It’s been 10 years since I cashed my first check as a freelancer. Beyond a source of income, it’s giving my lifestyle the freedom, which in hindsight, has been a dream come true.
In 2007 I had dropped out of art school at in LA. $30k in debt and with loan payments looming...
Using a Sony mirrorless camera and a macro lens to capture 24MP RAW negative scans at up to 150 photos per hour.
I started on this research because I’ll be digitizing thousands of my family’s old negatives — 35mm strips, color slides, 110 and some 127 film. With a flatbed scanner I would have no interest in taking on this project...
The World Before Me is a modern round the world trip, set to the words of a 19th century poet.
In the fall of 2015, while preparing for a trip that would take me literally around the world, I couldn’t shake the desire to share the experience of travel, which for me is a very personal one. This film is the culmination of that desire. I carried my camera for 5 months through 15 countries. The endless metropolis of Tokyo, tiny islands of The Philippines, busy streets of India, the Swiss Alps and the Scottish Highlands. They’re all right here, for you, in 6 minutes.
“And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age “— (Matthew 28:20, in reference to Google Maps)
This year I travelled for five months, through 14 countries with my one true friend, Google Maps. The following, are ways to use the service before, during and after your travels...
We can all agree that on projects, digital or otherwise organization is an essential part of working efficiently.
A motion graphics project can very quickly amass a huge amount of assets — reference images, storyboards, client files, PSD's, AE projects, textures, footage, image sequences, audio, fonts, and then multiple incremental versions and revisions of each...
If you're like me, then you've got got a box of hard drives in your closet.
My archive of past motion graphics projects has reached 4TB. Add a photo library of 60,000+ images, 400GB of MP3s, dozens of hours of HD footage and everything else I've accrued in 10 years as a digital artist, and I've got 12TB of data — as my mom would say — spread “from hell to breakfast”...
What to do with a studio full of vacant computers
The process of creating motion graphics takes a lot of processing power, and as effects get more complex and output resolutions increase the result is often longer render times. Times where your workflow grinds to a halt and you've got nothing left to do but wait — or god forbid, sleep...
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I'm pretty sure my hairline has started receding...
I spent two months in New Zealand living in a van, bathing in the ocean and shooting photos.
After I got home I wasn't really sure what do with this strange, grainy, body of work which I shot on thrift store found 35mm Camera. But I've decided to put some prints up for sale, which is something I've never done before...
I just retuned home from seven months in Australia and New Zealand. I backpacked, worked, traveled, made new friends, got lost then made it home safely. I cannot overstate how much you learn when you leave your own country. Here are ten things...
David Bryan - Freelance Motion Graphicsa Artist and Designer - ©2026 dcbryan