Well, what a busy old month I’ve had! I’ve crossed several time zones and been on more flights than I care to mention. But all for good reason.
Earlier this month I went to Gratz to record an After Effects training DVD for the amazing folks at Video2Brain. It was really good to [...]

I’m pleased to announce that Nucleo Pro 3 is now available from our store. Those of you working in After Effects CS5’s 64-bit environment can now take advantage of Nucleo Pro 3’s phenomenal speed increases. We’ve had reports of users seeing an increase in speed of 400% working in After Effects CS5.
You can find out [...]

There are a few nice pieces of software around at the moment that I want to share with you. The first is Beauty Box from Digital Anarchy. An incredible plug-in for video applications (like After Effects, Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro). If you shoot interviews or wedding videos and don’t have a good make [...]

I’m busy preparing to leave on a mammoth journey to San Fransisco to speak at the Macworld 2010 conference for the first time.
I’ll be talking about production workflow, specifically broadcast production as that’s where I spent 12 years of my life freelancing as a motion graphic designer/ animator.
I’ll also share some of the challenges I’ve [...]

I’m hoping to see a few of you at MacWorld 2010 where I’ll be speaking next year. I love San Fransisco so will be taking a little extra time out to hang out with my old friends, Amacker and Nina at the Lucky 13 bar on Castro. I also hope to catch up with all [...]

Creative Director (Europe) - Gridiron Software
As research for my book I’ve been looking at the effects of drugs on creativity, and finding out if the two are linked. I’m hoping to get some feedback from the readers of my blog regarding their own experiences but first I guess it’s fair to give you my own [...]

Every now and then a piece of software comes along that changes your life. The first one for me was Cubase, I learned how to do music sequencing on an old Atari during my deejaying career in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Then there was Deluxe Paint, the first application that allowed me to [...]

Since all the talk is about Flow - I want to make sure Nucleo Pro 2 gets a little attention.
First, here is the info right from the horses mouth, so to speak.
No - we have not cancelled Nucleo Pro 2.
Yes - we are working on CS4 compatibility.
Yes - it will be a free patch to [...]

GridIron’s background is in motion graphics and visual FX.  We shipped 2 really successful products for After Effects users called Nucleo and Nucleo Pro (1 & 2).  NP did better for us as a vendor than we ever expected.
I want to pay credit where credit is due.  If you use NP background rendering - Thank [...]

Creative Director > Gridiron Software
Software features can dominate our designs, the design becomes prevalent to such an extent that it takes precedent over the designer. We’ve all heard an ad or feature described this way; ‘y’know, the one with the puppet tool and the new 3D text animators’.
Isn’t it about time that we escaped from [...]

Had a good comment on a previous post asking for status on Nucleo Pro 2 for AE CS4.  Here’s the skinny…
All our resources have been on Flow, and as I mentioned before - we’re a tad late. This means that Al, our AE junkie and NP2 expert has been furiously squashing tickets in Flow, and [...]

Creative Director > Gridiron Software
With desktop software being so accessible it means that a growing number of jobbing designers are self-taught. In many cases they are great at design but lacking in areas such as project management and development.
We have all experienced situations where our work gets challenging so we distract ourselves and procrastinate by [...]