This month features promos by myself and the Foxtel Box Office design team include The Hurt Locker, World’s Greatest Dad, Green Zone, Gentleman Broncos and Crazy Heart. [Read more]

After 8 years with Foxtel Design, I recently accepted the position of Senior Designer at Foxtel Box Office – On Demand Movies, here at Foxtel in Sydney. Together with Gareth Chang and Brett Morris, both talented young designers, we get to flex our After Effects and Cinema 4D skills working on a wide range of movie graphic styles across various genres.

Over the coming months I’ll be showcasing graphics created using After Effects, Cinema 4D and a variety of plug-ins, by the team, some original and others influenced by existing spots. [Read more]

In this excerpt from a recent Adobe E-seminar, we look at the new Align and Distribute to Composition and Orient Characters Independently features in Adobe After Effects CS5.

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In this tutorial for Digital Juice, learn how I used the Motion Designer’s Toolkit 2 with Cinema 4D and After Effects to create a detailed background and multi-layer text effect with a dynamic sci-fi look.

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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.

Fontfeed.com has an excellent column “Screenfonts” which discusses the use of fonts in movie posters.

Font Squirrel is a great source of high quality, free fonts.

I’ve been noticing recently a lack of attention to detail in some work, particularly with type. In the example below notice how the kerning is uneven. [Read more]