Using Blend Modes in Final Cut Pro X is a great way to create slick, original titles. And as Iain Anderson reveals, it can be easier to do than you might have guessed.
Motion is capable of creating plug-ins for FCP X that can greatly expand editors' abilities to achieve complex graphics without leaving the program. Iain Anderson explains how it works.
Motion is a powerful yet accessible tool for titling and motion graphics. Iain Anderson delves into some of the newest additions in version 5.3: the Align To and Link Improvements.
Interested in animation? Want to create 3D text, objects and get them to move? Iain Anderson takes a look at Zaxwerks 3D ProAnimator v8 to see if it lives up to its name.
If you're new to Adobe Flash you may want to start by creating simple animations. There's no better place to start than by animating text! Iain Anderson takes you through the basics in this tutorial.
Adobe (and many others) continue to abandon Flash in favor of HTML for mobile devices. Iain Anderson looks into Hype as a way to create HTML animations and widgets for the web, iBooks Author and more.
An excellent (and affordable) app to use for animation is Apple's Motion. In this article Iain Anderson runs through a number of useful tips on animating Motion's parameter behaviors.
Learn how to add some swing to your animations in Apple Motion 5. In this tutorial, Ben Balser shows how a swinging panel/sign is much simpler to create in Motion than in other motion graphics app.
Flash's Motion Editor makes it super-easy to visualize and edit your animation sequences. With it, we can control things like motion, color, effects, easing, and more.
In my After Effects Quick Tip, Animating a Path on a Map in After Effects, I used a realistic globe image for my map, but didn't explain how to do it. Here's how to create it in Adobe After Effects.
In this 2-part Quick Tutorial, we're going to show you how to animate the effect of a logo being stenciled onto a surface with spray paint in After Effects.
In Adobe After Effects, Animation Presets are collections of solids, effects filters, property keyframes, and expressions that you can use to automatically create animations, backgrounds, and text eff