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Sunday, January 04, 2009

Realistic Screen Compositing

David Torno | 01/04- 03:43 PM

Make your screen composites photorealistic

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Take your TV, computer and cell phone screen composites to the photo realistic level.

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Sunday, January 04, 2009

Syntheyes 101

David Torno | 01/04- 02:00 PM

3D Motion Tracking

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Learn Syntheyes, a 3D motion tracking application. I’ll show you step by step how to import, track, solve and export the track data as well as a few other pointers.


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Monday, December 15, 2008

After Effects CS4 New Features: Part 5/

Motionworks | 12/15- 12:49 AM

Some small but useful updates and time savers in AECS4

After Effects CS4 includes numerous less obvious features that are great general time savers. In this tutorial, we’ll take a quick look at the new 4:3 inside 16:9 safe guides, Separate Dimensions, Centre in View, Flip Horizontal/Vertical, Shape Layer’s new Wiggle Transform and more.  Watch tutorial

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Wednesday, December 03, 2008

The Top Ten Things After Effects Users Love and Hate about Motion

Mark Spencer | 12/03- 07:07 AM

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I teach Motion to a lot of After Effects users. Sometimes they end up in my class because they want to be there; other times their organization has sent them and they arrive kicking and screaming, ready for a fight. Either way, after clearing away a lot of misconceptions and getting them to actually use Motion for 3 days, I find almost every After Effects user comes away with a new respect for - and frustration with - this wonderful yet sometimes annoying application.

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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Animating a Sky Part 2 - Photoshop for Video

Richard Harrington | 11/30- 06:15 AM

Creating Moving Footage with Phtoshop and After Effects

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Instructor Richard Harrington shows you how to add an animated sky to your still photos using Photoshop and After Effects. Part 2 of 2.



Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Animating a Sky Part 1 - Photoshop for Video

Richard Harrington | 11/19- 09:48 PM

Combining PS and AE to make videos from photos

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Instructor Richard Harrington shows you how to add an animated sky to your still photos using Photoshop and After Effects. Part 1 of 2.



Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Business slow?

Mark Spencer | 11/04- 11:10 AM

It’s time to get busy.

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So the bursting of the housing bubble that led to the credit freeze that led to the stock market sell-off that led to companies cutting back on spending that led to the recession has now trickled down to freelancers like us. Which means you may have noticed your invoices are getting paid later, your projects are being downsized or cancelled, and client requests for proposals for new work are slowing to a trickle.

What a great opportunity.

Economic downturns come and go - and when they come, it’s a great time to finally take care of all those things you were putting off when you were busy making money. So, here are my three recommendations for how you can prepare for the next big upswing. When the phone starts ringing once again, you’ll be ready.

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Saturday, November 01, 2008

New Features in After Effects CS4: Part 4

Motionworks | 11/01- 09:14 PM

A look at the new effects included in After Effects CS4.

CS4 introduces us to 3 new effects: Cartoon, Bilateral Blur and Turbulent Noise. Bilateral Blur and Turbulent Noise are very similar to the existing Smart Blur and Fractal Noise effects. In this tutorial, we’ll take a quick look at these new effects and see what makes them different. Watch tutorial

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That Wasn’t In the Script…

Chris Meyer | 01/07- 07:02 PM

Beware: Scripts with UIs can crash AE CS4.

First, the bad news: There are two ways you ensure After Effects CS4 will crash on exit:

  • Boot AE CS4…
    NAB 2009: no RED tent

    Adam Wilt | 01/07- 09:49 AM

    First Apple and Avid, now RED

    RED Digital Cinema’s Jim Jannard has announced that RED…

    10 Most Innovative Concert Visuals ‘08

    Chris Meyer | 01/06- 06:23 PM

    Forget the big screen; I wanna create for the big stage…

    I have few regrets in life, but one is that I’m yet to have the opportunity to design visuals…


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