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Great news. Harry Frank has just released a free video tutorial that teaches you how to use ProAnimator rather than 3D Invigorator in his fine Making It Look Great™ 3 video workshop. So those of you who use ProAnimator can take advantage of this great training.

Ever wondered how the pros get their work looking so sharp? The popular and proven Making It Look Great™ video workshop series has been designed to answer that question. Throughout these in-depth DVD workshops, professional motion graphics designers demonstrate techniques essential to their daily work and give the design decisions and rationale that support them. […]

Serge Hamad, one of the leaders of the Zaxwerks User Forum, has released a new training DVD. The DVD goes into great depth on modeling 3-D objects using the 3D Invigorator plug-in. In his colorful style, Serge walks you step by step through the process of building objects that are *not* the […]

I often get asked how one goes about creating that “glass rings floating around with lots of blues and golds” network news look. THIS tutorial presents the fundamentals that one might use to get that ‘look’ using Zaxwerks “Invigorator” and “ProAnimator” plugins. Consider this a starting point, then add your own salt ‘n pepper!
-Alan

In this video tutorial (8 minutes) you’ll learn how to add flare to your graphics by creating the effect of “light” moving across your Zaxwerks ProAnimator or 3D Invigorator objects. In fact it’s not light at all but an animated reflection map… anyway, watch the movie and all will be revealed. Have fun.

If you do sports graphics Invigomany is worth its weight in gold. Serge Hamad, Zaxwerks power user and forum co-leader, has created a companion CD full of project files and texture maps. These project files enable you to create custom graphics of various sports equiptment. The maps are customizable right down to […]

If anyone has a current version of a Zaxwerks plug-in that they would like to get running on the Mac under CS3, here are the links. These plug-ins will run in AE 6.5, 7 and CS3. Most of these links are MAC ONLY because only the Mac versions were changed for CS3. The […]

Every middle manager worth his/her mettle needs a nifty, extruded, animating pie chart every now and again. Check out the Quicktime tutorial and AE Project File here and see how Zaxwerks can help make your data look great.