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On target with THE BULLET

June 2, 2009 / Reviews, Training

The Bullet Training from Andrew Kramer Many After Effects users may be more familiar with the title “videocopilot” than his real name, Andrew Kramer. However, Andrew has been creating tutorials and has been featured on several sites, including his own — videocopilot.net. In addition to many of the tutorials that you can find online, Andrew also has premium tutorials that you can purchase directly from his site. These tutorials are an examination of a specific task, effect, or scene [...]

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Targus screen protection for MacBooks

May 26, 2009 / News, Reviews

If you’re using a Macbook Pro, it’s a good guess that you’re working on a professional job, or work that you hope will bring you some professional dollars at least. Not just to protect your logon and password information, but to shield prying eyes from a personal work, the Targus screen is a thin membrane that provides a thick barrier between your on-screen information and strangers.

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Ballistic Inspiration

May 24, 2009 / Books, News, Reviews

If you’re a filmmaker and want to be inspired for what kind of matte painting, character design, or other digital potential is out there – you will find artists with amazing skills from cover to cover.

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NAB 09: Trapcode Particular V2 with Peder Norrby

April 29, 2009 / Blogs, NAB 09, News, Plug Ins

I was lucky to catch Peder for a quick demo of a few features in the new Particular V2 plugin. I’ve known Peder for several years – - so it’s just a really quick, informal demo. Just something to grab a quick video of him at NAB… most of the time there were tons of animators with full court press on the booth (see pix on ninjacrayon) For rants, ramblings and general announcements – check out a chaotic blog in [...]

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NAB 09: particleIllusion coming to After Effects

April 29, 2009 / Blogs, News, Plug Ins, Reviews

Alan has been working on this port from particleIllusion to After Effects plugin for a long time. It’s taken some time for Adobe to come up with API to keep up with all of the animatable parameters that particle Illusion has already. For rants, ramblings and general announcements – check out a chaotic blog in the BlogZone: http://www.ninjacrayon.com/ or via the NINJACRAYON Twitter Posts. To find out more about the plugin, keep checking back to the wondertouch website. Also, take [...]

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NAB 09: Deadline (Render Farm Mngr) from FranticFilms

April 29, 2009 / Blogs, News

Frantic Films is releasing their renderfarm management tool. For rants, ramblings and general announcements – check out a chaotic blog in the BlogZone: http://www.ninjacrayon.com/ or via the NINJACRAYON Twitter Posts.

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NAB 09: Tiger-Technology

April 29, 2009 / Blogs, News

Tiger-Technology at NAB 09 shows off their SAN and latest technology that allows Macs and PCs to play together nicely. Picking up extra space is even easier with their latest software. US Auctions Australian Auctions Austrian Auctions Belgian Auctions Canadian Auctions French Auctions German Auctions Hong Kong Auctions Indian Auctions Irish Auctions Italian Auctions Dutch Auctions Polish Auctions Singapore Auctions Spanish Auctions Swiss Auctions UK Auctions Best Match Time: ending soonest Time: newly listed Price: lowest first Price: highest first [...]

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NAB 09 Jerzy Drozda, Jr (maltaannon) 3D Serpentine

April 29, 2009 / Blogs, News, Plug Ins

Maltaannon is known by most for his participation in the After Effects forums and newsthreads, so it’s no surprise to see him showing off Zaxwerks 3D Serpentine – - sweep geometry in After Effects: I just got an update from Zax – - more good stuff going into the plugin for when it releases! I hope to have him to our DMALA meeting to show it off too. Still in beta – it’s due to release sometime soon. For rants, [...]

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NAB 09 : NVIDIA GPU monster for the Mac

April 28, 2009 / Blogs, News, Reviews

NVIDIA Muscle Mac Adobe Users can flex their video power. At this year’s NAB, there were many new announcements from both software and hardware companies bringing new workflow and process capabilities to be broadcast professionals in attendance. Adobe offered a glimpse at some of the upcoming solutions that will be coming out for its users later this year. On the other hand, NVIDIA was there to show off products currently shipping, including their newest cards for GPU processing. In Adobe’s [...]

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