motion
This past weekend I dived deep into the inner and outer edges of the Apple Motion program. I kicked off the party with buying dvMatte Blast and had a blast with that real time keyer. Very cool. Now i'm the quest to find key footage to play with. Theres a bit of motion stuff on the web, but clearly not as much as say after effects. Ahhh well.
It's great to finally tap into the power i thought the mac would have. Motion is blissful interaction, and i love the real time processing. I've got a new sexy beast video underway and I came across a funny clip in Livetype that made me want to redo the old Doctor Who intro piece as well.
So we'll see more of that soon. I should be learning the ins and outs of final cut pro/express as well but ya know motion is just too damn addicting, that and livetype, i spend all my time in those apps.
I saw some hilariously BAD attempts at doing xfrog like animations online this past weekend as well, people forcing motion to do really abstract and generative things and essentially its scratch work, I hate to see high end apps trying to do "scratch" work really. Xfrog is great at making scratch work, or work thats is additive into a piece of motion art. Xfrog is far more tweakable, generative, flowing, screwin around easily ish vs attempting to get motion to do it.
Soon I'll get parallels running on these macs and get xfrog going again. That will be fun! I miss that app more than anything else.
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