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Review of Design Essentials for the Motion Media Artist by Angie Taylor

Review of Design Essentials for the Motion Media Artist by Angie Taylor

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Angie Taylor is an artist, animator and author who has worked in the motion graphics industry for over 15 years. She also does a lot of work for Adobe and Apple evangelizing their products, if you’ve been to NAB or BVE then you’ve probably seen her presenting at the Adobe/FCP booth. In a step away from standard textbook...

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Free #C4D Models: Holiday Pack

Free #C4D Models: Holiday Pack

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Tis the season!  Here are 4 free Cinema 4D models for use in you holiday animations this season!  You’ll get the 4 models along with the .OBJ format versions for people using other 3D programs and earlier versions of Cinema 4D.  Included in the files are the HDRI textures I used for some of the nice reflections.  Enjoy...

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Export After Effects to C4D

Export After Effects to C4D

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Maxon just announced the availability of a new free plugin to export comps from After Effects (CS5 or CS5.5) directly to a .c4d file. There were some scripts that previously existed to get some 3D data out of After Effects. However, this plugin looks to be much more robust. According to the press release: The CINEMA 4D export...

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Free #C4D Model: Hand Bell

Free #C4D Model: Hand Bell

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  You can play with this ding-a-ling, for free!  R12 and above compatible .c4d file along with an .OBJ that can be used with pretty much any version of C4D or even 3DSMAX, etc. Enjoy! Download C4D&OBJ Bell Model...

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Free AE Preset: Stop Motion Wiggle Type

Free AE Preset: Stop Motion Wiggle Type

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Stop Motion Wiggle Type is a preset I developed a while ago for an animation. I’ve decided to share it here for anyone to use. The usage is fairly simple: Apply the preset to a type layer. Adjust the settings as follows: Random Seed: Changes the seed for the random position. Wiggle ƒ: Frequency of the wiggle. Think of this...

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Free #C4D Model: Girder/Scaffolding

Free #C4D Model: Girder/Scaffolding

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  Another free Cinema4D model for you today, this one is of a metal scaffolding/girder.  I used this in a industrial looking promo for the an NHL team and figured I’d let all you fine folks mess around with it.  Included in the download is a C4D 12 or higher compatible file, along with an .OBJ for those of you stuck in...

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