Archive of greyscalegorilla

30Nov2009

New Five Second Project: Home Sweet Home

Are you looking for a reason to make some cool shit? Well if you participated in the last theme: "Start With A Photo" you know this is a great reason to drop what you are doing and do some experimenting. This week's theme on Nick Campbell's Five Second Projects is "Home Sweet Home" pretty simple. Whatever comes to mind when you think of home sweet home, make a five second animation, post it to the Vimeo group, and wait to get some critique... you never know, you might impress yourself with what you create.

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09Sep2009
Author
Topher
Category
Roundups
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53 Tutorials! The Big One!

In this tutorial we will use the free plug-in Normality to add 3D light effects in After Effects. Using a simple Normal-Pass, we will also create stunning reflection and refraction effects with amazing speed and control. Check out Andrew's other posts such as his Guide To Normals and Abnormal Particles... Tutorial......

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30May2009
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Topher
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Contests, Updates
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Huge Tutorial Roundup!

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

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09May2009
Author
Topher
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Updates
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No Name Post #6

Alright, I know I haven't been the best about posting lately, but fact is, I have had a lot on my plate... which seems to be the same excuse I use every late post. You can check out my new article at AETuts+ called "31 Mind Blowing VFX Breakdowns"

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26Apr2009
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Topher
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Updates
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Good Sunday

Hey Everybody! Lots of cool stuff going on on my end. Me and Evan Schaible are joining in a collaborative effort to bring you some awesome PFlow and FumeFX traning. He has also started a new site, much like mine, but catered to the fluid particle end of the visual effects realm. You can check out his new site

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21Apr2009
Author
Topher
Category
Roundups
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Massive Teusday…

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,

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08Apr2009
Author
Topher
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Roundups
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Wednesday… Radness…

Create a Stunning Website Demo Presentation Apr 6th in Motion Graphics by Markus Gustafsson As our world moves more and more onto the internet there are lots of websites that are worth showing off. In this tutorial Markus shows us

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30Mar2009
Author
Topher
Category
Roundups
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Not too much for a Monday…

In the second part of this Photoshop tutorial series, Richard Harrington goes deeper into the camera raw interface. Richard looks at the tone curve tab which controls the contrast, the detail tab which controls the image sharpening and noise reduction,

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27Mar2009
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Topher
Category
Roundups
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Friday!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

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23Mar2009
Author
Topher
Category
Roundups
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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...

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