Hatch

Just throwing a few things together regarding Greenscreen shoots. I have always used Keylight in After Effects and find their Training manual a good little read into the art of Keying. (Keylight1.0v4)

Sorry to get all Geeky but … Myself and a few friends always have problems (as we do it so little) with printing to tape/ video! So here is a little reminder… a little mental note of a check list;

Just been playing around with switching the Depth of field with the camera in After Effects. Basically just set up 4 type layers in AE and then changed their positions on the Z axis. I then added a 35 mm camera and turned on the Depth of Field. If you take the Aperture right down to Zero, all the layers will always be in focus and so you need to ramp the Aperture up a touch! Then just animate (adding keyframes) the Focus Distance in between shots.

To bring the animation alive, I added some textures and put together a music stinger just to signify the change in focus. This is referred to ‘pulling’ or ‘racking’ the focus in Film terms.

Depth of Field – Camera Test from the Hatch on Vimeo.

Just been doing a bit of Spring (I know its way too early & its cold) cleaning of my Bookmarks folder and came across some great websites for Graphic Designers; tutorials, free stuff, textures etc. Anyways, here they are; 30 Excellent Resources for Graphic Design Freebies by Six Revisions…Colorburned & Bittbox

Hi All, Happy 2010 to everyone and wishing you all the best and a whole heap of success for the year. Apologies I have been very quiet on the blog but have had a bad case of Laryngitis and flu all over the festive period but hey ho! Anyways, gonna kick of the New Year with a post by Abducted Design – ‘A Collection of Visual Inspiration and Useful Tutorials’. Have a good one!

Good little wordpress video about character design;

http://designanimation.wordpress.com/

Brilliant site on how to draw Funny Cartoons;

http://www.how-to-draw-funny-cartoons.com/cartoon-character.html

Good caricature site;

http://www.ubikartun.com/