Categories: Tutorials » Photography and Video
Mograph Techniques: Movie Trailer Titles in Cinema 4D and After Effects
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 2h 24m | Language: English
- Learn to create dynamic Hollywood-style title sequences for movie trailers, using the tools in CINEMA 4D. EJ Hassenfratz shows how to create attention-grabbing text elements, apply textures and lighting, and animate the titles in styles that suit two different genres: action flicks and fantasy films. Then you'll learn how to render the scene and bring the assets into After Effects, in order to composite them with live-action footage and preview the final trailers. These tutorials follow a real-world workflow, used in many of the leading Hollywood production studios.
Mograph Techniques: Animating to Music
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 1h 5m | Language: English
- Harmonize your motion graphics with music. This project-based course shows how to complete two mograph assignments, a bumper graphic and identity spot, and explains how to transition the tools and techniques to your own projects. Author Ian Robinson starts in Adobe After Effects with Trapcode Sound Keys—isolating frequencies and creating related keyframes that allow you to drive properties like the position, rotation, or even the hue of an object. Then learn traditional editing techniques to transform a 3D animation into multiple pieces for the bumper, and migrate to CINEMA 4D and use the Sound Effector to resolve the logo for the identity spot.
Modeling Work Schedules with Calendars in Microsoft Project
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 1h 59m | Language: English
- Modeling realistic work schedules can be a challenge for project managers. This course, taught by an expert project manager, demonstrates best practices for modeling work schedules with calendars in Microsoft Project. Instructor Bonnie Biafore first digs into calendars, explaining how they apply to projects, tasks, and resources, and demonstrates how to set up a new default calendar for your organization in Project. She shows how to modify the standard workweek and create exceptions to suit your team.
Modeling Characters in Cinema 4D
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 3h 43m | Language: English
- Learn how to model realistic 3D characters with the powerful and flexible modeling toolset in CINEMA 4D. Chris Broeska shows you how to use a basic front and side template and create basic shapes with NURBs Lofts and Sweeps. Then you'll convert the patches to polygons and stitch them together to create a base mesh. The last chapter shows you how to complete the character by setting up the UVs for the model and head, and mirror both the polygons and UVs to create the other sides of your character.
Categories: Tutorials » Photography and Video
mocha 4 Essential Training
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 9h 46m | Language: English
- mocha 4 Essential Training is designed to get you working quickly with Imagineer Systems's powerful planar tracking tool. This project-based course teaches the core ideas that drive the entire mocha family of products, including mocha AE CC, mocha AE, and mocha Pro. Throughout this training, you will become more confident in when and how you use mocha to solve different challenges. Ben Brownlee covers the core modules, preferences, and useful keyboard shortcuts in mocha, and then dives into different planar tracking techniques: match moving, 3D camera solves, custom shape creation, rotoscoping, and more. He also offers a quick start guide and troubleshooting tips, and reviews the process for exporting mocha tracking data to programs such as After Effects, Apple Motion, Final Cut Pro, and Boris CC.
Categories: Tutorials » Photography and Video
mocha 3 Essential Training
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 9h 11m | Language: English
- Imagineer Systems mocha is the Swiss army knife of the compositing and VFX world. Using its planar tracker, you can get great motion tracking data from very complex footage, even tracking through motion blur. The results can be used to drive lots of different effects, from match moving and image stabilization to corner pins for screen replacement or background enhancements. Learn to motion track your own footage with mocha, and use its rotoscoping tools to create complex masks and roto splines, in this course with Ben Brownlee. Ben also provides an upfront quick start guide for VFX designers that just need a quick refresher, and walks through Correct Lens Distortion and Camera Solver, advanced modules in mocha AE and mocha Pro. Regardless of your skill level, these tutorials will prepare you to confidently use mocha to solve different motion tracking challenges.
Categories: Tutorials » Photography and Video
Mograph Techniques: Physics Simulations in After Effects
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 2h | Language: English
- Explore how to create complex physical animations inside After Effects using Newton (a third-party plugin) and the Connect Layers (a free script). This project-based course covers a few specific and popular types of effects, such as letters suspended from strings and connected, randomized spheres. Artist Eran Stern shows how to connect any type of element together in a complex 3D array of strings and work with different dynamic simulations in order to create Dormant and Collision as well as Staggering and Kinematic animation types.
Mograph Techniques: Creating a Sports Bumper
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 2h 25m | Language: English
- How do motion graphics artists create those polished animated graphics for channels like ESPN on such short deadlines? They turn to the high-powered toolset in CINEMA 4D. In this course, EJ Hassenfratz shows you how to use those same tools to create your own dynamic, high-energy sports bumper. Learn how to model the basic elements in C4D and add robotic-style movement with the Mograph module, and take a logo from Adobe Illustrator and turn it into a smart, beveled 3D project. Then EJ shows how to combine it all in After Effects, along with a few special effects. This workflow mimics a real post-production environment and allows a more intermediate look at the mograph module and an opportunity to take your motion graphics knowledge to the next level.
Making 3D Presentation Materials and Mockups
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 55m | Language: English
- 3D mockups are a unique and impactful way to convey your ideas. If making 3D presentation materials seems like a big or complex undertaking, then this course is for you. Todd Gallopo introduces you to the process of visualizing designs and then shows you how to translate your concepts into measured, constructed, tangible mockups. Learn how to select the tools you need, set up your workspace, and assess the structure you will be working with as part of your initial prep. Then, see how to create, print, cut, and fold materials into 3D forms you can present. Along the way, Todd also explains how to make materials last, how to photograph mockups, and how to present both physical and digital forms of your designs.
Making 2D Presentation Materials and Mockups
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 49m | Language: English
- Learn how to create professional graphic design presentation materials like boards and mockups to show your ideas to clients. Todd Gallopo starts this course by explaining what presentation materials are and why they are so important to a design business. He then dives in to prepping your work and production workspace. Finally, he shows members how to construct mockups for some of the most common 2D design jobs, including business cards, full-page print advertisements, and brochures.
Logo Design: Visual Effects
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 1h 35m | Language: English
- Many times, a designer will have a concept for a logo, such as a bird in flight, but struggle with how to communicate that rather simple idea in a new and dynamic way. Bill Gardner, founder of LogoLounge, has been looking at, tracking, and writing about logo design styles for over thirty years. In this course he will walk members through six different visual effects that will help communicate your ideas more effectively. You'll learn how transparency can communicate a promise of clarity, how texture and light tell stories, and how three-dimensional shapes make your ideas almost touchable. Incorporate these effects into your designs and turn "nice" logos into ones that capture the hearts and imaginations of clients and their customers.
Logo Design: Symbolism in Nature
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 1h 39m | Language: English
- No other topic has driven corporate identity more quickly than sustainability. When it comes to logo design, whether businesses are tied directly to the environment or not, references to nature abound. In fact, the most-searched terms, year in and year out, on Bill Gardner's popular LogoLounge site are terms like "tree," "water," "earth," and "nature." In this course, Bill tackles the hidden symbolism behind how we depict our planet, from what's in the sky to what grows in the ground, and teaches you how to use these symbols to give your logo designs more impact. These valuable insights will have you looking at nature in ways you never considered before, and help you better explain the natural elements in your logo designs to your clients..
Logo Design: Handmade Aesthetic
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 1h 21m | Language: English
- The handmade aesthetic isn't limited to little boutiques; even large businesses (including Starbucks, Nordstrom, and Whole Foods) understand when it's best to play the "handmade" card. Kick back in the LogoLounge and learn how imperfection, texture, and personality can help add a sense of authenticity to your client's brand. Design expert Bill Gardner shows how to decide when a human touch is appropriate, incorporate free-form and line-drawing illustration techniques, use color and texture to make surfaces seem more tactile, and use typography to express specific ideas. The good news? You don't have to relinquish your favorite digital tools. Bill shows how to create this "old world" look using "new world" shortcuts.
Logo Trend Report
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 1h 4m | Language: English
- Do you find yourself in awe of some designers, wondering how they continue to produce fresh and original work? Are you unsure if your logo designs are maintaining relevance in a constantly evolving field? In this course, Bill Gardner evaluates over two-hundred logos, crafted by exceptional designers around the world, demonstrating how to detect trends. He shows you how to spot specific and valuable nuances, looking for new and engaging symbolism, so you can become sensitized to the trends occurring in the industry.
Logo Design: Techniques
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 4h 58m | Language: English
- Logos are a critical part of the modern visual landscape. To learn how to create your own, it's important to be able to identify the components and design techniques behind the most successful examples, from the Nike swoosh to the Coca-Cola ribbon. In this course, Nigel French deconstructs popular logos in order to explain why and how each logo works, and offers a methodical approach to creating a logo in Illustrator. This course combines theory with nuts-and-bolts techniques that emphasize simplicity and readability: the principles that ground the best logo designs.
Categories: Tutorials » Photography and Video
Cinema 4D and After Effects: Logo Animation and Compositing
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 1h 10m | Language: English
- Bring your logos to life with this quick start guide for animating and compositing a logo design in CINEMA 4D and After Effects. Craig Whitaker walks through a compressed 7-step workflow, which takes you from import to final render. He extrudes the logo (from a prebuilt Illustrator design), adds text and lights, creates and applies materials, and composites the project in After Effects. Along the way, he reviews the workflow and the plugins he uses, so you can adapt them to fit your projects.
Categories: GFXTRA Special » Special Fonts
Selma Font Family | 4 x TTF
https://www.fontspring.com/fonts/sea-types/selma
- Selma is a family of Sans Serif fonts with 492 glyphs and 4 weights (Light, regular, medium and bold). The glyphs feature with long stems as they were inspired by bar codes.The fonts have an extremely condensed vertical emphasis. Its bars positioned at the ends of the rods give a strong dose of personality and elegance to the design. Selma has a high x-height, giving strength and power of attraction for short texts and large sizes.
Categories: Tutorials » Photography and Video
Lightroom Classic CC 2015 and Lightroom Mobile: Raw Workflows
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 4h 2m | Language: English
- In this course, photographer, author, and educator Ben Long details a variety of workflow strategies for raw-format photography and mobile devices. He demonstrates wireless and USB techniques you can use to transfer raw images from a camera to a mobile device, and then shows how to process and export the images using Lightroom for mobile. Workflows for iOS and for Android systems are each covered. Additionally, Ben shows how to organize image by taking advantage of features like catalog, ratings, and flags.
Categories: Tutorials » Photography and Video
Lightroom 6 Essential Training
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 5h 43m | Language: English
- Chris starts with the Library module: the hub for importing, viewing, ranking and rating your photographs. Then he'll move to the Develop module and show how to make one-click enhancements, correct exposure, retouch distractions, and perform localized adjustments. Want to push photos to their creative limit, and share them with family friends? Chris also covers creating panoramas and books, slideshows, and custom print layouts.
Categories: Tutorials » Photography and Video
Lightroom 5: 7 Making Photo Books
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 2h 51m | Language: English
- Photo books give friends, family, and clients mementos they can hold in their hand, and remember from vacations, gatherings, or even photo sessions. In this course, you'll learn how you can design your own photo book in Lightroom, and then have that book printed by Blurb. Tim Grey shows you how to create a layout from scratch or have Lightroom automate the process for you. The course also covers adding text, changing page backgrounds, and exporting the book to share electronically as a PDF or print with Blurb.
Categories: Tutorials » Photography and Video
Lightroom 5 Essential Training: 6 Creating Slideshows & Web Galleries
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 2h 2m | Language: English
- Show off your hard work; display your photographs with the easy-to-build slideshows and web galleries in Lightroom. They're a straightforward way to display images on the web, on the desktop, or projected onto a screen. In this breezy segment of Lightroom 5 Essentials, Chris Orwig explains how to select your best images and group them into collections, apply a design template, and customize the look and feel of your web gallery or slideshow. Then learn about watermarking photos for copyright protection, uploading HTML and Flash galleries to a website, and adding a soundtrack and titles to a slideshow. Plus, discover how to create video-based slideshows, new to Lightroom 5.
Lightroom 5: 6 Creating Web Galleries
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 33m | Language: English
- Learn how to create and publish web galleries featuring your own photographic images. Lightroom makes it easy. Tim Grey shows you how. Find out how to choose a template, adjust color and appearance settings, add valuable image information, and export and publish your gallery. In under an hour, you can learn how to get a gallery online.
Categories: Tutorials » Development
javascript for Web Designers
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 2h 43m | Language: English
- Web designers can improve their skill sets and job prospects by getting comfortable with javascript. It's the only scripting language for client-side programming—for doing things that would be impossible with HTML and CSS alone—and is increasingly popular for server-side programming, too. Learn some basic, real-world uses for javascript in this course with Joe Chellman. Find out how to write javascript in the browser and in a code editor, and then put it straight to use in a shopping cart application: creating forms and form fields, reading data, checking input for errors, and performing calculations. Plus, learn how to use javascript time and date functions to create features like calendars and countdown clocks, and add interactive content through APIs like Google Maps.
Categories: Tutorials » Development
javascript Essential Training
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 5h 15m | Language: English
- javascript is a scripting language of the web. As the web evolves from a static to a dynamic environment, technology focus is shifting from static markup and styling—frequently handled by content management systems or automated scripts—to dynamic interfaces and advanced interaction. Once seen as optional, javascript is now becoming an integral part of the web, infusing every layer with its script. Through practical examples and mini-projects, this course helps you build your understanding of javascript piece by piece, from core principles like variables, data types, conditionals, and functions through advanced topics including loops, closures, and DOM scripting. Along the way, you will also be introduced to some ES6 and the basics of javascript libraries.
