The state of motion design education
Motionographer just published a good article about the problems of motion design education. A topic i had to struggle with myself, when i was teaching animation at university some years ago: how do you teach a craft, that doesn’t even have an official name? Here’s my 2 cents on the topic: One big Problem with […]
Shadows of the past.
Or what codecs you shouldn’t use for back-up. I recently rescued my 1997 diploma thesis movie from digital oblivion. It took me a couple of days and required the use of a 15 years old Mac with OS 8, Quicktime 4 and After Effects 3 & 4 installed, that i luckily kept in a hidden […]
Building a reel, start to finish
Carey aka Binky from mograph.net made a brilliant, four part tutorial on building a showreel. He covers all aspects from reviewing the available footage, designing an intro, selecting and editing audio tracks to the final edit – and he did it using footage from my own (pretty outdated and much too long) showreel. The result […]
Tutorial – Fake camera mapping in After Effects
A feature that has been high up on my After Effects wish list for some years now is camera mapping. Unfortunately Adobe hasn’t listened to my feature requests yet so i came up with a super simple approach for faking camera mapping using AEs corner pin effect. 01 – Final shot This is the final […]
Hello iWhatever!
Good bye Flash After years of ignoring the fact, that all the fancy iPhones and iPads of this world don’t like Flash and that flash sites are a nightmare to maintain – i finally migrated my website to WordPress. That means that all my excuses for not updating my portfolio more frequently are now gone. […]
New After Effects error world record?
It’s one of those days again: 1541 render errors and 43 minutes to open up an AE project? Time for a jolly cup of tea.