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It’s 3-D Time in FCP.
The future has arrived.
Final Cut Pro can now
do 3-D!
The award-winning motion graphics software, ProAnimator, has been re-written to become a native FxPlug, so users of Final Cut Pro and Motion can now create real-time 3-D title and logo animations directly inside of their favorite program.
ProAnimator brings capabilities to your fingertips that […]

Strap on your motion graphics black belt!
Making It Look Great 4 Design and Production Techniques for Adobe After Effects, Zaxwerks ProAnimator and Zaxwerks 3D Flag.
Work side-by-side with senior broadcast designer, After Effects expert and Zaxwerks demo artist John Dickinson, to create the powerful Northstar Martial Arts animation from start to finish.
Topics include:

The key design decisions
Background […]

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.

You may have been wondering what the ProAnimator Importer plug-in that ships with ProAnimator actually does. Take a look a this 8 minute video tutorial and see what you’ve been missing. And if you haven’t been wondering… well… take a look anyway, it’s pretty cool. Have fun.
The eyeball images is by Martin Walls and was […]

Here’s the end title resolve for a quick and simple promo I’ve been working on. The text and diamond plate background are both ProAnimator layers. Doing the background in ProAnimator allowed shadows to be cast from the text onto the background. Check out the full article here.

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.

Making it Look Great 1: Design and Production Techniques for Adobe After Effects and Zaxwerks ProAnimator is Available now. You can pick it up immediately by download from Toolfarm, or order a DVD here at Zaxwerks.
Throughout the lessons you’ll learn the techniques John Dickinson uses every day as a broadcast designer, and get insight into […]

Making it Look Great, a 2 hour in-depth workshop on using ProAnimator and After Effects to create a finished broadcast motion graphics spot is only days away. Check out the promo here.

For those of you hungry for my ProAnimator training DVD, coming real soon now I promise, here’s a quick video tip on how to select all segments on a layer and reverse an object animation in ProAnimator. Have fun.

A little while back we hosted an eSeminar. If you haven’t heard, an eSeminar is a live class taught by an instructor, which you watch in the web browser of your computer. It’s a great way to link people together from all over the world, without ever having to leave home. John […]

This project was created in After Effects (AE) by combining various AE effects with Zaxwerks 3D Warps, Zaxwerks ProAnimator and Knoll Light Factory. For a movie and breakdown click here.

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 […]