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 [...]

By Daniel Brown
GridIron Software
An idea was born about 3 years ago, turned into drawings and schematics, then to command-line “proof-of-concepts”, to early prototypes, to a 5-month long “public beta” of a promising, if not-quite-polished, application. Now, the final result of our efforts is here;  Flow 1.0 is now available for purchase at www.gridironsoftware.com.
Flow was designed [...]

On Monday June 29th, at 12pm EST, we are hosting a live web event - that I’m absolutely thrilled I get to give.  Joining me will be John Nack, Principle Product Manager for Adobe Photoshop.  John and I will be showing off something nobody has ever seen before - as well as making a couple [...]

I was very pleased to hear from one of the many people I have trained on Adobe After Effects. Over the years I must have trained hundreds of motion graphic designers, animators and visual effects artists ranging from humble freelancers like myself to some of the top designers in their fields. I’ve even trained a [...]

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 [...]

Being of a ‘creative’ nature, I have a naturally chaotic mind, or so I’ve been told on good authority! My head is pretty much always ‘full of stuff’, work, friends, family, relationships, ideas, inspirations, mundane tasks, creative ideas, all of them ricochet around my brain like flies trying to escape from imprisonment.
And since I’ve progressed [...]

Canon has a new camera  - the 5D Mark II – and it is creating quite a stir. Aside from being a pretty awesome SLR camera, it also happens to shoot hi-def video. In fact, it shoots what most people (including me) consider to be breathtaking video. This little camera is doing what hundred-thousand dollar [...]

by Angie Taylor, Creative Director (Europe) - Gridiron Software
I’ve just been preparing my demo’s for Photoshop World 2009 in Boston where I’ll be presenting Gridiron Software’s Flow in conjunction with Adobe Photoshop.
My all time favorite Photoshop book has to be ‘How to Cheat in Photoshop‘ by Steve Caplin. Steve has a unique style and makes [...]

John Nack, principal product manager of Adobe Photoshop, noted in his blog today that some internal folks at Adobe are putting Flow through its paces. One designer noted that Flow had, as John puts it, “saved her bacon” (that last word varies by context and person) after she accidentally wrote over a file, and Flow [...]

Heads up for anyone that wants to check out an in person demo of Flow - will be giving a demo at Ben Willmore’s Photoshop training session.  Flow demo starts at 9:30 - and we’ll even cover the cheerios!
It’s at the Javitz - so if anyone would like to ask questions, meet or see it [...]

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 [...]