Welcome to Crish Design

Crish Design (formerly CyberMotion) is a motion graphics design studio founded by Trish and Chris Meyer. Many know us for the books we write about our craft, including Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects (now in its 5th edition), as well as After Effects Apprentice (widely used as a textbook).

After two decades in Los Angeles, in 2008 we relocated to the East Mountains area outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico (read why on our PVC blog entry). We’ve since renamed our business Crish Design as an homage to the numerous friends who inevitably mashup our first names together into “Crish.”

Note that despite the more relaxed pace in the Land of Enchantment, we keep busy updating our After Effects books (as per Adobe’s schedule) as well as continue to build our online training library.

We also have a new series on our PVC CMG Keyframes blog called “Creating Motion Graphics Hidden Gems” highlighting tips from each chapter of CMG.

Online Training News

We have created a variety of courses on After Effects (as well as Motion, Final Cut Pro, and CINEMA 4D) which are offered primarily through lynda.com.

After Effects Apprentice Video Series: All of the lessons in the After Effects Apprentice video series are now available on lynda.com as well as through Class on Demand. The series closely follows Apprentice 2nd edition (for CS4), with additional updates for CS5 and CS5.5. For more details, please read our blog post on lynda.com.

If you are already a lynda.com subscriber, click here to go to our main page. If you have never been a lynda.com subscriber, see our Online Training page for details on getting a FREE 7-day all-access pass.

Portfolio

Between our book and video training, we have less time for production work these day, but we are always open to working on interesting projects as our schedule allows. We specialize in high-impact, multi-layered 2D and 3D graphics for video and film, often tightly integrated with music. Samples of our work can be found in our three Portfolio sections: Movie Titles, Broadcast, and Corporate.

We have created motion graphics for a large variety of media and venues, including film titles, show opens, and trade show graphics.

NEWS

Adobe After Effects CS6

After Effects CS6 is an important new release that has something for nearly every AE user. We] explore a number of those features on our PVC blog, starting with the most visible new one - the Ray-traced 3D rendering engine - and then moving onto the 3D Camera Tracker, Rolling Shutter Repair, Variable Mask Feathering, the Global Performance Cache, and more.

Available at lynda.com, After Effects CS6 New Features, is a video training series covered these new features. Nearly all of these videos use exercise files that are included with CMG5 as their starting point, so you can easily follow along.

For earlier versions, we've also created a series of videos about our favorite new and enhanced features in After Effects CS5.5. They are being distributed by AdobeTV (free) and lynda.com (at higher resolution). We've collected and indexed these movies in our CMG Keyframes blog at ProVideo Coalition.com.

For training on the new features for CS5, check out our lynda.com series, After Effects CS5 New Creative Techniques.

Artbeats Stock Footage

We created a two-volume video library (in both SD and HD) for high-end stock footage house Artbeats. Called Liquid Abstracts and Nature Abstracts, these use the natural motion of water, leaves, wind chimes, and shadows as a starting point to create colorful background textures crafted to sit comfortably behind text, lower thirds, and ID bugs. We think you'll find them sensuous, as well as highly useful.

iStock Footage

In addition to our stock footage collections available through Artbeats.com, we have also made more of our abstract backgrounds available through the budget user-generated content site iStockvideo.com. These focus more on having "hold out" areas in the center for titles, or just being pretty imagery to mix into your projects.