After Effects 7 Animation Techniques
Video-Based Tutorial
By none
In After Effects 7 Animation Techniques, Jeff Foster shares methods and best practices for creating fantastic animation. From setting up a camera and getting the right angles, to imitating the movement of the human skeleton and animating text layers, Foster explains everything you need to know to create and edit animations for the most realistic effects. In this segment Jeff demonstrates animating text layers in After Effects using Photoshop text layers with displacement.
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Using The Woodcut Effect in Corel Painter IX
Video-Based Tutorial
By none
In this excerpt from
Getting Started with Corel Painter IX, a training course from Lynda.com, Tanya demonstrates how you can use the Woodcut Effect to create beautiful artistic renderings from your photographs and digital art.
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Astute Graphics Phantasm CS
Product Review
By Dave Nagel
If you sat down and compiled a wish list for Adobe Illustrator, chances are that a suite of robust color adjustment tools would make it somewhere in the top five. It's such a basic, fundamental feature that you'd think somebody on the development side would have crammed it in there by now. (Give them time. Illustrator's only 20 years old. They'll get to it eventually.) But fortunately, Astute Graphics has come along with an affordable and robust solution to fill this void: Phantasm CS.
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imageSynth for Photoshop
Tutorial
By Ko Maruyama
Many people know modo. What some don't know is that the company who makes the premiere 3D software is called Luxology. In addition to the 3D modeling, animation and paint software that Luxology has created, they are now offering a new tool called "imageSynth" which works within Photoshop.
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Questions Answered 3: Illustrator Brushes
Tutorial
By Dave Nagel
Chris from the Bay Area writes in, asking about custom brushes in Adobe Illustrator: "... Is there a way to save a new brush to a custom brush library? I would like my new brush to be available at all times, not just in the file for which it was created." Yes indeed. In fact there are two methods you can use, each with its own advantages.
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Flash 8 Filters and Blend Modes
Video-Based Tutorial
By none
This tutorial from
Photoshop CS2 & Flash 8 Integration is designed to show you the most efficient methods to take advantage of the new bitmap features in Flash Professional 8 such as filters and blend modes
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From After Effects to Flash and Back, Part 2
Tutorial
By Kevin Schmitt
If you were with me for the last installment, you're already hip to the palpable excitement in the air that has already worked its way into a fever pitch. Today we're going to--wait for it--take the content we made last time in After Effects and put it all together in Flash. I, for one, can't wait, so let's get this party started.
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JUST THE BASICS
Tutorial
By Ko Maruyama
While there is a lot of control to be had by modeling using polygonal shapes and NURBS objects, there is no reason you can't start your exploration of CINEMA 4D software with some serious modeling using only primitive shapes and some simple modeling tools. I put my assistant, Will Goodan to the task of modeling as much as he could without using splines, NURBS or editable meshes. For rigid objects like this speaker, primitives worked just fine.
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Incorporating Alpha Channel Video in Flash
In this excerpt from the lynda.com training course Flash Professional 8 Video Integration Lee Brimelow demonstrates how to add video overlays into your Flash productions using alpha channels.
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Mel Gibson, Trash Talk and Mobile Syndication
Mel Gibson stepped up just when I was looking for a subject for my CFC cartoon series that airs specifically on cellphones. CFC stands for "Celebrity Fart Challenge". Gross yes, but it pays the bills.
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