Hollywood Camera Work - Visual Effects For Directors - Sample Clips: Free Green Screen training, Matchmoving, Compositing, Motion Capture and more These 5 sample chapters are a tiny sampling of the almost a thousand techniques covered by Visual Effects For Directors. There's a lot of free training here, so enjoy! These clips require the latest Flash Plug-In to be installed and Javascript must be enabled. "After watching and ingesting all the DVDs, I must say that you did an AMAZING work. Packs a punch CHALLENGE: Our client is a growing entrepreneurial agency that specializes in world tour packages. But they can’t compete with the big ad spends of the bigger operators on the circuit. STRATEGY: The promise of ‘pack your bags and prepare to see the wonders of the world with us’ needed to come through impactfuly at the very first contact point. The solution? Business cards that looked like tiny suitcases that no one could resist opening.
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35+ Awesome Tutorials Teaching You How To Create Your Own Icons Icons can be used effectively almost everywhere in design to send a clear message or assist users to navigate. Some Icons are detailed to a degree that makes them look almost photographs while others are the simplest possible drawings. You are probably aware that there are tons of icons available both for free or on commercial license to cover nearly any you may have. However if you cant find the perfect match you still have the option to create the icon yourself.
Super Fast – Speed Lighting Effect Take an image of a fireworks display and turn it into an intense sensation of speed. Manipulate natural lighting to fill a motion filled scene. Use masks to blend the effect over a car image to make the car appear to be in motion. This tutorial shows you exactly what to do. Jim Jagger - Animator Useful Animation Tools Reference Galleries If you ever struggle to find video reference, try these online databases. They are free (after a quick registration) and their archives are huge. Project ROME by Adobe Project ROME is an all-in-one content creation and publishing application that lets virtually anyone at work or home inject the power of graphics, photos, text, video, audio and animation into everyday projects. From printed materials and presentations to digital documents and websites, you can go from start to finish within the simple, creative Project ROME environment. Project ROME is a Software-as-a-Service offering, and works as both an Adobe AIR® desktop application and as a browser-based web application, leveraging the power of Adobe® AIR® and Adobe Flash Player® technology. Although Project ROME has been retired, it will remain free to the public on this blog.
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25 New Illustrator Tutorials That Will Make You A Master Of Vector Art Just because you can usually get a similar effect in Photoshop doesn’t mean the end result will be as good as using Illustrator (depending on the project). If you are like me (and I will bet most of you are) you will go ahead and use PS because you know it much better even though the final project will not be as good or as functional as it could be. Well it’s time to buck up and get this learning curve completely out of the way so you make the right choice next time. Create an Emotional, Molten, Shattered Statue in Photoshop Photo composites often require several Photoshop tools and techniques to achieve a desired effect. In this tutorial we will combine several photos to create a statue from a photo of a model. We will then explain how modify the statue to create cracks, and molten rock using layer masks, adjustments, and several blending and painting techniques. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets