Graphic Inspiration

The graphics on Prince's 1999 album-- The illustrated look relates with my image animation for Harlem. I could easily imagine this animated...

Smoke effect (basic) in After Effects

A brief tutorial on how to make smoke in After effects----

DJ Hero 2 - Mix 2Gether

I just saw this commercial and it looks like it was done with After Effects. The concept is nice but maybe they could of taken it a little further---the freckles part is dope though.

"Gettin' Money With a Mouse and a Wacom Pen (F*ck Comic Sans F*ck Papyrus, Too)"

This video is so unbelievably corny but they're talking about After Effects and other design elements--soo....enjoy. (I got some of the references, other not...)


Money Money Money - "Gettin' Money With a Mouse and a Wacom Pen (Fuck Comic Sans Fuck Papyrus, Too)" from Brad Chmielewski on Vimeo.

Motionographer

Flash as an Educational Tool

Edumedia is a flash site that has educational demos for various sciences and other middle/high school classes...I wish I had this in school:

Video Magazine: Rockin that thang video

This is one of my favorite videos/songs. Although the type itself is not animated, the play on magazine covers--which are, of course print materials--mixed with the motion of video is a fresh take on magazine typography and design

The Natural and Technical; The Sound Of Violence - Cassius

This video infuses nature or natural shots with motion design. First it seems to be pretty much all video of landscape but towards the end, all these weird geometric figures appear. A lot of times digital art is thought of as something separate from maybe classic arts like painting, photography etc. which all traditionally deal with nature. This video presents the two concepts next to each other and has some simple animation infusing "the natural and the technical" which is pretty provocative. Something to think about.... Cassuis, "The Sound of Violence":