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Creative COW Newsletter

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
In this Newsletter:
DVD's :: Articles / Tutorials :: Industry News :: Hot Threads :: Upcoming Events :: New Leaders :: Featured :: This Week's Jobs

Motion Graphics


For those who want to explore and learn techniques of motion graphics in a "How Do I?" environment, the COW's Motion Graphics forum is a great place to join in on discussions that often cut across using numerous tools and plug-ins, and explore some of the strategies and ways that some of today's popular techniques are created. Headed by a team that includes award-winning motion graphics professionals and broadcast designers, the COW's Motion Graphics forum is where you will find answers to many common "How Do I?" questions.



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COW Master Series Training DVD's
Motion Design with Adobe After EffectsMotion Design with Adobe After Effects
Powerful techniques to kickstart your work. Over 5 hours!
List Price: $49.95 $39.95

NEW!! Eran Stern is the co-host of the Creative Cow AE podcast and author of some of the web's most popular AE tutorials. In this 5-hour DVD, he'll help you explore the true depths of After Effects. Combining his unique sense of humor and serious AE chops, Eran will teach you how to bring a project from concept to completion.

View all COW Training DVD's at CreativeCOWTraining.Com



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Recent Articles
Adobe Flash
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Tony Ross demonstrates how to create text writing itself via masking in Flash. Tools used include Brush tool, Selection tool as well as masking.
Tony Ross
Adobe After Effects
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Contributing Editor Eran Stern shows you a how to build a 3D scene using Photoshop CS3 Vanishing Point and re-light it inside After Effects.
Eran Stern
MAYA
In this Maya video tutorial from CreativeCOW leader Alvaro Castaneda, youll learn why is important to keep everything nice and organized into projects. Well also learn other ways to create folders by using the mighty command line / shell.
Alvaro Castaneda
Apple Final Cut Pro
VFX artist Roger Bolton has worked on films including The Lord of the Rings, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and Kingdom of Heaven. He has also created effects for his own use -- in this case, a wide variety of 2D and 3D VU meters, automatically animated by the audio in your project. He now offers these 8 plug-ins to artists using Final Cut Pro, After Effects and Motion -- with no watermarks, no time limits, no price tag. <B><font color=red>Please note: these plug-ins are MAC ONLY.</font> </B>
Roger Bolton
Adobe After Effects
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to combine several shapes to make a complex shape.
Aharon Rabinowitz
MAYA
In this Maya video tutorial from CreativeCOW leader Alvaro Castaneda, we add shaders to our geometry to later light and render our final logo. This is part 2 of a 2 part series Creating a Logo in Maya.
Alvaro Castaneda
Adobe After Effects
<span class=style1><b>Article Focus:</b> <span><B><font color=red>Now on sale!!</font> </B></span>Introducing the 3 newest DVDs in the Creative Cow Master Series, training even artists can afford. Learn secrets of advanced rotoscoping and compositing, real-world motion graphics that you can start using right away, and the CS3 tutorials you need to take your work to the next level from true masters from the craft.
Cowdog
Adobe After Effects
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Grant Swanson will explain how to use the After Effects Motion Tracker to remove unwanted jitter and movement while still retaining the original motion of the sequence through the use of an expression or manual keyframes in After Effects.
Grant Swanson

View these and more articles at the Creative COW Library



Sorenson



Industry News
Telestream FlipFactory Drives Down Price of HD Encoding

Sonnet's Award-Winning Fusion™ F2 Now Offered With 1TB of Storage and Even Faster Performance

NewTek Now Shipping LiveControl™ Switching Surface for TriCaster™ and VT[5]™

Focus Enhancements Announces Availability of Fifth Generation DTE Recorder

Shooting Stories of Life With Panasonic P2

Artbeats Soars over the City of Angels



Panasonic


Solid State Logic XLogic Delta-Links Provide Critical Link For “Batman: The Dark Knight”

Bogdanovich finishes Tom Petty DVD at alphadogs

Luxology’s modo Delivers New Perspectives on Seattle’s Space Needle

th1ng appointed to create London film in the run up to the London 2012 Olympic Games

MAXON BodyPaint 3D Helps Rhythm & Hues Unleash its Creative Power on the Feature Film, “The Incredible Hulk”

NewTek Now Shipping TimeWarp™ External Replay Controller

Harris Corporation’s New Mobile TV Platform Chosen by Albavision for Broadcast Operations in Guatemala and Costa Rica

RAID Host Bus Adapters with Selectable RAID/BASE via Jumper

Sonnet Offers 10 to 25 Percent Price Reductions on Award-Winning Fusion™ SATA Storage Systems

Post Logic Studios Uses FilmLight’s Baselight to Grade First 4K Feature—“Reach for Me”

Royale Helps Jet Blue and J. Walter Thompson Go 'Happy Jetting'

Droga5, Smuggler, and Sound Lounge Unleash a Monster for Net10

Digidesign Releases Transfuser

RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana) Chooses Panasonic P2

CBS "60 Minutes" Purchases Digital Vision Nucoda HD

FogScreen, Inc. Showcases GestureTek Interactive Technologies at InfoComm 2008

Annova’s Openmedia System Helps Cover The Fast-Breaking Events At The UEFA EURO 2008™ Games

Silver Beach Awarded Silver Telly at 29th Annual Competition

Avid Announces Significant Upgrades to Family of On-Air Graphics Solutions




For more industry news, visit the COW News & Press Releases forum



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Hot Threads
Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
OS X 10.5.4 out today
When will the madness ever stop?!...

Business & Marketing Forum
"Tapeless" HD format and delivery
Hey gang! I'm about to migrate to full HD on the post side. As I make the transition, many clients and agency types have the same questions I have...

MAYA Forum
Working with interlaced footage
I will work with 1080i 29,97 footage for some effects. Generally I will add 3D objects to some scenes. I will track the camera in Boujou and I will export the data to Maya.

Sony CineAlta - XDCAM Forum
PDW-700 vs HPX 2000 -Workflow, cost of operation over time.
My biggest questions are about workflow and cost of media and operation over the long haul. P2 is expensive but reuseable. XDHD DVDs are great but I have the cost of all of that media. Which brings up another question of Archiving...



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Upcoming Events
Jun 6, '08 -
Jul 6, '08
Industry Giants 2008: Drawing on Ideas! Plano
TX
USA
Jun 20, '08 -
Dec 31, '08
Wavebreak Media Video Editing Awards - Competition 2008 Cork
CIT, Bishopstown
Ireland
Jul 1, '08 -
Jul 1, '08
Final Cut Server: media asset management and workflow automation
Jul 9, '08 -
Jul 9, '08
Bay Area Women in Film & Television (BAWIFT) July Event: POST PRODUCTION & NEW TECHNOLOGIES San Francisco
CA
USA
Jul 9, '08 -
Jul 9, '08
Los Angeles Post Production Group July 9th Meeting Santa Monica
CA
United States
Jul 12, '08 -
Jul 13, '08
Sound Design for Picture Editors - July 12 OR July 13 New York
New York

View more events at events.creativecow.net



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Featured Leader
Meet Karl Holt, CreativeCOW.net Contributing Editor
Karl Holt

Karl Holt is a freelancer working in Event and Corporate Video since about 1997, before that he was part of a company called Bowe Tennant Productions who made a few programmes for the BBC which he edited. Karl considers himself more a jack of all trades than a master of any, so it would be dif more...
Featured Tutorial
Clients or Grinders: Understanding the Three Market Types

There's a principle locked away in human nature that if you understand it, it gives you one of the keys you need to make your own business more successful. It's a principle that I call 'Clients or Grinders' more...

Get help with, or discuss this tutorial in the COW's Business & Marketing Forum.



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