Lynda - Eye Enhancement for Portraiture with Photoshop

March 10, 2016, 11:24 pm

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Eyes are the focal point of every face. To create engaging portraits, you need to give them extra attention. John Derry breaks down exactly how to make the most of a subject's eyes, reviewing the three major areas for enhancement: iris, pupil, and eyelashes. He also reviews photo "painting" techniques for reducing distractions, modifying contrast and lighting, and directing the viewer's attention toward the subject's face, revealing their inner emotions.

Topics include:

How to enhance eyes with Photoshop
How to add catchlights to eyes
How to make eyes pop
How to whiten eyes
How to extend eyelashes

http://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-tutorials/Eye-Enhancement-Portraiture-Photoshop/431060-2.html

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Lynda - After Effects Breakdowns - N-Trig Commercial

March 10, 2016, 11:59 pm

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Get a glimpse behind the scenes of a real-world commercial made with After Effects. This course is for artists who are familiar with After Effects and want to better understand advanced techniques, design concepts, and approaches to complex projects.

The featured product is the N-trig pen, a digital pen that "draws the line from idea to technology." You will reverse engineer the finished project to understand the practical steps and creative decisions the filmmakers made along the way.

Eran Stern shows how to decode a client brief, present design concepts for signoff, create previsualizations and animatics, and then transition the design to After Effects. Many of the effects, such as dust layers, streaks of light, and geometric lines, are achieved using some of Eran's favorite third-party plugins (Particular, Form, and Plexus). The lessons are full of practical examples for broadcast television as well as online distribution. Along the way, Eran weaves in tips, shortcuts, and professional techniques that will amaze both veteran After Effects users and new motion graphics artists.

Topics include:

Analyzing a client brief
Presenting to a client
Creating animatics
Integrating 3D renders with After Effects
Animating lines and particle effects
Creating an animated paper-to-digital transition
Modeling a digital pen with third-party plugins

http://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tutorials/After-Effects-Breakdowns-N-Trig-Commercial/455722-2.html

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XFROG 5.4 MAYA 2016

March 11, 2016, 8:46 am

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Xfrog 5.4 maya 2016

i have included a file how to install..

All credits to nOMAD :)

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malty: Simple Camera Rig v2.0.5 - Aescripts

March 11, 2016, 11:23 pm

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Simple Camera Rig v2.0.5 (Aescripts)
If you ever struggled with your After Effects 3D camera than this product is for you. Rig your camera in one click, discover secret techniques used by myself and other artists, and start creating beautiful and stunning animations. Efficiently. This is more than just a camera rig. This is a totally new workflow for any size project. It's the only camera rig you'll ever need.

Features include:
Fully featured camera rig for easy animation
Advanced depth of field (focus) control
Rig and Camera Speed parameters for automatic moves
Global Settings that work across multiple compositions
Mimic Camera module for easy precomping
Sure Target support
Works great with Element3D
and total creative freedom!

Current version: 2.0.5
2.0.5 - minor bug fixes, fix problem with CC2014
Compatibility: CC 2014, CC, CS6, CS5.5, CS5, CS4

Home: http://aescripts.com/malty-simple-camera-rig/

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Pluralsight - Action Scene Editing Techniques

March 11, 2016, 11:29 pm

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Duration 1h 30m Project Files Included MP4

Throughout these lessons, we'll delve into the considerations an editor needs to take when working with action scenes. We will examine footage from both documentary/sports style footage and edits as well as fictional action scenes. We cover considerations for this type of editing, common practices, and techniques to make your action scenes flow well. After this course, you will have the tools and knowledge to start putting together successful action scenes.

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3ds Max Plugins – City Traffic and Spineland for 2015-16

March 12, 2016, 12:07 am

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Spineland

SplineLand is a plugin for Autodesk 3ds Max that helps to generate topographically accurate terrains from a set of splines and lay roads. Without SplineLand it is almost impossible to achieve such accurate results in 3ds Max. Now you can do it quickly, in just a few clicks your topographical data in form of splines can become a terrain.

CityTraffic

CityTraffic is a plug-in for 3ds Max which helps to create car traffic flow on the roads and off-roads.

Special road editor and automatic cars setup substantially accelerates preparation of scenes for the simulation of traffic movement.
Huge variety of configurations for each car, whether it is adjustment of a suspension bracket or style of driving, give the ability to create realistic simulation.
Dynamics calculation makes movements on complicated surfaces more realistic, and the artificial intelligent system helps cars to operate independently.

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FumeFX 4.0 Maya 2016

March 12, 2016, 12:26 am

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On March 2nd 2016, Sitni Sati has released FumeFX 4.0 for Autodesk's Maya platform.
FumeFX 4.0 offers many new features that help simulations to run faster and with more detail.
The new FumeFX 4.0 QCG solver is up to twice as fast as the CG solver found in FumeFX 3.0. Along with other simulation optimizations, FumeFX 4.0 can complete simulation faster than any previous version of FumeFX.
New vorticity type has additional control over vortices which helps user to fine tune the final result. The highly optimized Spline Follow force field allows various special effects that were impossible before.
Built-in Black-body radiation shader and new burning model that includes Oxygen are powerful tools for achieving realistic fire and explosion animations. Sharpening at render-time will bring out maximum possible detail from your existing caches. Fully multithreaded cache pre-processing at render time will result in significant time savings across the render farm.
Features such as faster solver, advanced vorticity, new burning model, smoke and fire sharpening at render time, fields sharpening at simulation time, improved caches handling and many other will allow users to create more detailed simulations in less time.

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KelbyOne - Adobe Illustrator CC Down & Dirty Tricks

March 12, 2016, 4:21 am

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Corey shares a few tricks in Adobe Illustrator that you may find useful.

http://kelbyone.com/course/cbarker_illustratordandd/

[No materials available for this course]

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Gumroad - Anthony Jones - Approachable Environment Interiors (Curvy Interior)

March 12, 2016, 4:48 am

≫ Next: Pluralsight – Photoshop CC Smart Objects

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In this 40 minute video tutorial, I'll cover how to use a fun gradient tool to lay in texture and shapes. After that I'll go into the use of lasso tool + air brush to control your hard and soft edges, followed up with some detailing and simple lighting.

Additionally I've attached a 10 minute Q&A session, in which I answer peoples questions on my facebook.

This product includes -

-50 minutes of video content
-PSD Files
-Tool Presets for Photoshop CC 2014

https://gumroad.com/robotpencil#

Big thanks to a user who wishes to stay anonymous ;-)

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Pluralsight – Photoshop CC Smart Objects

March 12, 2016, 5:53 am

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Smart Objects preserve an image's source content with all its original characteristics, enabling you to perform nondestructive editing to the layer. In this course, we'll review the various ways you can create Smart Objects and some best practices for working with them in Adobe Photoshop CC.

Software required: Adobe Photoshop CC.

https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/photoshop-cc-smartobjects

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SolidAngle Arnold for Maya (MtoA) v1.2.7.0

March 12, 2016, 7:17 am

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Program Name: Arnold for Maya (MtoA) v1.2.7.0
Program Type: Autodesk Maya plug-in
Developer: Solid Angle S.L.
Homepage: www.solidangle.com/arnold/arnold-for-maya/
Release Date: 11.03.2016
Interface Language: English
Platform: Autodesk Maya 2015/2016, 64-bit ONLY

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Zack Schnepf - Tonality Control 2.0

March 12, 2016, 8:18 am

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Tonality Control 2.0 is a comprehensive workflow video. I will guide you through my most current multiple exposure workflow; I work on the same image throughout the entire video, except for a short example at the end. I will illustrate how I use the powerful tools and techniques available in Photoshop along with the TKActions V4 Panel to control tonality throughout my entire processing workflow. These techniques are quite advanced, and can be challenging, but they yield incredible results that are not possible with HDR software. I'll demonstrate how I take 3 raw files from pre-visualization to fully realized master file.

Techniques covered: Raw preparation in Lightroom, multiple exposure blending, advanced masking, luminosity selections, refined selections, advanced selection building, color range selections, tonality adjustment layers, color adjustment layers, color cloning, sharpening for print, web preparation and more.

Includes: 25 chapters, covering 4 hours of instruction.
I've also included the raw files used for the project image you see below. This way you can follow along with the same files I'm using in the video. These files are for practice only, they may not be reproduced or sold in any form.

http://www.zschnepf.com/Other/Videos2

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Gumroad - Anthony Jones - Shape Painting With Color

March 12, 2016, 8:56 am

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Shape Painting with Color

Video 1:

Consider the values at all times.

Using saturation and Hue.

New techniques using color picker and clever layer management.

Video 2:

Touch up and finish a picked painting.

https://gumroad.com/robotpencil#

Big thanks to a user who wishes to stay anonymous ;-)

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Gumroad - Anthony Jones - Shape Painting With Values

March 12, 2016, 9:17 am

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Shape Painting with Values

Video 1:

Using your pen pressure wisely for value control.

Pen pressure for Lighitng Control.

Using overlays and layer modes to push values.

https://gumroad.com/robotpencil#

Big thanks to a user who wishes to stay anonymous ;-)

Video 2:

Touch up and finish a picked painting.

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Gumroad - Anthony Jones - Shape Painting With Values

March 12, 2016, 9:19 am

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Shape Painting with Values

Video 1:

Using your pen pressure wisely for value control.

Pen pressure for Lighitng Control.

Using overlays and layer modes to push values.

Video 2:

Touch up and finish a picked painting.

https://gumroad.com/robotpencil#

Big thanks to a user who wishes to stay anonymous ;-)

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Gumroad - Anthony Jones - Setting Up Lights In A Painting

March 12, 2016, 9:34 am

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Setting up Lights in a painting, is a demonstration on how to simplify your light set ups and understand how to approach lights in your painting.

Video 1:

Understanding basic lighting.

How lighting can be used for drama.

Add subtle lights to push your art.

Video 2:

Set up sketch, and what to consider.

Understanding your forms above all else.

When to add more lighting.

This product contains: 30 minute video, PSD File, Hotkeys, Brush and Tool Presets.

https://gumroad.com/robotpencil#

Big thanks to a user who wishes to stay anonymous ;-)

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Gumroad - Anthony Jones - Using Values To Control Your Materials

March 12, 2016, 10:03 am

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Using Values to control Materials. This is a follow up video to the Painting with Materials video, but focused mostly on the tools, and values. The topics covered:

Understanding Hotkeys more than ever.

Demonstrating a control of Opacity and Flow.

Being Patient before lighting.

How to determine when to make things shiny or when not too.

This product contains: 30 minute lecture video, 60 minute touch up video, PSD File, Hotkeys, Brush and Tool Presets.

https://gumroad.com/robotpencil#

Big thanks to a user who wishes to stay anonymous ;-)

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Gumroad - Anthony Jones - Power Of Texture Brushwork

March 12, 2016, 10:29 am

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The power of Texture Brushwork, will talk about how to effectively approach using tons of texture brushes. Some of the talking points are below:

Video 1:

The importance of having a go to brush.

Knowing what your textures are used for.

How to make your own texture brushes.

Video 2:

The power of thoughtful brush selection.

Using the eraser as a way to balance the odds.

Using Layers to your advantage.

Lasso tool to control edges.

Video 3:

Touch ups, plus a bonus demo.

This product contains: 50 minutes of video content, PSD File, Hotkeys, Brush and Tool Presets.

https://gumroad.com/robotpencil#

Big thanks to a user who wishes to stay anonymous ;-)

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Gumroad - Anthony Jones - Brushwork Strategies For Materials

March 12, 2016, 10:48 am

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Brush work strategies for materials. In this video we cover a few final ideas to how to approach materials. This one is short and sweet, but includes how to go from grey to color, with materials in mind.

Topics Covered:

Hard versus Soft brushes

Small versus Large strokes

Adding color after greyscale paintings.

This product contains: 30 minutes of video, PSD File, Hotkeys, Brush and Tool Presets.

https://gumroad.com/robotpencil#

Big thanks to a user who wishes to stay anonymous ;-)

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