Minimalism. A New Approach for Adobe.
I’m an avid fan of Adobe software applications. I love the way Adobe products easily integrate with one another and facilitate efficient workflow. I have been a long time user of After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash – in fact, most of the applications in the Adobe Master Collection. Over the past few years, I’ve noticed a trend where Adobe is introducing more and more applications – each meeting specific needs of a narrow target market. More often than not, these ‘new’ applications ultimately...
read moreCool Concept. Great VFX: Reunion X
My friend Mathias, a VFX artist, recently emailed to let me know about a project he’s been working on: Reunion X. It’s a cool concept. Their intention is to create a web-series – and eventually a television series that speaks to people on multiple levels. By creating an epic story of love and adventure, adding a pinch of amazing visual effects, the series will introduce energetic and spiritual concepts. The storyline reads: As earth approaches 2012, it also approaches the time of The Next Portal, a moment during which the great...
read moreWhen Time is of the Essence
A few years back, I started presenting a session at industry events like motion, NAB Post|Production World, and Adobe MAX, called “When Time is of the Essence: Creating Motion Graphics on a Deadline”. If you haven’t had a chance to take part in this session yet, watch for it the next time I speak. I think you’ll find it an eye-opening experience. I found this subject to be particularly fitting, because it directly relates to…my life. More often than not, I feel like there’s never enough time. Between creating...
read moreThe Oscars Missing Category: Title Design
I love motion picture title design. I love creating motion picture titles. I love looking at the work of amazingly talented title sequence designers like Kyle Cooper at Prologue, Karin Fong at Imaginary Forces, William Lebeda at Picture Mill, the work of yU+co. With the Oscar’s just around the corner, the question begs to be asked, “Why isn’t there an Oscar for motion picture title design?” English journalist Alice Rawsthorn, design critic for The New York Times – and a fellow connoisseur of motion picture title...
read moreThe future: more 1080p high-definition content online
High-definition 1080p content has been available for quite some time. But why haven’t we seen more content available online? Pirating. Major motion picture studios are worried about pirating. This in turn discourages them from making premium 1080p content available via streaming. But Intel recently announced a solution that will allow studios to be able to provide content, without the concern of pirating. The solution? Insider. Early this month, Intel announced that it was building a hardware security layer in its next-generation Core...
read moreSetting the Stage for Beautiful Video: Flash Player 10.2
Adobe recently posted the beta for Flash Player 10.2 on Adobe Labs. As shown in a sneak peak just last month at Adobe MAX, Flash Player 10.2 beta with Stage Video can deliver brilliant HD video with dramatically little processing power. What does this mean to those of us in the video, motion graphics and animation realm? Adobe states, Using Stage Video, we’ve seen laptops play smooth 1080p HD video with just over 0% CPU usage. That’s pretty darn good if you ask me Stage Video works across browsers. When the final shipping version...
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