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

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

Congratulations to all the winners from the Idea Conference. Thanks to everyone who came out and attended any of the classes. Especially those who had kind things to say about my Beginner Photoshop/AE class. I thought I'd post some of the content from that class. Here is the above headshot used in the advanced tips and tricks class as a photoshop CS3 file. After Effects Sheep Noise : In the effects controls of a layer with an effect applied, shift click name of the ... 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

Another great spot from Lift. I have to say I love the music. Thanks for the contribution guys.  Don't forget if you've created something or seen something related to sports graphics, shoot it over. Read More

Fox Sports Design is offering an on-air design competition with a chance to win some necessary software in our line of work. It's only 5seconds and they give you the audio. Whose doing it? via ventilate Read More

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

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

Jeremy sent over a link to Buck's "Where happens..." campaign. Super simple spot that looks great.  Read More

Diogo Kalil directed this nike spot for Belief  Watch Steven Jackson. via Cpluv. Read More

Brad Chmielewski from Daily Planet was kind enough to contribute the Chicago Blackhawks 2007 "in game" open. Great job to everybody on the team. How easy is the comp to update? I'm sure every season the Hawks need to alter the project in terms of the new team roster.  Read More

Hard to believe that this was created four years ago. Even harder to believe that its still being used, not to say that it's (to) outdated, but rather that I can't think of one motion graphics piece that is used daily, for four years straight. What's even more amazing is how recognizable this package has become. You've got to respect a designer that can create something that becomes this imitated.  Read More

I love looking for inspiration in boards. Too bad this piece isn't an animation.Usually you get to see a pure idea before is passes through the various levels of approval. Where everyone from the account team to the client's 5 year old daughter get to decide how to "enhance" your idea and fill in all that "blank" space with more "creativity". As if creativity is a quantity and simpler design isn't negative space. Anywho, I've had Jon Saunders bookmarked in my boards folder and ... Read More