This term, to mark our 5th Background Fundamentals, we've got a blockbuster in store for fxphd members. Throughout the term, we'll look at what it means to be a Visual Effects Supervisor. What are the pressures, the roles and how do you manage a large Hollywood film?

PhotoshopCAFE - Photoshop CS5 Portrait Retouching Skin Technique AVC | 774 MB
3h | Video: AVC (.MP4) 960x600 10fps 300Kbps | Audio: AAC 44.1KHz 100Kbps 1ch
Genre: eLearning

How to make Faces look amazing...
This step by step project based DVD leads you through a variety of techniques to accomplish beautiful skin retouching.

Hollywood Camera Work - Visual Effects for Directors

Video2Brain After Effects & Premiere Pro Performance Workshop | 1.5 GB

Ready to learn professional video editing? We’ve got you covered. Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 is a high-end video editing program.

Lynda.com – After Effects Artist in Action: Eran Stern’s Personal Transporter
Intermediate | 2h 56m | 875 MB | Project Files 308 MB | Software used: After Effects CS6

In this one-of-a-kind workshop, motion graphics artist Eran Stern shares techniques for using Adobe After Effects to create an eye-grabbing sci-fi visual effect. Follow along as Eran takes a homemade video shot, prepares it for high-end postproduction, and uses a combination of tools in After Effects to achieve a complex, realistic visual effect. The course covers tracking, masking, and effects, as well as how to animate strokes, repeat elements, and fix problem areas in your footage.

Lynda.com - Dreamweaver jQuery Projects - Creating an Interactive Video Gallery

In this course, author Chris Converse develops an interactive video gallery for the web, working in a Dreamweaver environment using a combination of HTML5 with a Flash fallback, CSS, and the open-source javascript library jQuery. The course shows how to design the site layout and construct the code for a player that works on multiple web browsers, platforms, and mobile devices. Techniques to enable HTML5 video on Android and ensure that Internet Explorer defaults to Flash instead of HTML5 are also demonstrated.

Social media is having a dramatic impact on the professional photography and video industry. This course shows how to use social media to its full potential and leverage the unique benefits it offers photographers and filmmakers. Author Rich Harrington presents strategies to be more effective on sites like Vimeo, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and more. From scheduling to posting and connecting, learn the building blocks to increase your social media reputation.

 

EDIUS 6.5 - New Features Workshop

English | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo

FLV | Video: h264, yuv420p, 960x540, 25.00 fps(r) | 679 MB

Genre: Video Training

The EDIUS 6.5 real-time video-editing package offers advanced native stereoscopic editing support and a range of smaller but important improvements. This course introduces the more significant features, so that editors can get up and running quickly. Author Maxim Jago covers the Stereoscopic Editing mode, Loudness Meter, alpha channel support for output and effects, and the new native image stabilizer.

The After Effects Apprentice BUNDLE (1 TO 16)
English | AVC1 960x540 15 fps | AAC 96 Kbps 48 KHz | 14.64 GB


This course pulls together the skills you've been learning in the previous After Effects Apprentice installments to create a real-world video promo. Trish leads you through building the artwork and components used in the final piece, and then Chris shows how to assemble these precompositions into a 3D world, timed to music. Along the way, Trish and Chris also share their thoughts as they design a video project, including unifying the overall look and handling change requests from clients.
The After Effects Apprentice videos were created by Trish and Chris Meyer and are designed to be used on their own and as a companion to their book After Effects Apprentice.

 

Digital Tutors - Artists Guide to Fusion with Chris Glick

English | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo

FLV | Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720, 15.00 fps(r) | 353 MB

Genre: Video Training

In this course we will learn how to get started using the compositing software Fusion. Using Fusion we can quickly composite and create visual effects using a node-based workflow which allows us to easily tweak any part of the composition. We'll begin this project by learning the basics of importing images and moving around in the Fusion user interface.

 

Digital Compositing for Film and Video, 3rd Edition

English | MOV | Video: h264, yuv420p, 1536x277, 24.00 fps(r) (eng) | 3.72 GB

Genre: Video Training

This practical, hands-on guide addresses the problems and difficult choices that professional compositors face on a daily basis. You are presented with tips, techniques, and solutions for dealing with badly shot elements, color artifacts, mismatched lighting and other commonly faced compositing obstacles. Practical, in-depth lessons are featured for bluescreen matte extraction, despill operations, compositing operations, as well as color-corrections.

Lynda.com : Production Rendering Techniques in CINEMA 4D
Intermediate | 2h 21m | 534 MB | Project Files | Required Software: CINEMA 4D R14

This course introduces basic physics simulation principles in Autodesk 3ds Max using MassFX, a system that makes it cost effective to animate rigid body objects, cloth, and particle systems. Author Brian Bradley introduces basic concepts such as gravity, drag, volume, and density, and how Newton's Laws of Motion can help you understand the interaction of objects with these unseen forces. Using the purpose built scene, Brian walks through the tools and features of the MassFX (PhysX) system, applying the principles discussed as he goes. Along the way, discover how to combine rigid bodies and constraints, mCloth fabrics, and mParticles geometry to create fairground-style effects.

Video2Brain - Introducing WordPress: Learn by Video with Joe Chellman
English | May, 2012 | mp4 | H264 1280x720 | AAC 1 ch 64 kbps | 4 hrs 25 min | 470 MB

WordPress is among the most popular blog software on the Internet, and with good reason: It is powerful, approachable, and free. In this Learn by Video course (created in partnership with our friends at Peachpit Press), web designer and trainer Joe Chellman teaches you what you need to know to use WordPress to create your own blog, from installing and configuring the software to adding and managing content. You’ll also learn how to customize your blog by choosing a “theme” (a visual design) and adding plugins, as well as how to maintain your site by backing it up and updating the software when necessary. After completing this course, you’ll be empowered to create an awesome website for yourself and nearly anyone else!

Lynda.com Mograph Techniques: Animating with C4D Effectors with EJ Hassenfratz
software:After Effects CS5.5, CS6, CINEMA 4D R13, R14 | level:Intermediate | duration:1h 39m


Harness the power of the CINEMA 4D MoGraph module to create complex animations with only a couple of keyframes. By stacking multiple MoGraph effectors, you can achieve nice-looking animations quickly and easily, saving you time spent keyframing moves manually. Discover how to change your text on the fly or create iterations of it, while keeping the animation intact. Author EJ Hassenfratz introduces a real-world postproduction workflow, by creating a network bumper promo. This project covers creating 3D text in CINEMA 4D, compositing, and adding final polish to the footage inside of Adobe After Effects.

Digital-Tutors: Creating a Watercolor Painting Effect in After Effects by Laura Smith

Run Time: 3h 14m | Release Date: January 28, 2013 | Author: Laura Smith | 1.24 GB
Required Software: After Effects CS6 | With Project Files

• In this series of After Effects tutorials, we will talk about the steps we take to create this watercolor painting effect project. We begin by using a simple masking technique to reveal the text and drawings that interact with our watercolor paintings. We talk about some of the more technical and tricky aspects of getting this write-on effect looking perfect and all throughout the course, we implement the technique in new and different ways.
• We also go over how to combine masking techniques with our very own custom luma mattes to create a painterly effect that we apply to our watercolor images. Once we have a couple different variations of our watercolors, we talk about other effects we can apply to the base watercolor effect to change its color size and shape. This makes it feel like we have more unique paint effects, when in reality there are only a few. This is going to save you time without compromising the originality of your work.
• We move on by compositing all of our effects together and then we add a camera which we animate throughout the scene. We talk about some ways to get your camera’s animation to feel much smoother than using the default keyframe interpolation types and how to troubleshoot when your camera movement is having issues.
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