If you are a Cinema 4D artist, or are learning some stuff about the program… you might want to check out this site and navigate over to Cineversity LIVE, and participate in some of the online show/seminars.  You can grab some helpful tips from industry experts.  You can also watch some presentation by previous experts from places like NAB.

It happens Wednesdays at 11am PST… so make sure you put it in your calendar and check it out!

Go over and check out FXGuideTV for the NAB coverage of the new version 2.0 of Trapcode Particular!  There are tons of new features for you to look forward to in the summer release.

LINK HERE

Don’t mind the villian-esque picture of Mark Christiansen, it is a shot taken from part of Eric Escobar’s Plugins Won’t Save You speech on MacVideo.TV.

Go check it out LINK HERE

From Ko Maruyama at Ninja Crayon

This project file is from R9 days (2005)

… but it still works in the core package of R11
(even tho’ DIRT isn’t around anymore)
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In this GSG Cast, Nick goes through how to use the Bloom tool from CSTools. The Bloom tool automates animation of objects “blooming” into the scene with rotation and scale.
Download the scene file and follow along
Download the CSTools Here
Watch all of the CS Tools Tutorials

Adjusting Pivot of Components
In this lesson we will learn how to move pivot points inside XSI 4+.
Pivot points are important for interacting with your objects they define the object’s center. Moving the pivot point is a useful modeling technique. Topics covered in this tutorial: Adjusting pivots of objects,  Accessing and adjusting pivots of components LINK HERE

Smooth Skin Weights Tool in Maya 2008+
In this lesson we will look into Maya’s Smooth Skin Weights tool to see how it can be used to quickly fix deformations on a bound mesh.

LINK HERE

Split Edge Ring Tool in Maya 7+
In this lesson we will learn about the Split Edge Ring Tool.

LINK HERE

Architectural Materials in XSI 6+
In this lesson we will learn about the mental ray architectural material in XSI.   The architectural material is great for simulating many different surface types. With the numerous parameters included in the architectural material, you have much more control over every aspect of the final result. This material even has built-in ambient occlusion.  LINK HERE

UVs in Maya and XSI
In this lesson we will learn the difference between UVs in Maya and XSI.   When a primitive object is created in Maya, it automatically gets assigned UVs. However, in XSI the UVs have to be created manually. UVs tell XSI where a texture should be applied to, so they are an important part of the texturing process.  LINK HERE

In this video tutorial, Creative COW contributing editor Carl Larsen shows you how to use the track a child expression to create an interesting title sequence in Adobe After Effects.

LINK HERE

From Abduzeedo.com  -   Hi, my name is Pascal Verstegen, aka Enkera from Noa Studios. In this tutorial i’m going to explain how easy it is for any photoshop users out there that create a lot of effects-added branding to transform their work into a great and simple animation using After Effects, presumably to spice up your client presentation or intro to your website.

LINK HERE

In this two part series, David Torno shows you how to track and composite a face onto another body using After Effects and Mocha AE. Learn some of the tricks and hurdles you may have to deal with when trying to produce this type of effect. A sad bit of news though, Bea Arthur died yesterday, April 25th, 2009. She will be missed R.I.P. Bea…  PART 1 PART 2

This is a series of tutorials on modeling the band Disturbed’s logo in 3Ds Max.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Maxon’s Cinema 4D now has a Youtube Channel!  Go and check it out and make sure that you SUBSCRIBE.

From IrvingLing.com – Tip of the day: From Adobe Illustrator to C4D
:::::C4D TIP: to transfer your path from Illustrator into C4D, save your work in Illustrator as a Illustrator 8 or lower file. Then just simply go into C4D and open the Illustrator file like how you would normally open a file.  Your path should show up as a spline and from there, you can work in altering the path points however you like::::: This is another piece I made a while back using C4D and added a few ink splashes at the back. I wanted to finish the series on my portfolio designs.
I drew the chinese character (which btw, means Ox) in Illustrator and imported it into C4D.

From IrvingLing.com – Freebie: 4 C4D Ribbon Render Pack 1 Welcome to my first freebie giveaway! Here I have 4 C4D Ribbon Renders available for download. There is no restriction for the files used and so you can use them for whatever you create. I made 4 renders for pack 1 but I can assure you that Pack 2 will have more renders in it.   Because C4D is an expensive program and not many people have them, here is the first of the many C4D render packs containing shapes, models, etc. If you want a certain shape in a 3D model, do leave a comment and I’ll try to add it into the next pack.

Metallic Text with After Effects

How to create a polished metal text effect using After Effects.

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This shows an easy to replicate way to capture the entire light rig of a scene and save it our as a high dynamic range image for use in Mudbox 2009. This enables you to get lighting that you never thought possible with a little thought and preparation.
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In this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you tips and techniques for creating interesting fire and water-based effects. This free After Effects tutorial is a must see for anyone who’s interested in transition effects!!!!!  GET A FREE SMOKE VIDEO CLIP TO FOLLOW ALONG WITH AHARON FROM OUR BLOG Topics covered in this free video tutorial:  Nesting and Pre-composing, Displacement Maps, Luma and Alpha Mattes, Gradient & Linear Wipes, Transition Effects, Looping Footage, Adjustment Layers, Text Treatments
Launch tutorial

From Cinema4Dvids.blogspot.com

Heres a BRAND NEW video tutorial on modeling a replica light saber. This wont be a 1:1 copy and to some hardcore fans may not even be up to their standards. But lets face it people your here to learn just as much as I am so i hope you have fun and enjoy it.

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Irradiance Particles and HDRI Rendering

In this video taken from our “Rendering with SOFTIMAGE|XSI v.II: mental ray” training product, we will get to see how to use the new irradiance particles indirect illumination algorithm and combine it with image based lighting using HDRI rendering.

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Working with ICE

Get a free look into the inner workings of ICE and production workflow in this video from the “Mastering the Art of ICE Volume I: Breaking the ICE” series.

LINK HERE

Overview of the ViewCube

3dsMax 2009 saw the introduction of the “ViewCube”. This useful tool can be used to quickly and easily change your view angle with the click of a button. In this video, we will look at how to use the ViewCube.

LINK HERE

Select Actions from the Hotbox

Probably the greatest feature of the Maya interface, the Hotbox, allows artists to access every tool in Maya.

LINK HERE

Tony at VFXSchool.blogspot.com has a free template for tracking markers:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ngeyydy2dow

Tony at VFXschool.blogspot.com has a free Motion pro Toolkit for all of you aspiring motion graphic artists!

Download: http://www.filesavr.com/motionprotoolkit

Hollywood Camera Work – Visual Effects for Directors  is a new DVD series coming out, but they have 4 chapters online for you to check out: How to Place Tracking Markers I & II, Crowd Replication, How to Receive Shadows and Light, and Shooting for Planar Tracking.

LINK HERE

In this lesson we will learn how to utilize the time-saving IPR render with mental ray in Maya.
Topics covered in this tutorial: Setting up the Render View to use IPR rendering with mental ray,  learning the difference between mental ray IPR and Maya Software IP.

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This week’s Five Second Project theme is “Hero”. Need an excuse to make something cool this week? Well, now is your chance. Use this theme to make a short 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?

Bottom line… MAKE COOL SHIT!

Need some more help getting started? Check out Nick’s After Effects and Cinema 4D tutorials.

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.
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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+ 

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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. 
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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’.
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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.

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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.

LINK HERE

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.

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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!

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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
LINK HERE

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:

Hey everyone, it is Friday and you know what that means!  My new article over at AE.tutsplus.com debuted today – 15 Inspiring Particle-Based Tutorials from Around the Web!  Make sure you go over there and check it out.

Also I have been uploading a ton of footage to my account over at VideoHive.net.  Me and the family went to the zoo last Sunday and got some killer footage of the Polar Bears, Sumatran Tiger, and a ton of other animals.

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Ko Maruyama aka Ninja Crayon

@MacAnimationPro

In this QuickTip, Ko will show you how easy it is to navigate your scene with R11. Of course, you could create something similar in earlier version, but it was never this easy.

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Using Lower Thirds Behind Logos

Editor’s Toolbox – After Effects Training

RELEASE DATE: MARCH 26, 2009

When is a lower third not a lower third? Any time you choose to be creative. In this tutorial learn how to turn a lower third into a background element for an animated logo in After Effects.
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No Alpha? No Problem: Xtracting Mattes

Compositor’s Toolkit – Apple Motion Training

RELEASE DATE: MARCH 26, 2009
Not every animation in your project is going to come ready-made with an alpha channel. In this tutorial, learn how to quickly create a matte for animated falling snow in Apple Motion.
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How to Produce a Great Video Tutorial by Dirk Worring-Ramstoeck

By Dirk de Jong @ Creative Cow

In this video tutorial we show you how to employ the power of vertex shaders to warp, deform and even explode 3D extruded text using Adobe After Effects and the new 3D Objects from Boris Continuum Complete 6 After Effects.
LINK HERE

The tutorial uses Video Gogh, RE:Map and SmoothKit. Download a demo of all 3 RE:Vision Effects plug-ins here.
View the tutorial: Animated Impressionism in After Effects
Purchase Video Gogh, RE:Map or SmoothKit

This is a very common way of modeling a Car Rim so you may have already seen tutorials like this. I have chosen to record this using the program Camtasia Studio so that you can see me modeling this from from Start to End showing you some of my Techniques.  I converted the AVI Video to Flash to reduce the file size, so you will need to make sure you have Flash Player installed. The file sizes are still a little large so please be patient when clicking on the tutorial file.  Modeling in 3D Studio Max 7 but can be done in almost all versions of 3D Studio Max. Complete Tutorial is 52.44min  LINK HERE

Today, Nick Campbell runs through the basics of setting up a scene in Cinema 4D and rendering an image. We are gonna make this abstract sphere scene here using HDR lighting, The Mograph module, and Global Illumination. LINK HERE

Download the HDR Map and C4D Project file

Thanks to Chad Ashley for the HDRI Map.

GreyScaleGorilla’s Five Second Projects are a real hit!  Check out what has been entered so far, and go enter your own design!  The least that can happen is you get some cool shit to put on your demo reel!  LINK HERE

Stu Maschwitz, the genius that he is, has found a way to convert H.264 Quicktime to a format that Playstation 3 can read.  LINK HERE

If you haven’t checked out ProLost, Stu’s site… here is the link.

Also if you are a Twitterhound, make sure you follow him as well… TONS of cool resources he  tweets.  5tu on Twitter
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From FXGuide.com – red centre #028
Listen | Right-Click to Download | Download Show Notes

Mar 16, 2009 – We discuss Red and Avid news, Scarlet in the flesh, ratholes and revisit Jason’s post issues.

I know its not too much VFX related, but the RED cameras are sexy as hell, and one o the cameras that are becoming quite popular, especially with the release of the new line.

Create a Mysterious Smokey Logo Reveal
By Adam Everett Miller

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Digital Tutors – Customizing the Modo Interface

In this lesson we will learn how to customize the user interface using Tabbed Viewports.  Topics covered include modifying viewport settings and creating a new tabbed viewport

Uses Modo 301+
LINK HERE

In this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to take the Crowd Control Footage (or any 25P footage) and quickly conform it to 24 P (Film Frame Rate)  using eithe Adobe After Effects or Final Cut Studio. Also covered are some workflow tips for After Effects for quickly setting up Renders.

LINK HERE

Episode 12: Form Face – Part 2 By Maltaannon
In part 1 of this tutorial, Maltaannon showed us how to create an awesome push-pin 3D face, using Red Giant’s Trapcode Form. In part 2, he’ll enhance the effect by going deeper into Form’s properties, and doing some camera work.
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Product(s) Used: Trapcode Form

In the latest collection of ZBrush Tutorial Videos by Pixologic we will show you all about ZSpheres and how to use them. Later on in we will put what you have shown you into use by creating a simple human, hand and quadruped models.
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Building an EKG graphic in Apple Motion 3

This tutorial takes you through the steps of creating a heart monitor graphic (also known as an EKG).

Instructor uses Apple Motion 3.0.2.

Techniques feature include:  Paint Stroke Tool, Shape Styles, Keyframe Edit Tool.
LINK HERE

For Fanboys/Girls Everywhere – Star Wars Crawl in Apple Motion

This tutorial builds arguably one of the most famous title sequences in film history from scratch.  It focuses on accuracy to the original title crawl from Star Wars.

Techniques featured are:

Particles, Vector Graphics, 3D Camera
LINK HERE

Rotating Earth in Apple Motion

Earth as viewed from space.

Learn how to create a round, rotating planet Earth from NASA images.

Techniques featured are:

Sphere filter, lights, masking
LINK HERE

Create a Beautifully Animated Faux 3D Flower Scene

By Tan Wei Yan

Digital Tutors – PhysX Dynamics Engine

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This 1 hour on-demand e-seminar covers some basic techniques, some little-known techniques and plenty of handy workflow tips for using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator with Adobe After Effects. Click the thumbnail to view full size images.   Watch e-seminar Download project.  ALSO: This After Effects CS4 background is based on a 3×3 Grid created in Adobe Illustrator.  Download project.

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BCC Smooth Tone is an image restoration filter that smoothes out skin imperfections while maintaining image detail and contrast areas such as hair and eyes.  This tutorial from Paul ezzy goes over the basics fo applying the filter to a clip in AE and provides a brief lesson on how to use PixelChooser to increase the filter’s effectiveness.

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Create Your Own Private Ryan Scene – DAY 2

On day 2 of this charged tutorial, Michal will try to give you some insights and hints about gun firings, ricochets and keying out soldiers to clone and paste them in to moving footage.
So, needless to say… just LOCK n’ LOAD!

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In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a closer look at smart objects in Adobe Photoshop CS4. A smart object is an embedded copy of the original object in your document, this allows you to place large images or vector graphics into your Photoshop project and then scale it up or scale it down without worring about losing the original file resolution.
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In this tutorial MaxAfter.com teaches you how to create liquid interaction with 3d objects in RealFlow and 3ds Max.  Also we will explore how to export objects from 3ds Max into Realflow to create liquid simulation.

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Jonas Hummelstrand over at General Specialist has a list of updates and fixes for After Effects and Premiere Pro CS4

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Scott Frizzle has a bunch of cool presets/projects for Trapcode Particular that include impacts, splatters, novas, and sperm… yes sperm.  There is also an FFX preset called Quaker, which has nothing to do with pilgrims or thanksgiving… because that would lamesauce.

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Nick Campbell is a guy that I have just recently started watching his daily podcast over at greyscalegorilla.com.  He is a designer at Digital Kitchen in Chicago, and is VERY talented.  This is a link to his really informative video entitled “How To Be Creative… And Get Paid”.

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Nahuel has a new preset called AutoTitles.  You can use the prest to acheive advanced trailer titles and create cool design and manipulate the powerful preset.  LINK HERE.  Also there is this link that goes to a page about exploring the features of this new preset… LINK HERE

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Dean Valez at Motion Graphics Lab has a tutorial on making a faux-3D stroke effect in AECS3.

CHECK OUT LINK HERE

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In this new tutorial we will build a chrome ring in After Effects with an elaborate particle wipe.  You’ll learn a new expression and build an anamorphic lens flare. The tutorial uses Trapcode Particular but I also show you how to set it up with CC particle world as well.  Watch Tutorial Watch Sample Video Also some other stuff from VCP this week…  Download Free Rain Sounds Download Free Hearts V-Day Project (CS3+)

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The most expressions are written in english…  If you’re running your After Effects in a different language these expressions will cause a bunch of errors.  With this .jsx you can translate it to your language.  This script supports English, French, German, Italian and Spanish versions only.  DOWNLOAD

You’ve probably seen other old TV effect tutorials before but in this tutorial Greg pays attention to minute details like the RGB pixel separation and teaches us how to achieve this look using all built-in After Effects tools.

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AAEuser on Youtube has a 2 part tutorial for creating an IceMan effect in… you guessed it… After Effects.  Part 1 is on youtube, while the second part is hosted on Vimeo… don’t ask why… I have no idea.

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In part 3 of this series learn how to use After Effects Shape Layers to add dynamic and organic, self-animating elements to the background.

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In this tutorial we’ll use the Spacing Tool to distribute objects based on the current selection (domino object) along a path defined by a spline and use reactor to make the falling domino FX. LINK HERE
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Text to Smoke Using Trapcode Form

In this After Effects free video tutorial, we’re going to show you how to make text disappear into thin air. Using Trapcode Form we’ll go from a solid shape to little puffs of smoke that whisp off into the air…much like money these days, OMG!

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Welcome to the first tutorial in our “the basics” series. This series of tutorials is designed to teach you the extreme basics of Cinema 4D and is a great way to learn Cinema 4D for everyone that has never used Cinema 4D before.

In this tutorial we will cover the Cinema 4D interface, we will go through all basic menu’s and button explaining what they are and how to use them.
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In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington gives some tips on how to fix an underexposed or overexposed image using the shadow / highlights command in Adobe Photoshop CS4 and goes through each of the advanced settings to give great understand of how you can harness the power of this adjustment tool. The shadow / highlights filter can also be used on Smart Objects in recent versions of PS, expanding the way you can dynamically utilize this tool. LINK HERE

In this episode, Aharon shows you how to turn your video into an animated watercolor painting, and shares some techniques in varying the look and color.

View Tutorial |  Project Files |  Example Video

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