Tokyo Productions is a UK-based creative shop specializing in promotional videos, and its Creative Director, Simon Ubsdell, has been hard at work creating useful and versatile templates and plug-ins for Final Cut Pro.

The first of these plug-ins is Split Animator, a robust …continue reading

Great video editors can create something entertaining and visually appealing out of very little. A few seconds of footage, an idea, and the right software is often all an excellent video editor needs to take off and create something truly unique.

Almost every day, I …continue reading

Google search has always been a hotbed for interesting Easter eggs, and this one could win you a few bets. Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a game played throughout the world by movie fans who challenge each other to connect one actor or another …continue reading

The difference between a professional video editor and an amateur ultimately comes down to trusting one’s instincts and taking the time to do things right. Over the past five years, I’ve had the privilege of working with some of the best video editors in the …continue reading

When the Star Wars prequels were being released to the world, I searched high and low for the perfect replica lightsaber to don at the premiere of Episode III. Yes, I’m that kind of geek. It took me a few weeks of research before I …continue reading

If you’re new to podcasting, you may feel that receiving over 150 listeners to one of your episodes is impossible. Good news: it’s actually not!

In the first part of this three-part series on podcasting, I talked about bringing popular guests to your …continue reading

Since 1977, George Lucas’ Star Wars saga has raked in billions of revenue and merchandising profit. There’s really no stopping to it, with an ongoing onslaught of video games, the Clone Wars cartoon series, 3D re-releases, and an upcoming comedy series titled …continue reading

You may have noticed that tags are no longer visible on a YouTube video’s watch page — you know, the sometimes endless stream of words underneath the video itself. One reason for this is that actual viewers never really used them. Did you ever click …continue reading

It’s safe to say that many of you know that Chris has been publishing content since 1996 and I’m sure you’d like to do this on your own in some capacity. You may be thinking, “he makes it look effortless and he was able to …continue reading

Comic book heroes embody all our dreams of strength, righteousness, and full-on kick-assery. In fact, there is a comic book movie called Kick-Ass, which does, just as the title proposes, kick ass.

Superheroes are, in most cases, the perfect human beings who always choose right, …continue reading

This article is based on the recent Nolan-directed cinematic interpretation of The Dark Knight — the personification of incorruptible justice, more commonly known as Batman — a dark-clothed righter of wrongs who finds absolution through defeating those who harm others. So where does this all …continue reading

Music bundles are nothing new, but when you combine them with a charitable cause and the ability to name your own price for the music you get, the idea becomes much more appealing (And fellow LockerGnome writer Eddie Ringle has written about …continue reading

Although this article is based on the bestselling comic book series by Alan Moore and the 2009 film version of Watchmen, the question herein addresses the uncertainty of our future. It is assumed that you are …continue reading

Every three seconds, a human being dies. Whether it’s by murder, an insidious disease, or another crime makes no difference. I cannot say if this is what the two inventors of the world’s first superhero had in mind, but surely looking at the misery of …continue reading

This past weekend, I decided to try something I had only dabbled in before: setting up a 24/7 video streaming system. This dedicated computer streams video from my webcam, filtered through WebcamMax, and sends it directly to Ustream. The experiment came with a few rules. …continue reading

Everybody takes pleasure in listening to music. Many people take pleasure in the ability to compose and play it. Unfortunately, learning how to master an instrument can be a long, tiring, and complicated process. So many people want to sit down at a piano and …continue reading

The word Samurai means to serve in Japanese. To Star Wars fans around the world, Jedi Knights are a well-known faction. Samurai were real, while the Jedi Knight is a work of fiction. Both represent a set of principles, the likes of which are quite …continue reading

Podcasting is a great way to put your creative talents to good use. Whether your podcast covers technology or pastry, there are a number of ways you can expand your show’s reach and build a larger audience around it. Lately, I’ve seen quite a few …continue reading

I’ve worked with podcasters who have spent months doing full-fledged productions involving a half-dozen people and hours upon hours of their time for an audience that hovered in the double digits. On the surface, this could be quite discouraging and would likely result in a …continue reading

Over the past year, I’ve written over 50 articles about podcasting and how someone can turn their hobby into a profitable venture through community building and audience participation. During that time, we’ve had the pleasure of meeting and working with some outstanding content producers that …continue reading

Oliver from BTScompanies made a stop-motion LEGO animation of what a day in the life of Chris Pirillo is like (included in this post), and we asked him to clue us in about how he undertook this formidable task. Without giving away too …continue reading

Here’s my second Minecraft-themed post in the same amount of days. I would have made this article yesterday, but I wasn’t feeling all that great — or maybe I was so wrapped up in playing Minecraft that I just didn’t get around to it. Don’t …continue reading

Podcasting is no longer this hot new thing that only a handful of geeks are taking part in on the weekends. It’s become a distribution method of choice for hundreds of thousands of shows produced by a variety of sources including home hobbyists and multinational …continue reading

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything with regards to Minecraft, so today I’ll deal with two of the many frequently asked questions regarding Minecraft. First is how you install a Minecraft skin. Many of you will already know how to do this and, …continue reading