justin young's electronic brain » tutorials http://ebrain.ira-soup.com electronic brain of justin young Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:37:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 linear workflow in maya http://ebrain.ira-soup.com/tutorials/linear-workflow-in-maya/ http://ebrain.ira-soup.com/tutorials/linear-workflow-in-maya/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:41:11 +0000 Justin http://ebrain.ira-soup.com/?p=790 I must admit..this one is a little foggy still. The explination is a little convoluted and confusing, but then again so is linear workflow. I'm planning on digging in soon and sharing my findings on how to get it all set up as well as the benefits. Until then check out this explanation.

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After having worked on my largest project to date, I realized that having some sort of automated pipeline manager would have been IMMENSELY helpful.  I've heard about openPipeline for a while, but never really had a project where I needed to use it.  I'll def. be giving this a shot though on the next one!

Thanks to Peter for the great rundown of features!

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Quicktip to help you speed up your mask creation in after effects.

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Creating a Stitch Effect with Trapcode Particular

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CS4 media encoder sucks, so what's a motion designer to do??!  Watch this video and find out a better way to render your projects.  It's pretty simple, I just never thought to do it until someone reminded me.

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Learn simple steps to help you keep your files organized for yourself and for others.

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part 5 - rendering - maya tips and tricks

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Learn the differences between using Global Illumination (GI) and Final Gather (FG). Then setup FG to add realistic lighting to your scene, or as my Swedish friends would say, "lightening."

Mentioned:

http://www.cgtextures.com

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Toper Welsh just did a new round up of after effects tutorials, I even made the cut!  Yee-haw!

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Render Templates in AE (my tutorials that's on the list)

http://visualfxtuts.com/

http://toe-fur.com/

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part 4 - cameras - maya tips and tricks

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Setting up render presets in After effects is somewhat confusing and looks more daunting than it actually is.  Using presets and creating custom render settings will help you work more quickly and accurately, and keep you from having to do repetitive annoying tasks.

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