Stu Maschwitz is introducing a new Prolost feature designed to help you determine The Shot You Can Make, something needed because of burgeoning options in...

Spirals are used as design guides and elements or paths for text, shapes, and particles. Here's a few resources for using and creating spirals in After...

Angie Taylor posted a quick tip on Wrapping text around a circle in After Effects. There's another intro tutorial on the "newer" way to do path text here...

Chris Bobotis of Mettle posted a free HUD-style After Effects project, Sci Fi GUI, created with CS4 and Mettle's FreeForm AE. The project (direct download)...

Angie Taylor is featuring one free tutorial per week for the next five weeks on her blog. The first is Creating a Cityscape in 3D, which shows how easy it is...

Todd Kopriva posted a clarifying note on the Adobe forums, Mercury, CUDA, and what it all means. There's some confusion between nVidia's CUDA and Adobe's...

Filmmaker magazine notes a rumor from Hardmac that a new version of Final Cut Studio “should” come out in March or April. A comment by mainline Final Cut...

Andrew Yang posted a new Pixel Bender filter late last month at AE Scripts, YY_ShockRing. It's a 2D ring generator, not so different from the Circle effect...

Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, Fifth Edition for CS5 is an essential guide to After Effects, convenient comprehensive, authoratative, and...

Color Correction for Video by Steve Hullfish and Jaime Fowler (2nd edition 2009, Focal Press) is a serious overview of color grading for moving images. It's...