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Web Design
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Full Page Overlay Window
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a full page pop-up window that overlays an existing html page. This technique is used often for displaying a video, movie file, picture, or form when a user clicks on an element in a web page.
Tutorial 10/03/2008
Author: Abraham Chaffin |
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Adobe Illustrator
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Radial Patterns with Adobe Illustrator
In this video tutorial Creative COW leader Vince Rosati presents a simple technique to use an obscure function in the rotate tool to quickly create radial patterns in Adobe Illustrator. Use this technique with gradiants or more complex shapes to create incredible radial patterns.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 10/03/2008
Author: Vincent Rosati |
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Adobe After Effects
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Creating a Looping Particle System
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz (Along with the help of his daughter Noa) shows you how to create a looping particle system in After Effects.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 09/30/2008
Author: Aharon Rabinowitz |
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MAYA
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Pullback from Earth to Outer Space
Professional motion graphics artist, Greg Neumayer, shares his experience creating the zoom out from earth to outer space effect using Maya and After Effects. Greg walks you through how he solved the transition problems associated with this large scale effect where realism can be very difficult to achieve.
Tutorial 09/29/2008
Author: Greg Neumayer |
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Adobe After Effects
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David Roth Weiss: An Editor Looks at CS4
This is the first in a series of articles in which veteran editor David Roth Weiss dives head first into, what are for him, the uncharted waters of Adobes latest release, CS4 Production Premium, including the updated and cross-platform OnLocation, and advanced metadata creation and tracking.
Feature 09/23/2008
Author: David Roth Weiss |
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Adobe After Effects
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Adobe Gives Sneak Peek at CS4 during IBC 2008
The Cows Eran Stern, one of the worlds most respected After Effects artists, was able to take a sneak peek at the Adobe Creative Suite, CS 4. He saw a lot to like: deeper integration across the Adobe family, new animation tools and effects, speech recognition and metadata features, and much more.
Feature 09/23/2008
Author: Eran Stern |
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Adobe Flash
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Flash CS3 Professional Video Studio Techniques
Author/Videographer/Animator/Musician Michael Hurwicz examines Flash CS3 Professional Video Studio Techniques by Robert Reinhardt, and recommends it to those looking to push their Flash sites to professional levels of reliability and user-friendliness.
Review 09/22/2008
Author: Michael Hurwicz |
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Adobe After Effects
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More Of The Same Thing - Part 5
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Contributing Editor Eran Stern shows you how to duplicate elements in After Effects using Trapcode Echospace plug-in.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 09/19/2008
Author: Eran Stern |
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RED Camera
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Exposing the RED: Perfect Exposure, Every Time
Director DP, REDtrepreneur, early adopter and obsessed student of the RED camera system David Battistella takes a closer look at how to hit the sweet spot on the RED sensor. David shows how understanding REDs inner workings will help you expose your scene just right, every time.
Feature 09/16/2008
Author: David Battistella |
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Adobe Flash
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Simple pause and play AS2 script in Flash
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Tony Ross demonstrates how to add a simple pause/resume functionality to a scrolling image bar using Actionscript 2.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 09/12/2008
Author: Tony Ross |
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Adobe After Effects
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More Of The Same Thing - Part 4
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Contributing Editor Eran Stern shows you how to duplicate elements in After Effects using the Clone Stamp Tool.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 09/12/2008
Author: Eran Stern |
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Adobe After Effects
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More Of The Same Thing - Part 3
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Contributing Editor Eran Stern shows you how to duplicate elements in After Effects using the CC RepeTile Effect.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 09/05/2008
Author: Eran Stern |
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Adobe After Effects
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More Of The Same Thing - Part 2
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Contributing Editor Eran Stern shows you how a neat way to duplicate elements in After Effects using the Puppet Tool.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 08/29/2008
Author: Eran Stern |
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SANetworks
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Build your own affordable SAN -- that works!
Want to let everyone in your shop use the same media at the same time? The Cows Bob Zelin shares the secrets for affordable shared storage that you can build yourself, and that WORKS. Start with big, fast storage from your favorite pro vendor, then follow along. Bob even shows you a few hazards to avoid along the way.
Tutorial, Feature 08/26/2008
Author: Bob Zelin |
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Adobe After Effects
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More Of The Same Thing - Part 1
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Contributing Editor Eran Stern shows you how to duplicate elements in After Effects using the Shape Tools Repeater function.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 08/22/2008
Author: Eran Stern |
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Creative COW Magazine feedback
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Apple Motion
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Creating a Hologram
Looking to create your own holographic effect? Let CreativeCOW.net Contributing Editor Stephen Smith show you how. This Apple Motion video tutorial will teach you what you need to know to create a hologram effect.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 08/18/2008
Author: Stephen Smith |
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Adobe After Effects
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Shape Layer Tips #3 - Trim Paths
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to use shape layers to easily create that Old-School look where a red dashed line animates over a map to indicate travel destinations.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 08/15/2008
Author: Aharon Rabinowitz |
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Adobe After Effects
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Behind the Scenes from Behind Oasis
When one of the worlds biggest rock and roll bands, Oasis, celebrated a careers worth of achievement, the film playing behind Rock-n-Roll Star was created by Creative Cow author Nel Johnson and the team at Studio Skylab. Learn the After Effects techniques that helped them complete the project under a ridiculous deadline, while wowing Oasis and a worldwide audience. As Nel puts it, We locked ourselves away, cranked up the music, and went nuts. In this Creative Cow Magazine Extra, we take a closer look at the story, starting with the creation of the films unique look.
Feature 08/12/2008
Author: Nel Johnson |
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Adobe After Effects
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Promo Breakdown - Part 2
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Contributing Editor Eran Stern continue to show you how he designed the 3D Titles for his DVD Promo using Zaxwerks Invigorator Pro and how the final composite was made.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 08/01/2008
Author: Eran Stern |
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Adobe After Effects
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Promo Breakdown - Part 1
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Contributing Editor Eran Stern takes you behind the scenes and show you how he created the background animation for his DVD Promo using Trapcode 3D Stroke and Shine.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 07/28/2008
Author: Eran Stern |
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Cinematography
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Want to be ready for Reality? Mod your camera!
The reality shooter has to be mobile and invisible. Futzing around with lighting, support and/or audio can simply mean missing the shot, and often does. Videographer/editor and longtime Cow leader Grinner Hester demonstrates how to mod on a budget in this unique little how-to.
Feature 07/22/2008
Author: Grinner Hester |
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Adobe After Effects
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Changing Shortcuts with After Effects
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to be an AE road warrior by changing the keyboard shortcuts to account for missing keys on a laptop - such as the Ram Preview key or the Audio Preview key.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 07/18/2008
Author: Aharon Rabinowitz |
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