Zaxwerks Blog

Zaxwerks ProAnimator Tip #1: Reversing an Object Animation

September 27th, 2007 by John Dickinson

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.

eSeminar With John Dickinson

September 24th, 2007 by Zax

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 […]

Festive Streamers

June 13th, 2007 by Zax

With the holidays right around the corner, here are a set of streamer presets to use with the 3D Grid Warp plug-in. These streamers can all be customized and animated in a variety of ways. You can change how tight or loose the ribbon is wrapped; the length and width of the ribbon; […]

Gettin’ Sporty with Invigomany

May 22nd, 2007 by Zax

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 […]

Using Invigorator and Layer Warp to create 3d pie charts

May 7th, 2007 by Alan Shisko

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.

How are the 3D Warps and the 3D Flag plug-ins different?

May 7th, 2007 by Zax

We’ve received many questions from folks wondering how the Warps and Flag plug-ins are different. Perhaps I can shed a little light on what these plug-ins do.
First, let’s start with the simple answer: 3D Flag creates cloth animations that are completely real-looking. The cloth responds to wind and gravity in ways that […]