The best lavalier microphone setups for capturing dialogue

Mic’d up and ready to record. Onur Binay, Unsplash Lavalier (or lapel) microphones used to be more enticing in theory than they were in reality. Bad sound quality, short battery life, and clunky transmitters made them more of a nuisance than a practical audio solution. However, developments in the technology now allow for great wireless… Continue reading The best lavalier microphone setups for capturing dialogue

How to Add Area Lighting Effects to a Cartoon Animation Using After Effects

What You’ll Be Creating Area lighting effects are essential for illuminating specific areas and for creating mood in your animation. In this lighting tutorial for After Effects, you’ll learn how to create cartoon lighting effects using Cartoon Animator and Adobe After Effects. What You’ll Learn in This Tutorial After Effects has many different tools that allow… Continue reading How to Add Area Lighting Effects to a Cartoon Animation Using After Effects

How to Make a Talking Animation With ActorCore and Unity 3D for Free in 3 Hours

In this tutorial, you will learn how to download animated characters for free from ActorCore, and how to use them in Unity 3D to create a talking animation. What You’ll Need On ActorCore, you can find animation-ready and fully-textured 3D models with a wide selection of styles, including photorealistic people, sci-fi, fantasy, historical, and toon figures.… Continue reading How to Make a Talking Animation With ActorCore and Unity 3D for Free in 3 Hours

This Kickstarter wants you to dust off your old Polaroid Land Camera

The company’s adapter will allow Polaroid Land Camera users to insert new Polaroid film. Newland Camera Ever since Fujifilm discontinued its FP-100C film for the classic Polaroid Land Camera line six years ago, packs have been hard to come by—and increasingly expensive, too. One photographer reported paying up to $130 for a single cartridge. But,… Continue reading This Kickstarter wants you to dust off your old Polaroid Land Camera

Juxtaposition in photography | 26 Examples to inspire your photography

The word “juxtaposition” has long dominated exhibition catalogs and artist statements, used by everyone from architects to painters, but some of today’s biggest mainstream photography trends also revolve around the theme of juxtaposition. From forced perspectives of people “holding up” the sun or moon to landscape photos of “tiny people in big places” to double-take… Continue reading Juxtaposition in photography | 26 Examples to inspire your photography

How to Use After Effects for Advanced Motion Tracking

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we are going to pick up right where we left off in the last tutorial talking about basic motion tracking. Today, you’ll learn how to apply that motion tracking data to an object. You’ll learn how to attach some text to the object we worked with in the… Continue reading How to Use After Effects for Advanced Motion Tracking

How to Use After Effects for Basic Motion Tracking, Camera Tracking, and Text

What You’ll Be Creating In this lesson you’re going to learn how to do some basic motion tracking to add text to a shot.  To follow along with this lesson, make sure to open up the motion tracking.aep file which you can download here. You’re also going to need the video file below, which you… Continue reading How to Use After Effects for Basic Motion Tracking, Camera Tracking, and Text