Resources for filmmakers
As filmmakers, you must constantly be feeding your creativity with inspiration from other filmmakers. These are some links to resources that we go to frequently to keep up on what's going on in our filmic world.
Vimeo Staff Picks
Our friends over at Vimeo keep up with user submissions and choose their favorites in the Vimeo Staff Picks section of their site. We love to pop over there and check out the videos people are really reacting to and take notes on techniques we could use in our films.
Creative Cow
Creative Cow is a resource for filmmakers to exchange tutorials, listen to podcasts and ask questions to one another on forums. When we run into issues with software or hardware, we immediatly turn to the forums because more than likely someone else has run into the same thing.
FX Guide TV
Not a podcast goes by without one of us hearing it from FX Guide TV, a constant flow of learnings from the latest and greatest things going on in the entertainment realm. If we're going to stay on top of our game, we have to stay on top of the news, and this is a great place to continue the education process.
Radiolab
Radiolab is purely radio - no visuals, but the storytelling is worth a listen. After you've heard every episode of Radiolab, you'll be a beast at trivia and random factoids.
Our latest learnings
Motion graphics work is tedious, so there must be something on in the background. Here are the podcasts filling our brains this month.
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After Effects ExtendScript Training
An tutorial series on the process of creating scripts for After Effects using Adobe's scripting language called ExtendScript". -
Manipulating 3D Vector Space with Expressions in After Effects
This 23-minute tutorial is just the beginning of a series on manipulating After Effects 3D space with expressions.