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Design Hacks for Video Editors: Typography Tips

Choosing fonts and laying out type can be daunting for video editors who don't have a design background. The good news is: With a few simple rules, you can create type layouts that are beautiful, clear, and that make you look like you know exactly what you're doing.

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Design Hacks for Video Editors: Choosing Colors

Learn to choose colors that work well together in with design tip for video editors. Value structure is a concept that can help anyone learn to control their colors in a mathematical way, making it much easier to create designs that pop and lead the viewer's eye precisely.

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Behind the Scenes of "Everything Everywhere All at Once"

Behind the Scenes of “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” How six artists worked from home to create hundreds of impressive visual effects for a crazy sci-fi adventure.

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New Features in After Effects 2023!

After Effects 2023 just dropped, and there's a slew of new features. Some are long-awaited quality of life improvements, and some are major-league-holy-crap game changers! Let's explore both.

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Designing once for Multiple Screen Sizes in After Effects

Download our FREE After Effects template and learn how to design once, then deliver in multiple aspect ratios in After Effect. These tips will save you from having to redesign your artwork for various screens, saving you an insane amount of time.

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Cinema 4D 2023's New Cloth System is AMAZING!

The new cloth system in Cinema 4D 2023 is a massive improvement over the old one. It's faster, more powerful, and part of a unified simulation framework that will be utilized more and more in the future. In this tutorial, EJ Hassenfratz shows you some of the powerful features in the new cloth system.

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10 Hacky After Effects Tricks to Improve your Renders

10 After Effects tricks from industry pros to help you make your renders better when you're short on time and inspiration. These are battle-tested effects stacks and hacks that will come in handy on almost any project.

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How to Get Adobe to Buy you for $20 Billion, in 3 Easy Steps!

Adobe recently acquired Figma for $20 billion. Why did they pay so much, and what does this mean for motion designers? Let's explore the significance of the Figma deal, and talk about how it affects you.

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Big News About our Course Prices

Over the years, we've always strived to be the premium option for learning to do animation, design, 3D, or visual effects. We've also tried very hard to make education accessible to more people in more places. These two goals are difficult to balance, and we feel that we could be doing a better job. So we're doing something about it.

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Free Tools to Start Up Your Freelance Art Business

Standing up your own business is a challenge, but there are a ton of affordable (even free) tools that can make your life so much easier. Freelance designer and art director Sherene Strausberg is here to show you a few tricks to get started.

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Keeping Time Through History

How would you approach a project that needs to show the illustrious history of one of the world's premier timepiece manufacturers? This is the kind of video that makes—or breaks—your brand, so no pressure. Fortunately for Italian-based Taxfreefilm, their brilliant idea arrived just in time.

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Harnessing the Power of AI Art

AI art programs such as Midjourney and Dall-E sure are impressive, but how do they really work? What do you need to know to get the most out of them, and how can they be used by artists, animators, and designers? We brought in John LePore to find out.

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Take Your Project Quotes from $4k to $20k and Beyond

Are you stuck grinding on low-level projects? Do you want to attract bigger clients and larger contracts? How exactly can you go from a $4k quote to a $20k quote? Shea Lord is here to show you the path.

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Perception Designs the End Titles for Lightyear

How do you design a title sequence that conjures the spirit of a movie while still existing outside of it? Perception took this challenge while working on the new Disney Pixar movie "Lightyear."

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A Quick Guide to Extruding in Cinema 4D

Get up and running with some of Cinema4D's Extrude tools, turning 2D vectors into 3D render-ready artwork.

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How to Art Direct Concepts and Timing

Climint Canal of Clim Studio believes personal projects are where you can explore new concepts, perfect your skills, and experiment with difficult techniques. In this video, he shares an exploration of how to art direct concepts and timing in order to enhance your overall animation.

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Cinema 4D Shortcut Keys

Sometimes the only thing you need to maximize your workflow is an understanding of shortcut keys, so we've made the ultimate guide just for you. Stretch those fingers, because it's time to dive into the most important hot keys for Cinema 4D.

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Pushing Past Your Limits with Nocky Dinh

What happens when you reach the limit of your skillset? Do you accept that this is the peak of your career, or do you push yourself beyond your limits and climb to even greater heights?

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3D Shading Tricks in After Effects

Fraser Davidson and Cub Studio developed Super Jonny 150k as an action-packed, 16-bit world chock full of character animation, effects, and nostalgia. In this teaser clip, learn a few 3D shading tricks to enhance your After Effects projects.

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Your First Day in ZBrush

Getting started in ZBrush can be intimidating, but it is a powerful tool for designing and polishing 3D models. We're going to familiarize you with the interface, learn the key tools of the trade, and show you how to complete your first project.

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TEST – CODE EMBED – Top 5 Tools to Identify a Font

Need help identifying a font? We have the 5 best tools for tackling typography right here.

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Eclectic, Colorful, and Heartfelt

Working closely with the team at Microsoft Design, VFX Studio Tendril conceptualized, designed, and executed a complete refresh of over 1800 smileys, people, animals, objects and symbols. We asked Cofounder and Creative Director Alexander “Xande” Torres, Creative Director Leo Mateus and Lead Modeler Flavio Diniz to tell us about the challenges and rewards of this complex project.

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Listen as We Direct a REAL Voiceover Session

If you want to hear what a real VO session sounds like, then you've come to the right place! In this podcast you'll get to be a fly on the wall for a VO session lead by Jake and Joey. Along the way Joey is going to be dropping some golden nuggets of VO directing advice to help you direct VO like a pro the next time you need to.

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Blender vs Cinema 4D

If you want to learn a 3D program for design and animation, there are many strong competitors on the market. But if you had to choose, which offers the best experience and the most versatility? We're comparing Cinema 4D to Blender to see which program will work best for you.

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Discover Your Creative Style Through Freewriting

What happens when you grab a pen and paper and let your creativity take the wheel? Sofie Lee discusses how free-writing a poem led to her amazing animation, Dream.

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No Ordinary Ghost

Something’s Awry Productions is a family-run animation studio known for creating whimsical, intelligently funny, 3D-animated content from a “slightly awry perspective.” We talked with Kris Theorin, the studio’s lead animation director, about their most recent release, a 3D-animated short film called “Grump in the Night.”

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Short Film Collaboration using Frame.io

A behind-the-scenes look at how our Creative Director Kyle Hamrick created motion graphics elements for an exciting collaborative film project with Valentina Vee, Ryan Connolly & Jon Brandon Cruz. The team made use of Frame.io for Creative Cloud and the Camera to Cloud feature to create this short film trailer from 4 different locations on a very short deadline.

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