Take Smoke for a Fully Supported Test Drive

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A lot of people are surprised when they hear that the Smoke 30-day trial includes free technical support. But at Autodesk, we think that support is just as important as creative tools. My name is Robert Adam and I’m a Knowledge Specialist with Autodesk Customer support. I’ve put this guide to support options together to […]

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Another week in After Effects

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Here’s another summary of the last week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts — with lots on color, explosions, ambient occlusion, tracking, and more. Andrew Kramer was back with a new tutorial compositing stock elements and custom particles to build a wizardly blast, and a ripple effect to distort […]

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IKinema Announces Public Beta of New Browser-Based Animation Service – WebAnimate

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Guilford, UK – December 19, 2011 – Animation on the go. High-grade retargeting for the little guy. With the influx of smaller studios entering into the independent film and game development industries, ideas like these are becoming more important. Today, they will be achieved with the release of IKinema™ LTD’s WebAnimate – an all-in-one platform […]

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Eliminating Fear of Retouch Outsourcing

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Creating a firm relationship with a retouch outsource removes the fear of placing your image files in unknown hands. Strangers no longer! Art professions are traditionally perceived as hands-on, hand made, raw materials to finished art work. Digital photo and video just changed the tools and expanded the options – otherwise art is still art. […]

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New That Post Show: Edit Pro Supergood

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Just over a week ago I enjoyed sitting in on another episode of That Post Show where we had a calm and rational (mostly) discussion of Avid Media Composer 6 and Apple Final Cut Pro X. While it might seem these two NLEs are rather far apart in their perception and target market they are […]

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