Description : Jeff Foster has created the one indispensable and definitive production guide to two of the world s greatest symbiotic tools: After Effect and Photoshop.
-Jack H. Davis, coauthor, the Photoshop Wow! books and How to Wow: Photoshop for Photography. Nothing beats the tight synergy of After Effects and Photoshop for creating professional-level effects, and nothing beats this book for showing you how Hollywood professionals really use these programs. In this second edition to his bestselling book, TV and movie graphics veteran Jeff Foster provides all-new information on After Effects 7 and Photoshop CS2-plus expanded coverage of blue/green screening and titling, beautiful new images, and innovative real-world solutions for today`s professionals. Better than ever, this must-have reference is still the only guide that shows how to use these two superpower programs together to achieve professional results.

Robert Leger works EVEN.TV in COLOGNE. Video in which there is talk about animation and some other things related to modeling. And the main role of course played by post-processing that is present.

3D space is the latest enhancement to the ubiquitous Flash environment, enabling Flash content developers to enhance content delivery and the interactivity of web sites, games, and interactive learning systems.

Realize your creative potential with a working knowledge of After Effects 7. Renowned artist and designer Angie Taylor demonstrates professional workflows and inspires with practical tutorial lessons that help put the theory (and you!) to work.

In this collection of lessons we will learn about the animation principle of Staging.
What is Staging? How can it be used to improve the quality of your animations? We will answer these questions as we cover tips and techniques for using this principle to make sure your animations are presented in the clearest way. By the end of this course, you will have a deeper understanding of the principle of Staging, which will help add more entertainment to your work.

In this course we will go over how to properly rig and animate a vehicle in Maya. In this series of lessons we will learn how to rig vehicles in Maya and learn proper vehicle animation techniques.

In this video tutorial, Michael Park will demonstrate how to recreate an ESPNNews style logo treatment using Adobe After Effects and Trapcode Particular.

Core Animation adds that wow! factor to your Cocoa and iPhone applications.

You’ll begin by learning the custom props workflow in Source and basics of 3D animation in Autodesk’s Maya 8.

In this series of lessons we’ll learn how to take a basic render scene and add textures, render it and composite it into a finished shot. We ll be covering all the steps needed to take a plain render and make it better. We’ll begin this project by creating a procedural dirt shader for our ground cover. Then we ll hop into Photoshop to create a photographic texture for our road. We ll then add some detail using more procedural textures to break up the edges of the road and create a broken concrete feel. From there we will set up a particle system for our tires and create render layers and passes. Finally we will composite our shot using the Maya Precomp feature and Maya Composite. We ll learn how to color correct our passes, add various blurs and composite everything together into an integrated shot.