Benjamin Carter

If you have spent the last few years chasing light with a mirrorless body and a bag of fast primes, the move into motion can feel jarring. I have walked that path myself, dragging a stills kit onto commercial sets and learning the hard way that a great sensor alone will not save bad audio, … Read more

Three years ago, I sat down to rotoscope a 600-frame sequence in Nuke on a six-year-old laptop. The fan screamed, the render bar crawled, and my wrist ached by lunch. That single week taught me more about best gear for VFX artists than any tutorial ever could. Visual effects work lives at the intersection of … Read more

Filming a fast break, a corner kick, or a sprint down the sideline is one of the toughest jobs a videographer can take on. The action moves in a heartbeat, lighting flips from daylight to shade to floodlit gym in a single take, and you usually have one shot to get the play. After three … Read more

I have shot more than 200 live events over the last six years – weddings, corporate conferences, awards nights, and a few concerts that turned into full-blown dance floors. Gear choices made or broke those jobs, and the wrong kit left me with shaky footage, clipped audio, or simply a sore back. If you are … Read more

I have built corporate video kits for over a decade, and one rule has never changed: viewers forgive average footage but click off the second audio gets rough. That single fact shapes every recommendation in this guide to the best gear for corporate videographers. The right kit makes executives look polished on a Zoom call, … Read more

When I started filming live shows five years ago, I walked into my first arena show with a single mirrorless body, a kit zoom, and the camera’s built-in microphone. The footage looked fine on the back of the camera. By the time I got home, every clip was a noisy, shaky, dull reminder that concert … Read more

Procreate animation on iPad has become one of the most accessible ways to create frame-by-frame animations without needing a desktop workstation. After testing multiple iPad models across different price ranges and chip generations over the past three months, I’ve put together this guide to help you find the right device for your animation workflow in … Read more

Choosing the best iPads for digital artists in comes down to how you actually draw, paint, and animate. I have spent the past several weeks testing iPads across illustration, animation, and storyboarding projects to see which models truly earn their place in an artist’s kit. From the studio, our team ran Procreate, Clip Studio Paint, … Read more

Yes, you can absolutely use an iPad for storyboarding. Procreate, ShotGlide, Previs Pro, and Storyboard Pro-style workflows all run beautifully on a modern iPad paired with the Apple Pencil Pro. Our team tested eight current iPad models across film student, freelance, and studio scenarios over four months of daily boarding sessions. We sketched shot compositions … Read more

I spent the last three months editing a short film on planes, trains, and hotel rooms with nothing but an iPad and a pair of noise-isolating headphones. That experience made one thing obvious: the best iPads for video editing on the go are not always the most expensive ones. They are the ones whose chip, … Read more