Sideeffects of making Blackmagic Fusion VFX free

The newly free Blackmagic Fusion will not only give Adobe some hard times - also established VFX Artist will be faced with a lot more competition in the future.

Making this professional software free for everyone will make it a defacto standard on which most new VFX Artists will train on. Sure you could pirate the software before for training - but then you had to choose between After Effects, Fusion and others. Now you will just try out first Fusion.

This will bring down salaries for VFX artists I imagine and push them to become even better, since just knowing a tool everyone can afford to learn isn't a distinguishing factor anymore.

BTW: A quick tip if you are wondering why Blackmagic Fusion 7.5 can't import/export MP4s - you need to have installed Apple's free Quicktime Player (might seem obvious, but on my freshly installed machine it wasn't)

Blackmagic Design: Fusion

The world's most advanced visual effects and motion graphics solution! Fusion is the world's most advanced compositing software for visual effects artists, broadcast and motion graphic designers and 3D animators. With over 25 years of development, Fusion has been used on over 1000 major ...

Great Ad from Honda - go see it

But before you do one little advice - once the video runs - keep the key R pressed for some time.

#link #ft #youtube #ad #honda

Originally shared by +Jack Morgan

This is just pure genius advertising. Tap ‘R’ while watching the video.

These guys are gonna win so many awards.

HondaVideo - YouTube

From concept to reality: rebranding Google Squared - Jack Morgan

Want to see a comprehensive case study about a corporate design implementation - look no further. Well written, great examples and a great insight into how corporate design is a system that helps you build an identity and doesn't stifle creativity.

From concept to reality: rebranding Google Squared
2nd November 2014 Squared (often referred to as ‘Google Squared’) is an educational initiative developed and launched by Google London in 2012. It's catered to people working in the advertisin...

Using linked SmartObjects in combination with Layercomps in Photoshop CC | Veerle's blog 3.0

Nice overview on the technique - it also shows a rather complex example. I moved away from designing in Photoshop, but hey to everyone it's tool of choice.

Using linked SmartObjects in combination with Layercomps in Photoshop CC | Veerle's blog 3.0
Webdesign talk - XHTML CSS, Graphic Design tutorials and Inspiration

Add a File to Multiple Folders in Google Drive without CopyingThis is an awesome trick and it works great and can be very useful for logos and other files you might want to re-use and be sure that the correct version of the file is always used

Add a File to Multiple Folders in Google Drive without Copying

This is an awesome trick and it works great and can be very useful for logos and other files you might want to re-use and be sure that the correct version of the file is always used.

A couple of things I noticed:

* if you rename a file it will get renamed everywhere - so watch out.

* You cannot see in your normal file structure if the file is the original or a clone (reference). Help your future self by adding something to your filename - like "_universal" or "_xdrive"
* You can see all the instances of the file when you look at the details panel in the web version of Google Drive and eliminate single locations at will

Add the Same File to Multiple Folders in Google Drive without Copying
Did you know that Google Drive lets you place the same file or folder into multiple folders simultaneously. This prevents you from creating duplicate copies of the files in your Drive.

Interesting Thoughts about "The Grid" - a new website builder

I looked into The Grid and really have the same questions and doubts as this article. Interesting also the comments, for once pretty civil ;)

AI websites that design themselves? Why I'm skeptical of The Grid
If you haven't heard of The Grid, it's a website builder that claims to have created “AI websites that design themselves.” It's been generating big buzz- including support from Jason Fried and coverage by Wired. Curiously, The Grid hasn't launched yet and their homepage shows no demo or ...

Welcome to Donger List

A Donger is a set of unicode characters assembled to form a text emoticon. Sometimes also refered to as emojicons, emoticons, kaomoji, kawaii faces, Japanese emoticons, or text faces.

Nice and funny - I've seen those around but couldn't place them.

Welcome to Donger List - A Donger is a set of unicode characters assembled to form a text emoticon. Sometimes also refered to as emojicons, emoticons, kaomoji, kawaii faces, Japanese emoticons, or text faces.
Welcome to Donger List - Over 600+ Dongers, Emojicons, Kaomoji, Text Faces, Japanese Emoticons, and Kawaii Faces - Updated Daily - A Donger is a set of unicode characters assembled to form a text emoticon. Sometimes also refered to as emojicons, emoticons, kaomoji, kawaii faces, japanese emoticons, or text faces.

Material UI - not from Google

Here is an alternative if you want to use Material Design in a web project and not use the Polymer Framework from Google. Looks a tad complicated to setup, but you might want to give it a try.

 

Spice up the bland Apple design

Apples design choices are not top notch anymore, some might say they are a bit bland. So why not update your system font with this free package.

Input: Fonts for Code — System Font Replacement
Input is a typeface for code, designed by David Jonathan Ross and released by Font Bureau.

Walk along the Berlin lightborder Video

I walked last Saturday along this lightborder, made some great photos and fortunately someone else created this timelapse-like walkalong.

Type Genius - Find a matching font for your project

There are some books out there trying to help you find matching headline and body texts ... this online tool tries the same - it's not perfect or complete in any way, but it is a beginning.

Try it for yourself.

Type Genius
Find the perfect font combo for your next project. Abril Display, Adelle, Adobe Caslon Pro, Adobe Garamond Pro, Alternate Gothic No. 1 D, Alternate Gothic No. 2 D, Atrament Web, Bebas Neue, Brandon Grotesque, Calluna, Chaparral Pro, Chivo, Comic Serif Pro, Courier Std, DIN Condensed Web ...

That's one use of Google Maps I can see, maping out the great vine regions.

#ftl #link

Originally shared by +Google for Work

With , +Vinous provides vineyards with location data to help wine connoisseurs develop stronger connections to the birthplaces and stories behind their favorite wines. Learn more: http://goo.gl/XUfCzK

 

Material design morphing icons 2 - CodePen

I like this animations - and in spirit of material design, where transitions are a big thing it makes totally sense.

Material design morphing icons 2 - CodePen
Edit this Pen Report Abuse. 3.0 (iPhone 3GS), 4.3.2 (iPad 2), 5.1 (iPhone 4S), 6 (iPhone 5), 2.3 (Galaxy S), 4.0 (Evo 3D), 4.1 (Nexus 7), HTC Wildfire, 6 (Win XP), 7 (Win XP), 8 (Win 7), 9 (Win 7), 10 (Win 8), 5 (Mac 10.6), 19 (Mac 10.8), 11.1 (Mac 10.6), 12.13 (Mac 10.8), 4 (Mac 10.6) ...

Open sourcing Twitter emoji for everyone | Twitter Blogs

This is actually bigger than people might think. Many Apps and web apps use Apple Emojis without the propper license and the open source variations you can find until now are ugly to say the least. This move will actually bring well designed emojis to more projects.

Open sourcing Twitter emoji for everyone | Twitter Blogs
Now everyone can take advantage of them!

Styling And Animating SVGs With CSS | Smashing Magazine

SVG is the new * at least it seems that finally SVG gets the attention it deserves, and this extensive article gives a great overview over how to create them, optimize them, style them etc. Read it, Bookmark it and read it again when needed.

Styling And Animating SVGs With CSS | Smashing Magazine
Sara Soueidan explains how to export and optimize SVGs, how each one affects the styles and animations applied, and introduces techniques for embedding them.

Bookmarklets in the design world — Designing Medium — Medium

Very interesting approach on using bookmarklets to try design changes on life systems without affecting the deployed server. Sounds complicated? The article is well written and helps you decide if this is something that can help bring you faster to your goal.

Bookmarklets in the design world
Why we sometimes use bookmarklets on the design team at Medium

uiGIFs - User interface patterns in the form of animated GIFs

Interesting approach for a design pattern library - not only screenshots, but animated gifs actually showing the interaction.

uiGIFs - User interface patterns in the form of animated GIFs
Animated UI inspiration in your inbox every Monday. Give me GIFs. play. Sift Rentals ・ 14. play. tapkast ・ 11. play. Twitter Audio Card ・ 4. play. Rooms ・ 14. play. Pq ・ 14. play. Bring! ・ 14. play. PhotoMath ・ 12. play. AnyDo 2.0 ・ 15. play. Flipboard 3.0 ・ 11. play. Skype Qik ・ 20 ...

The Evolution of the Title Bar Buttons | Placeit Blog

I love history - and computer inteface history is even better. This great blog post about the icons we use to manage windows in operating systems is full of animated gifs and guide you through the evolution of the Title Bar Buttons.

The Evolution of the Title Bar Buttons - Placeit Blog
We wanted to discover the complete evolution of the title bar buttons. So we set out on a journey through GUI's to pinpoint exactly how they started.

A fine new guide for Developers and Publishers alike

A free PDF Book with guidelines and best practices for everyone who wants to build and market Android Apps.

Introducing a New Guide, “The Secrets to App Success on Google Play”

Ex-Googler Builds A Github For Designers | Co.Design | business + design

Good writeup about this new service. Looks promising and I will share my upcomming free projects here. Already got some ideas. So follow me at

https://www.pixelapse.com/derfrankie/

Ex-Googler Builds A Github For Designers
Pixelapse is built on a simple, radical premise: I'll show you mine if you show me yours.