Introducing Making It Look Great: 4!
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 […]
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Making It Look Great 3 for ProAnimator
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 Greatâ„¢ 3 video workshop. So those of you who use ProAnimator can take advantage of this great training.
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Presenting Making It Look Great 2 and 3
Ever wondered how the pros get their work looking so sharp? The popular and proven Making It Look Greatâ„¢ 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. […]
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3D Invigorator Training
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 […]
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Making it Look Great 1: ProAnimator Training Available Now
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 […]
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Making it Look Great is Almost Here
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.
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eSeminar With John Dickinson
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 […]
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Festive Streamers
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; […]
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Getting Started with “3d Warps”
Take a look at this recent blog post for a quickstart overview on how Zaxwerks’ “3d Warps” works.
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Using Invigorator and Layer Warp to create 3d pie charts
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.
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