Please welcome Ko Maruyama in an official capacity on the Toolfarm Expert Forums. Ko is a man that needs no introduction, but I have some space here, so why not!

You may know Ko from Ninja Crayon, DMN, DMA\LA, his training or 50 other places. He's an After Effects and Cinema 4D Guru and now we're privileged to have his expertise at Toolfarm Expert Forums. Hit 'em up! What are you waiting for?!

Labels: Forum, Ko Maruyama

Got questions about CC effects that come with After Effects or CycoreFX HD? Get help at the CycoreFX Forum. The CycoreFX forum is moderated by Nils Schneider of CycoreFX and the great group of Toolfarm Forum Experts.

Now might be a good time to ask. Do you like the name Forum Experts or does it sound too uppity? We don't want to sound uppity, but the folks who help on our forums know their stuff. Colin from Toolfarm used to own a service called Support Farm that was a phone service and chat service to connect those who needed help with experts like the Toolfarm Expert Forums.

Labels: Cycore FX, Forum, Poll

Our good friend Ko Maruyama made this cool icon for the 3D Forum, where he fields loads of questions on Cinema 4D and other 3D applications. Stop by anytime and ask about Cinema 4D, modo, 3DS Max, Maya or whatever might be on your mind. And thank you Ko for the cool art!

Labels: 3D Studio Max, Forum, Ko Maruyama, Luxology Modo, Maxon Cinema 4D, Maya

Our friend Mylenium has been really beefing up his website recently with new content. He will also be releasing a product at Toolfarm in the next couple of weeks. No hints!

Talk to Mylenium at Toofarm Expert Forums. He's frequently posts great answers to tough questions.

Labels: Forum

Dave Basulto talks to Harry Frank, Toolfarm Expert Series trainer for After Effects Expressions Series 1 bundle and they're discussing Expressions!

Harry will have Series 2 out sometime soon, so if you haven't checked out Series 1, you'll want to do that first. It's like the show Heroes. If you start watching at Episode 10, you'll have no idea what's going on.

Labels: DMN, Forum, Harry Frank, Podcast, Training

As you probably know, we are big supporters of Imagineer and their terrific products. We've been fielding quite a few questions about Imagineer products so we thought, "Gee... why don't we host an official Imagineer employee moderated forum here at Toolfarm?" Imagineer is now hosting their forum at Toolfarm!

The forum is moderated by three Imagineer staffers/experts, Billy, Ross and Ijaz. Please start posting some questions! Next Wednesday is the big release of mocha AE, so if you have questions about the product, by all means, ask!

Also, Toolfarm Expert Forums are the official forum for Red Giant Software and Digieffects. We host a Boris FX forum moderated by Peter McCauley, too. Our After Effects forum is slammin'.

Labels: Forum, Imagineer Systems

You have probably noticed the terms node-locked and floating licenses being tossed around a lot lately. You might have noticed that we currently have a pre-order deal on Mocha AE and the versions are node-locked, floating and node-locked with dongle. What does it all mean?

We've set up a page that defines Node-Locked and Floating licenses.

A dongle is a not just a fun word to say, but it is a small piece of hardware that works as a security device and can be moved between different computers. Software companies are moving away from dongles. Any questions? Please ask!

Labels: Forum, Imagineer Systems, mocha, Plug-in Finder

Check out Ko's video on Chris Smith's CSTools for Maxon Cinema 4D.

Chris Smith is one of our sensational Toolfarm Forum Experts and he posted all of the details about the freebie on the forum.

Labels: Forum, Ko Maruyama, Maxon Cinema 4D

Got questions about Boris Continuum Complete, Final Effects Complete, RED or any other Boris Products? Get your questions answered by Peter McAuley of Boris FX and our other brainy Toolfarm Forum Experts. Peter has been with Boris since 1999, so he's very familiar with their product lines.

The new Boris FX Forum went up this morning. Go ask some questions!

Labels: Blue, Boris, Continuum Complete, Final Effects Complete, Forum, Graffiti, RED

Robert Sharp, who happens to own Digieffects, has been moderating the Digieffects Forum at Toolfarm Expert Forums since he took over the company in May, but I've just added his mug to our lineup, as well as his bio.

Hey, Digieffects users! Please use the forum and you'll get answers from the big kahuna himself! Digieffects will be giving out updates to their products for AE CS3 and Mac Universal Binary. Not long after that, the Buena plug-ins will be updated. Robert and company are working very hard to bring Digieffects and Buena back to the top of the plug-in heap.

Labels: Buena, DigiEffects, Forum

Missleah76 has been having some issues with color shifts on output of her After Effects projects. Read: Seeing the Light

Labels: After Effects, Forum

The Toolfarm Expert Forum is the official home of the Red Giant Software/Trapcode Tech Support forum and two of Red Giant's fine support crew are fielding the questions. John and Jeremy would be happy to help you with any questions you have.

Labels: Forum, Red Giant, Trapcode

Ko Maruyama was one of the lucky attendees of John Dickinson/Zaxwerks Doom eSeminar on Sunday. John, as you probably know, is one of Toolfarm's Forum Experts^TM and has some incredible After Effects training through Toolfarm Expert Series.

Jim Geduldick, another of our awesome Forum Experts, and I were IMing this morning. He told me that John's eSeminar was really informative and John did an incredible job. Also, the attendees got 4 hours for the price of 2!

Read Ko's review at Ninja Crayon

Labels: Creative Background Design, Forum, Jim Geduldick, John Dickinson, Zaxwerks

We're so pleased welcome Jim Kanter back to the Toolfarm Expert Forums! Jim is one of the kindest and funniest guys I know. He is also an extremely smart guy and knows his mograph tools.

Jim started the Digital Film Institute in Atlanta with his wife and he's the training director. He's an Adobe Certificed Expert and started the Atlanta Final Cut ro and Motion Graphics user groups. Jim is a great asset to the forum. Please go ask him something really tough and see if we can stump him. Toolfarm Forums

Labels: Forum

Friend of Toolfarm and Toolfarm Forum Expert, Matt Silverman, was Creative Director, Motion Graphics Designer and 3D Designer on this project. How cool is that!

DMN Newswire--2007-5-15-- San Francisco, CA (May 15, 2007) - Phoenix Editorial & Designs has produced a 90-second promotional film launching Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3). The film introduces the product's new "Creative License" marketing campaign, tagline, logo, packaging and identity. The film debuted at the official CS3 launch event in New York City during a presentation by Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen, and has been showcased on the Adobe web site homepage and at several live events to promote the new software suite.


Phoenix Editorial & Designs Creative Director Matt Silverman based the film off the new "Creative License" print campaign developed by Adobe's advertising agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. Comprising three "chapters" for print, web and video, which focus respectively on Adobe's Design Premium Collection, Web Premium Collection and Production Premium Collection, the film features abstract and artful scenarios in which something ordinary is made extraordinary through the use of Adobe's tools.

Said Matt Silverman, Creative Director, Phoenix Editorial & Designs, "We were given a great deal of creative liberty to interpret the feature benefits of Creative Suite 3, Adobe's new collection of graphic design and video editing applications, and we had a lot of fun creating a visually compelling journey through the different collections. We also got the opportunity to incorporate some of the product's new features into the making of our film, like the cool Puppet Tool in After Effects."

The "print" chapter takes the audience through a visual journey from an ordinary letter A to an ornate letter A. Based off of custom typography from design-legend Neville Brody, the A's transformation is accented by pop art ink drippings and paint splats, halftones and collage-like layers. The "web" chapter follows a web site layout from napkin sketch to simple flowchart, before moving on to complicated, maze-like 3D flowcharts populating an entire world. In the "video" chapter, 3D elements such as movie screens, filmstrips, musical staffs, broadcasting towers and foliage, along with still illustrations and wildlife footage, show the dynamic effects available to filmmakers and motion graphics artists in CS3. The film ends with a shot of the Adobe CS3 Master Collection, which for the first time, allows customers to get all the Adobe tools in one product, and the "Creative License" logo and tagline, "Take as much as you want."

To create the films, Phoenix used Mac G5's dual and quad processor machines running Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, Autodesk Maya, and Zaxwerks ProModeler.

Labels: Adobe, After Effects, Creative Suite, Forum, Illustrator, Photoshop

The DigiEffects Forum is now open for business as of this afternoon. Ask questions about DigiEffects CineLook, Aurorix, Fantazm, Delirium, and Berserk questions. We can help!

Labels: Cinelook, DigiEffects, Forum