Animarte is a showcase that focuses on short animated films. The show tours cities in South America bringing some of the best animated shorts from around the world. The show is offered free of charge and we try reach large audiences. We believe in bringing animation shorts to the largest number of people possible to spark their creativity and open their minds to this innovative form of art.

Award: Best Animated Short - Animarte Showcase 2009

• There is no entry or registration fee.
• Open to animated and mixed media shorts with a duration of 15 minutes or less.
• All animation techniques are accepted.
• Films with dialogue must be in English or Spanish or have English or Spanish subtitles.
• Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2009. But remember that we receive submissions year-round. If we cannot include your film in this year’s edition we will keep it on file for next year.

Learn more about how to submit your film.

Labels: Contest, Festival

The training will be out in early July. Here's a promo piece I put together for it, which uses Professional Video Templates Pictures Flow Template and features music from the band King Tut.


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Watch it in HD at YouTube or Vimeo

Labels: 3D Stroke, Shine, Toolfarm Expert Series, Training, Trapcode, Trapcode 3S Training

JPEG compression artifacts substantially affect the quality of any digital image. They can be seen as mosquito noise, blockiness or checkerboarding, and edge artifacts.

Topaz DeJPEG is a plug-in that is specifically designed to address this problem and is much more effective than the native Photoshop JPEG artifact remover. Almost every Internet image can benefit from a reduction in JPEG compression artifact noise. Test it out for FREE here!


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Wedding photographers can use DeJPEG to ensure their large batch of high-quality JPEG look as good as if they had shot in RAW.

Designers who work with web images find DeJPEG invaluable for enhancing stock photographs to a new level of quality.

Point and shoot or camera phone users can take advantage of DeJPEG to greatly improve the quality of their snapshots.

In fact, anyone who works with JPEG images can simply run a pass of DeJPEG before anything else and experience an immediate quality boost on their images. DeJPEG is one of the quickest and easiest ways to effectively improve JPEG image quality. If you use JPEG images, download a fully-functional 30-day free trial and try it for yourself!

Topaz DeJPEG supports:

• both 8-bit and 16-bit/channel
• Photoshop scripting and actions
• batch processing of multiple images
• context sensitive help

Labels: Free, topaz DeJPEG

And the verdict? See for yourself.

Basic Training for Adobe CS4 Production Premium is a great way to maximize your new investment while keeping the learning curve to a minimum. It's so good at what it does, Adobe should consider bundling future volumes with their Creative Suites — if they did, the lazier of my colleagues would have to find something else with which to fill my voice mail and e-mail inboxes...

This training is incredible!

Here are a few clips of the training to whet your appetite.


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Labels: Adobe CS4, Class on Demand, reviews

Digieffects sponsors Rogue Kite as they drive across America with a RED ONE Camera

Wilmington, NC - July 1, 2009 - Digieffects, a developer of popular visual effects software plugins, today announced that it will sponsor Rogue Kite on The Natural Forces Summer Tour. Rogue Kite, a Wilmington, NC-based production company and rental house founded by Michelle Boley, consists of five current and former UNCW film studies students. The group will spend four weeks driving around the United States shooting hours of footage with a RED ONE camera. The group will be working on several projects including filming footage for the Digieffects Natural Forces upcoming product release and a feature documentary tentatively entitled Revisiting the American Dream.

Rogue Kite will maintain a blog, which can be followed at www.digieffects.com. The blog will incorporate footage shot on a RED ONE and several other behind-the-scenes cameras, music, text and still images to chronicle the group's adventure. Each day, the group's footage will be captured onto MacBook Pros and edited with Final Cut Pro and After Effects. Digieffects latest plugin, Natural Forces, will also be applied to dozens of clips so viewers can see how the plugin can be used in a real-world environment.

Rogue Kite will begin their journey on July 1st from Wilmington, North Carolina. The group's journey will take them from coast to coast and be tracked via GPS so viewers can follow their progress in real-time. Each of the four filmmakers - Taylor Gill, Martin Hagar, Brandon Smith, and Michelle "Scheli" Boley - will also maintain their own blogs on roguekite.com so viewers can follow their individual perspectives on the voyage.

About Digieffects Digieffects is a developer of popular software visual effects plug-ins for Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro and Autodesk Combustion. The company has been in the business since the beginning of the "plugin revolution" which dates back to 1996. Over the years, Digieffects has had great success with software products like Cinelook and Delirium and is proud to call thousands of film and video producers all around the world its customers and friends.

Labels: DigiEffects, Digieffects Natural Forces

All 191 plugins in the CoreMelt Complete V2 Bundle are completely free to use for 15 days, after that you must purchase a license key to remove the water mark from all rendered effects. v2.1.1 Update fixes some field rendering issues. The installer includes 22 effects which are FREE and UNLIMITED for all users regardless of whether you purchase or not.

Download the Free Update | Learn More/Purchase in our Store

Labels: CoreMelt, Update

Boris Continuum Complete 6.0.3 AE is now available as a free update for BCC 6 users. This update adds even more typographical treatment and animation to BCC 6 AE's already-formidable extruded text capabilities. New features include animated text on a path, animated tracking, leading, and baseline and sophisticated text jitter controls. In addition, the BCC 6.0.3 AE update includes a number of performance improvements.

Download Free BCC 6.0.3 AE Update for BCC 6 Users (Download the demo version to update your software)

Please uninstall BCC 6 AE before installing BCC 6.0.3 AE:

1. Download the new BCC 6.0.3 AE installer
2. Double-click the installer to start the process
3. A screen will appear, prompting to enter your user info and the trial license
4. Enter the trial license that you should have received from us via e-mail
5. Click through to the installation type screen
6. Click on the pop-up at the top of this screen and select uninstall
7. Click on the uninstall button at the bottom of the screen
8. Click quit when the uninstall operation is complete
9. Re-run the installer to install the new version

Labels: After Effects, Boris Continuum Complete