Adam
Bryce Tracksler began his professional art career at the age of 13 when
he designed his 8th grade yearbook cover. From that moment on, he has
never really looked back. He received his BFA from the University of
New Hampshire in Stone Carving and soon after graduation began a self
educational journey into graphic design focusing on 2d Design and
motion graphics in order to feed himself (there just aren't a ton of
stone carving jobs in the paper).
Adam
began working with Photoshop and Quark soon after graduation and has
added After Effects, Illustrator, Director, Flash, Combustion, 3ds Max,
and Maya to his arsenal of skills.
Adam
has taught web and graphic design at several schools in New England and
lives in Kittery Point, Maine with his wife, Kathy and his Bernese
Mountain dog, Boon.
Adam Tracksler takes a look at Flash MX Games: Actionscript for Artists by Nik Lever and published by Focal Press. Adam concludes that this book is a must have for those people who are interested in how to make games and how to improve their coding, it is a worthwhile investment.
Adam Tracksler takes a look at Essential CG Lighting Techniques by Darren Booker. Read why Adam describes Essential CG Lighting Techniques ...''as an outstanding book that discusses the art of CG lighting in an intelligent, thoughtful, clear and informative way.''
Adam Tracksler was reading through the tutorials at CreativeCow and stumbled across an After Effects tutorial on creating Jittery Text. He thought, hey, you can do that in Combustion, and here's how.
Adam Tracksler takes a look at Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy by Bert Monroy. This book is published by New Riders Publishing. If you don't know anything about Photoshop, this book is not for you, but if you want to be a professional Photoshop user, then read why Adam says, ''you'll want to add this book to your library.''
Adam Tracksler takes a look at DVD Authoring and Production: An Authoritative Guide to DVD-Video, DVD-ROM and WebDVD by Ralph LaBarge. This book is in the CMP Books DV Expert Series.
Adam Tracksler takes a look at combustion/3ds max Integration DVD from Technical Animations & Video, Inc. and gives it the highest praise at the COW - 5 COWs.
When I was working on a title sequence for a short film, I needed some help creating a particular effect; smoke morphing into text. Not knowing where to turn, I wrote a post in the Combustion Forum. Lucky for me some people were more than happy to help out. Lee "Rod" Roderick, Discreet Training Specialist, helped me out. This tutorial was created from his original file. In this tutorial, we will use Combustion's Particle effects and text operators to create a cool effect suitable for your home or office.
Adam Tracksler takes a look at The Art of Cartooning with Flash : The Twinkle Guide to Flash Character Animation from Sybex Publishing written by John Kuramoto, Gary Leib, Daniel Gray
