Adobe After Effects – Simple Creativity #13: Multi-Screens 3D
Starting at the point where we ended in the last tutorial, we first change the number of screens to 100. But the main emphasis of this tutorial is to introduce camera layers and show how to switch from one camera to another while dynamically moving each. Continue reading
Adobe After Effects – Simple Creativity #12: Multi-Screens 2D
When Steve Jobs introduced Apple TV at MacWorld in San Francisco this January, I was impressed it. And my wife was much more excited than I was. After we came back home from the show, I turned on my Mac and watched Apple TV trailer. I knew somebody was watching me behind my back. It was my wife. Then she gave me a look. You know that look. Oh, no… She wanted something badly, and she was not going to leave me alone until she got it. I had to do something before she started to yell at me in front of children. So launched Adobe After Effects. Continue reading
Adobe After Effects – Simple Creativity #11: Slot Machine
There is nothing fancy, but we show how to create a slot machine movie. In this video tutorial, we rotate 3 reels differently. So we enable ‘3D Layer’ to convert a horizontally long 2D image into a 3D round reel. Continue reading
Adobe Labs has released the beta version of Windows-only Adobe Flash Media Encoder. Unlike its Flash Video Encoder, Flash Media Encoder allows the user to capture video from a live source and then to encode it to Flash format, according to Adobe Labs. In this way, video can be published for real-time streaming. The current beta release is only available for Windows platform and can be downloaded and used for free after registration.
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A couple of days ago, Autodesk has released the latest version of its popular 3D modeling application Maya. In fact, soon after Autodesk annouced the new version release, cracked versions, which are often labeled ‘[k],’ went around quickly at torrent and warez websites for both Mac and Windows platforms. One torrent is even titled as ‘Maya 8.5 Cracking Tutorial Step by Step with Pictures.’