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Sale Ending: Toolfarm Summer Sale 10% Off with Code SANDCASTLE Ends Today July 27
This is your last day to use coupon code SANDCASTLE to save 10% on almost everything in our store, during the Toolfarm Summer Sale. That’s 10% off new purchases, upgrades and even Sale prices!
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Sale Ending: proDAD Mercalli SAL for Mac - 3 Day Sale Ends Today
Mercalli SAL for Mac is a complete video stabilization and distortion correction for macOS, standalone application. Get it now for only $99. But hurry, the introductory pricing on Mercalli SAL for Mac ends today, July 27, 2017.
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In Depth: Freelancing Essentials, Part 1: Creating Your Brand
With any small business owner or freelancer, you’ll wear many hats. You will likely be the artist, the marketer, the accountant, the custodian, and more. You’ll constantly be thinking about your current job, your next job, who you can rely on to help you. It’s a lot of work and it’s sometimes exhausting! Not only this, you’ll end up taking on a higher amount of tax burden than someone who works for a corporation. Still, the appeal of being your own boss and working your own hours is very appealing.
This is the first in a series for those who are freelancing and those who want to be their own bosses. Some of the tips will be specific to video and digital media, and others will be more general. Today’s topic is creating your brand, which has to do with marketing, sales, and protecting your brand.
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Big Screen Effects: Beauty & the Beast
Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast was a beautiful film. We’re featuring work from Digital Domain and Framestore VFX on the Film, plus info on where you can see a presentation at SIGGRAPH on the film from Framestore and Autodesk.
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Midweek Motivations: Electronics Meets Crafts + Behind the Scenes
This installation took the “Milano Design Award 2017 Winner – “Best Storytelling” for Panasonic and GO last April in Milan, Italy. It contains some beautiful animation work from Japanese firm, Montage, Inc., and some of it done with LightWave 3D.
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Midweek Motivation: Classic Paintings With An AR Twist
Reblink, an Augmented Reality project from Art Gallery of Ontario, visually remixes their painting collection into modern scenes.
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New: Autodesk Maya 2018 is Now Available - Faster and More Efficient
With modeling, animation and motion graphics workflow enhancements and new features, Maya® 2018 is now faster and more efficient than ever.
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New: 5 New FxPacks from FxFactory, Idustrial Revolution, CrumplePop, Luca Visual FX, The Luut
There are 5 cool new plug-ins for Final Cut Pro X to check out and all utilize the FxFactory FxEngine. Some have introductory pricing deals now too!
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New: proDAD Mercalli SAL for Mac + Tutorial - 3 Day Sale!
Mercalli SAL for Mac is a complete video stabilization and distortion correction for macOS, standalone application. Plus, there’s introductory pricing on Mercalli SAL for Mac.
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Tutorial: After Effects: Banner Drop Down with Zaxwerks 3D Flag
This tutorial shows you how to make a realistic banner drop in AE using Zaxwerks 3D Flag. It comes with resource files so you can follow along, too. Plus 3D Flag is 50% off Today, July 25, 2017 Only.
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Sale: NoneCG Big Sale - 30% Off All Products Now through July 29, 2019
NoneCG offers high quality 3D models for movies, television, commercials, print media, books and videogames. This week only, save 30% on all NoneCG products.
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Tutorial: After Effects: Motion Tracking with Zaxwerks 3D Flag
Motion Graphic Designer Brent Willet shows you how to use some of AE’s built in motion and camera tracking features to add a 3D flag into a video clip.
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Update and Sale: Audionamix ADX SVC v1.5 - New and Improved and 30% Off
Now you can separate up to 1 hour of content with the new and improved ADX SVC (Speech Volume Control). Plus, with special introductory pricing you can save 30% now through July 31, 2017.
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Sale: Toolfarm 3 Day Summer Sale - 10% Off with Code SANDCASTLE
Use coupon code SANDCASTLE to save 10% on almost everything in our store, today through July 27, 2017 only, during the Toolfarm Summer Sale. That’s 10% off new purchases, upgrades and even Sale prices!
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Michele from Toolfarm on Digital Production Buzz last Thursday. Listen Now!
If you missed the show last week, you can listen to the archived show with Larry Joran and Digital Production Buzz. The topic of the evening was VFX.
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New: RealFlow | Cinema 4D 2.0 is Now Available
RealFlow | Cinema 4D 2.0 gives you the best in fluid simulation, directly inside Cinema 4D. Now you can achieve high-end simulations with an even easier workflow.
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Sale: Zaxwerks 3D Flag Flash Sale - 24 Hours Only on Now!
Create graceful flags with Zaxwerks 3D Flag. Save 50% on new licenses and upgrades, but only for 24 hours on Tuesday, July 25, starting at 12am PT, and ends Tuesday, July 25, 2017, at 11:59pm.
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Free Webinars! Calendar updated. #vfx #freewebinar
Can’t keep track upcoming webinars? This page is dedicated to webinars from our vendors that you may want to see. We will update this weekly or as often as needed so bookmark this page.
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Maya Monday: Particles and Particle Plug-ins
We are going to talk about one of the most useful and versatile types of effects out there - particles. Particles can be used to make fire, smoke, water drops, microbes, dust and sand, and any number of miscellaneous motion graphic elements. We’re going to lump fluid simulation in as well and cover a few plug-ins to expand your options.
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Sale: D16 Group Audio Software Summer Sale - Now through August 10, 2017
Get the perfect sound with D16 Group audio plug-in bundles and save a bundle, now through August 10, 2017.
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Freebie: Tesla Charging Station Model from The Pixel Lab
Remco has designed a Tesla Supercharger Cinema 4D model and also an accompanying station. It’s free for personal and/or commercial use.
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Freebie: AE: Script: Incremental Screenshot
AE Guru Victoria Nece has created a handy little After Effects script that saves still frames (screenshots) from your active comp’s work area on a user defined incremental basis. And it’s free.
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Freebie: Script to Easily Copy and Paste between 3D Apps
OD_CopyPasteExternal is a an open source script that allows users to easily copy and paste of polygons between 3D softwares, such as Cinema 4D, zBrush, Maya, 3ds Max, Substance Painter, Sketchup, Modo, Houdini, and more.
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Update: e-on Software Releases Final Versions of Carbon Scatter, CloudFactory Ozone
E-on Software Pre-Releases Carbon Scatter and CloudFactory Ozone 2017 Plugins. This 2017 release will be the final version of these 2 plug-in suites.
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Freebie: Free Mask Generator for Substance Painter
Artist Forest Telfordi has created a simple mask generator for Substance Painter that he is offering for free.
