Were talking like 30 Film Dirt & Scratches, 46 Ink Plumes, 80 Animated Arrows, 115 Animated Paint Strokes, 53 Animated Spray Paints, and 43 Animated Paint Splats!  I mean, that is a lot of elements, and variety in those elements to choose from!   And the best thing, is each type of element is its own package, so you don’t have to buy everything together, just to get, say a selection of arrows.

All the packages are really well created, providing AI and EPS files, as well as the Quicktimes that go along with them in animation form.  All pre-keyed, with alpha channels so there is no messing around with that stuff.  All elements are in 1080p and are ready to rock for your convenience!

Along with these Motion Graphic and VFX themed packages, they also have Vector Imagery, RampanTV tutorials, Texture and Photo products, and After Effects Templates available as well!  They seriously have something for every type of project…

Check out their product videos for some of their latest products, and head over to their website and see what you can use for your own productions!

Film Dirt & Scratches – $29.99

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Ink Grows & Flows – $69.99

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Animated Arrows – $59.99

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Animated Paint Strokes – $59.99

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NBC Peacock by nathanlovers

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Coca Cola Burn Ignite “Ride” video by adnewsaust

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The Star Trek Soldier of Fortune Challenge

It´s stardate 2258, James T. Kirk has been charged with mutiny and has been marooned on the planet Delta Vega by Spock, who is now the commander of the starship USS Enterprise. Fortunatly for Kirk, Starfleet has hired a soldier of fortune and sent him to find and rescue Kirk! Planet Delta Vega is a bleak and barren ice planet, filled with countless life threatening dangers!

To move quickly on the snow, the soldier will be riding a next generation snowboard with plasma thrusters and a anti-gravity engine. He is also wearing a force field based spacesuit which surrounds him with an invisible barrier that keeps out the extreme cold and allows him to move about freely.

Your challenge is to re-create this hostile environment and integrate the supplied video footage depicting the soldier travelling at speed on his board, tweaking it to match the Stardate! You will also need to show that the soldier is fleeing from a natural, mechanical or alien disaster of your choice so let your imaginations run riot!

You can introduce 2D or 3D elements, modify the video footage we supply and use your matte painting skills if you so wish. The only must is that you will need to generate realistic ice and snow to ensure that the scene is as real as it can be! Put your VFX skills to the test by creating the scene as you see fit!

Click here to go to the contest thread on VFXTalk.com to find prizes and official rules!

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Aharon Rhabinowitz from All Bets Are Off Production and Red Giant Software and myself had a similar idea: doing some tutorials on sound design with the tools available to most motion designers. In this tutorial, we both demonstrate techniques on creating backwards reverb. Aharon shows you some techniques common to most editing tools, and I do the same thing in After Effects.  LINK HERE

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Create a colorful disco tunnel using shape layers and matching the look to a video footage using the color link effect.  LINK HERE

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FilmMakerIQ always has huge roundups, this time they have compiled 222 Apple Motion Tutorials for you to check out!  LINK HERE

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Dennis Radeke of the Genesis Project has Adobe Beginner Classes Episode #26 which teachs you how to make semi-realistic fog inside of AE.  LINK HERE
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Taken from AEportal.blogspot.com – Chris and Trish Meyer have released After Effects Apprentice Video Tutorial #9 onto PVC.  This short video ‘provides a jump-start for using the vector-based Shape Layers that were introduced in After Effects CS3. It demonstrates how to create “parametric” and “path-based” shapes (using the Mask and Pen tools, respectively), setting the color for fill and stroke (including creating gradients), editing shapes, adding shape effects, and how multiple shape paths and groups interact within the same Shape Layer.  LINK HERE

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CC Time Blend FX was originally published as part of the Final Effects plug-in set, but is now included in After Effects as one of the Cycore (CC) plug-ins. In his recent Unplugged interview, Total Training founder and After Effects legend Brian Maffitt discusses the Total FE (Final Effects) training series and how he used Time Blend FX to make realistic smoke and plasma. LINK HERE

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In this Adobe After Effects: Effects A-Z tip, special guest presenter Topher Welsh gives a brief tour through the Auto Color, Auto Contrast and Auto Levels effects.  LINK HERE

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Aniquito.com is finally launched, which is a tutorial site dedicated to VFX and Dynamics!  This tutorial is to create lava, (Maya Blobby Classical Particles)  LINK HERE

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Learn how to make an animated extrude along a curvel in Maya.  LINK HERE

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Learn how to create table cloth using soft bodies in Maya.  LINK HERE

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CGSutra has 5 new tutorials on the new features of Fusion 6:  Introduction to Domain of Definition, Learn About DOD Tools, Introduction to Region of Interest, Learn About Stereo 3D Features, and Learn about the Anaglyph Tools and how its used in Stereo 3D.

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Oldie but a goodie:  Barbecue Design created an amazing commercial for Lexus Toyota Hybrid Drive using After Effects and Trapcode plugins. Ruediger was nice enough to put together a three part tutorial on how he did a lot of the effects in the commercial.  LINK HERE

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Intro to Physics and Dynamics in Mograph 2 – In today’s tutorial, Nick shows you how to set up the tags properly for Dynamics in Mograph 2 for a simple scene. He also goes though how to cache the cloners in the scene for render.  LINK HERE

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The Correct Way To Use Audio In After Effects – In this tutorial, Nick shows you the proper way to import and interact with audio in After Effects. He shows you how to convert your MP3s into AIFF files using Quicktime. He also, shows you the proper way to do fades and cross dissolves using Plugins.  LINK HERE

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Understanding 3D and 2D Layer Order in AE – In this GSG Cast, Nick tries to make sense of how layer order effects visibility in After Effects when using 2D and 3D layers. There is also a tip on how to force a 3D element into place by using 2D layers. Enjoy!  LINK HERE

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Nick also was one of the people creating a tutorial for the new Cinema 4D R11.5 launch, check out this hub for a ton of tutorials on exploring the new features of R11.5.  LINK HERE

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Compositing With Color: Matching Footage with Color Channels – By Chad Perkins.  In this tutorial, explore how to get a better composite by adjusting the individual color levels of elements so that they match the underlying footage.  LINK HERE

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Pull The Perfect Key – In this tutorial learn to use Primatte Keyer Pro 4.0 and Key Correct Pro to tackle the toughest keying challenges with confidence and in record time. Begin by using Key Correct Pro’s pre-key tools to prep your footage for keying in the powerful Primatte Keyer, then touch up your mattes in Key Correct Pro for pixel-perfect results within After Effects.  LINK HERE

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Learn to Make a Custon 3D Wall Text Reveal – By Roman Komurka -  Using basic AE tools and some expressions you will learn how to create this 3D wall made of custom shapes and a nice laser beam to reveal your text.

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Integrating Cinema 4D into After Effects – by Eddie Bodganov -  The more you get into After Effects, the more you realize how cool it is to bring in stuff from outside the program. This tutorial shows how take a scene from Cinema 4D and bring it over into AE. After Effects is a compositing program and this is a perfect example of how to take a basic animation and add some “after effects“!

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Animate Your Logo Into Characters – By Chaithanya Y -  In this tutorial, we will learn some of the cool new features introduced in Trapcode Particular v2.0. Inspiration for this tutorial is from the logo reveal of the Digital Domain Animation Company. It may not be as good as that (since it had been done completely using a 3d software), but I thought to give it a try in After Effects.

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Put Together a Realistic District 9 Composite – By Youssef Sarhan – Adding outside elements into a scene can be a tedious endeavor. Today we’ll be shown a few different compositing tips as we superimpose the space ship from District 9 into our shot.

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Model a Photorealistic Boss Tu-2 FX Pedal in Modo – Day 2 – By Matt Brealey – In this two-part tutorial (visit Day 1), you will learn how to model the Boss Tu-2 FX pedal using Luxology’s Modo 302. Taking advantage of Modo’s workflow enhancing toolset, the model will be highly detailed, and suitable for close up renders from any angle.

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Sculpt a Lifelike High-Poly Rhinoceros in ZBrush – By Daniel Holden – In this tutorial you will learn the key theory behind how to set up your low poly mesh appropriately, and the best way to go around sculpting to get the desired level of detail. This tutorial covers the creation of a Rhino, but when you are finished, you should be ready to start sculpting any organic model you like.

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How to Bake a Flawless Normal Map in 3ds Max – By Racer445 – In video games, resources are always on a tight budget. Normal mapping allows the artist to achieve the look of a highly detailed model, while still using a very low triangle count and relatively small texture sizes.

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How To Create an Awesome Fire Effect Using Maya Fluids – By Alan Monroig – In this tutorial you will learn how to create a fire animation inside Maya, and adjust the settings for your own projects. We will create the fire from scratch using Maya Dynamics and Fluids. The fire animation we will create can be rendered using both Maya software and Mental Ray.

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Create a Rocky Video Game Terrain in Blender – Day 1 – By Roberto Roch – In this series of tutorials you will learn how to create a finished environment for Blender’s Game Engine. The main focus of the series will be texturing and lighting, with the use of some custom 2d filters to enhance the result.

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How to Export 3D Camera Data from C4D to AE – Day 2 – By Harrison Ambs – The key to good project management is workflow, and also to ensure that all your pieces and parts will all come together in the final assembly. Design is no different.  This tutorial deals with some more advanced compositing techniques, and hopefully after watching the first tutorial, you’ll have a good grasp of the basics and be ready to dive into this 3 video tutorial featuring advanced compositing using tags, multi-pass renders, and expressions in After Effects.  LINK HERE

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Using Splines to Add  Detail to Your High-Poly Model in 3ds Max – By Ben Bolton -  Splines are an often-overlooked aspect of 3ds max when it comes to game art. Most people know that you can use a spline for a wire – but you can also use it for things like grooves, whole objects like handles, and even text! In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at some of these advanced ways that splines can be used to save a lot of time on tasks that would otherwise have to be done by hand.  LINK HERE

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An Introduction to Fluid Simulation in RealFlow 4 – By Eric Schilling – This relaxed tutorial will teach users how to work seamlessly between RealFlow4 and a 3D package (3ds Max 2008). It will cover how to create fluid and rigid body simulations, import and export SD files, initial states, mesh filters, 3d modeling and much much more.  LINK HERE

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Create a praying mantis in Blender.  LINK HERE

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Using nCloth with character animation in Maya.  LINK HERE

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Create a rock shader in 3ds Max 2010.  LINK HERE

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Enhanced Reflections with HDR Images in Blender.  LINK HERE

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After Effects Glassy Strings BG From Noise Junkies:  Use CC Glass and other plugins to create a stunning looping bg, and learn some looping techniques with Form.  LINK HERE

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Maya Composite 101 (Based upon the Autodesk Toxik Software)This will familiarize you with the Toxik UI and workflow.

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Scorpion Production Workflow

Kenichi Nishida describes how he meticulously created the basemesh before taking it into Mudbox for hires detailing, then preparing for the UVs and exposing how he generated all those tiny little hairs throughout the…  LINK HERE

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Mudbox Tecniques for Props #1 – Wood

A first video concerning sculpting techniques for your props. LINK HERE

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Mudbox Techniques for Props #2 – Stone

a second video concerning mudbox sculpting techniques..this one is about stones..and perhaps a bit too long   LINK HERE

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This tutorial from Everything FX demonstrates how to make objects melt in blender and use reactor particles to create rain and missile strike effects.  LINK HERE

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Double Rainbow Photoshop Screencast – Watch how this dude creates some awesome HDR Panoramas.  LINK HERE

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While I wasn’t buzzing around shooting things at 300fps on Beach day, I managed to take a few pictures a few minutes before we all packed up. One of my friends brought this AWESOME inflatable rainbow star. This is the best shot of the bunch, but the original photo needed some more punch to make it more interesting. So, I decided to screen-cast the entire 2-hour photoshop session, and speed it up into this 4:25 video.  LINK HERE

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Tip: Create Spinning Text with Specular Highlights–Pt.1

In this tutorial we use Cinema 4D and Mograph to create spinning text with specular highlights.  LINK HERE

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Tip: Creating a Wet Map in Realflow

In this tutorial we go over how to use the wet map feature in Realflow. Part 1 LINK HERE Part 2 LINK HERE

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Tip: Using a Proxy Object in RealFlow

In this tutorial we use go over how to use a proxy object in RealFlow to speed up workflow.  LINK HERE

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Tip: Using the Hinge Constraint to Open a Door In RealFlow

In this tutorial we go over how to use the hinge constraint to open a door in RealFlow.  LINK HERE

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Tip: Creating a Jelly-Like Substance in RealFlow

In this tutorial we go over how to use Realflow to make a jelly-like logo.  LINK HERE

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“Wounded Ork” by Dorian Bushi – As this is a making of article, I’m not gona cover every step of the creation process of this image. I assume you have some basic knowledge in 3D in general, and basic to intermediate level for all the 3ds max users.  LINK HERE

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Making of “Medkova” by Fabio M. Silva – Tutorial about making of Klara Medkova image, also published in Ballistic’s Publishing Exotique 4.  LINK HERE

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Making of “The Package They Carry” by John Strieder – Learn how John created this awesome peice of art in ZBrush.  LINK HERE
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Making of “Willpower” by John Streider – In his image a brave young girl who is in a situation she would never believe she’d come into, and then something unexpected happens that nobody would ever expect!  LINK HERE

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Episode 29: Form Text by Tim Clapham

In this Episode of Red Giant TV, Tim Clapham shows you how to use Trapcode Form to create some particle-based 3D text along with a cool transition on and off.  LINK HERE

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An Introduction to using Keylight with After Effects with Richard Harrington.  LINK HERE

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Create a Comic Book Effect – Learn to create an animated comic book effect – Requires Red Giant Toonit!  LINK HERE

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Energy Drink Part 2 – Eran Stern – Eran puts the final touches on this effect filled 3D spot using Photoshop Extended and Adobe After Effects.  LINK HERE

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Embryo Energy has finally arrived, I am very excited to show you techniques involved to make this effect. I think you are going to love the simplicity of this tutorial.  LINK HERE

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Learn how to animate joints with a Maya hair curve. Very nice rig with tons of control!! Use it creatively and you’ll find a lot of ways to use it… Plus its a LOT of fun!  LINK HERE

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Create a Retro Rainbow Waterfall Using 3ds Max and Particle Flow – This tutorial will show you how to use Particle Flow to create an outstanding 3D retro rainbow waterfall inside of 3DS Max! We will play with some basic objects and PFlow features to create some imaginative geometric shapes. So, let’s get started!

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I’m going to show you how to make a 3D text shatter effect. This effect is made in two programs, Cinema 4D and Photoshop.If you haven’t heard of Cinema 4D before it is a relatively easy to use 3d application, it is quite similar to 3dsMax or Maya. I will go pretty in depth with the Cinema 4D part, for all the inexperienced users, so bare with me if I go too slow. Now enough chit chat, let’s jump in.  LINK HERE

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

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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
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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.
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Trish and Chris Meyer’s new book After Effects Apprentice has ANOTHER free tutorail… a Gentle Introduction To Expressions for you to check out.
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Dean Velez’s Motion Graphics Lab has a Writing With Water tutorial.  Simulating a write on effect with water flying everywhere.
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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.
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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.
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One more from our buddy Carl Larsen… the second half of the Tracking a Child Series over at the CreateCow.net AE Podcast.

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

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Working with Curves in Blender

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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

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.

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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. 
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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
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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.

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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!

Four Candles, One Legend: Layering and Keying Footage

by Steve Holmes, Energi Design
(www.clickenergi.com)

See how to maximize an investment in one Artbeats HD flame clip to create 4 individual 3D candles to transform a basic, static scene. Learn as Steve reveals cool studio techniques such as Photoshop layer usage, flame keying, parenting, error correction, flickering 3D lights and shadows, and camera depth of field.

SAMPLE OF WHAT EFFECT LOOKS LIKE

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Nick Campbell has another GSGcast exploring even more aspects of Cinmea4D.  From Nick:  “Thanks to Chad Ashley at CGPOV, I finally understand how working in 2.2 gamma space can help achieve more realistic results. For the story, visit his post on the subject here.”
Download this Cinema 4D scene.  22gammascenec4d

In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at the camera raw interface. Many video professionals do not know much about the camera raw interface because it is a technology mainly used by digital photographers. The key advantage to using with a camera raw file is that the data is usually stored in the picture more than you can normally see in a single exposure.

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Combine Speed Ramping and Masking – After Effects Training

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Combine speed ramping and masking in After Effects to create a broadcast quality video sequence featuring VideoTraxx HD, DJ Fonts & Editor’s Toolbox.

Motionworks – In this 30 minute tutorial you’ll learn techniques and workflow used in Adobe After Effects and Illustrator to create the dramatic effect of the Batman icon shattering apart revealing a bright light source behind. Plug-ins used include Knoll Light Factory, Trapcode Particular and Shine. Thanks to Ko Maruyama and Jonas Hummelstrand for creative input.    Watch Tutorial

Digital Tutors – Creating and Modifying Shapes in AE

Topics covered in this tutorial:
Editing shapes during creation
Adding options to a shape
Creating multiple copies on a single shape layer
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In this latest collection of ZBrush video tutorials by Pixologic we will look into creating normal maps. We start off by creating a simple model in 3dsmax which we will then take into ZBrush to finalise.

To watch these videos we recommend using the VCL Media Player, Quicktime Player or Adobe Media Player click links to download.
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3Ds Max Lighting Series

Part 1

In this tutorial we’ll create realistic shadows with Mental Ray, from sharpen to soften.

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Creating Revealers with CTK Elements in After Effects

In this tutorial, learn to add a sense of mysticism to your project by using Compositor’s Toolkit smoke elements to reveal a background image, animation or video in After Effects.

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Create a Breathtakingly Awesome Rain Scene – Day 2

Mar 25th in VFX by Alex Verlan