C4D QuickTip : MoSpline 01 By Ko Maruyama MAXON's CINEMA 4D R11.5 is full of new features, including several new tools that you'll find in Mograph. In addition to the spline tools that were introduced earlier, MoSpline is a dynamic way of introducing creative spline data to your scene. For some projects, a little tweeking may be necessary. Here's how... ...Read More »
300+ Free After Effects Tutorials After Effects has always been a popular topic for our writers and editors. We thought it would be helpful to list - with direct links to them on our After Effects Channel - the more than 300 different After Effects tutorials we have so far. In this list are After Effects training videos, After Effects hands on tutorials and techniques, and lots of After Effects Quick Tips. All professional quality, and all free! Enjoy! ...Read More »
C4D4AE: A simple graphic element with mograph By Ko Maruyama There are many ways to create some little elements that go into radar screens and control panels, but when you need to design something that matches a defined or described function - then you might find some really simple solutions in CINEMA4D's mograph tools. This 5min video tutorial walks you through the basics. What you do with those tools can take a little longer. ...Read More »
Adobe Kuler By Maltaannon Adobe Kuler is a great website where designers from all over the world create and exchange color schemes. Kuler has several algorithms to help you create your very own color scheme, plus it allows rating and commenting on existing schemes, that can be downloaded in Adobe Swatch Exchange format. ...Read More »
KILLING LIGHTS in CINEMA4D By Ko Maruyama If you're familiar with CINEMA 4D's ability to export to Adobe After Effects, you know that all of the camera and light data can be saved in a single file - for use within a 3D composition in AE. However, sometimes unnecessary light animation and 3D data makes that AEC file heavy. Here's how to clean up your export file. ...Read More »
C4D QuickTip #03 By Ko Maruyama Many Adobe After Effects users expect other applications to set keyframes automatically for them each time they make changes to parameters. With 3D applications, that can involve creating multiple keyframes every time you click which could be terrible. But, there are some good ways to use Autokeyframe... some. ...Read More »
C4D QuickTip #04 By Ko Maruyama You know there are many different ways to use your materials, many different ways to create materials - well here are some easy ways to not only get your bitmap textures in, copy them to multiple channels, but also turn texture tags on and off without removing them! THREE TUTORIAL VIDEOS one quick tip each ...Read More »
R11 C4D QuickTip #02 By Ko Maruyama You don't have to rely on the F9 key, or the attributes window to set keyframes. You can set keyframes directly in the editor window. Sure you can... ...Read More »
R11 C4D QuickTip #01 By Ko Maruyama In this QuickTip, I'll show you how easy it is to navigate your scene with R11. Of course, you could create something similar in earlier version, but it was never this easy. ...Read More »
Shortcuts for CINEMA4D: Creating Relationships By Ko Maruyama Creating new hierarchies in MAXON's CINEMA4D is a snap. It's as easy as dragging one object to another, or sometimes even easier. The quick pace of broadcast graphics means that you need to have shortcuts at your disposal to keep up. Here are a couple that will make your object management much more streamlined ...Read More »
Tips to Slim Down (your project) in 2009 By Ko Maruyama It's time for those New Years resolutions to start piling up. You know the ones: I'm going to eat healthy food. I won't slouch at my desk. I'll spend less time on Facebook, Twitter and (insert your own). . . I'M GOING TO SLIM DOWN. Well how about some slimming tips you might actually stick to? Here are some ways to slim down your animation projects in 2009. Or even just your TIMELINE! ...Read More »
Tips to Slim Down (your project) in 2009 By Ko Maruyama It's time for those New Years resolutions to start piling up. You know the ones: I'm going to eat healthy food. I won't slouch at my desk. I'll spend less time on Facebook, Twitter and (insert your own). . . I'M GOING TO SLIM DOWN. Well how about some slimming tips you might actually stick to? Here are some ways to slim down your After Effects projects in 2009.... ...Read More »
CINEMA 4D multiple passes By Ko Maruyama Adam Swaab has come up with a new version of his object manager for all CINEMA 4D's R11 software. This plug-in called " Render Elements" is an excellent way to easily manage objects within your scene for different render passes. Although the most recent versions of CINEMA 4D allow for easy management of multiple objects with the later browser, Adams plug-in is a simple and straightforward solution. ...Read More »
Tips to Slim Down (your project) in 2009 By Ko Maruyama It's time for those New Years resolutions to start piling up. You know the ones: I'm going to eat healthy food. I won't slouch at my desk. I'll spend less time on Facebook, Twitter and (insert your own)... I'M GOING TO SLIM DOWN. Well how about some slimming tips you might actually stick to? Here are some ways to slim down your animation projects in 2009.... ...Read More »
Motion 3 Level 1: Understanding keyframe and behavior animations By Jerry Leer In this training video, host Jerry Leer covers the difference between animating with keyframes, and animating with behaviors. He launches a project that has both keyframe and behavioral animations to show how to work both ways. ...Read More »
Easy color modification in particleIllusion By Ko Maruyama Now that the holiday season is coming up, you're going to need to put more sparkly graphics on you or video. While there are many different types of particle applications out there, none is as fast, and gives real time feedback the way particleIllusion does. even with all of the free libraries, you may need to modify some properties like color. ...Read More »
Toon Boom Storyboard Pro By Ko Maruyama Toon Boom's Storyboard Pro allows you to easily create a paperless storyboard - and even animate it if you want. There are a bunch of little tricks that you can easily pull off in Storyboard Pro, and there are several ways to export your boards when you're done. But what about when you want to IMPORT something to your panels? Here are a couple of easy Quick Tips ...Read More »
Answer to Gears By Ko Maruyama I got a few questions about how the shape layers work, why the boolean operation does what it does in the shape layer, and specifically how to make the hole in the middle of the gear. Well, I got enough email questions about it that I figured it was worth a tutorial explanation. So here it is. ...Read More »
After Effects War of Gears: Expressions By Ko Maruyama We covered the ability to make gears in the earlier tutorial, but using the shape layer repeater allows for it to rotate in one direction. In this tutorial, we'll set up a secondary gear to rotate in the opposite direction so that the gears' teeth will mesh together. ...Read More »
After Effects plugin: BORIS UPREZ By Ko Maruyama As we look at the archived footage in our data vaults, most of it is in standard definition size (or smaller). Now that most of our animation deliveries are rendered in 1920x1080, it's important for Adobe After Effects users to find easy ways to scale the old footage cleanly. Boris FX's Uprez is a new plugin to help you do it in a few steps. ...Read More »

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