A Creative Communications Agency

March 12th, 2007

Categories: Art Direction, Creative, Video Development

Video graphic design as an art form

When translating a graphic novel into a movie, often the appeal of the original format is lost when a clumsy director tries to make it too “movie-ish.” Sharp contrasts of color, mysterious shadowy characters and unrealistic gore are why comic geeks love this stuff. Why then would the movie industry try to water it down […]

March 9th, 2007

Categories: 3D Programs, Art Direction, Banner Ads, Broadcast Development, Creative, Flash Development, Illustration, Interactive Entertainment, Interactive Media, Interactive Product Demo, Photo Gallery, Photography, Product Introductions, Video Development, Web Commercials, Web Commercials, Website Development

Sweet Motion Graphics!!

Nice motion graphics. I found these links in Computer Arts magazine.
hue visualab is a broadcast design, animation & effects studio that provides complete creative solutions. Specialising in live action compositing; …
- Click on Enter Site, then huevisualab showreel 2006 under the image.
http://www.huevisualab.com/
- Click on Reel in the orange square
http://www.stardust.tv/

March 9th, 2007

Categories: Flash Development, Video Development, Web Commercials, Web Commercials, Website Development

AS3 Sound Spectrum Contest Results!!

This is amazing! The things you can do in flash 9.
By Lee Brimelow
There were so many great entries in this contest and deciding on a winner was hard! After much deliberation and help from the great group of mods at the GTAL forums, I’m officially declaring the winner to be trioptic with his fullscreen masterpeice! It […]

March 9th, 2007

Categories: 3D Programs, Creative, Flash Development, Illustration, Interactive Entertainment, Interactive Media, Uncategorized, Video Development, Website Development

Flash Video Streak Tool

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At this past Flash Forward, one of the coolest things I saw was this internal tool that Big Spaceship created for one of their Nike sites. It had a video loop running where you could add blurs and partcile effects. This is extrememly helpful in finding the right settings for an effect. A tool like […]

March 7th, 2007

Categories: Creative, DVD Development, Video Development

Another reason Macs are cool…

The folks over at Universal finally cleaned up the first season of Saturday Night Live – and they say they couldn’t have done it without their Mac-based suite of tools. Using Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Shake and Final Touch, all SAN-based, they were able to reformat the shows, remove commercial breaks, clean up […]

March 7th, 2007

Categories: Art Direction, Creative, Illustration, Interactive Media, Print Design, Video Development

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Coming Soon

Videomaker hints that Adobe will soon be announcing the latest version of their Creative Suite, which currently bundles Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, Acrobat, Version Cue, Bridge, Stock Photos and Dreamweaver for a powerful set of designer tools. No doubt the new Suite will send designers scrambling to update – look for more information at the […]

March 6th, 2007

Categories: Art Direction, Creative, E-Commerce Marketing, Flash Development, Interactive Media, Interactive Product Demo, Internet Marketing, Media Gallery, Photo Gallery, Photography, Print Design, Video Development, Web Commercials, Web Commercials, Website Development

The best interactive Flash site

I use this site to get inspiration and see how people use flash in new ways. This site has tons of interactive flash sites from all over the world.
http://www.thefwa.com

January 11th, 2007

Categories: Brand Strategy Development, Internet Advertising, Online Marketing Analysis, Video Development, Web Commercials

Online Video Strategies: YouTube rivals look for answers

With Google controlling over 55% of the online video market (through both Google Video and YouTube) competitors are struggling to find a new and profitable way to stay in the game. C|Net has an interesting article up taking a look at several sites that looked like promising YouTube rivals not too long ago and their […]

December 5th, 2006

Categories: Creative, Video Development

CNBC Relaunches: Heavy Focus on Video

TechCrunch has a look at the newly launched CNBC:
From the article: The site, which focuses on business and investing, will compete with services such as Yahoo Finance and Google Finance, as well as new web content sites like Seeking Alpha, which recently took funding from BenchMark Capital. 
Link: CNBC Relaunches: Heavy Focus on Video (Via TechCrunch)  […]

November 28th, 2006

Categories: Consumer Trends & Forecasting, Growth & Diversification Strategy, Media Planning and Buying, Video Development, Web Commercials, Web Commercials

Online Video Begins To Threaten Television

"The BBC has an article reporting that a survey of 2,070 Britons revealed that online viewing is on the rise against television. From the article: 'Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile device at least once a week said they watched less normal TV as a result.' The […]