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Use Cinema 4D Lite to Generate Displacement maps

January 25, 2014, 02:51 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/use-cinema-4d-lite-...

Remember that facial rigging and lip sync tutorial series from David Legion? Well, David continues his look at the workflow and tools necessary for rigging a character’s head in After Effects. This time he takes another look at creating displacement maps that you can use with Mettle’s FreeForm Pro plugin for After Effects.

Unfold and Animate Objects in Cinema 4D

January 25, 2014, 11:45 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/unfold-animate-poly...

The C4DZone.com releases another plugin for Cinema 4D “Fold It”. the plugin will assist you in creating folding and unfolding animations in C4D making it much quicker to create the rigging for the animated setups.

Using The Arnold Renderer

January 25, 2014, 11:45 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/arnold-render-quick...

Timothy Hanson gets you up to speed and rendering in Solid Angle’s Arnold Renderer using Autodesk Maya. A new post on the Max-Depth blog will get you rendering in as short a time as possible, covering all the important elements to Arnold ranging from sample settings, lights, shaders, rendering, optimizations, and everything in the middle. Timothy runs through using AR inside Autodesk Maya, but the Arnold implementation is the same in other applications.

Understanding the Houdini Ocean Waves Tool

January 24, 2014, 12:45 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/understanding-houdi...

Side FX software recently posted a look at using the “off the shelf” Ocean Waves Tool in Houdini, which works in conjunction with the new Ocean Surface Shader in Houdini 13.

Video Tutorial: Creating a Lava Lamp Effect

January 22, 2014, 04:22 PM

http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/video-tutorial-cre...

Learn to create a lava lamp effect in this Premiumbeat exclusive After Effects tutorial - a great way to improve your AE skills.

Creating a Dirty Lens Effect

January 22, 2014, 04:21 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/creating-dirty-came...

Tom Latvys shares a quick tip for creating a dirty lens effect in Blender, showing how to create the effect easily with a volumetric light effect and a simple texture.

VIDEOTUTORIAL: Edición con DaVinci Resolve 10

January 22, 2014, 06:01 AM

http://www.finalcutpro.es/2014/01/videotutorial-ed...

Una de las novedades más importantes que trajo la versión 10 de DaVinci Resolve es la mejora en la parte de edición. Puede que el programa aún no pueda competir de tú a tú con un software de montaje especialmente diseñado para esa labor, pero está cerca. En este vídeo te mostramos las opciones más […]

How to create a realistic camera rig in Maya

January 22, 2014, 05:58 AM

http://www.creativebloq.com/3d/how-create-realisti...

Being able to set-up a CG version of a real-world camera, using groups and simple controllers, is an important skill. Multi-node cameras are useful because they impose the physical limitations of real-world cameras. This will encourage you to think more cinematically about how you position your camera. This may sound like a disadvantage, but it is in fact an advantage as you will end up with a more realistic result and the camera will help to tell your story rather than detract from it.

AE Parenting

January 22, 2014, 05:58 AM

http://www.surfacedstudio.com/tutorials/adobe-effe...

In today’s tutorial we will take a closer look at another very important basic technique available in Adobe After Effects: parenting. Parenting is used to link one or more layers to a single parent layer. Moving, scaling or rotating the parent layer will then automatically affect all of its children.

Cinema 4D Object Vertex Velocity

January 21, 2014, 01:45 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/cinema-4d-influence...

A new python plugin from César Vonc will allow you to modify a vertex map based on the movement of that point. Used as a tag within Cinema 4D, Influence Point can provide some gray visual information on how an animated object is moving, being able to map speed, rotation, stretching, density and even acceleration.

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