A Practical Guide to Using Stock Motion Assets
Using stock motion assets means buying or downloading pre-made animation elements, templates and effects, then building them into your own video, presentation,...
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Using stock motion assets means buying or downloading pre-made animation elements, templates and effects, then building them into your own video, presentation,...
Choosing frame rates for web animation looks like a single number on an export dialog, but it is really a chain of decisions that runs from the first storyboard...
Designing characters for animation is a different job from drawing a good-looking character. An illustration only has to work once, from one angle, at one size,...
Reusing rigs and templates means building an animation setup once, with the controls, structure and instructions that let it be used again, instead of rebuildin...
Stream overlays and alerts are the graphics that sit on top of a live broadcast: the frame around a webcam, the lower bar with the show name, the "starting soon...
End cards and calls to action are the closing frames of a video, the moment where the viewer is told what to do next. They are also the part of most productions...
Seasonal campaign variants are versions of one core animation adapted for a holiday, a sale window, a product drop or a regional event: the same spot with a win...
Motion graphics in presentations sit in an awkward spot. The animation is built with the care of a video project, then dropped into a slide deck that will be op...
Animating for multiple aspect ratios means producing one piece of motion in the several shapes that different platforms require: a wide 16:9 version for YouTube...
Choosing an animation studio looks like a creative decision, and partly it is. You watch showreels, you react to styles you like, and you pick the team whose wo...
A product photography setup is the physical arrangement of lights, modifiers, background, support surface and camera used to photograph products the same way, e...
The relationship between aperture, shutter speed and sensitivity, and what each one costs when you change it. What is at stake Every exposure decision is a trad...
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