50 Excellent Adobe After Effects Tutorials
By Nousheen Aquil
This post presents a round-up of Adobe After Effects Tutorials for your visual effects and motion graphics-related work. After Effects is getting popular as the industry of Computer Graphics and Digital Motion is growing. With After Effects, you have choice to generate dynamic and expressive motion graphics with truly stunning visual effects — very easily and quickly. So here is the list of Adobe After Effects Tutorials. We hope that it will be helpful for you!
via 50 Excellent Adobe After Effects Tutorials - Noupe.
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Adobe After Effects CS4 Essential Training: Luminance Correction
By Chad Perkins
In After Effects CS4 Essential Training, Chad Perkins teaches fundamental motion graphics design techniques from the ground up. He shows how to gather video, audio, and graphical source materials into layered compositions, make edits and adjustments, then bring it all to life with a powerful array of visual effects and animation techniques. These skills are demonstrated in a series of increasingly intricate projects, from creating a galaxy to building a fantasy battle scene. Chad also demonstrates workflows for keying and compositing, shows how to integrate with other applications, shares useful tips and secrets, and much more.
In this clip, host Chad Perkins looks at how to correct luminance, or brightness problems in your footage. He shows you the color corrections panel and discusses the auto levels and other auto effects, but also works in the levels effect, detailing the histogram which shows what is going on in your image, shadow areas, mid tones and highlights of the histogram.
via Adobe After Effects CS4 Essential Training: Luminance Correction.
Stargate Studios Shows Off Greenscreen Effects
by Scott Beale on December 17, 2009
Stargate Studios shows off some of their amazing greenscreenvisual effects in their demo reel, some of which you wouldn’t expect to be scenes that were artificially created.
via Stargate Studios Shows Off Greenscreen Effects.
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The Ultimate Collection Of Maya 3D Tutorials
* By Vailancio Rodrigues
* August 27th, 2009
* Tutorials
Ever wonder how animated films like Ice Age are made? Maya is the answer. Maya (or Autodesk Maya, having recently been acquired by Autodesk) is powerful 3D modeling, animation, texturing, rendering and visual effects software.
Maya was developed for the film industry and is now being used for design, visual effects, games, film, animation, visualization and simulation. The most significant thing that sets it apart from other 3D packages — and the reason it is used so widely in these major industries — is that it is highly customizable. Big studios can write custom code to suit their productions using the software’s development kit. This makes Maya highly adaptable to any workflow.
Below, we feature tutorials that address most Maya-related topics for beginners and advanced users. These tutorials cover almost everything Maya has to offer, from modeling to the final rendering process.
via The Ultimate Collection Of Maya 3D Tutorials - Smashing Magazine.
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