November 05, 2013

Adobe Inspire: CSS 3D, Ideas->Illustrator, and more

Lots of good stuff in the November issue of Adobe Inspire Magazine:

• Accelerated web design workflows with Adobe Photoshop® CC
• Alternative poster art of James White
• Video editing for non-professionals with Adobe Premiere Pro® CC
• Creating 3D assets with CSS
• The Cutting Edge award
• Creating HTML5 video effects: Part 2
• From sketch to masterpiece using Adobe Illustrator® CC
• Best of Behance™
• Web designers become app developers with PhoneGap

Instagrammed Insanity

Not to be outdone by our teammate Dave, our other designer Shaun Saperstein has brought After Effects chops to Instagram. Check out this bit of mayhem.

And no, I won’t be letting the Micronaxx see this and get any ideas (or about lightsabering open bottles, for that matter).

Shaun’s brief summary of how he pulled this off:

1. I made a fool of myself in an empty street. (image)
2. From the same vantage point as the previous shot, I took footage of just cars going by. I made sure to shoot them at a high shutter speed, reducing the motion blur and making them easier to rotosope. Then I roto-ed them out to place in the footage where I was running. (image)
3. I slowly built up the traffic  and choreographed the cars to give the illusion of almost hitting me. (image)
4. Added back in the motion blur. (image)