Adobe After Effects CS5.5 New Features

Adobe’s new After Effects CS5.5 has a few new features they’re excited about. Adobe is showcasing the features of warp stabilizer, camera lens blur, timecode support, stereoscopic 3D improvements, 3D light falloff and a few others. One thing... 

Chyron Announces BlueNet at NAB

Chyron has a beautiful new booth at NAB in theme with their new product BlueNet. BlueNet streamlines graphics with their suite of graphics tools. BlueNet works seamlessly  with top newsroom systems. Chyron has made it easy to create great graphics at... 

Adobe introduces Creative Suite 5.5

Just in time for NAB, Adobe announces a “significant” update to their Creative Suite products. The thing that stands out the most is Adobe will have subscription options so you can rent instead of buying. Adobe will ship in early May and you... 

Top Motion Designers on Twitter

Twitter can be an amazing experience if you’re following quality people. Twitter is filled with creative individuals that share their design work and ideas. Some offer free tutorials showing how they created their fascinating work. These motion... 

Lyric PRO 8 Used in 3D NBA All-Star Weekend

In 2009 I blogged about 3D graphics from the NBA All-Star game. Chyron’s NAB booth was showing video of the graphics that used the Chyron Duet with a Lyric 3D plugin. Today I write about my own experience operating 3D graphics using Lyric PRO... 

CBS News Debuts New Graphics

New Evening News logo Viewers of the CBS Evening News are getting the first look at a new identity for CBS News. The design was done entirely in-house under the direction of CBS News’ executive creative director Bob Peterson. If you paid attention... 

Interview: VP of Creative Services, Comcast Sports Group

Design Types sends the questions, and the answers… they typed it. Design Types talks with April Carty-Sipp of Comcast Sports Group. She talks about the new Comcast Sportsnet graphics package. First off, will you please introduce yourself? I’m... 

Design Interview with Design Firm REZN8

Design Types sends the questions, and the answers… they typed it. Design Types talks with Seton Kim of design firm REZN8 about his thoughts on their recent project for Fox Sports. Kim also gives tips to design freelancers when creating graphics packages. REZN8’s... 

Sports Book for Sports Freelancers

So you design or operate for popular sports like basketball, baseball or football. Then one day you get that call. It’s a sport you’ve never seen before, and it shocks you that someone actually wants to broadcast it. No matter what, you take... 

Interview with Fox Sports Graphics Division Manager

Design Types sends the questions, and the answers… they typed it. Design Types talks with Zac Fields of Fox Sports about his thoughts in using the Chyron Duet, the use of 3D and some advice for freelance sports designers. First off, will you please...