http://zaxwerks.com/blog The Official Zaxwerks Blog Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:13:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://zaxwerks.com/blog/2008/09/24/hot-release-the-proanimator-fx/ 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 ... http://zaxwerks.com/blog/2008/09/24/introducing-making-it-look-great-volume-4/ 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. http://zaxwerks.com/blog/2008/05/14/making-it-look-great-3-for-proanimator/ 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 ... http://zaxwerks.com/blog/2008/03/17/presenting-making-it-look-great-2-and-3/ 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 ... http://zaxwerks.com/blog/2007/12/09/new-tutorial-getting-creative-with-proanimator-importer/ 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 ... http://zaxwerks.com/blog/2007/12/07/proanimator-title-resolve/ 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 ... http://zaxwerks.com/blog/2007/12/05/3d-invigorator-training/ 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 ... http://zaxwerks.com/blog/2007/11/21/news-intro-fundamentals/ 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 ... http://zaxwerks.com/blog/2007/11/07/lighting-effect-for-proanimator-and-3d-invigorator-pro/ 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 ... http://zaxwerks.com/blog/2007/10/20/making-it-look-great-1-proanimator-training-available-now/