MotionScript.com - main page The Toms Story - Lucas Brooking Role: Art Direction, Illustration This was my first job once I moved to Canada to work with Giant Ant. It was wild to jump straight into the deep end of the art direction and illustration pool but I learned so much and it was a great initiation to the Giant Ant storytelling philosophy. Among other awards The Toms Story won a bronze ADC cube for Art Direction. Watch the video here Client: TOMS Agency: Giant Ant Directed by Giant Ant Producer: Brant Cheetham Script: Jay Grandin, Leah Nelson Creative Direction: Jay Grandin, Leah Nelson Art Direction & Design: Lucas Brooking, Jay Grandin 2D Animation Team: Jorge Canedo Estrada, Henrique Barone, Matt James, Shawn Hight, Nicholas Ferreira, Jay Grandin 3D Animation Team: Jorge Canedo Estrada, Nicholas Ferreira Music & Sound FX: Ryland Haggis
Motion graphics y diseño generativo En este curso te enseñaré distintas técnicas de animación mediante el uso de expresiones en After Effects. Tus animaciones podrán cambiar de forma, color o movimiento usando sencillos controladores. Parece increíble, pero modificando cuatro ajustes podrás generar distintas versiones de un mismo logotipo de forma fácil en un tiempo récord. ¿Qué incluye este curso? Haremos un breve resumen de las posibilidades que nos brinda el uso de la programación en el terreno gráfico. Daremos una pequeña introducción a la programación con algunos conceptos básicos y sencillos. ¿CUÁL ES EL PROYECTO DEL CURSO? ¿A quién está dirigido? Este curso va dirigido a todo aquel que quiera iniciarse en la programación aplicada al diseño, la animación o el arte generativo, así como el que quiera aprender nuevas técnicas de animación en After Effects. Requisitos La verdad es que los requisitos no son muchos, deberas saber utilizar el After Effects (CS5 o superior), Illustrator o Photoshop.
motionVFX - Original Home of Apple Motion Templates and Final Cut Pro X Plugins Mattrunks - tutorials What makes smart branding? | Branding Michael C. Place Creative director, Build "Flexibility: the design shouldn't be too rigid. It should be able to adapt to a multitude of uses with ease. Individuality: the design should convey character. It should stand out from the crowd - a point of difference is a valuable thing. Kelli Anderson Artist and designer "Smart branding isolates and expresses the most important thing about a certain consumer experience (or political movement, policy, concept) by framing it in familiar terms. David Mahoney 'Tradigital' artist "Smart branding makes you believe you've seen it before. Tim Beard Creative director, Bibliothèque "We live in a time of almost constant visual bombardment and distraction. Emma Thomas & Kirsty Carter Co-founders, A Practice for Everyday Life "A smart identity needs to be multifaceted: it's about more than just a logotype. Sean Perkins Founding partner, North "Every identity is different, and there's no one method that guarantees success. Liked this?
Daniel Gies -Tutorials ELEMENTED is an original animated adventure story that needs your help to break through the status quo. Please watch and share our concept trailer. Your views count! Find yourself immersed in a world of science, intrigue, and adventure on a curious, beautiful planet where 12 year old Wren, her best friend Ash, and her secret accomplice Memoir investigate the mysterious big and small happenings around them and learn about the periodic table of elements along the way. Although the story and setting are fictional, the applied science is real and vetted by subject matter experts in the field. Music credit: Safe Now (Captain Phillips) Henry Jackman - 2014 Liked what you saw?
Why designers should give branding back its soul | Branding Graphic designers rarely question the practice or culture of branding. Hardly surprising, since the creation of brand identities and branded communications is what provides so many graphic designers with a living. Designers need clients, and clients want branding. Vast swathes of the public love brands, and we live in a world where everything and everyone from Premiership football clubs to former Big Brother contestants think of themselves as brands. So, if designers want to have plenty of work, it's probably wise not to look too closely at what branding is, and what its effects are on the profession of design or on the wider culture. For example, why have hundreds of designers chosen to call themselves 'brand designers', or even worse, 'brand imagineers'? Opposition to branding Of course, beyond the world of design it is not the case that everyone accepts branding unreservedly. Subscription offer Branding: a definition First, we need a clear definition of what branding actually is.
Peder Norrby on Vimeo 8 steps to branding success | Branding To succeed in design, you need to understand branding, which is why Computer Arts is hosting Impact Conference, a special event dedicated to the art of branding, in London on March 6. You'll find details of the day and how to get a discounted ticket here. But meanwhile, to get you in the mood, we've brought together eight top tips for branding success, with the help of a panel of industry experts... 01. Pitch in Pitching for work: an inconvenience, at best; at its very worst, it's out-and-out terrifying. Pitching is essentially the art of storytelling: explaining, as emotively as possible, why a potential client should put their brand in your hands, and what you'll do with it if they do. Research shows, during a pitch, you have just four to six minutes of your client's undivided attention, so think message not medium. Subscription offer 02. You've got the gig: what next? Jessica Philpott says a strong strategic base defines what a company stands for and what makes it different. 03. 04.
After Effects Expression examples Dan Ebberts provides example expressions and tutorials for learning how to work with expressions on his MotionScript website. For example, Dan provides an excellent page about collision detection. Trish and Chris Meyer provide a series of articles about expressions on the ProVideo Coalition website. These articles contain many useful examples. Colin Braley provides a tutorial and example project on his website that show how to use expressions to make one layer repel others in a natural-seeming manner. The AE Enhancers forum provides many examples and much useful information about expressions, as well as scripts and animation presets. Rick Gerard provides an example on his website that demonstrates rolling a square object along a floor so that the sides stay in contact with the floor plane. Carl Larsen provides a video tutorial on the Creative COW website that demonstrates how to use expressions and parenting to relate the rotation of a set of wheels to the horizontal movement of a vehicle.
Typeface Anatomy and Glossary Here’s a glossary of common type terminology, which along with the FAQs may answer many font related questions. If the information you need isn’t here, call us. Abbreviations Many fonts have abbreviations in their names. Adobe Type Manager (ATM) A font utility published by Adobe that allowed computers to use PostScript Type 1 fonts. ATM Light 4.61 for Mac (.hqx / 3.43 MB)ATM Light 4.1 for Windows 95/98/ME/NT4 (.exe / 12.11 MB ) AFM (Adobe Font Metrics) A text file related to PostScript fonts that stores font metrics information such as character widths and kerning pairs. Anti-aliasing Blurring the edges of a font on screen to soften the look of bitmapped type. Antiqua, Antikva The common German and Scandinavian names for serif faces, as opposed to "Grotesk" which means sans serif. Aperture The aperture is the partially enclosed, somewhat rounded negative space in some characters such as ‘n’, ‘C’, ‘S’, the lower part of ‘e’, or the upper part of a double-storey ‘a’. Ascender Axis Balt (Baltic) Body