You can pick from any of those ten disk sets, and you get a data DVD with the HD and SD formats worth $349!  The only catch is you have to pay the Shipping & Handling which is a meezly $8.41 per DVD.  When you click through on the DVDs, you will see that you can click on each collection and preview the clips that they come with in their preview videos on their dedicated pages.   There are tons of different themes of flyovers and aerial footage to choose from!

So what are you waiting for?  Head over to FootageFirm.com and grab your collections that you can use for your projects, or whatever the hell you want, for only $8.41 a disk!  The whole collection is worth $3,490.00 at full price, so you might as well grab them while they are still in stock… there is only 500 available so get on it!  Be sure to spread the word by tweeting about this post and let your friends on Facebook know too!

Click the image above to be taken to the actual article on AEtuts+!

So make sure you guys hit up this exclusive Footage Firm deal, because you never know when you might need a certain type of music, and they have something for pretty much any scenario.

You might be thinking I am stupid that they are going to take my money, and that you couldn’t be paid to try something like this.  That’s cool with me, you don’t have to help out.  You are the reason I am doing this experiment.  I have checked out my particular site in question on ripoffreport.com, which they have some complaints, but people have gotten gifts; and I couldn’t find anything on The Better Business Bureau.  By the way, their name is TRAINN or Transcedent Innovations.

I am going to be conducting this investigation on YouriPad4Free.com.  If you click through you will be taken to my referral link.  The way this works is this:  They generate trial offers for certain businesses in which sometimes turn into conversions to full paying customers.  It is a pyramid marketing program.  The fact that people such as me are getting others to try out a service, generates income and therefore they can (in theory) provide free iPads or other gifts to people.  Now this is how it is going to work for this experiment.

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1. Sign up after clicking through my referral link
2. Next, you have to complete an offer.  The ONLY one I recommend is GameFly.com because I have already tested it.  Navigate to that offer… I believe it is on the third or fourth page.
3. Click through and sign up.  Yes, you do need to enter your credit card information, but I am watching my bank (as should you) to make sure no fraudulent charges are going through.  So far the last three days, I have been safe.   It is only $8.95.
4. Now go to GameFly.com and find a game to put in your queue.  The regulations on YouriPad4Free.com require you to enter a game in your queue to show that you are trying out the service.  You can try out more games to see if it is something you want to continue with too if you so choose.
5. You have to remain a member of GameFly.com for a minimum of 14 days, but I am recommending 15 just in case to receive credit for your contribution.
6. If you have signed up and completed these steps… EMAIL ME I will set a reminder on my calendar 15 days from the time you email me, to email you to see if you are satisfied with the service, and want to choose to continue using it, so you don’t forget and get billed for $16.00 next month.   Also, I will plug whatever you want, website, demo reel, Twitter, Facebook… for helping me out with this experiment.
7. That’s all you have to do!  There are a few things below to keep in mind if you do want to help out though…

• You can’t sign up more than once with multiple emails.  You have to have a different IP Address, Credit Card Information, Name, Address, Phone Number, all those things.
• Try not to sign up at an office, because sometimes all those computers on a network can have the same IP address.
• If you have ever made an account with this site before (YouriPad4Free.com) don’t sign up again.  You will void the chance of your referral working.

Now, to show that I am serious about seeing if this works… in the event that this doesn’t work and turns out to be a scam, I will personally pay each of you that are my referrals underneath me the $9.00 back via Paypal.  I actually really want this to work, because well, I want an iPad, I’m not gonna lie, but I want my curiosity to be settled, and lay that to rest.

Just to be clear, I am not posting this article as a walkthrough on how to cheat the site, or anything like that, I personally believe that this actually does work, just a lot of people are skeptical on if it is real.  I am actually doing this to prove to people that it will work and once you can see that I do have something new, people will be more inclined to actually go ahead with it.  And if I do get ripped off, well… we will know the truth.

Oh, and just to gloat… my Vlog was shot with my new Canon Rebel T2i 50mm f/1.8 lens!  LOVE the DOF!

You can pick from any of those ten disk sets, and you get a data DVD with the HD and SD formats worth $249!  The only catch is you have to pay the Shipping & Handling which is a meezly $8.41 per DVD.  When you click through on the DVDs, you will see that you can click on each collection and preview the clips that they come with in their preview videos on their dedicated pages.   There are tons of timelapses to choose from!

So what are you waiting for?  Head over to FootageFirm.com and grab your collections that you can use for your projects, or whatever the hell you want, for only $8.41 a disk!  The whole collection is worth $2,490.00 at full price, so you might as well grab them while they are still in stock… there is only 500 available so get on it!

25+ tutorials by noupe.com

30 tutorials by DeviantArt

Next 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.

25 tutorials by linuxhaxor.com

10 tutorials by kumailht.com

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!

Click Here

Looking for Maya tutorials? Click here for tutorials in my previous post.

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“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 film, 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.

Info & Details Download Modules

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…

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This is Umesh Patel.  He shoots a ton of footage, hosts it on rapidshare.com and lets everyone download it for free.  The footage he has is really useful for learning 3D tracking, wire removal, stabilization and green screen techniques.

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Digital Tutors – Animated Sweep Ribbon
In this lesson we will learn how to use an Animated Sweep to make a ribbon-wrapping effect.  Animation Sweep is a powerful way to create many curves quickly. By using a short MEL script to deactivate and activate the curves, it looks like our present is getting wrapped. Try using this technique to create other interesting effects!
Uses Maya 7.0+  LINK HERE

Digital Tutors – Animation Snapshot Trail
In this lesson we will learn how to use the Animation Snapshot tool to create a trail of objects in Maya.   Using Animation Snapshot will create geometry based on an object’s animation. By raising an object and rotating it in a circle we quickly create a DNA helix. Controlling the Animated Snapshot with an expression makes a cool animated trail. Experiment with this tool to generate interesting designs!
Uses Maya 7.0+     LINK HERE

Digital Tutors – Building a Soft Body Antenna
In this lesson we will learn how to use a Soft Body and an IK spline together to build a dynamically animated antenna.   Adding a Soft Body to drive an IK spline creates the follow-through motion of the antenna automatically. This is a nifty time-saver, because the antenna will animate itself. Soft Bodies with Goals are good tools to animate organic motion quickly, because they will always try to conform to your original model.  Uses Maya 7.0+  LINK HERE

Digital Tutors – Physical Sky Shader in XSI
In this lesson we will learn how to use a Physical Sky to simulate outdoor lighting in XSI.   The complexity of lighting an outdoor scene can be daunting. XSI has a simple solution to this problem: Physical Sky. This will not only light your scene, but will also create the coloring of the sky. Try creating a Physical Sky next time you need to light an outdoor scene!  Uses XSI 6.0+  LINK HERE
Digital Tutors – Working With Clusters in XSI

Topics covered in this tutorial:
Basics of Clusters
Naming a cluster
Applying deformers and materials to a cluster

Uses XSI 6.0+  LINK HERE

GreyScaleGorilla.com has a new After Effects GSGcast up…
Guide To Keyframes in After Effects:
Today, I will be going over the difference between keyframe styles. I concentrate on showing all the different styles of animation that can be done with only two keyframes.  Download the After Effects Project File to follow allong.
Topics Covered: Linear Keyframes, Easy Ease, Bezier Keyframes, Spacial Keyframing, Temporal Keyframing, Graph Editor, & Custom Animation.
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This new video tutorial shows you the basics of using BCC Extruded Text in Adobe After Effects. BCC Extruded Text belongs to the 3D Objects category of filters which is new to Boris Continuum Complete 6. These stunning OpenGL-based filters use vertex and pixel shaders that enable the generation of animated 3D shatter, bulge, bend, taper, twist, ripple, and wave effects. You can also create reflection or texture maps for the generated 3D text – from any image or video clip in the AE timeline.

LINK HERE

Create a Breathtakingly Awesome Rain Scene – Day 1 by Alex Verlan