On October 1, 2012, the Cartoon Network celebrated being “on air” for 20 years. Featuring original music by the highly regarded artist collaborative Mad Decent (M.I.A., Major Lazer, Beyoncé, No Doubt and Usher) and original animation by London-based design shop ILOVEDUST, this two-minute music video spotlights nearly 100 cartoon character all-stars who’ve contributed to Cartoon Read MoreRead More
Art of the Title interviews David Fincher about his iconic title sequences. Your films are known to feature interesting title sequences — would you say that you’re a fan of titles in general? Absolutely! Obviously, all the Saul Bass stuff is really inspiring to me. I wasn’t so much aware of the people that worked on North by Read MoreRead More
Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond of NOTsoNOISY created this amazing stop-motion animation titled “Animated Tower.” He found students and staff volunteers to turn an 11-story-building at the University of Health Sciences (HESAV) in Switzerland into a giant 10 by 11 display. Okay, he did cheat doing most of the animation in post-production but the concept is still pretty cool. Via. PetaPixelRead More
Photo fakers are going to be easier to spot as FourMatch reveals new software that will notify you when you’re looking at a manipulated image. FourMatch leverages the fact that there is nearly endless variety to exactly how hardware and software products can choose to store a JPEG file. This variety results in a distinctive set Read MoreRead More
Antonio Cerri of AETuts+ demonstrates how to create this Hollywood Logo using VideoCopilot’s Elements 3D. The Tutorial: Click here to download the source films (Premium Membership required)Read More
Ryan Connelly from Film Riot demonstrates how to make this cartoonish leap off a two story building.Read More
Don’t worry – you won’t have to do any math… In this tutorial James Whiffen explains what premultiplication is, when you need to premultiply and unpremultiply, and how we can use this knowledge to solve matte processing issues. Read More
The 5 Minute FX Guy uses Trapcode Particular in After Effects to turn a cute, adorable puppy into an awesome superhero using the magic of VFX.Read More
Dan Stevers demonstrates how to do a killer mechanical typography transition in After Effects.Read More
Art Adams demonstrates how to color correct footage using the DSC Labs OneShot as a reference.Read More
The folks at Hamo studio created a free typography text tool that lets you easily add some dynamic motion to your text inside After Effects CS5 and above.
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Ryan Connolly composites flame footage to avoid the obvious charges of arson and attempt at murder.
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