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

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

I had the pleasure of being introduced to the Famous Group at IDEA this year, and they're doing some great work. Looks like they're doing less sports stuff. I found this old'y but good'y. Read More

Anamorphic Lens flares galore. I (much like sports graphics) am a huge fan of lens flares. So, seeing something like this, that uses them elegantly, is great. I especially like the tiny pieces of particulate matter floating around each scene. Nice stuff. Read More

Another nice BCS animation from Fox Sports Graphics. This shot reminded me of the tutorial on FXphd After Effects 302 in which they teach you how to comp together a helecopter shot with a few green screened shots of dudes running. I'm not presuming that Fox Sports used the FXphd technique, but if you want to know how to do something close to this. Check it out.  Read More

Really nice process from Justin Bates. Check out his site. I love these kinds of "how-to" or "our process" videos. What the technical term for that? Check out Justin's C4D section for some great thinking particles inspiration.  Credits: Design and 3D Visual Effects - Justin Bates Senior Flame Visual Effects Artist - Matt Butcher BskyB Creative Read More

Nice work coming from GGN. The oddly creppy Lions spot is good but they're new Coke spot is great.   Read More

Maxon has released Cinema 4D R11. Among the many new features is a completely new Global Illumination algorithm, rendering much more realistic GI scenes. Better render speeds, 64bit OS X support and the inclusion of a very interesting matte painting system called Projection Man that looks to ease the process of creating mattes, through tight integration with Adobe Photoshop and Bodypaint. Hit the jump for a full feature list. Read More

SuperBowl XLII pre-game open HD from FoxSportsGFX on Vimeo. Fox Sport GFX Vimeo Channel Great work, I especially like the superbowl video from last year. With this post I'm tagging it as "bookmark". I think I've come up with a plan for organizing some of the information on this site. Hopefully you find every post on this site worthy of saving, but I have the "godfathers" section of the site for this very reason. Which are a few of the many post-production houses around the ... Read More

Sorry for the lack of updates lately, I've been busy at my day job. I've re-designed Bridges Media Group's website using some of the knowledge I picked up here at GraphicsMafia (they both run on wordpress). So it is with full disclosure that I'm posting our website, we've done a few sports related projects (which flash by pretty quick in the Demo Reel) but we currently don't have any sports related featured projects. Why would I post something un-related to sports? ... Read More

Looks like the newest version of photoshop won't be named CS4, but will have a tabbed "consolidated" view.   Found a video on youtube showing off that tabbed interface. And Adobe's sneak preview.   Read More

Artgerm on Deviant Art Leo Burnett has a similar looking ad campaign right now. nike has it animated on their site.   Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Shanghai, China Creative Directors: Attlee Ku,Tao Lei Art Directors: HuangCheng, Mellow Yu, Liao Yi Yuan, Kevin Copywriters: Ray, Elva Illustrator: Huang Cheng Photographer: Heizi Published: April 2008 Also, I've started a new category on the site. "Inspiration" for posts like these. Hopefully the category will spark some creativity. Read More

Here is some great work from Gkaster. Thanks for the contribution. I'm told he's a fellow C4D user. As a novice user myself I'm hoping I can get him to share some of his secrets. I love those reflections, I'm guessing he used the advanced renderer. Read More

Slick spot from Fox Sports Design. Hit the jump to see what they had to say. Read More

Bryan Matthews has updated his reel with great new work. Thanks for the contribution Bryan.   Read More