Focus on Blur By Miwa Hirano
In a few steps, a very straightfoward graphic created in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator can be transformed into a fluid moving background for use in motion graphic designs. When the client provides specific artwork, and requests it to be used, here's one way of blurring the boundaries of the "use" definition....Read More »
RAINDROPS IN AE By Steve Toyama
Ame, ame, fure, fure..." Rain, rain, fall, fall. It's the season for rain in Los Angeles. While we do have falling leaves here, and other seasonal icons, most Angelenos think of "rain" as a winter season icon. In this tutorial, Steve Toyama takes you through a procedure to make wet pavement. ...Read More »
Knoll LF Training By Ko Maruyama
Now that Knoll Light Factory is available for every popular professional application, including Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Eyeon's Digital Fusion, Autodesk Combustion, Smoke, Flame, Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Avid, editors and compositors need to know how to use it effectively....Read More »
C4D RELEASE 10 By Ko Maruyama
If you're still running a previous version of CINEMA 4D (and at the time of this article, you probably are), you can check out my older article about setting up new commands (click here), but MAXON's CINEMA 4D Release 10 makes things a whole lot easier. Here's how....Read More »
3D Ghosts Sheets By Ko Maruyama
In the world of broadcast promo, it's been a mad push for fall campaigns all summer long, and chances are that you've already finished your Halloween campaigns by now (and they're airing), but if you haven't, here's an easy way to create some 3D 'bedsheet' ghosts with CINEMA 4D's MOCCA module....Read More »
First Look: Wolverine ESP Professional Portable Media Player By John Virata
The Wolverine ESP is a portable media player designed for professional and digital photography enthusiasts who also enjoy listening to music, watching videos and recording TV and FM radio on a single device. ...Read More »
Animating Materials By Ko Maruyama
There are several parameters that most C4D users are comfortable animating. Obviously position, scale and rotation, the basic transformation attributes are easily modified and animated, but what happens when you want to animate a texture. You have multiple options. ...Read More »
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....Read More »
Flash 8 Filters and Blend Modes
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...Read More »
imageSynth for Photoshop 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....Read More »
JUST THE BASICS 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. ...Read More »
From After Effects to Flash and Back, Part 2 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....Read More »
Lenovo ThinkPad Z61T notebook computer By John Virata
Notebook computers have been fast outselling desktops, and the market for these devices is fast becoming glazed over as notebooks become more similar in look and feel as well as in price and performance. First it was the widescreen format that attempted to differentiate units, then it became price. Lenovo has begun to address this bland, me-too disease by delivering the ThinkPad Z61T notebook, which not only offers speedy processors, WiFi, and other features, but delivers the experience in cases that others can only dream of delivering. ...Read More »
Questions Answered 3: Illustrator Brushes 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....Read More »
Enabling Interactivity For Usability In Flash 8
In this video-based tutorial excerpted from the Flash Professional 8 Beyond the Basics training course, Shane Rebenschied shows you how to build Flash 8 applications that include user interactivity via ActionScript....Read More »
Using The Woodcut Effect in Corel Painter IX
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. ...Read More »
Mel Gibson, Trash Talk and Mobile Syndication By Mike Browne
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. ...Read More »
Astute Graphics Phantasm CS 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....Read More »
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Focus on Blur
In a few steps, a very straightfoward graphic created in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator can be transformed into a fluid moving background for use in motion graphic designs. When the client provides specific artwork, and requests it to be used, here's one way of blurring the boundaries of the "use" definition. ...Read More »
RAINDROPS IN AE
Ame, ame, fure, fure..." Rain, rain, fall, fall. It's the season for rain in Los Angeles. While we do have falling leaves here, and other seasonal icons, most Angelenos think of "rain" as a winter season icon. In this tutorial, Steve Toyama takes you through a procedure to make wet pavement. ...Read More »
Knoll LF Training
Now that Knoll Light Factory is available for every popular professional application, including Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Eyeon's Digital Fusion, Autodesk Combustion, Smoke, Flame, Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Avid, editors and compositors need to know how to use it effectively. ...Read More »
C4D RELEASE 10
If you're still running a previous version of CINEMA 4D (and at the time of this article, you probably are), you can check out my older article about setting up new commands (click here), but MAXON's CINEMA 4D Release 10 makes things a whole lot easier. Here's how. ...Read More »
3D Ghosts Sheets
In the world of broadcast promo, it's been a mad push for fall campaigns all summer long, and chances are that you've already finished your Halloween campaigns by now (and they're airing), but if you haven't, here's an easy way to create some 3D 'bedsheet' ghosts with CINEMA 4D's MOCCA module. ...Read More »
First Look: Wolverine ESP Professional Portable Media Player
The Wolverine ESP is a portable media player designed for professional and digital photography enthusiasts who also enjoy listening to music, watching videos and recording TV and FM radio on a single device. ...Read More »
Using Cue Points To Trigger Video Transitions in Flash
In this excerpt from Flash Professional 8 Video Integration from lynda.com Lee Brimelow shows you how to use Cue Points in Flash to create transitions from one video clip to another. ...Read More »
Animating Materials
There are several parameters that most C4D users are comfortable animating. Obviously position, scale and rotation, the basic transformation attributes are easily modified and animated, but what happens when you want to animate a texture. You have multiple options. ...Read More »
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. ...Read More »
Flash 8 Filters and Blend Modes
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 ...Read More »
imageSynth for Photoshop
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. ...Read More »
JUST THE BASICS
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. ...Read More »
From After Effects to Flash and Back, Part 2
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. ...Read More »
Lenovo ThinkPad Z61T notebook computer
Notebook computers have been fast outselling desktops, and the market for these devices is fast becoming glazed over as notebooks become more similar in look and feel as well as in price and performance. First it was the widescreen format that attempted to differentiate units, then it became price. Lenovo has begun to address this bland, me-too disease by delivering the ThinkPad Z61T notebook, which not only offers speedy processors, WiFi, and other features, but delivers the experience in cases that others can only dream of delivering. ...Read More »
Questions Answered 3: Illustrator Brushes
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. ...Read More »
Enabling Interactivity For Usability In Flash 8
In this video-based tutorial excerpted from the Flash Professional 8 Beyond the Basics training course, Shane Rebenschied shows you how to build Flash 8 applications that include user interactivity via ActionScript. ...Read More »
Using The Woodcut Effect in Corel Painter IX
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. ...Read More »
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. ...Read More »
Creating & Saving Custom Brushes in Corel Painter IX
Learn how easy it is to create custom brushes in Corel Painter IX and how to save them, allowing you to build your own library of custom brushes and brush effects. ...Read More »
Astute Graphics Phantasm CS
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. ...Read More »
