Now that I’ve gotten myself acclimated to Adobe After Effects with a series of pathetic animations involving old-timey photos, I’ve started on the original project I set out for myself: making a video bumper.

A bumper, also called an identity, is a term borrowed from television. It’s basically a quick animation or promo video [...]

I still suck at After Effects, but with my new computer I suck a lot more efficiently.

Fun fact: The photo used in this animation is from the Library of Congress’ collection, taken at Reservoir Park in Paterson, N.J. sometime between 1890 and 1901. Click here to see the original.

Rosie did a Q&A with Drew Killoy tonight at the UVC-TV 19 general body meeting at UMass. Drew is a documentary film editor at the Media Education Foundation in Northampton, and he makes sweet motion graphics, some of which he posts on his blog, five to nine.

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I used this photo, taken by sociologist and photographer Lewis Wickes Hine and stored in the U.S. National Archives, in my second attempt at figuring out Adobe After Effects. I thought it was interesting that the boy, photographed for the National Child Labor Committee, was “found selling papers in a big rain storm,” [...]