Nov 19, 20082

Roman Farias for The Chicago White Sox

Categories: After Effects, Chicago, Featured, In Game Feature, MLB, Sports

Roman Farias along with Justin Tuazon and everyone else at the Chicago White sox did a great job on this in-game video for game one of the Cubs/Sox series last season.  Download Read More

Nov 18, 20080

mfactor for Fox NFL

Categories: After Effects, Featured, Graphics, NHL

Old news here, but my buddy Ben just found out that mfactor did those sweet lower thirds on Fox's NFL sunday. Unfortunately, the site is all flash so I can't link to any of there work directly. But check out it.   Read More

Oct 27, 20080

Adobe CS4 Released

Categories: After Effects, Graphics

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. In the down time, Adobe officially released CS4. So, over the next week I'll be posting new features in CS4 that can be of some use for creating sports graphics. 3D objects in Photoshop & AE. (Linked video may require flash video upgrade) While 3d postcards are nothing new in AE, importing .obj (and a few other flavors) into AE is. In a round about way of importing into photoshop and then opening your psd with "live ... Read More

Jul 15, 20081

After effects errors

Categories: After Effects, Graphics

Is it just me or does it seem like After Effects gives you more useless error messages than any other program. Every time I use after effects I feel like I’m moments away from either a crash or a prompt to press “ok” to a dialog box of jibberish. I found that mographwiki has been […]

Is it just me or does it seem like After Effects gives you more useless error messages than any other program. Every time I use after effects I feel like I'm moments away from either a crash or a prompt to press "ok" to a dialog box of jibberish. I found that mographwiki has been collecting user submitted AE messages. My personal favorite is the now classic question mark. Nothing else... just a question mark and an "ok" button.  But it's not all ... Read More

May 9, 20080

Lift: Coast to Coast

Categories: After Effects, Chicago, NCAA, Sports

Another great job from the guys at Lift (wiki) here in Chicago. This one is a show package for Coast to Coast college basketball year in review. Thanks for the contribution Jason.
 
 

Another great job from the guys at Lift (wiki) here in Chicago. This one is a show package for Coast to Coast college basketball year in review. Thanks for the contribution Jason.     Read More

Apr 14, 20080

ESPN News

Categories: After Effects, Graphics, Sports

I’ve been a long time fan of Lloyd Alvarez, actually of the scripts that he writes on AEscripts.com. Specifically the background renderer that has found its way onto every AE workstation I come in contact with. I had to buy him a beer (or six). 

Looks like Lloyd worked on the ESPN News re-brand with Trollback. (Via […]

I've been a long time fan of Lloyd Alvarez, actually of the scripts that he writes on AEscripts.com. Specifically the background renderer that has found its way onto every AE workstation I come in contact with. I had to buy him a beer (or six).  Looks like Lloyd worked on the ESPN News re-brand with Trollback. (Via motionograher.)   Read More

Feb 28, 20083

Lift for ABC

Categories: After Effects, Chicago, NBA, Sports

CHICAGO—Lift has gotten into the spirit of college hoops in a big way. The motion graphics studio, which operates out of Filmworkers Club, has designed and produced a revved up show package for Race to March Madness, a new college basketball series created by Chicago-based Intersport for ABC.

CHICAGO—Lift has gotten into the spirit of college hoops in a big way. The motion graphics studio, which operates out of Filmworkers Club, has designed and produced a revved up show package for Race to March Madness, a new college basketball series created by Chicago-based Intersport for ABC. Read More