Book News
We are pleased to announce that
Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects CS5, Fifth Edition was released in June 2010. More info and sample PDFs are posted on the CMG page. You can also order CMG5 on Amazon.
After Effects Apprentice 2nd Edition covers After Effects CS4 features. Look for an accompanying video training series later in 2010!
Welcome to Crish Design
Crish Design (formerly CyberMotion) is a motion graphics design studio founded by Trish and Chris Meyer. Many know us for the books we write about our craft, including Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects (now in its 5th edition), as well as the entry-level After Effects Apprentice (widely used as a textbook).
After two decades in Los Angeles, in the summer of 2008 we relocated to the East Mountains area outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico (read why on our PVC blog entry). We’ve since renamed our business Crish Design as an homage to the numerous friends who inevitably mashup our first names together into “Crish.”
Note that despite the more relaxed pace in the Land of Enchantment, we keep busy updating both of our After Effects books (as per Adobe’s schedule) as well as continue to build our online training library.
Online Training News
We have just released After Effects CS5: New Creative Techniques on lynda.com, covering the new features in CS5 that we feel will be of interest to our fellow users. This extensive course includes mini-tutorials on using the new Roto Brush tool plus Adobe Repoussé, as well as Digieffects FreeForm and the combination of mocha v2 and mocha shape. We discuss the implications of After Effects becoming a 64-bit native application, application ideas for the new effects, blending modes, and UI tools, and summarize with who may or may not want to upgrade to CS5. The mocha tutorial plus movies on Repoussé are available for free to all.
We also recently released CINEMA 4D and After Effects Integration, which is available both on lynda.com and Cineversity. It explains in detail how to move 3D worlds from Maxon’s CINEMA 4D into Adobe’s After Effects. Exercise files accompany this course.
If you are not already a subscriber to lynda.com, you can get a FREE 7-day all-access pass at lynda.com/go/chrisandtrish. A few movies are also available for free preview.
Portfolio
Between our book and video training, we have less time for production work these day, but we are always open to working on interesting projects as our schedule allows. We specialize in high-impact, multi-layered 2D and 3D graphics for video and film, often tightly integrated with music. Samples of our work can be found in our three Portfolio sections: Movie Titles, Broadcast, and Corporate.
We have created motion graphics for a large variety of media and venues, including film titles, show opens, and trade show graphics.
NEWS
Albuquerque, NM
On October 19, 2010, we will be giving an all-day hands-on class at motion{u} in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It will focus on the new features introduced in After Effects CS4 and CS5. More details...
Denver, CO
On November 3, 2010, we will be giving an all-day presentation at VidExpo in Denver, Colorado. It will focus on how editors can use After Effects to increase the production value of their projects.
Artbeats Stock Footage
We created a two-volume video library (in both SD and HD) for high-end stock footage house Artbeats. Called Liquid Abstracts and Nature Abstracts, these use the natural motion of water, leaves, wind chimes, and shadows as a starting point to create colorful background textures crafted to sit comfortably behind text, lower thirds, and ID bugs. We think you'll find them sensuous, as well as highly useful.
iStock Footage
In addition to our stock footage collections available through Artbeats.com, we have also made more of our abstract backgrounds available through the budget user-generated content site iStockvideo.com. These focus more on having "hold out" areas in the center for titles, or just being pretty imagery to mix into your projects.