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Tutorial: Creating Moss, Snow, and Dust With The Falloff Shader in C4D- Chris Schmidt at GSG
By Chris Schmidt at Greyscalegorilla: “In this tutorial, Chris shows you how to use the Falloff Shader to create organic effects on your textures. Follow along to make effects like Snow and Dust on your textures that usually only collect on the top of objects.”
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Watch Michele Yamazaki’s Particles Webinar Replay from Yesterday
On Wednesday, June 27, 2012, Michele Yamazaki tapped Boris Continuum Complete v8 AE’s state-of-the-art particle system effects to develop and enhance broadcast graphics in Adobe After Effects CS6. Using BCC Particle Emitter 3D and other Boris Continuum Complete VFX filters in conjunction with After Effects’ native 3D camera and lighting systems, Michele made ordinary graphics and titles pop off the screen in 3D particle bursts.
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New: Cebas thinkingParticles 5 Now Available for 3ds Max
What started as a revolutionary idea is now an ingenious tool that continues to marvel the industry with its endless capabilities and peculiar particle FX workflow. Users who purchased thinkingParticles 4 after April 27th, 2012 qualify for cebas’ free upgrade to thinkingParticles 5.
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Tutorials: Getting Started with Adobe SpeedGrade; LookLabs SpeedLooks
Check out these three tutorials by Jeff August at LookLabs that cover getting started and workflow tips for color correction in Adobe SpeedGrade; and finish with LookLabs SpeedLooks. If you’ve opened SpeedGrade and don’t know where to begin, or want some useful tips on workflow, these tutorials are for you!
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Inspirations: 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art
Famous paintings of women over the years morph into each other.
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Freebies: Free BBQ Grill Model for Cinema 4D by Remco/ REMMAC 3D
Just in time for summer grilling season- check out this free grill model for Cinema 4D by Remco/ REMMAC 3D.
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New: Noise Industries Products- Tokyo Split for Final Cut Pro X; Nattress Video Scrapbook
Video Scrapbook- Bring still photos to life and create moving video scrapbooks; Tokyo Split- go beyond the familiar static split screen concept by adding simple-to-use animation functionality and the ability to quickly construct your own original design layouts.
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Update: Imagineer Systems mocha Pro/ AE v3.0.2 Update Now Available
Imagineer Systems mocha v3.0.2 is now available for all owners of mocha Pro v3 or mocha AE v3. This new release has new features based on user feedback and many valuable fixes to improve your workflow.
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Sale: Sorenson Squeeze Sales ending this week + price drops
Get great deals on Sorenson Media Squeeze through June 30, 2012.
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Webinar Tomorrow with Michele Yamazaki: Broadcast Design with Particles
Register for a free webinar, Broadcast Design with Particles, with Michele Yamazaki of Toolfarm. She’ll go over some cool effects with Boris Continuum Complete 8.0’s Particle Emitter 3D. It’s June 27, 2012, and it’s free!
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Inspirations: ‘Live Long And Prosper’ by Shawn Sheehan
Star Trek credits ala Adobe After Effects. “My goal was to try and capture the essence of what I found most enjoyable from the series for building this faux opening to this classic show using Adobe After Effects.”
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Apple Publishes a White Paper on RED Workflows with Final Cut Pro X
Peter Wiggins of Idustrial revolution runs a blog called fcp.co. He has great info on FCP. Today he posts about working with RED footage in FCP X.
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Inspirations: Brian Vander Ark / Verve Pipe - Cup of Tea
Peter Sensor is a DP friend of mine and needed something new and “rock & roll” for his reel, so he called on his friend Brian Vander Ark of the Verve Pipe to shoot a quick video. This is just meant for Peter’s reel and is not an official Brian Vander Ark or Verve Pipe project. I edited the video in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 and used Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks and Boris Continuum Complete Film Grain in Premiere to give it a final look. It was a lot of fun to edit and I think it turned out really nice for a no budget piece done in a day.
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Inspirations: Reel: Samm Hodges / Animal
A surreal reel from Animal/ Samm Hodges. Intriguing and polished.
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New: Beauty Box Video 2.0 Released for Easy Skin Retouching in Assimilate Scratch, Sony Vegas Pro
OpenFX Version Now Available of Award-Winning Tool for Removing Wrinkles and Blemishes in HD and 4K Footage. Beauty Box Video now runs in ASSIMILATE SCRATCH, Sony Vegas Pro and Sony Movie Studio v10-11, After Effects 7.0–CS6, Final Cut Pro X, Final Cut Pro 7, and Premiere Pro CS4–CS6. The product runs on Macintosh 10.5–10.8, Windows XP–7 and Vista 32- or 64-bit systems.
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News: Introducing SpeedLooks by LookLabs. For Adobe SpeedGrade CS6
SpeedLooks allows you to move beyond simple 1D color manipulation into the world of real time 3DLUTs, non-destructive deep color correction. SpeedLooks is a finely tuned plug-in that allows your footage to look and respond just like traditional film. It’s fully integrated with the Adobe® SpeedGrade CS6 Suite of Tools and is easy to download and install.
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Tutorial: Building an iPhone in Adobe After Effects by VinhSon Nguyen at AEtuts+
By VinhSon Nguyen at AEtuts+: “Hey folks, today we’re going to be taking a look at a simple approach to building a basic iPhone model within After Effects. We will be designing the phone purely in After Effects with easily replaceable screen content, then we will extrude the phone to add some pseudo depth, and finally we will add some cool glossy reflections and shadows.”
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Event: Michele Yamazaki on Digital Production Buzz This Thursday! Upcoming Boris Webinar too!
Tune in to Digital Production Buzz and listen to Larry Jordan and Michele Yamazaki discuss plug-ins. She’ll also be giving a webinar for Boris FX on June 27 also.
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News: RE:Vision Effects releases ReelSmart Motion Blur and DE:Noise for Final Cut Pro X and Motion 5
RE:Vision Effects, acclaimed effects plug-in industry leader and makers of Academy Award winning software, announces the release of ReelSmart Motion Blur and DE:Noise for Apple’s Final Cut Pro X and Motion 5. For those already owning licenses of RSMB v4 and DE:Noise v2 for FCP 6 and 7, the upgrade to FCP X use is free.
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New: GenArts particleIllusion Now Available for Nuke and Sony Vegas
GenArts particleIllusion for Nuke and Sony Vegas systems allows artists to create brilliant particle effects through access to thousands of emitters.
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Inspirations: “Ending Overfishing”
Excellent example of the use of the popular “lo fi” 3D look in this informative short film with a call to action to end overfishing.
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Michele Yamazaki at DMALA Meeting on June 19 in Los Angeles
If you’re in L.A. Next Tuesday, come on out to the DMALA meeting at the Barnsdall Gallery Theater. The topic is Motion Graphics Tools & Demo Reels
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Update: Adobe After Effects CS6 Update: 11.0.1 Includes Bug Fixes Affecting Several Plug-ins
Aharon Rabinowitz Posted to Red Giant’s Red Room Blog: “The After Effects CS6 (11.0.1) update includes some major fixes for caching bugs that are especially relevant to users of some plug-ins.”
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Tutorial: A Beginner’s Guide to Cinema 4D Lights
Learn the basics of lighting in Cinema 4D and how to use each variation of light available; free project file download. By Chudleigh Designs.
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New: Furryball for Autodesk Maya by AAA Studio
Real-time - Global illumination, Area lights and realistic reflections. You can see your render in real-time hairs, Maya Fluids, with bump-maps, textures, soft shadows, reflections and refractions, ambient occlusion and color bleeding, depth of field and many other features directly in Maya viewport.