Keeping your social media profiles up to date is very important. Your online presence is vital to connect with others. Social media is an easy marketing tool that every company should use on a regular basis. In the right hands, the number of people you can reach through these social media websites can be unending. Blueprint can handle all your...
In an effort to increase brand awareness and add to our video production portfolio, the video department here at Blueprint has been reaching out to tech events and award ceremonies throughout the metro Atlanta area offering video recording, editing and motion graphics services free of charge for their respective upcoming events. It’s a major effort and a big risk, but...
3D modeling and animation gets me excited. There are few things I enjoy more than churning out a really cool 3D render. I like to think it’s the artist in me, but it probably has more to do with nerding out on the computer than exercising my inner Picasso. One of the best areas to work in 3D is in...
For a video guy, having a way to reference filmed material while on the field is a incredibly convenient. It makes me shudder to think that, once upon a time, this convenience was a luxury not easily obtained. But, luckily for me, the lcd screens that allow you to instantly review shots and reference earlier material are standard for most...
Animating logos is one of the more interesting aspects of what I do here at Blueprint. It isn’t as difficult, from a technical perspective, as creating a full-fledged animated explainer video, but from a creative perspective, it is a major challenge. One of the bigger difficulties is avoiding repetition. With animation, it can at times be a huge temptation to...
Before I started working at Blueprint, I thought I knew the proper way to write blog posts. In my time here, I have discovered some tips to serve as guidelines for writing blogs. T.M.I. (Too Much Information): My biggest struggle with writing is I am wordy. Writing well-written articles and sure they are not too long is difficult for some....
Every now and again, in video, there comes a time when your arm and tripod just can’t reach the height of the shot you need. That’s where the Jib comes in. Its a relatively quick and easy set-up as well as a relatively easy to use camera crane that really helps you reach new heights. Its a really a mini...
With the Technology Age boom, a new age arrived; the Connectivity Age. Within this new age, our society revolves around social media and has for the past forty years, and it started with phones. In the Beginning… The release of the pager in 1950 allowed people to receive brief messages and some sent messages back. As phones got larger and...
The moz.com Local Search Ranking Factor Survey Moz.com, announced their annual local search ranking factor survey this summer. In a moz blog post, David Mihm provided a preliminary summary of the survey in a pie chart (not shown.) http://moz.com/blog/local-search-ranking-factors-2013, August 7th, 2013. The Over –Arching Results Are Summarized As Follows: ~67% (Each of the first 4 factors are weighted equally...
Last week, I wrote “More Useful Tools in Web Development” where I discussed some tools that I recently found to be useful in my development process. Today, I will focus more on Twitter Bootstrap and share my thoughts as a front end web developer on this framework. Overview Bootstrap was developed by Twitter. Bootstrap 3 was recently released in August...
