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Here’s a weekly roundup of some of the videos we found exciting around the web! If you have a piece of work that you’ve created or have seen, contact us or become our contact on Vimeo and send us the link. Staples, Recycle for Education Contest. from Peter Quinn on Vimeo. La Mer de Pianos from Films & Things on [...]

The most notorious question in the creative industry. Last night I was going through my e-mail and I came across a name I haven’t seen in a while. It was one of the interns I had when I was out in California. He started with the usual “hey how are you?” “I just graduated” blah [...]

I've long been a fan of music videos, especially growing up with MTV. Music videos have long been a great source of inspiration and showcase for both cinematography and motion graphics. And so with this new series i'm going to try and showcase some music videos (either new ones or classic music videos) to hopefully inspire you or give you some great ideas whether your working on a music video or not. So here we go with the first in the series...

Well, at least some of them are!  If you’ve not heard of Automatic Duck before, they made some great plugins to transfer your Avid or Final Cut timeline into After Effects, or importing a composition from Avid into Final Cut. Recently they’ve entered into a partnership with Adobe, were they’re more than likely working on some [...]

If you’re the kind of person that likes to organise your motion graphics or video projects (and you should be, it’ll help in so many ways) but you don’t like having to recreate a folder structure every time. Then i should introduce you to Post Haste. An easy automated way to organise your projects [...]

Hello October! The change of seasons is upon us once again; this time we welcome in Autumn. We get to watch as the leaves turn to beautiful shades of yellow, red and everything in between; the air begins to cool and the geese make their journey southward for warmer climates. At least, in my neck of [...]

Creativity is one of those subjects wrapped in shrouds of mystery. How does one “get creative.” How do you go from staring at a blank canvas, a black and empty composition, and then end up with a masterpiece. Everyone has a different take on it, and most people try to boil creativity down into repeatable [...]

I’ve seen alot of people try to learn motion graphics and videography, and I’ve obviously learned it myself in the past. I’ve also seen alot of videos posted on the internet as a result of these learnings. One thing that I’ve noticed is what separates the better videos from the others are the little [...]

Over the course of the last couple months, the motion graphics and animation world has seen a giant influx of new tools for our eager hands and creative minds. Tools such as; Cinema 4D R13, the Newton Physics Engine, the ease of stereoscopic 3D with CS5.5, Video Copilot’s Element plug in is on the horizon, [...]

Something that goes overlooked quite often while on the hunt to be the best most relevant person in your field is the time to step away from work for a bit and regain your life. I’m coming off a 2 month freelance hiatus and I’ve got to tell you how unbelievably refreshing it is to [...]

Here’s a weekly roundup of some of the videos we found exciting around the web! If you have a piece of work that you’ve created or have seen, contact us or become our contact on Vimeo and send us the link. Motion Graphics Alligator Pop from Benjamin Ang on Vimeo. The aim of the video is to interpret audio [...]

I was born stubborn. You can blame my parents for raising me with so much pride, blame the kids in elementary school who picked on me for being a nerd or blame the stars that I was born a Leo. Personally, I stopped trying to point fingers a long time ago and just accept it. In [...]

I was born stubborn. You can blame my parents for raising me with so much pride, blame the kids in elementary school who picked on me for being a nerd or blame the stars that I was born a Leo. I stopped placing blame a long time ago and just accepted it. In fact, I’ve turned [...]