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After Effects Tips and Techniques Compositing and Effects

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After Effects Tips and Techniques: Compositing and Effects
English | Size: 3.33 GB (3,579,783,168 Bytes)
Category: Tutorial


Get the most out of After Effects, with Eran Stern’s After Effects Tips and Techniques. The aim of the series is to help you increase productivity by learning new shortcuts, hidden gems, and overlooked effects. In this part you’ll learn how to overcome problems when compositing layers and matching shots, and explore a few “recipes” for popular effects. Discover how to key smoke and water, preserve transparency, match color, and create fun and popular effects such as film flash and “fake” camera tracking.
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Lynda – Mograph Techniques Dynamic Falling Objects in Cinema 4D Incl Project Files

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Lynda – Mograph Techniques Dynamic Falling Objects in Cinema 4D Incl Project Files
English | Size: 1,21 GB
Category: Tutorial


Create your own “pennies from heaven” scene with CINEMA 4D. This project based learning experience shows how to use C4D’s Dynamics module to animate falling coins that bounce and collide realistically. EJ Hassenfratz sets up a particle emitter to create a stream of coins from above, uses rigid body tag properties like mass and density to apply real-world physics, and the Dynamic module settings to control object interactions. He’ll also show how to add polish to your project using blur and depth of field in After Effects. [Read more…]

Brian Tracy – Accelerated Learning Techniques [ 14 MP3 ]

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Brian Tracy – Accelerated Learning Techniques [ 14 MP3 ]
English | Size: 428.32 MB
Category: Author: Brian Tracy


Science has suggested that the human mind has an almost infinite potential for learning and processing information. The problem has always been in accessing this incredible power. “Accelerated Learning Techniques” tells you how. Based on Nobel Prize-winning research, the cutting-edge methods revealed here can make a dramatic difference to you and your family, virtually guaranteeing success at work and school. For this is the ideal learning program, enabling you to identify and use your own unique way of learning, unleashing the power of your whole brain. [Read more…]

Gumroad – Zbrush Hard Surface Techniques by Lance Wilkinson

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Gumroad – Zbrush Hard Surface Techniques by Lance Wilkinson
English | Size: 338 MB
Category: TUTORIALS


In this tutorial I show you some of the hard surface techniques I use, in realtime, to get the shapes, panels and details I created in the Female Cyborg Bust. A basic knowledge of Zbrush is best for viewing.
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Digital Tutors – Multi-Pass Rendering Techniques in Maya

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Digital Tutors – Multi-Pass Rendering Techniques in Maya
English | Size: 1,31 GB
Category: Digital Tutors


When rendering a scene for production, itÆs important for the compositing artist who receives your renders to have as much control as possible for making adjustments in post. Handing off a flat beauty pass just isnÆt an option. ItÆs situations like these that multi-pass rendering was designed for.
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Digital Tutors – Speed Painting Techniques for Environment Work in Photoshop

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Digital Tutors – Speed Painting Techniques for Environment Work in Photoshop
English | Size: 903 MB
Category: Digital Tutors


In this Photoshop tutorial we’ll cover the many techniques and shortcuts to quickly bring an image from a blank canvas to a realized finish.

We’ll use techniques such as, blocking in large areas of abstract shapes and textures to quickly cover the canvas, as well as using different commands of the lasso tool to quickly carve out shapes for further refinement. We’ll also cover the fundamentals and theories behind speed painting, value relationships, color and temperature relationships, different surface textures and how these elements can best be controlled to create realized believable images. [Read more…]

CreativeLIVE – Photoshop Compositing – Essential Techniques with Aaron Nace [3 mkv]

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CreativeLIVE – Photoshop Compositing – Essential Techniques with Aaron Nace [3 mkv]
English | Size: 6.12 GB
Category: Tutorial


Compositing allows you to bring the vivid images of your dreams to life. Join Phlearn’s Aaron Nace for an exploration of the artistic and technical skills that are essential to creating stunning composite images.
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Lynda.Mograph Techniques Creating a Flat Vector look using C4D and After Effects

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Lynda.Mograph Techniques: Creating a Flat Vector look using C4D and After Effects
English | Size: 306 MB
Category: Lynda.com


Creating flat vector-based artwork that moves along the X, Y, and Z planes is a fun and beautiful way to give an animated infographic style and energy. You can mimic this 2D look with a 3D animation-like feel using the power of CINEMA 4D and After Effects combined. Artist Eran Stern shows mograph artists how to achieve this simple style of rendering using a series of project-based examples: a sophisticated particle reaction, a complex DNA chain sequence, a button, and a coin animation.
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Basic TAIG micro lathe techniques

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Basic TAIG micro lathe techniques
English | Size: 4.24 GB
Category: Do it Yourself


Would you like to be able to see for yourself what can be done on a Taig micro-lathe, with just minimal tooling and expense? Are you somewhat undecided about acquiring one of these small but very capable tools and somehow wished you could just see one being put through its paces before opening your wallet? Well, wait no more! Finally there is a video that will answer most of your basic questions about this lathe. Initial setup hints will be discussed, during a thorough tour of the lathe and its basic components. This will be followed with a complete hands-on demonstration of all the basic machining operations possible on this tool. These will include:

  • Facing
  • Turning
  • Grooving
  • cut off / parting cuts
  • chamfering
  • center drilling
  • drilling
  • reaming
  • tapping
  • thread cutting with a die
  • boring cuts
  • milling
  • much more!

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CreativeLive – Glamour Posing Techniques with Lou Freeman

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CreativeLive – Glamour Posing Techniques with Lou Freeman
English | Size: 731 MB
Category: PHOTOGRAPHY


The right pose can transform a mediocre image into a gorgeous photo. Learn the basics of posing from seasoned portrait photographer Lou Freeman in this 90-minute jam-packed workshop.

You will learn everything from glamour to fashion poses, including the right ways to position your subjects in reclining, sitting, and standing poses. In addition to understanding the human form, Lou will show you how to effectively communicate with your subject to ensure you get the pose you want.
Lou Freeman “Lou Freeman has practiced the art of fashion, glamour, fine interior and product photography for three decades. Her clients are among the most respected and recognized names in America and Europe. [Read more…]