Last summer, I guest hosted my college’s monthly television show when the regular host was out of the country. I wasn’t great but I don’t think I was too bad either. I think I described my performance as not overly-terrible, just more garden-variety terrible....
This seems like a superpower
I heard about human echolocation on a podcast once and was immediately fascinated with it. The idea that humans can use sound waves to “see” their environment doesn’t really seem possible. But it is! And here’s a real cool video of how it works. It even features an example or two of how people...
More After Effects
I’ve been doing a little more experimenting with After Effects lately. This time I pulled a “logo reveal” template off an assets site. I’m not 100 percent satisfied with it – I’d like to make the transitions a little longer and I’m not wild about the way the logo is stylized at the end...
Student Profile: Caroline Bearden
I wrote another student profile for the Mississippi State Our People section. It was, at 680-ish words, admittedly a little longer than their usual stories, which generally clock in at around 450-500 words. So they edited it down. And part of me understands but part of me was a bit disappointed because they cut...
Learning After Effects
I’ve been trying to learn how to use Adobe’s After Effects, and as a test project, I made this holiday video for work. It’s certainly not perfect but as an early effort, it’s not too bad. I especially like the snowfall effect....