Books by Simon Russell

Simon Russell is a freelance animation director based in London. Originally from Bath in South West England, Simon moved to London to study Moving Image Design. He has been working in animation and motion graphic design since 2001. His first job was with Cartoon Network before working as an art director at Addiction Worldwide. He then went on to join a startup before deciding to go it alone as a freelancer in 2010. Simon has produced work for many global brands such as Nike, Land Rover, and EA. He also creates tutorials and plugins as well as self-initiated creative work. Michael Szabo is a freelance motion graphics artist in Miami,FL who probably doesn't go a day without opening Cinema 4D and using it for both business and for fun.As a kid,he was always curious about moving images and his no-budget home movies inspired him to learn design applications, such as Final Cut Pro, Motion,Photoshop,After Effects, and Cinema 4D on his own, because they just weren't going to magically start teaching themselves to him.He has always been interested in learning new techniques and has always tried to design something better than he did the day before. You can find him at http://www.bigmikedesign.com and on Twitter at @bigmikedesign.