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New Five Second Projects! RETRO Theme!

Topher — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:00:21 +0000

It’s time to throw it back to another time. A time before all the wonderful things that make our life so awesome. Back to a day where laptops were for hambone and cellphones were as big as Vanilla Ice’s hair-do. So, let’s see how YOU would have made animation back in the day before modern miracles like iPhones, Go-gurt, and even the interwebz.

What Are Five Second Projects?

We all want to make cool shit for our demo reel right? Sometimes you just need a theme to get you started… Some rules to fight against. Use the theme “Retro” to make a five second motion piece and enter it into the form below. If your new to five second projects, why not check out the Five Second Projects Archive to see all of the past themes.

Rules

5 Rules for Five Second Projects from Nick Campbell on Vimeo.

1. Submissions must be Five Seconds Long!
2. Only animation is accepted. Video only submissions will not.
3. The animations has to do with the theme in some way.
4. Original Work only. Don’t cut out 5 seconds of already made work.
5. Link back to GSG on your Vimeo Post

Why Should You Enter?

Five Reasons To Enter the FiveSecondProject from Nick Campbell on Vimeo.

1. Try new techniques or software
2. Limitations help get the mind working.
3. Make short, awesome pieces for your reel.
4. Get critique from your peers.
5. Promote yourself.

How Do I Enter my Video?
1. Create a five second animation based on the theme.
2. Upload your video to Vimeo. Don’t forget to add a link back to this blog post.
3. Submit your link to the form below and I will add it to the channel
4. Deadline is Monday, September 20th.

New GURU Preset Packs From Red Giant Software!

Topher — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:06:55 +0000

Click here to view the embedded video.

Nick Campbell’s Vintage Film for LooksLooks Presets and Templates to Kick it Old School

Turn your projects into contemporary-styled vintage works of art. Vintage Film for Looks instantly give your videos, animations and photographs a timeless vintage feel inspired by popular film treatments. Apply the color and border effects to video to give your project a filmic quality using Magic Bullet Looks or Quick Looks. Apply the effects to photos for a classic feel, and transform your event photos into timeless shots using PhotoLooks. Your clients will think you shot these images on real film! With over 30 presets, there are plenty of choices to give your next project a hip, timeless look.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Cassidy Bisher’s Light Effects for Trapcode Suite

120 Animations and Transitions to Illuminate Your Video

Brighten your motion design with 21 lively, luminous animation projects and 100 visually stunning transitions. The light projects are professional-quality After Effects templates that easily swap out images and text from your own work, and use Particular’s sexy new Streaklet particle type as a central design element. The light transitions include flashes, bursts, streaks, sweeps and wipes that let you cut to the next scene or shot with style. Transitions come as both editable After Effects projects and as pre-rendered video for use in other editing programs.

New Greyscale Gorilla 5 Second Projects: Nude No More!

Topher — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:20:24 +0000

We have an awesome sponsor for this Project. Threadless is giving away two great prize packages including The T-Shirt, “Photographer” that I modeled above. Make a Five Second animation based on the theme “Nude No More” and submit it using the form below to enter the contest. The winner will get a package including the “Photographer” shirt sexily modeled above, a “I heart Threadless” Tshirt and a grab bag of great threadless gear including Issues of Faesthetic Magazine, A three pack of Field Notes , funny bumper stickers, Threadless sharpies and a crap ton of fun buttons. A random winner will also be picked from all the entries will receive a “Photographers” Tshirt and some more threadless shwag. Thanks again to Threadless for sponsoring the contest. Have fun animating this one.

What Are Five Second Projects?
We all want to make cool shit for our demo reel right? Sometimes you just need a theme to get you started… Some rules to fight against. Use the theme “Nude No More” to make a five second motion piece and enter it into the form on this page. Please be sure to post a link in this post’s comments to ensure Nick seeing it. If your new to five second projects, why not check out the Five Second Projects Archive to see all of the past themes.

Rules

1. Submissions must be Five Seconds Long!
2. Only animation is accepted. Video only submissions will not.
3. The animations has to do with the theme in some way.
4. Original Work only. Don’t cut out 5 seconds of already made work.
5. Link back to GSG on your Vimeo Post

Why Should You Enter?

1. Try new techniques or software
2. Limitations help get the mind working.
3. Make short, awesome pieces for your reel.
4. Get critique from your peers.
5. Promote yourself.

How Do I Enter my Video?
We are gonna try something different this time around. Instead of posting your entry in the comments we will be using the form on this page to take entries.

1. Create a five second animation based on the theme.
2. Upload your video to Vimeo. Don’t forget to add a link back to this blog post.
3. Submit your link to the form below and Nick will add it to the channel
4. Deadline is Sunday, June 20th.

New Five Seconds Project Announced! COUNTDOWN!

Topher — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:04:16 +0000

Five Four Three Two One! Lets start a countdown! Maybe it is a birthday? Or New Years? Who knows, lets just start counting down!
This one is all about counting those numbers, whether they be 5 seconds, or 120 frames. Rock it!

What Are Five Second Projects?
We all want to make cool shit for our demo reel right? Sometimes you just need a theme to get you started… Some rules to fight against. Use the theme “Straight Lines Only” to make a five second motion piece and enter it into the form below. Please be sure to post a link in this post’s comments to ensure me seeing it. If your new to five second projects, why not check out the Five Second Projects Archive to see all of the past themes.

How Do I Enter my Video?
We are gonna try something different this time around. Instead of posting your entry in the comments we will be using a Wufoo form on this page to take entries.

1. Create a five second animation based on the theme.
2. Upload your video to Vimeo. Don’t forget to add a link back to this blog post.
3. Submit your link to the Wufoo form on this page and Nick will add it to the channel
4. Deadline is Sunday, May 30th.

New AEtuts+ Post! 51 After Effects Tutorials From Elsewhere!

Topher — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:32:25 +0000

Click the image above to be taken to the post on AEtuts+!

Five Second Projects: Straight Lines Only

Topher — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:03:09 +0000

Reposted via GreyScaleGorilla.com:

Straight lines are everywhere! Sometimes we take them for granted. So for this five second project lets see what you can do with them.

What Are Five Second Projects?
We all want to make cool shit for our demo reel right? Sometimes you just need a theme to get you started… Some rules to fight against. Use the theme “Straight Lines Only” to make a five second motion piece and enter it into the form on this page. Please be sure to post a link in this post’s comments to ensure Nick seeing it. If your new to five second projects, why not check out the Five Second Projects Archive to see all of the past themes.

How Do I Enter my Video?
We are gonna try something different this time around. Instead of posting your entry in the comments we will be using a Wufoo form to take entries.

Watch the videos at the vimeo channel, or at the FiveSecondProjects Archive

Greyscale Gorilla’s HDRI Light Kit Pro ~ NOW AVAILABLE!

Topher — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:58:34 +0000

Check out the Ustream for his live show going on NOW, and if you miss it just look in his Ustream archives to see the live show!

VisualFXtuts.com and Topher Welsh Mentioned on Motion Design Love!

Topher — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:00:46 +0000

We all love Motion Graphics and alot of us love twitter too! So if your into both check out the list below to see some Motion Designers to follow on twitter:

Nick Campbell

Nick Campbell is amongst other things a motion designer, photographer, iPhone app designer and educator, based in Chicago. He runs an excellent blog at Grey Scale Gorilla with tutorials on After Effects, Cinema 4D and photography. He also runs the website Make Cool Shit and has developed the iPhone App ShakeitPhoto

Bee Rad

Brad is a motion graphics and web designer based in Chicago, Illinois. His website is Digital Hitchhiker where his blog has tutorials on After Effects.

Topher Welsh

Topher Welsh is a motion graphics designer and the author of Visual FX Tuts . He has also written for AE Tuts and Video Hive amongst other sites.

Tim Clapham (aka HelloLuxx)

Tim Clapham is a Cinema 4D User and Trainer. He runs the Cinema 4D site at HelloLuxx where he regulary writes. He is also the Author of Making it Look Great 6 and Making it Look Great 7.

Hypoly

Hypoly is a Motion Graphics Designer based in the UK, he has worked on a number of broadcast programmes and his blog is offer some great presets, scripts and models to download.

Make sure you visit Motion Design Love for the actual post and leave them a comment!

Keyframe TV Episode Three is Online!

Topher — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:03:49 +0000

You guys remember Keyframe TV... the show with Nick Campbell, Timmy Allen, and Pasquale D'Silva, where they talk about all kinds of Motion graphics and VFX awesomeness. This time around they are discussing a spot that Anthony Furlong did, answering the age old questions on what computers they use & mouse VS. tablet... lastly they finish up with some personal pointers to put your workflow and skills in the right direction to improve your work and productivity... it should be a HOOT! (Links and video after the jump)

New 5 Second Projects @ GreyScaleGorilla.com: FAIL

Topher — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:26:55 +0000

What Are Five Second Projects?
We all want to make cool shit for our demo reel right? Sometimes you just need a theme to get you started… Some rules to fight against. Use the theme “Fail” to make a five second motion piece and link it in the comments of this blog post. Please be sure to post a link in this post’s comments to ensure Nick seeing it. If your new to five second projects, why not check out the Five Second Projects Archive to watch all of the past themes.

How Do I Enter my Video?
1. Create a five second animation based on the theme.
2. Upload your video to Vimeo. Don’t forget to add a link back to this blog post.
3. Post a link to this posts comment thread and Nick will add it to the Channel.
4. Deadline is Sunday January 31st

Watch the videos here, at the vimeo channel, or at the FiveSecondProjects Archive