10th

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Nov 3rd

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LAIKA, a dynamic typeface.

Nov 2nd

Oct 29th

All Things Motion Graphics: squeezeme.tv →

This is such as useful motion graphics resource! If you need one place to check during renders, this is it. News, inspiration, tutorials and more. @justinmccluretv

Oct 28th

The Art of Perception & The Perception of Art

A while ago, when my toddler was still a young baby, I was having lunch with some former students of mine. Somewhere in the background, a baby started crying. To the 20-something designers, they found it distracting and annoying. Personally, I didn’t even notice it, as the father of a six month old baby. I realized that my brain had quickly altered its perception based on my personal...

Oct 28th

“When using a saw, patience not strength is needed to make the smoothest cut.”

– http://rulesformyunbornson.tumblr.com/page/39

Oct 27th

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Tweening as a Freelance Animator

What you carry faith in is a very personal thing. However, if you are freelance, I want to you to have faith in at least one thing: yourself. As a freelancer, one inevitably encounters those times in between the bookings. This is the critical area, as a freelancer, to appreciate the flexibility of freelance and NOT PANIC. This is not the time to cut your rates, or consider that low ball job...

Oct 27th

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Plug-ins that disable multiprocessing in AE →

Did you know that certain plug-ins disable multiprocessing in AE? Common ones such as Lens Blur are among them.

Jul 9th