Add a classy film look to your footage by creating a Shutter Streak effect as seen in Red Giant Software’s amazing plugin – Magic Bullet Looks. Switch given features of the streak on and off for quick and easy adjustments.

LINK HEREMaxAfter.com – Emit lots of particle footballs and make them bounch in AE, and Trapcode Particular’s BOUNCE option will be the weapon of choice
LINK HERE

In this AE Podcast, Eran Stern gives an introduction to custom effects which trigger actions using layer markers inside of Adobe After Effects.
LINK HERE

Sneaky Fast AE Editing Tricks… LINK HERE

In this rockin’ episode of Red Giant TV, Motion Designer Harry Frank shows you how to create a realistic crowd scene using Trapcode Particular 2. He’ll also create a similar scene using Trapcode Form.  LINK HERE

Tutorial Roundup: 52 Excellent Cinema 4D Tutorials by Topher Welsh Ok, so I’ve done it again people! There were so many amazing C4D tuts just floating around out there on the web, that I couldn’t stop myself from gathering them all up, and stuffing them into one little easy to digest package for you. No no…no need to thank me…just sit back and enjoy all the Cinema 4D goodness (ok…and then you can thank me)!  LINK HERE

Texturing a Human Face – Day 2: Painting the Texture by Dan Cox In this 2 hour, multi-part video tutorial, you will follow professional Game artist and teacher, Dan Cox, as he gives insight into his own thought process and workflow of how to go about unwrapping and texturing an existing human face. The techniques and theories that Dan teaches can be used in either video game or film work. LINK HERE

Model and Texture a Photorealistic USB Cable with Maya and Mental Ray – Day 2 by Alan Monroig In this tutorial you will go through the process of modeling and rendering a Photorealistic USB cable in Autodesk Maya. You will also learn to use Mental Ray, along with the new architectural materials, rendering layers, and Photoshop, to create a fast, accurate, and photorealistic depth of field.  LINK HERE

Animate a Dancing Ice Cream Bar in Cinema 4D and After Effects by Tomas Sinkunas - In this 125 step monstrosity of a tutorial you will learn everything you need to know to make a dancing ice cream bar animation in Cinema 4D, and then composite it in After Effects.  You will start off by modeling the Bar, making procedural textures for it, and creating a Soft IK rig with Cinema 4D. Then you will light the scene, set up cast shadow and AO passes, and export the final renders of the animation using batch rendering. Finally, you will bring it all into Adobe After Effects to compose the final sequences, add post blending effects, and create some simple text animations.  Don’t miss this one. Seriously..it’s HUGE!  LINK HERE

3ds Max 2010: The Graphite Modeling Tools – Day 1 by Kaleb Aylsworth 3ds Max 2010 introduces a vast array of new tools and features, not the least of which, are the new Graphite Modeling Tools. In this two part tutorial video tutorial series, professional game environment artist, Kaleb Aylsworth, will walk you through all of these new tools, and show you how to use them effectively in a practical, every day workflow. LINK HERE

Create Fairly Realistic Fire using CC Particle World by Eddie Bogdanov Using the built-in plugin CC Particle World and a few tricks, learn how to create this fairly realistic looking fire shot  LINK HERE

25 or so Presets/Project Files to Wet Your AE Whistle by Topher Welsh You might have noticed the Freebies tab in our navigation menu. When we run across any great free plugins or preset we list them there but today Topher brings you a bunch more in this awesome roundup.  LINK HERE

Create a Flare and Light Streak Text Reveal by Devin Northrup Made popular in recent commercials, using light streaks to reveal text and logos is a great way to bring an extra punch to your productions.  LINK HERE

In this lesson we will learn various ways of creating edge loops in 3ds Max 2008+.  LINK HERE

In this lesson you will learn how to use the Mirror Geometry Tool in Maya 20008+.  LINK HERE

In this lesson we will take a look at the new Soft Select feature in Maya 2009.  LINK HERE

In this lesson we will learn how to change the color of hair, as well as how to create a mustache in Softimage 5+.  LINK HERE

In this lesson we will learn about hair instancing and its applications in Softimage 5+.  LINK HERE

In this lesson we will learn how use to a few similar tools for manipulating edges and polygons in Modo 301+  LINK HERE

Interior Illumination with Mental Ray – LINK HERE

Intro to Rendering with Lux Render

LINK HERE

22. Cinema 4D: The “Universe” Series Chapter 1: Basics of Lights Part 1 -Part 1 Of Chapter 1 in “The Universe” Free Cinema 4D Training Series.

Difficulty Level: 2/10  LINK HERE

23. Cinema 4D: The “Universe” Series Chapter 1.1: Basics of Lights Part 2 – Part 2 Of Chapter 1 in “The Universe” Free Cinema 4D Training Series.

Difficulty Level:3/10  LINK HERE

24. Cinema 4D: The “Universe” Series Chapter 2: Basics of Particles – Chapter 2 in “The Universe” Free Cinema 4D Training Series.

Difficulty Level: 3/10 – LINK HERE

25. Cinema 4D: The “Universe” Series Chapter 3: The Moon – Chapter 3 in “The Universe” Free Cinema 4D Series

Difficulty Level: 4/10  -  LINK HERE

26. Cinema 4D: The “Universe” Series Chapter 4: Fluid Blob -Chapter 4 in “The Universe” Free Cinema 4D Series

Difficulty Level: 5/10  -  LINK HERE

In this video tutorial, Ashraf Aiad talks about the benefits in utilizing render layers for your scene.  LINK HERE

Fourth video tutorial dedicated to Object–Space Modifiers in 3DSMax2010: Bevel and Bevel Profile modifier – LINK HERE

Third video dedicated to Object–Space Modifiers in 3DSMax2010: Bend modifier  LINK HERE

NEW TUTORIAL: 01. Matchmoving

The first tutorial of “The Truck” advanced training series is now online. Please leave your comments! Watch Tutorial Discuss tutorial  LINK HERE

Please enjoy this free tutorial on creating a Glowing Line in After Effects from Dean Velez and MotionGraphicsLab.com  LINK HEREAudio Visualization in After Effects – Using Adobe After Effects to create graphic visualization of an audio track.  LINK HERE

Snow Displacement Using VRAY

LINK HERE

Working with Layouts in C4d LINK HERE

Creating Logos in Cinema 4D

Part 1 LINK HERE

Part 2 LINK HERE

Polygon Modeling a House in c4D

Part 1 LINK HERE

Part 2 LINK HERE

]]> http://visualfxtuts.com/roundups/monday-madness-roundup/feed/ 1 http://visualfxtuts.com/updates/huge-tut-roundup-aftereffects-maya-xsi-motion/ http://visualfxtuts.com/updates/huge-tut-roundup-aftereffects-maya-xsi-motion/#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 06:50:07 +0000 Topher http://visualfxtuts.com/?p=761 Okay! So if you enjoyed my VLOG the other day with the giveaway, you will be stoked to know that I am gonna be making them much more regular.  There is another up right now on the YOUTUBE and also you can check out my new article on AETUTS+.  LINK HERE

From CarlWH123 on Youtube – Modelling an Axis bass drum pedal in 3DS Max.  LINK HERE

Damien Mathe – I presume that maybe someone already did this, but I recorded a tutorial explaining how to reproduce the soft shadows as seen in Andrew’s tutorial, but in Cinema4D. Of course I only translated the tutorial to C4D, all the credits go to the great Andrew Kramer.  LINK HERE

Damien Mathe – This video explains how to make a “blob” effect with Cinema 4D. This was recorded as an answer to a post on Videocopilot.net forums.   LINK HERE

Create Whispy Spirit-like Text by Adam Everett Miller – Adam keeps digging through the good ol’ built in CC plugins and continues to come up with very clever and visually awesome solutions. In this tutorial Adam uses CC Smear as the basis to create text that appears in as if a spirit whisped into it.  LINK HERE

In this tutorial, Nick go though the process of lighting a scene with the Daylight CS Tool for Cinema 4D.
Download the scene files at his blog: Greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2009/05/28/cinema-4d-cs-tools-daylight/
LINK HERE

After Effects has a bug fix and huge update out this week:

LINK HERE

In this tutorial I explain how to use my free After Effects script MochaImport which simplifies the usage of MochaAE with After Effects.  FREE DOWNLOAD of the script: aextensions.blogspot.com
Tutorial LINK HERE

In this lesson we will learn how to change the rotation axis of an object in Maya 2008+
LINK HERE

In this lesson we will learn how to create a sphere that works well in dynamic simulations. Uses Maya 2008+
LINK HERE

In this tutorial we will learn how to use the UV Texture Editor as a modeling tool in Maya 8+.
LINK HERE

In this lesson we will learn how the Trimming tool can be used to punch holes into NURBS meshes in XSI 4.2+.
LINK HERE

In this lesson we will learn where XSI’s shelf is located and how to add commands to it.
LINK HERE

Noise Junkies- After Effects Abstract Color Transfiguration

Learn a very simple method to make footage into an abstract scene.  Use some common plugins to create a “melting-type” animation.  LINK HERE

Mystery Text in Adobe After Effects- Learn how to create this mystery text effect by animating layer styles on a text layer in After Effects.  LINK HERE

Mike Bauer shows us how to create a simple rig to explore the complexity of animating a ball in our latest 3dsmax video tutorial
LINK HERE

‘Irradiance Particles in Mental Ray and Hypershade for Maya 2009′ are the latest set of video tutorial by i3D Tutorials.  LINK HERE

*NEW* Cityscape Pt. 1 – Building True 3D objects -Learn how to make a 3D cityscape out of true 3D objects that you can arrange and then fly around with a 3D camera. Techniques featured are: Replicators, 3D cameras, shape tool.

LINK HERE

Solar Ring Motion Video Tutorial Part One LINK HERE

Volumetrix Light 3d Motion Tutorial LINK HERE

News at 8 Motion Tutorial LINK HERE

Moving onto the next phase, we give this critter some bones for animation… You will learn how to build a custom rig using bones and dummy objects… We also create some easy to use Eye Controls with simple constraints to help give our guy that all important emotion… LINK HERE

In part two of this series we’ll look at how to shatter the polygon object using Cinema 4D Explosion FX, add a glass material and image map to the face of the glass, and use an HDR image with the Sky object to create reflections.

Download Materials Watch LINK HERE

NEW 5 SECOND PROJECT!

This time, it’s all about constructive criticism. The theme for the week is “Something Good, Something Bad.” Submit a short project based on the theme. Then for the project you must comment on ATLEAST three other videos in the “Something Good, Something Bad.” Vimeo Channel. In the comments, say one thing that you like about their entry and one thing that could be better. Something Good and Something Bad.

After watching a piece, people have a tendency to say “Nice Work” (guilty) or “Wow, you animated that?” And, while it can be nice to hear encouraging words all day, it doesn’t do much to push you forward into better design and animation skills. Use these constructive comments to make your work better and better every time. Hopefully constructive criticism will continue though these Five Second Projects.

What is constructive criticism?
DON’T say “That Sucks.”
DO say “Great colors! The animation towards the end gets a little too fast. Try slowing it down.” Keep in mind, criticism can include ideas on how to make the piece better, not to insult their work. With that said, don’t be afraid to state your true opinion. Pulling punches isn’t helping.

What Are Five Second Projects?
We all want to make cool shit for our reel right? Sometimes you just need a theme to get you started. Use the theme “Something Good, Something Bad” to make a five second motion piece and link it in the comments of this blog post. “Shout Box” submissions will not be found and will not be added to the channel. Please be sure to post a link in this post’s comments to ensure Nick seeing it.

It’s really great to see so much participation. Tell a friend about the five second projects and get them involved too. Don’t forget to push yourself to try something new every week. What about a new piece of software or technique you have wanted to try?

DONT FORGET TO GIVE CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM!

In other news my article “La Grande After Effects Tutorial Roundup From Elsewhere” is at AEtuts+.  Make sure you check it out!

LINK HERE

Learn How to Create a Light Rays Custom Effect from Scratch by Jorrit Schulte – A custom effect is special kind of preset that looks and behaves like a plugin. It allows you to save a special recipe of plugins and keyframes into something that you can reuse with ease. Jorrit Schulte has been producing a bunch of these very useful custom effects and providing them for free at http://aenhancers.com. In this tutorial he breaks down how to create the incredibly popular light rays effect and how to package it all into a custom effect.  LINK HERE

Maltaannon has a cool video exploring the features of Zaxwerks new product SERPENTINE
LINK HERE

Forging Fire Studios has a new tutorial called “Swallowed By Light”.  Takes a lens flare and it kind of swallowed a text layer.  Looks similar to a TV turning on or off.
LINK HERE

Trish and Chris Meyer’s new book After Effects Apprentice has ANOTHER free tutorail… a Gentle Introduction To Expressions for you to check out.
LINK HERE

Dean Velez’s Motion Graphics Lab has a Writing With Water tutorial.  Simulating a write on effect with water flying everywhere.
LINK HERE

Red Giant TV Episode 19 is from Eran Stern of SternFX.com.  Taking the inspiration from the new Star Trek movie, he teaches you how to create the transporter effect.
LINK HERE

Carl Larsen has a killer tutorial over at Toolfarm on replacing the horizon on a shot to use with Matte Paintings or stuff like that using Mocha.
LINK HERE

One more from our buddy Carl Larsen… the second half of the Tracking a Child Series over at the CreateCow.net AE Podcast.

LINK HERE

Aharon has a tutorial that I missed a couple weeks back… It was a follow up to Better Compositing with LightWraps… very cool stuff.
LINK HERE

FINALLY Harry has a new tutorial up… and its pretty freakin awesome.  Reverse Shatter Effect In AE, heavily reliant on Expressions and uses some Adobe Illustrator.
LINK HERE

Video Copilot – Ancient Titles
Very cool tutorial showing an alternate way to make a real looking drop shadown, and make particles only appear where light “would actually” be in your scene.  LINK HERE

Video Copilot – Soft Shadows 3ds Max
check out how to create soft shadows using a specific light array, as well as animate letters individually for a cool looking animation.   Also VCP is having a sale on their products… 20% off this Monday, coupon: HOLIDAY.  LINK HERE

In this 3 tutorial series we’ll look at how to build a glass shatter effect using Illustrator, After Effects and Cinema 4D. This section includes capturing the template in After Effects, creating paths in Illustrator and setting up imported splines as polygons in Cinema 4D.  LINK HERE

In this lesson we will learn how to use Maya 8+’s History to create an interesting effect.
LINK HERE

In this lesson we will learn how to transfer a UV set between two polygon objects that do not have the same number of points in Maya 8.5+  LINK HERE

In this lesson we will learn how to spice up a boring animation with squash and stretch in XSI 5+.  LINK HERE

In this lesson we will learn how to use lofting to create a NURBS mesh in XSI 4.2+.  LINK HERE

Creating a Teddy Bear in Blender Part 2

LINK HERE

Working with Curves in Blender

LINK HERE

Go over different shadow options and create some creative renders.  A quick method to adapt the “Soft Shadows” concept introduced by Andrew Kramer…but in Cinema 4d.  LINK HERE

Leather is one of the most used materials in the field of Furniture design. Especially for design of sofas or couches. It is quite easy to obtain a good leather material.  LINK HERE

This is an automated method that I discovered on how to create stairs. The technique can be used in any software. I hope it helps! LINK HERE

In this tutorial you will learn some of the basic concepts behind animating on a computer.  These principals can be applied regardless of the software package you prefer.  LINK HERE

@ PVC – Over on Artbeats.com, we’re starting a trio of articles on the use of color: basic color theory, ideas for how to select a workable color palette, and techniques for remembering and easily applying your chosen colors throughout a project. This month is the article on basic color theory, including some basics on picking colors including combinations that do or don’t work for text. LINK HERE

Ever used the caching that is available in certain tags and objects for Cinema4D?  Here is an introduction to the Point Cache Tag and Point Cache Deformer.  For this tutorial I thought I’d record a short movie.  LINK HERE

Looking on “Crashing Meteor” tutorial in Vue 7- Understending how it’s working, Advanced function editor, Adjusting settings…. LINK HERE
Also check out the Lighting Tutorials: Underwater & Make It Glow

Harry Frank has an awesome article online explaning in depth why After Effects uses the certain amounts of RAM, and how to get around it if you want more.
LINK HERE

Learn how to use Illustrator to break up a layer into pieces. Use expressions to automatically make the pieces move randomly into place. Watch the Tutorial | Watch the sample movie

fxguide TV Episode #59 is online now!  Along with a ton of other episodes I forgot to report on! haha
LINK HERE

In this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create a awesome force field effect in Adobe After Effects – with no 3rd-party plug-ins. He’ll also cover some basic color correction techniques.
LINK HERE

Create a Geometric Color Explosion by Wes Kandel

* Learn how to model a basic Snail character from scratch using basic MeshSmooth Modeling in 3DStudioMax…
* Start with some primitive box geometry objects and finish with a smooth, organic shape…
* Ideal for beginners wanting to tackle modeling in 3DMax…( Part1 of an ongoing series which incl. materials, rigging, lighting, etc)
PART 1 PART 2 PART 3

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Ново Посетете новият ни подобрен форум сега!	НОВ УРОК 05. Fireworks Opening
НОВ УРОК 3D Integration from Max to After Effects

I know that you all wait everyday with bated breath to see if I include a new post that day, but life just sometimes gets in the way.  I have been writing more and more at other sites, including my newest article which debuted at AEtuts+ on Friday, The Venti AE Tutorial Roundup.  Go over and check it out!  as for the rest, of those non AE tutorials, well here they are…

In this exciting 46 minute tutorial we will build a furious procedural disintegration using displacement maps, turbulent displacement and CC particle world. Be sure to stay tuned until the very end for a fun bonus video…

Watch Tutorial Watch Final Video

Fake Liquid in Cinema 4D – While there are other ways to create this same look, there aren’t any that are easier to comprehend for the novice C4D user.  In this movie tutorial, I’ll demonstrate a simple way to create some fake looking watery liquid stuff.  An object, a spline and Path Deformer Pro will get you on your way.

LINK HERE

Fake Liquid in Cinema 4D #2 Mograph Splines – While there are other ways to create this same look, there aren’t any that are easier to comprehend for the novice C4D user.  In this written tutorial, I’ll demonstrate a simple way to create some fake looking watery liquid stuff using MAXON’s new module called Mograph.  You don’t necessarily need Mograph to take advantage of the tutorial, but this illustrates the ease of use.
LINK HERE

Fake Liquid in Cinema 4D #3 Using Spline Animations -

If you really want liquid simulation, you’ll need more muscle power than the standard geometry and simple spline manipulation, but this week, I’ll offer another method which might provide you with an alternative solution.

LINK HERE

Mograph Splines – New Cinema 4D Module -

While there are several tutorials on the Mograph installation CD which begins shipping this week, I thought that I would produce a small project file with a few of the tools that you can easily reproduce.

LINK HERE

More Techniques for Better Light Wraps
By Aharon Rabinowitz

* Create Vector Based Sunburst Rays
* Import into After Effects for Motion Graphics

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Paint Effects – Get Settings from Stroke – Video Tutorial Overview – This video will walk you through Paint Effects Get the settings from a stroke in Maya.

LINK HERE

Paint Effects – Share One Brush

Video Tutorial Overview

This video will walk you through Paint Effects Sharing one Brush in Maya.
LINK HERE

Paint Effects – Flip Tube Direction
Video Tutorial Overview

This video will walk you through Paint Effects in Maya.

LINK HERE

Paint Effects – Template Brush Settings
Video Tutorial Overview

This video will walk you through Template Brush Settings with Paint Effects in Maya.
LINK HERE

By Richard Harrington

Article Focus:
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington shows how to perform depth of field blurring techniques using the lens blur feature in Adobe Photoshop CS4.

LINK HERE

“Creating a Pinbox: Part 1 – Modelling” by Rodrigo Paulicchi – In this two part tutorial on creating a pinbox model, I will show you how to go about modeling the main item from the frame to the pins, then I will conclude with showing you all how to animate it in part two. So let’s get down to it….

120. Alien desert. For Vue 6 and 7
Creating dune world.
Tips and tricks with sun.
Steam punk flying ship from Peter Pohle. Get model here.
View Tutorial [english] | Mega Pack III.

Flaming Eyes -  2 Part Tutorial
Part 1 -  Learn the basics of motion tracking, and  learn how to use matte masks
Part 2 – Learn how to make a ring of fire using particle playground and learn how to use tracking data for multiple objects.

This tutorial and the one above it come from MurfInc.co.nr, or Minymurf  known on the VCP forums.

Here is a look at his first tutorial on creatinga  flying effect like in Heroes – LINK HERE

In this tutorial we will take an in depth look at many tools within 3D Studio Max. We will start by modeling a small container for our simulation, and then adding a very advanced shader to it. From there we will move to creating a dynamic and realistic animation utilizing Havoc’s Reactor. We will also take a look at lighting and basic scene setup for best results when dealing with FumeFX and PFlow. That will conclude part one of this tutorial. In part two (soon to come) we will look at the lock and bond operator from PFlow Tools Box 1, and the creativity extension for Max. We will also use PFlow to create a velocity based simulation within Fume. This is a good one so stay tuned. This tutorial like all of the others is best

viewed in its respective tutorial page.

Hey everyone!  I have been hard at work, setting up a green screen studio in my basement so that I can up the production level of the VLOGs.  I have some great ideas in mind… and the VLOGs are hopefully going to be a weekly thing once i get a schedule down.  In the meantime, you can check out the rad array of tutorials that I have been collecting this week, as well as read my weekly articles over at AEtuts+, as well as my latest – “A Concise Guide To After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts“.

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fineCG.com, a new site from Maltaannon, and his buddies at Polygon Studio are bringing you tutorials from all kinds of different aspects in the Visual Effects realm.   The first tutorial, called 3D Sport Animation, takes a 3D low poly model of a human and makes the whole body particles using Pflow and animates while it kicks around a soccer ball (football).  Check out fineCG.com HERE and watch the tutorial HERE and download the project files HERE.

Create a Breakup into Particles Logo Transition
Apr 13th in Motion Graphics by Lloyd
A very popular request is how to make a logo breakup into particles and reform into another logo. There’s many ways to achieve this and most of them require a full 3D application, but in this tutorial we learn how to achieve it all in After Effects using a 3D particle systems and a few smoke and mirrors.
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In this tutorial, Nick takes a photo of a streetscape during the day and turns it into a night scene. He takes us through the steps of darkening and colouring the image to look like night, and then creates a light source to turn the street lamps on as well as giving the light a fall-off on the road below.
To download the project file for After Effects, click here. You will find an After Effects project file and a still image to work with.  LINK HERE

In this tutorial, Nick shows us how to use the ‘Corner Pin’ tool in After Effects to sit a piece of video in a billboard. He also demonstrates how to use motion tracking and masking techniques to successfully sit the new piece of footage on a moving billboard and behind tree branches.  It’s a versatile technique that can be applied to a range of uses including: replacing letters on number plates, putting signs on windows and replacing existing video footage on screens with other footage.  LINK HERE

How To Use After Effects Masks As Custom Splines For Text Extrusions With Boris Continuum Complete 6

A video by Michele Yamazaki

Download a free demo of BCC6 | Buy BCC 6 | Learn more about BCC 6 in Toolfarm’s Plug-in Finder

Create the self-filling cup effect in After Effects

This film editing video tutorial will show you how to create the self-filling cup effect in After Effects.
LINK HERE

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Free RockGen Plugin for Cinema4D by Robert Hitzer
Via NinjaCrayon – RockGen is a free Plugin for Maxons Cinema 4D. With this plugin you can easily create random rocks.The process of creation is very in intuitive, controlled by a few parameters. Also, RockGen creates Materials automatically. Those contain one of three included textures in different channels for creating a maximum of realism.
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Upgrade any Trapcode product to the FULL SUITE for only $399, or upgrade any two products to the FULL SUITE for only $299! The full suite includes all 9 Trapcode plug-ins; Shine, Starglow, 3D Stroke, Soundkeys, Lux, Particular, Echospace, Horizon and Form!  Have SHINE?  Get ‘em ALL for only $399.  LINK HERE
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IPR in Maya vs. Render Region in XSI

In this lesson we will learn about the powerful and fast Render Region feature of XSI.

Uses XSI 5.0+  LINK HERE

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ASHLI Bump Mapping in Maya
In this lesson we will learn how to use ASHLI bump shaders to make a low polygon mesh look more detailed in real time. We will also learn how to use the Surface Sampler to generate a normal map from a high-poly mesh.  LINK HERE

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Inserting Joints in Maya
In this lesson we will learn how to insert joints within a bound joint chain without negatively affecting the bind.
Uses Autodesk Maya 2008+

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Maya and XSI Modules
Modules are groups of similar commands. For example, all of the modeling commands are under the modeling module. Try learning the shortcut keys of each module for a faster workflow inside XSI.

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Animating Water with Turbulence Displace in After Effects
In this lesson we will learn how to create a fake moving water effect using Turbulence Displace in After Effects.
Uses AE7+ 

LINK HERE
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This is chapter 4 of the nuke training series video. Maya is used to break down this project into proper pass structures for nuke. 
LINK HERE
This is chapter 5 of the nuke training series video. Nuke is show in regards to the separations of multi-channel EXR sequences. 
LINK HERE

This video covers a couple of the more prevalent user errors and their solutions. These errors aren’t due to Mudbox, but due to what could be termed ‘Pilot Error’.
LINK HERE

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In our latest 3dsmax video tutorial Michael Bauer shows us how to use wire parameters and limit controllers to rig lights in a scene.

LINK HERE

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Sketch Car - NEW
Cinema 4D • After Effects
• Sketch & Toon
• AE Set Matte
• Track Mattes/Object Buffer

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Welcome to the second tutorial in the “the basics” series.  In the previous tutorial you have learned the basics of the Cinema 4D interface.

In this tutorial you will learn how to add primitives to your scene, how to move your primitive around and how to change the size.  You will also learn how to use the different views and the coordinate manager.

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119. Material mapping. NEW 4/9/2009 Vue 6 and 7
* Exporting terrain map.
* Creating map in photoshop.
* Importing map in to Vue. LINK HERE

In this tutorial we will review two Fusion plugins. One from Speedsix and the other from The Foundry. We will look at basic and advanced compositing techniques using BSplines, color matching and perspective matching. Using the amazing plugin, Tinderbox, we will replace the sky in our footage and composite it to look realistic. The example is unlike the result yielded from the tutorial, as the example is stylized while the result from the tutorial is photo realistic.  As always the tutorial is best viewed from the tutorials page. LINK HERE

n this PFlow training video we will learn to make a procedural dust cloud underneath of a helicopter as it lands. This tutorial was a welcomed request on the site, and it gives us a break from technical training in order to get into a more project based learning environment. This video is a real world challenge to which we are to find a solution, and we will yield some good results without using any third party plug ins.  LINK HERE

Episode 16: Better Compositing with Light Wraps By Aharon Rabinowitz

Software Used: 3ds Max & Mental Ray
LINK HERE PROJECT FILES

@ MaxAfter.com -28. The Tunnel

A quick technique of creating a cool futuristic tunnel in After Effects.  Use effects like CC Cylinder, CC Vector Blurr, Fractal Noise etc. to achieve it
LINK HERE

In this episode of Photoshop for Video, Richard Harrington takes a look at a new feature in Adobe Photoshop CS4 called content aware scaling. This feature allows a user to define a region or a graphic to scale or not to scale when the image is resized, giving tremendous flexibility to not have certain parts of a photo distorted when other parts are stretched.

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Having both FCP and Motion in Final Cut Studio means more options for effects creation with your video projects — and FCS integration makes it easy to work with them together. Having Motion projects sitting on your FCP timeline even helps keep your projects organized! Our man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, shows just how easy it can be to take advantage of it all.

LINK HERE

From Nick Campbell at Greyscalegorilla.com  – The first video in the CSTools series where I will go though how to use all of Chris Smith’s endlessly useful, CSTools. Today we talk about the 3D Stroke. A Cinema 4D Tool he developed to emulate the Trapcode After Effects Plugin, 3D Stroke.  LINK HERE.  The 2nd video in the series deals with CSTools -  Action Cam… LINK HERE
Download the CSTools Here

Watch all of the CS Tools Tutorials

Don’t forget about Nick Campbell’s aka The Gorilla’s 5 Second Weekly Projects over at GreyScaleGorilla.com.  Gives you a theme and sparks your imagination to MAKE COOL SHIT!

Apr 6th in Motion Graphics by Markus Gustafsson

For this tutorial you’ll need to start out with a panoramic image. They’re not hard to create, you can get professional lenses and tripods to make some killer panoramics. I created this image using a digital camera on a tripod, taking a picture each time I rotate the camera a few degrees. I then used Photoshop’s Photomerge feature to create the image below out of 25 individual pictures.

Morphing with Optical Flow in Apple Motion

In this tutorial, I show you how to track the position of a parented layer using expressions in Adobe After Effects. Special thanks to Michael Natkin and Dan Ebberts for sharing their knowledge.  To track the position of a child layer, use this expression on the layer you want to effect.
L = thisComp.layer(”child_layer”);
P = L.toWorld(L.anchorPoint); where P[0] gives x, P[1] gives y,  and P[2] gives z

Apr 3rd in Articles by Topher Welsh

Eran Stern @ Creative Cow

In this video tutorial, CreativeCOW leader, Eran Stern demonstrates how to create flower trails using Trapcode Particular in this special holiday episode. You’ll also work with the light emitter and use 3D layer to obscure particles.

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R11 Cinema4D Tip 02

In this QuickTip, I’ll show you how easy it is to set keyframes with the HUD with R11.  Of course, you could create something similar in earlier version, but it was never this easy.  It’s a great way to use the most of your screen without navigating all the way back to the attributes window.

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R11 Cinema4D Tip 03
AutoKeyFrame can be your friend: don’t abuse the F9 KeyMany Adobe After Effects users expect other applications to set keyframes automatically for them each time they make changes to parameters. With 3D applications, that can involve creating multiple keyframes every time you click which could be terrible. But, there are some good ways to use Autokeyframe… some.

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R11 Cinema4D Tip 04

You know there are many different ways to use your materials, many different ways to create materials – well here are some easy ways to not only get your bitmap textures in, copy them to multiple channels, but also turn texture tags on and off without removing them!
You might know a few ways to manage your materials in CINEMA4D, but there are so many different ways to manipulate bitmap textures when you’re inside of C4D, that a simple refresher might help.
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After Effects Apprentice Video Tutorial #4

Animating text in After Effects.

In this fourth video, we show how to master Text Animators, including Range Selectors, the secret to creating cascading animations, and more. Click on the Play Video link below, and enjoy! (For the previous video on how to create and typeset text, click here.)

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From Alan Shisko -

“I recently uploaded a fun little ‘accessory’ project to my stable of AEP’s for sale at Revostock. It’s what I call a ‘motion widget’, which is to say it’s a project that you can use and adapt to solve any number of visual problems. It can be used for full-screen presentations, gallery sequences, a little lower third, maybe even a kind of ‘thought bubble’.” Take a look at the promo HERE.
TUTORIAL HERE.

Create an Elegantly Handwritten Text Reveal By Jurrien Boogert

In this tutorial you will learn how to animate a handwritten text sequence with ink bleeding through the paper to create an elegant old-world style title reveal.

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From Alan Shisko -

“You’ll need to download the font from dafont.com. It’s called “Homoarakhan” (for some reason) and it’s available for free HERE. Once you install the font, open up the After Effects project file (AE CS3 or later, available HERE) and sling some web!”

From Nick Campbell at Greyscalegorilla.com: Really great work last week for the Circle Vs Square Project. The work keeps getting better and better!  This weeks project is all about YOU. Everyone needs some personal pimping. Need to finally make that reel intro you have been putting off? Maybe you always wanted to see your name in lights? Now is your chance. Use this theme to make a short motion piece with your name or company’s logo and link it in the comments of this blog post. “Shout Box” submissions will not be seen. Please be sure to post a link in this post’s comments to ensure me seeing it and posting it. Can’t wait!

Episode 15: Better Compositing with Particles
By Aharon Rabinowitz
In this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a technique for placing layers inside the middle of a particle system – crucial to truly integrating your CGI effects with your live action footage or motion graphics.
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Product(s) Used: Trapcode Particular

In this lesson we will learn how to add Ease In and Ease Out to an animation in XSI.   Easy In and Ease Out are a principle of animation. Ease In and Ease Out are necessary whenever an object starts to move or stops. The beginning of motion has to be slower then the constant speed, because the object has to build up, or Ease In, to the movement.
Uses XSI 5.0+   LINK HERE

In this lesson we will learn how to use the Mesh Insert brush to add detailed geometry onto our model.

Topics covered in this tutorial: Accessing the Mesh Insert brush, loading a tool for use in the Mesh Insert brush, changing the elevation of the inserted object using BrushMod, dealing with common Mesh Insert problems.
Uses ZBrush 3.0+ LINK HERE

At StudioDaily.com -
Disintegrate Geometry Objects using Frantic Films Krakatoa and Autodesk 3ds Max

While this approach is applicable to any geometry object, in this example I use a Lamborghini model downloaded from www.turbosquid.com. First, delete any existing animation of doors and wheels. Create a camera and animate it to move around the car. Render an image sequence using any renderer like Scanline or mental ray. This is your projection map.
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Precomposed.com -01. Precomposed Flourish (13 minutes)
Import our flourishes as a PNG sequence
Colorize & change blending modes

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Precomposed.com -02. Texturize (23 minutes)

Creative techniques for texture use
Applies to After Effects, Photoshop, & more…
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In this in-depth tutorial, you will learn how to create a vast 3D city in After Effects using images from real buildings.Watch Tutorial    High Resolution Image

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17. Tennis Raquet February 21, 2009

Model a tennis raquet in 3ds max using splines and modifiers
Texture the raquet with Mental Ray
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In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to use After Effects to corral a crowd, or rather a flock, of birds that fly across your scene without the hassle of animating each one.

Interactive Tutorial Content

Click here to See Tutorial
download the files used in this tutorial.
View the finished effect here.

This video will cover some of the main concepts that my students seem to have trouble with when it comes to understanding how to generate a walk cycle for any character. We will look at many of my techniques for achieving this brand of animation most useful for game characters, but which can also be used to generate animation files which can be added and blended with animations at a later date. If you follow me through this tutorial you will understand how to use any software package to assist you in creating a character that has a solid walk cycle.
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In this video I demonstrate a brand new workflow to use every Photoshop brush file you own inside of Mudbox 2009. This workflow comes from a conversation I had with Dave Cardwell of Autodesk
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Download you Photoshop Action File here

The folks at GeniusDV have just published a 2-part introduction to working in 3D with Motion. Basic stuff, but a good gentle introduction.

Part 1 is here; part 2 is here.

If you really want to know how to work with 3D in Motion, be sure to check out my training DVD: Motion 3D Deep Dive.

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In this training video we will dive deeper into controlling our particles and getting them to move in a precise path, without using a spline. This has many benefits as it is, like all of our other techniques, completely procedural. We will utilize what we have already learned in the previous video and build it into a system where our particles start as a sphere, fly around a wall, form a cube, fly back over the top of the wall and reform the sphere. This technique is fully translatable and scalable. For a better view go to the tutorials page and click the corresponding icon.  LINK HERE

3D Video monitor effect
Learn how to create a stylistic monitor wall with a different piece of video playing in each monitor. Also learn how 3D cameras and camera behaviors work. Techniques featured are: 3D cameras, Replicators, Drop Zones, clones.

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Swamp metablob. Uses Vue 6 and 7
Creating metablob.
Adding custom material.
Animating metablob.  LINK HERE

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MaxAfter.com – 27. Knowing Earth

• Use bitmap and text layers to emit particles to achieve Knowing film effect
• Trapcode particular will read and emit particle text from the lava cracks
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Design an Awesome 80’s Inspired Title Animation

In this lesson we will learn how to use Rigid Bodies and Fluids together to create a dynamic popping cork.
Topics covered in this tutorial:
Setting up basic Rigid Body interactions
Changing the collision primitives
Learning how to use Fluids to move Rigid Bodies
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Tim Clapham was asked a question on www.fxphd.com on how to alternate between two colours on a set of stairs that someone had built.  He came up with three simple solutions that use the shader effector, the color shader and the multi shader.  Here is the file: