Archives: February 2010
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How Psychology Can Help Your Career
9 commentsBefore I ever touched an animation program, I was interested in a career in Psychology. And while it didn’t work out that way, some of what I learned while studying psychology has really helped me in my work and life. Take for example the subject of Cognitive Dissonance: Read more about Cognitive Dissonance here. Some [...]
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A Brilliat PSA for Seatbelt Safety
11 commentsI won’t even waste time with words to describe the true awesomeness of this PSA by Neil Hopkins: Read all of the notes here.
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Cool Tutorial at GreyscaleGorilla.com
No commentsHey folks – just watched a great Cinema 4D/After Effects tutorial by Nick Campbell at greyscalegorilla.com: How to make a Cascading Text Animation With Cinema 4D and After Effects. Check it out by clicking on the links below. FinalRender from Nick Campbell on Vimeo. Watch Part 1 here. Watch Part 2 here
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RGTV Ep. 37: Creating a Holographic Interface Effect
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Feb 15, 2010
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Views: 27550
19 commentsIn this episode of Red Giant TV Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to quickly create the look of a holographic interface effect using Red Giant Software’s Holomatrix. He’ll also be using Digital Juice’s motion Designer Toolkit 2 for the screen elements, as well as Magic Bullet Looks for the color grading. Note from Aharon: This [...]
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In Memory of Edgar the Masturbating Cat
6 commentsThis morning we found that, after months of being ill, our Cat, Edgar, had passed away. I’ve had pets my whole life (from super sea monkeys all the way up the foot chain to cats, and everything in between – much to my parents horror), but Ed was easily the best pet I have ever [...]
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Some Great New Stuff at MotionWorks
No commentsOur friends at MotionWorks have been really busy (in case you haven’t noticed). Check out these 2 recent items below. A new Making It Look Great training DVD from Tim Clapham: Click Image to watch video. This promo for our brand new MILG7: MoGraph Unleashed video training, was created using Cinema 4D and After Effects. [...]
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Quick Tip: Adding Motion Blur Into Your Video
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Feb 08, 2010
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Views: 6639
7 commentsHere’s a quick tip for adding motion blur into your live action video after filming. Also works for adding Motion blur into your 3D renders (like C4D stuff) in AE. Special thanks to Stu Maschwitz for taking the time to share some info and make suggestions. And yeah – it’s shutter speed, not shutter rate. [...]
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Crowd Control Gets Props at Supermeet
13 commentsCrowd Control received Rave reviews from Matt Silverman at last week’s FCP user’s Supermeet in San Francisco! Check it out at 21:00 (21 minutes and 0 seconds): Hey… We’re just saying…
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PS: Hands-On Control of Layer Styles
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Feb 01, 2010
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Views: 815
14 commentsA simple PS tip for hands-on control of your layer styles. Am I the only one that didn’t know this? Special thanks to my buddy Jim Geduldick for IM’ing me last night with info on Screenr.