Your comments posted in response to The Business of Motion have been fantastic and we’ve decided that we will “jam” those that can add extra value to Motionworks followers. In Episode 2: The 3 Skills That Determine Your Income, Cameron wrote “…you forgot about lying as a key skill”. Jamming this comment generated an important discussion.
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The Foundry has released 3D Camera Tracker and Kronos, two exciting new plug-ins for Adobe After Effects.
Alexander of Amateurmedia.net has created a stylish new font named Typograph Pro. Also check some of the great usage examples created within Cinema 4D.
Red Giant Software has released Colorista 2, with some exciting new features and improvements. Use motionworks10 for a 1o% discount.
Fontfeed.com has an excellent column “Screenfonts” which discusses the use of fonts in movie posters.
Industrial Light and Magic has a new site. It’s quite amazing just how many productions ILM has been involved in.
Urban Dirty has terrific free grunge stock images and also provides color themes for various images with a downloadable .ASE file. You can import the .ASE file into After Effects using Swatch You Want.
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June 10, 2009 at 8:30 am |
While I don’t necessarily agree with outright lying, in the past I have definitely said I had experience in something that I knew I could go home and study techniques up on to get the job done. If you’re gonna lie, at least with experience, you should be smart enough to know when your out of your realm.
June 10, 2009 at 10:42 am |
“There are only two things”, my father once told me that he couldn’t stand in a person, “lying and stealing.” I agree with him. I’ve seen people stealing other people’s intellectual property and presenting it as there own (for instance copying tutorials), not cool. Rather than tell a client I can do something when I’m not sure, I tell them the truth, that I’m not sure but I think I can get it done for them, or I’ll tell them I know the theory of how but haven’t tried doing it. In the end honesty pays off. Your clients return with more work because they trust your honesty and your work ethic and know you won’t let them down. A reputation takes a long tome to build but just a second to destroy – think about it.
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