Visual Effects (1144 Tutorials)

Rendering in Maya

March 26, 2018

This page contains several tutorials about installing Arnold Render, render settings you should use, saving the render and things like ray depth, viewport settings, and anti-aliasing.

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Cinema 4D: Animate Growing Foliage with X-Particles

March 13, 2018

Want to populate your scenes with animated growing vegetation? This step-by-step tutorial from Rob Redman shows you how, using X-Particles in Cinema 4d.

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Cinema 4D: Retopology of a Human Head in Cinema 4D

March 13, 2018

This free training course from Michael Balchaitis walks you through the process of how to retopology of a high mesh human head to low poly mesh. You will learn facial topology, the polygon pen tool, and export from Cinema 4d. Plus, it even comes with project files.

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Colorful Glitch FX! 100% AE! from Video Copilot

March 6, 2018

Andrew Kramer, from Video Copilot, teased us about this tutorial last week, and it’s finally here. In this new tutorial, he shows us how to create a stylistic glitch effect, inside after effects without any 3rd party plug-ins.

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Cinema 4D: Lighting Scenes with Luminous Objects

February 27, 2018

Jonas Pilz offers a C4D quick tip on how to light a scenes using only the light from luminous materials.

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Space Freebies and Tutorials to create your Science Fiction Film

February 23, 2018

I love space stuff! Here’s a nice collection of free space related items for your space short, epic sci-fi feature, or documentary.

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Cinema 4D: Getting Started with ProRender in C4D R19

February 13, 2018

This Cinema 4D Quick Tip with Jonas Pilz explains how to get started using the new Radeon ProRender in Cinema 4D R19.

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Ebberts + Zucker Wind for After Effects: Quick Tips

February 2, 2018

Learn how to use Wind to simulate the natural motion of a breeze blowing across Text, Vectors, Video or Shape layers in Native AE 3D space.

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Freeze Time with HitFilm Pro, As Seen in Doctor Who

January 30, 2018

Inspired by an effect seen in the recent Doctor Who Christmas episode, Javert shows you how to freeze time and suspend snow in midair all inside the latest HitFilm Pro.

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Boris FX Sapphire Tutorials for Lens Flares in Avid Media Composer

January 30, 2018

Enjoy these 2 Boris Sapphire Tutorials about Sapphire’s powerful and beautiful Lens Flare plug-in in Avid Media Composer. Fun and easy,

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Time Remapping in Premiere Pro, Parts 1 & 2

January 23, 2018

Andrew Devis at DoodleNews.com shows you how to use Time Remapping in Premiere Pro, which enables advanced tools to play with the timing of your shot, in this 2 part walkthrough tutorial.

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C4D: Speed up your HDRI Workflow in Octane with HDRI Link

January 19, 2018

Chad Ashley from Greyscalegorilla explains how to work faster using HDRI Link with Cinema 4D and Octane.

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Laubwerk Plants integration with iToo Forest Pack

January 17, 2018

Learn how to use Forest Pack to instantly create stunning CG forest scenes using Laubwerk’s line of beautiful, render-ready 3D tree species, inside Autodesk 3ds Max.

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Chaos Group Phoenix FD for Maya – Quick Start: Gasoline Explosion

January 17, 2018

Learn how to create a fiery explosion with an accelerant like gasoline in Phoenix FD for Maya. Using both the toolbar preset, and then again manually, step-by-step you’ll learn the ins and outs of this simulation type.

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Chaos Group Phoenix FD for 3ds Max – Quick Start: Basic Liquids #gettingstarted

January 17, 2018

This video covers the basic workflow for creating a basic liquid simulation in Phoenix FD for 3ds Max, using both a toolbar preset, and then again manually, step-by-step for good measure.

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