video and
motion graphics

flash 4 movies are great for the web, the image quality looks great and the files download quickly.

Quicktime incorporates the latest digital recording and playback technologies and provides artists with exciting tools for creating and distributing movies, animations, and virtual realities.

After Effects uses image layers to create 2d animation. AE is incredibly popular for compositing short television graphics that move, zoom, fade etc.

The term motion graphics offers some insight into an artistic phenomena that is spreading rapidly through the motion picture and video world. It is hard not to notice the explosion of 2d and 3d motion graphics that infuses contemporary television commercials and ID breaks. The motion picture and television industry leads the way in adapting technologies to create animations, graphics, and titles. Professional studios assemble a collection of expensive "CG" or Computer Graphics hardware devices and route them through switchers so as to mix or composite multiple video streams with graphics in a creative way. The computer revolution has brought amazing capabilities to the individual desktop computer workstation and today an artist can create motion graphics and edit video without the huge expense of a traditional studio. Digital video, properly produced on a personal computer, can be transfered to a professional studio for use in productions of the highest standards. The computer revolution has also spawned the internet which of course is an incredible new venue for motion graphic artists. The web is pretty much an any thing goes enviroment where creative ideas are rapidly breeding. The widespread availabilty of desktop computers makes for an exciting future in the world of motion picture and visual arts.