Optical Flares is a plug-in for designing and animating realistic lens flares in After Effects.

Think you’re ready to start selling vector stock art? Illustrating for stock and selling your work on sites such as GraphicRiver can be very rewarding, whether you’re doing it for fun, for extra income, or as a full-time job. But there’s a lot more to it than simply uploading some files then kicking back and watching the money roll in. Cheryl Graham gives you an in depth guide to the world of selling vector stock and to best prepare and submit your vector art for sale. Cheryl will walk you through the entire sale process and get you up and running

Join photographer and teacher Ben Long as he describes the tools, creative options, and special considerations involved in shooting with a DSLR camera at night or in low-light conditions, such as sunset or candlelight. The course addresses exposure decisions such as choice of aperture and shutter speed and how they impact depth of field and the camera’s ability to freeze motion.

Mark Christiansen builds upon his incredibly successful AFX220 class, by leading a team effort focusing on design-related issues in After Effects. Using the new After Effects CS3, we cover a wide range of topics, including design principles, interoperability with Photoshop and Illustrator, animation tricks, keying, and new features in CS3. Most of the course will be not specific to CS3 so you’ll be fine using older versions, but we’ll highlight changes in the app and cover some of the cool new features.

People, I have a new guru. A visionary, a sage, a seer. I hang on his every uttering like they are precious droplets of Mana. He is a true master, and I am keen to follow in his ways.

Being able to create artistic images with Photoshop has never been easier with the new brushes and performance delivered in CS6. With the addition of Airbrush and Erodible tips, along with the mixer brush features, you can replicate real world art media and techniques inside of Photoshop. Whether you prefer pastels and oils, or watercolor and cartooning, Pete Collins, co-host of PhotoshopUserTV, will show you how to use the tools and techniques to begin to bring your vision to life.

In this video, we will be taking some of the principles of animation and applying them to biped and quadruped characters in real-world situations. This series will explore the fundamentals of skeletal anatomy and how it relates to the human and animal rigs used in animation using Autodesk Softimage. We will illustrate different types of joints motions on both types of characters. Then, we will move on to some fundamental intermediate exercises, the run cycle. Using two complete rigs, provided with the video, the viewer will be brought through the basics of running with both biped and quadruped forms.

In this tutorial we will learn how to create a female demon gargoyle creature.

Diamond is a very large full-orchestral package. Simply put, Diamond combines Ruby with Emerald, so it is like getting 2 complete orchestras in one package. This is complete Violas and Cellos from Strings Section of Diamond Symphony Orchestra.

Looking for a design school in which you learn and practice the principles of good graphic design? Then this course is learning right for you. Learn from the experts Orhan Tancgil layout as you design your site and design right and good. Learn how to highlight with colors and shapes the message of your pages and see how images and texts to be real eye-catchers thanks to good design. Learn how to act colors, how to attract attention and find the right font for your text. Take advantage of expert tips for pre-press and train your eye for a really good design. This learning course, you also create works that will convince at first glance - without any prior knowledge!