After Effect Tutorial - LOTR Series: Eye of Sauron

Continuing the Lord of the Rings series we will be creating the Eye of Sauron with
fractal noise, vector blurs and CG fire. This will then be exported into Maya and composited back in after effects with the CG tower, lighting and background HDRI.

Tutorial DetailsProgram: After Effects, Maya
Difficulty: Advanced
Estimated Completion Time: 2h

Make A Hologram Phone Call With CS6

Use the new Camera Tracker in AE CS6 to 3D motion track your scene, then composite some elements in it to make a sort of Hologram. Using Trapcode Particular we make the hologram cloud which fits in with the 3D scene, then stick some green screen footage in it and BAM, insta-hologram! (Instagram?)

Composite An Impressive Transforming Car From A Still Image

This tutorial was created for those situations when you have a pressing deadline and don’t have enough material for proper CG work.. We’ll start with a plate of a city street where we can simulate a car transformation from an Octavia which we’ll pull from a still photo into a Cls 600 model which we’ll export from 3ds Max.

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Create a World Traveler Animation to Show Where in the World You’ve Been

In today’s tutorial, we’ll be taking a look at mapping layers accurately upon a sphere, then we’ll create a line that travels between the mapped layers using expressions. Because of the 2.5D nature of After Effects, there are some interesting technical challenges to solve along the way.

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Adobe Encore Essentials

It’s time to take full control over your DVD or Blu-ray. Learn how to work with Adobe Encore CS6 and master the technical possibilities of authoring. From start to finish, Jordy will walk you through producing a professional DVD project.

Create An Intensely Twisted Action Title Sequence with After Effect Project Source

In this tutorial we are going to use a few simple techniques in Cinema 4d to create some pretty awesome title effects. After we render them out, we are going to have a ton of fun compositing them in using various techniques and filters. We will do all the color grading, noise, chromatic aberrations and even simple editing inside After Effects.

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3D Object Tracking in After Effects CS6 with AE Project Files

Using the native tools of After Effects CS6 we’ll perform 3d object tracking that normally requires standalone 3d tracking programs. The first part of this tutorial will explore ways to create the illusion of 3d with mostly 2d elements in static scenes. In the second part of the tutorial, Mocha AE will be used to isolate our moving object of interest. Using After Effect’s 3d camera tracker, a camera will then be calculated for the object to allow other elements generated with the ray-trace engine to be added to the scene. A couple scripts, nulls, and parenting will be utilized along the way to help streamline the process. This technique is a powerful concept that I am excited to share. Let’s get started!

How to Add Atmospheric Grunge to Your 3d Renders

Today we’ll be taking a basic looking 3d render and adding a grungy atmospheric style to it using a number of post production techniques. This will all be done in After Effects impressively taking advantage of quite a few native AE plug-ins.

How To Build an Organized and User-Friendly After Effects Template

Want to make your projects more organized? How easy should it be for you to make revisions to your work? This 4 part video series will walk you through the process and workflow of creating an organized template that can easily be customized by anyone. You’ll learn how to design a template from scratch using placeholders, make buttons with custom settings, and implement your own visual editor.

How to Realistically Fake a Rainy Day Shot (2013)

Learn how to make a realistic rainstorm effect using Trapcode Particular. The effect is subtle, but that’s key to making it look good. Other things that are discussed are will be how to set up a ground plane and why it’s useful to use the CS6 Camera Tracker rather than the point tracker.

Working with Clients (and Getting Paid!) – TutsPlus

There’s a lot to learn when you’re breaking into freelancing, but the most important skills any freelancer will learn revolve around one thing: clients. Every successful freelancer will eventually need to master the ability to find good portfolio of clients, manage your relationship with them through the project, deliver in a way that makes them repeat clients, and (very importantly) get paid promptly. Wes McDowell of Deep End Design will walk you through every step of client management. Ready to turn your clients into your biggest fans? Let’s get started! Wes explains everything you need to know about working with clients, including:

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https://tutsplus.com/course/working-with-clients-and-getting-paid/

cmiVFX Cinema 4D XPresso Volume 1

Cinema 4d is an incredibly powerful tool on the front end, but its potential is limitless once you embrace the ability to access its backend with Xpresso. Creating time-based procedural animation is a great way to learn these techniques and covers everything you'll need to know to get started with this infinitely expandable tool. This video will be the first in a series devoted to Xpresso and C.O.F.F.E.E. and will help to fill the gap in high-end Cinema 4D training related to these incredibly powerful master keys.

Homepage:_http://www.cmivfx.com/tutorials/view/251/Cinema+4D+XPresso+Volume+1

cmiVFX - Cinema 4D Everything Volume 1&2

Cinema 4D Everything Volume 1
Part ONE of THREE this volume covers comprehensively all interfaces, settings, and concepts within Maxon Cinema 4D R14.
MP4 H.264 / 1024 x 576 / 4 hr.01 min. / + Exercise files
Cinema 4D Everything Volume 2
Here the focus are the various alternatives to polygon modeling within Maxon Cinema 4D R14.
MP4 H.264 / 1024 x 576 / 3 hr.28 min. / + Exercise files

Golden gradients for Adobe Illustrator
AI, EPS | JPEG preview | 11,1 Mb

 

 

Google Docs for Everyone
Q-- | ISBN: 0789739364 | PDF | 264 pages | 9.7 MB


Book Description
Who needs expensive, old-fashioned office software? Now, you can do everything online, free, with Google Docs! Experts Steve and Nancy Holzner offer simple, step-by-step instructions and great insider tips for making the most of Google?s powerful online word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation tools. You?ll get started fast? learn how to create and format professional-quality documents of all kinds? collaborate with colleagues to build better proposals and presentations? use advanced tools like revision history, templates, and charts? discover Google Docs? latest features and shortcuts? and a whole lot more! No matter what kind of documents you create, this book can help you do the job better, faster, and more efficiently? and you?ll never pay for office software again!

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Google SketchUp 8 Essential Training| OS: Win/Mac | 1.234 GB

Photoshop Elements 10 Essential Training

 

In this course, author Jan Kabili introduces the photo organizing, editing, and sharing features of Adobe Photoshop Elements 10, the less expensive version of Photoshop that’s ideal for casual photographers who want to achieve professional results. The course covers importing, organizing, and finding photos with the Organizer. It explains how and when to use each of the editing workspaces—from the simple Quick Fix and Guided Edit workspaces to the Full Edit workspace for enhancing your photos—including making photo corrections, retouching, compositing images, and adding text. The final chapter offers creative ways to share photos with Elements, including print projects like greeting cards, calendars, and books, emailing photos, and posting them on Facebook and Flickr.

HD Wild Wet World Loop - Motion Graphics for After Effects (Videohive)
HD 1280x720 | Quicktime Mov - PNG Lossless | 29.97 fps | 171.7 Mb

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VRay - a powerful visualization tool that supports the Depth of Field (DOF), Motion Blur (effect of "smearing" in the motion), Displacement (displacement map, with increasing detail of three-dimensional objects). In addition, Vray has its own light source, a system of sun-sky for realistic lighting with natural light, and the physical camera parameters, similar to a real photo and video cameras. System Vray Proxy allows rendering of extremely large volumes of similar objects, consisting of total tens of billions of polygons.

 

If you’re an Adobe Creative Cloud user, you’ll find that the Photoshop 13.1 update gives you access to some exclusive new features. In this workshop Chad Chelius and Ellery Connell take you on a tour of these enhancements, which focus on file handling and web features.

Foundations of Photography: Specialty Lenses
English | 3h 50m | AVC1 960x540 29.97 fps | AAC 160 Kbps 48 KHz | 1.99 GB
Genre: eLearning / Photography | Level: Intermediate

AE Tuts - Create a Collapsing Wall Logo Reveal

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a collapsing wall effect using only the toolset that ships with AE. I’ll then cover some ways to create your own dust and data elements. Lets jump in!

Requirements: After Effects
Difficulty: Intermediate
Run Time: 25:34 min

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Nik Software-s plug-ins are loaded with powerful tools that can be combined in endless ways. In this workshop, photographic storyteller Joseph Linaschke takes a creative and personalized approach to these plug-ins, showing you how he uses them to create amazing skies, gorgeous skin, vintage film looks, perfect white backgrounds, custom recipes and so much more using Color Efex Pro, Viveza, and Silver Efex Pro.