Book Cover Recreation Shot for The Fat Boy Chronicles

ECG is currently working on the movie adaptation of The Fat Boy Chronicles with director Jason Winn.  As production got underway, Jason decided he wanted to create an animated shot to imitate the look of the book’s cover, seen here.
I acted at the Special Effects supervisor on-set and worked with 2nd unit DP Jack Wallace [...]

2009 East Coast Group Productions Demo Reel

We recently completed a new Demo for ECG Productions.  This short (30 sec) demo highlights our services and features the 3d logo resolve that I teased here.
You can watch the video here.

Graphics for BBBS (Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta)

Graphics for BBBS (Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta)
Posted by Trey on July 11th, 2008 No Comments Printer-Friendly

Last month we shot over 58 pages of script for Big Brothers and Big Sisters of metro Atlanta.  As I mentioned before in this post, we were commisioned to create a series of training videos which [...]

8 Free Plugins from Creative Cow

Sick of taking hours to create your own VU meter or EQ?

Take a few minutes and head on over to Creative Cow to pick up the free plugins they recently posted.  In my opinion, you can’t get enough plugins for your graphics programs.
Keep in mind, that if you use AE on a PC, you’re out [...]

Adobe Creative Suite 3.3

I’ve gotten used to software companies continually releasing new versions of their programs and charging an arm and a leg so you have to re-buy it. What a hassle!
However, it is hard to stay angry with Adobe. For starters, the Creative Suite is one of the most powerful design program packages on the [...]

Trapcode Horizon

Just got this notice from Trapcode. I love their products and here are the details:

New Product: Trapcode Horizon
Give your compositions what they’ve been missing with this unique mapping tool. The Trapcode Horizon plug-in is a camera-aware image mapping tool that ties your After Effects camera to a 3D world. By applying images or gradients [...]

Color Space explained…sort of

I’m self taught when it comes to After Effects. I went to school for video production, where they teach you the fundamentals, but they don’t typically cover things like color space in Non-Linear Editing 201. They brush over color space, but we never spent more than 15 minutes going over what color space [...]