CGMeetup on creating a Cartoon Charcter Face with Serge Birault

Post published:May 13, 2013
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CGMeetup has a series of videos on creating a cartoon character face in Adobe Photoshop.

AEScripts Toy Bricks

Post published:May 13, 2013
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Crossphere at AEScripts has created the $199.99 Toy Bricks 3D Physical Motion collision simulator for After Effects.

Looks very cool. A bit too much for me to get and play with, but does seem very fun.

AEScripts Create Pivotal Null

Post published:May 13, 2013
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Zach Locatt has released the Create Picotal Null script at AE Scripts. It lets you quickly create a null at key layer points and parent layers to that null. It is $5.99 or name your own price.

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Here is the control panel.

Again, looks very useful, I just wish there was a way to have all my scripts in the cloud and be able to use them wherever I log in, as I work in too many other bays, and hate to get used to things that make my life easy when I can’t use them elsewhere!

Coen’s move from Final Cut Pro to Premiere Pro for next film

Post published:May 13, 2013
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No film school is covering this.

Seems inevitable since they edit their own stuff, and FCP 7 is dead and and I would not want to edit a feature on the FCP X timeline.

Sonnet releases Enhanced xMac mini Server

Post published:May 12, 2013
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Creative cow has the press release, but you can check out the new xMac at Sonnet’s site. Using thunderbolt to expand a Mac Mini is a brilliant idea now that not only is there not an X-server anymore, but the MacPro has not been upgraded in ages, and though we have Tim Cooke’s promise of a new MacPro, this may be the best Mac Server solution going right now, as you can expand it with many PCI cards, and make a real server, with an inexpensive Mac Mini.

VFXLAB Showreel 2013 from CGMeetup

Post published:May 12, 2013
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CGMeetup has posted a video and on the VFXLAB Showreel for 2013.


this reel is made by the instructors of VFXLAB that they have worked on part of movies and some of CG shots from VFXLAB on Vimeo.

Very cool stuff.

DIY Bullet Time with a Ceiling Fan

Post published:May 12, 2013
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Very cool, how to do a makeshift bullet time with a ceiling fan over at DIY Photography! Only works for very small objects, but a very cool idea.

PVC On Video Scopes

Post published:May 12, 2013
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Alexis Van Hurkman has a article on two questions about video scopes. Worth Checking out.

Adobe Sneak Peak Lighting in Photoshop and After Effects

Post published:May 11, 2013
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Just ignore Rain Wilson being a moron, but this is so impressive. Being able to relight and image with another similar photo in photoshop, and even cooler being able to steal a look from an image or movie and process your video with it. They say it is very processor intensive and I believe it, but still very impressive!

Fever not going to be my Google Reader replacement, as my server does not seem fast enough!

Post published:May 10, 2013
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So I have been giving a lot of RSS readers a try and love that Fever syncs with the iPhone version of Reeder for the iPad, but I am pretty sure Fever won’t be my replacement choice. And it isn’t that it is a good solution. It works like advertised, and I like that it is self hosted, but that is also the problem. At least for me.

I use BlueHost for my web server and like it very much, but Fever seems to run really really slowly on it! I am talking an hour to update all my feeds, which takes minutes at most for other programs.