Making Giants Part VII | The Details
Before you press that render button...So we are getting reeeaaally close to rendering out some frames. But before we do that, we need to make sure that we are really happy with a few tiny details....
View ArticleTwisted Poly talks Shop
Wanna know Nejc Polovsak's secret to amazing work? Me too. Unfortunately, the secret is "work really really hard."Working out of his home office in the capital of Slovenia, Nejc Polovsak is...
View ArticleMaking Giants Part VIII | The Composite Part 1
What do we do with all these frames?Now that we've got over a thousand rendered frames... what the heck do we do with 'em? We can't just throw them into the cut and call it a day can we?Nearly every...
View ArticleMaking Giants Part IX| The Composite Round 2
And now for the finishing touches...We've got a beautiful looking short-film, holy JEEZ! But we're not done... no, not done. There are a couple of shots in this thing that need some love: that CU...
View ArticleMograph IRL: The Godfathers of Hardcore
This is not a test!This was a short but REAL gig I did for a client. The client happens to be my bad-ass buddy Ian McFarland. He's a documentary / commercial / music-video director based out of...
View ArticleMaking Giants Part X | The Sound
Sound Design... where it all comes together.It's a shame that we can spend 9 episodes talking about the visuals for "Giants" and only one on the sound, but unfortunately that's pretty much par for the...
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Giants: How to Make a Short Film
This adventure started with a simple idea. I was a little bit fed up with the traditional "tutorial" model of teaching that I'd been using for so long. There are enormous limitations that you run into...
View ArticleMatt Frodsham gets weird
Matt Frodsham is a Cinema 4D Black Belt. Matt's reel is full of weird and wonderful work, much of it completed with his friends at the incredible Berlin-based Zeitguised. His work is abstract,...
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You are an Impostor
When I was 22, I got to edit, design, and animate my first national TV spot. At the time it felt like I was editing a goddamn Superbowl ad, but in reality it was a pretty run of the mill sweepstakes...
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The True Cost of Your Education
Beware, Sacred Cows ahead...What follows is an attempt at starting a discussion… this is but one man’s opinion. It will make some people uncomfortable, and for that I apologize.I was recently...
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The Exquisite Ant
Motion Design is a collaborative process. The best part about working on an animation with other people is the fact that you often have no clue what they're going to bring to the table. You get to...
View ArticleNobody is Born a Designer
Lilian Darmono is an Australian / Indonesian-Chinese artist living in London. To say she has a diverse background is an understatement. She is not only multi-cultured and well traveled, her...
View ArticleCinema 4D: The Hassenfratz Effect
Show NotesEyeDesyn.comEJ's site. Training, tools, and free downloads for Cinema 4D.GreyScaleGorillaThe #1 Cinema4D training site on the planet.Lynda.comEJ has several classes on Lynda.Digital...
View ArticleBootcamps and Self-Paced Courses
Ready for the next level of Motion Design Training? Take your skills to the next level with one of our Bootcamps or Self-Paced Programs. The post Bootcamps and Self-Paced Courses appeared first on...
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Onwards, to 2017!
Holy smokes… what a year. If I had to describe School of Motion’s 2016 in one word it would be “Bonkers.” Maybe someone more poetic could think of a prettier word, but I think “bonkers” pretty much...
View ArticleEnter the Cone Zone: The Motion Awards
Motionographer does a lot for our industry...They inspire us, interview industry professionals, educate us, and put on the amazing F5 Conference. In this interview Joey talks to Motionographer...
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The Conductor: Producer Erica Hilbert of The Mill
Producers do more than budgets...They are the conductors of the MoGraph orchestra... they do the dirty work so the artists can give total focus to their craft. They have to master the art of telling...
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Win a Ticket to Blend!
I've got good news and bad news. Blend might just be the best conference in the history of conferences. For Motion Designers, it’s like traveling to Shangri-La. You get to hang out in the wildly...
View ArticleAfter Effects to Code: Lottie from Airbnb
Imagine a world without After Effects...Every time you sit down in front of the computer to animate you have to write code. Not just a few lines like you do with most expressions; hundreds of lines...
View ArticleThe Uncertain Future of MoGraph with Chris Do
Get inside Chris Do's head...If you don't already know who Chris Do is, you need to. He is the CEO of Blind, a studio which he founded 21 years ago that's still going strong today. He's also the...
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