19Jul2010
Artbeats Sale In July! 50% OFF of EVERYTHING!
Who doesn't love one hell of a deal. Stock footage can get expensive... I mean, REALLY EXPENSIVE. Luckily we got the hook up for you to get 50% off of all the stock footage over at Artbeats, as well as a $100 credit towards even MORE stock footage! HELLS YES! (links and deets after the jump)
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New AEtuts+ Post! 63 Handwritten Fonts Roundup!
Its been a while since the last font roundup, and we decided to find some handwritten fonts for things like notes, chalkboards, scrawlings or whatever your creative minds tend to call for. Check out all the fonts on AEtuts+ with some rather good looking example images... if I do say so myself... (links after the jump)
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Free Stock Music CD’s Courtesy of Footage Firm!
Footage Firm is back with a ton of freebies for you to take advantage of, and build up your stock music library! You saw their backgrounds, time lapse footage.... now they have stock music. There are ten albums, all with at least 40 songs each to choose from, and like always, the only thing you pay is shipping! (check out the selection and links after the jump)
Continue Reading...Leave a Comment09Apr2010
Investigative Journalism with Topher Welsh
A lot of you have seen ads on Facebook or websites that claim to offer free gifts if you complete offers like iPads, computers, macbooks, HDTVs or whatever. Well, I have always wondered... what if? What if it really does work...so I did some research and this is what I came up with... (more after the jump)
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New AEtuts+ Post: 61 Fantabulous Fonts For Titles!
Oh snap! Another title roundup! I know how difficult it can be sometimes to find the perfect typeface for a piece that you are working on... and I know how easy it is to get lost in the sea of fonts that are out there. I took the liberty of taking the time to find some good looking fonts for use in your title productions so that you can spend that time on something more worthwhile... like designing! (more after the jump)
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Free Stock Time Lapse Footage From Footage Firm!
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!?!?!?! More free footage!???? Now THAT is what I am talking about! The guys at Footage Firm are back with ten new collections of timelapse footage for you to get your mitts on! This stuff is expensive and they are giving it away FOR FREE! check it out! (more details after the jump)
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Tutorials Tutorials & MORE Tutorials!
First up, Cinema 4D! Lots of users are adventuring into the 3D world, and C4D is helping them along the way. Below are a few links of compiled lists of the best Cinema 4D tutorials around. I highly recommend you check them out. Please note, some tutorials are repeats and some are in other languages. Blender Title N ext up Blender. Blender is an open-source 3d modeling, texturing, animating, and rendering application. It's completely free and is an excellent choice for starting out in 3d. Here are a few highly recommended tutorials.With my recent post of Vue 7 Pioneer, many users will want to get started straight away. Well the team over at geekatplay.com offer EXCELLENT tutorials for all things Vue. You will be making photo-realistic landscapes literally in a matter of minutes. Check it out below! maya Looking for Maya tutorials? Click here for tutorials in my previous post.
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Maya & Vue Stuff!
"Vue 7 is the most efficient and advanced solution for creating, animating and rendering natural 3D environments. It offers a high-end 3D scenery solution for SFX studios, animators, illustrators, architects, matte painters and CG professionals. It is strongly focused on power, productivity and inter-operability with existing toolkits." -e-onsoftware Vue has been used in many feature films, including Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3, Indiana Jones, and the most recent Australia. Until now, consumers would need to spend around $1000 to get all the good features, including Ecosystems, Importing and Exporting capabilities, Multi-Pass Rendering, and render farm support. Vue 7 Pioneer, originally a a closed beta of Vue 7 Infinite, is now a fully supported product of e-onsoftware. The best part, it's FREE! With only a few limitations, it's definitely an application worth checking out. And if you need to expand, you can buy modules (add-ons). Vue 7 Pioneer is available for Windows and Mac OS X (32 & 64 bit versions). I highly recommend you check it out.
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Monday… Lets Start The Week Off Right…
This is an awesome website by a great motion graphics artist in Bulgaria. Only problem is his tutorials are all explained in Russian. If you can follow though, you can watch the techniques used in the videos and figure it out... He has some great examples of stuff he has done...
Continue Reading...View Comments (2)04Feb2009
Maya 101
Here is an awesome website I found that will benefit almost any Autodesk Maya user, and possibly help out others with their 3d applications too. Swinburne University provides all the basic and need to know information for users getting start with Maya. With over 80 tutorials, they cover everything from 3d space, to modeling, texturing, lighting, animating, rendering, and even integration. And the best part, its all free and ready to stream online. All you got to do is follow the link below and enjoy! **The tutorials are a bit old. They are using Maya PLE 7, but the content can be applied to most other versions.
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