Archive for September, 2009

New 3D Reflector Video Tutorial – Setting Up Multiple Reflective Surfaces

Monday, September 28th, 2009

New 3D Reflector video tutorial available! In this tutorial, we’ll be covering a project that deals with multiple reflective surfaces, as well as the advanced controls of 3D Reflector.

Learn the following:

• Applying 3D Reflector to both a floor and a wall surface.

• Changing the Reflectivity (brightness or dimness of the reflection) on the wall.

• Adding Falloff. This effect allows your objects to fade in as the objects are getting closer to the reflective surface.

• Adjusting the Object Falloff Distance. Changing this value allows you to control the distance when your objects fade in. This also enables you to change how reflective a surface appears.

• Using the Vampire Controls. The Vampire settings lets you clean up your reflections by selecting which objects you want to reflect onto the reflective surface.


Click on the image above, or the link below to learn more about 3D Reflector!

3D Reflector Multiple Reflective Surfaces Tutorial

3D Serpentine Tutorial by Eran Stern

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Join Eran Stern as he guides you through the 3D Serpentine controls, and how to create his cool Autumn 2009 Blockbuster Movies intro!

Learn the following:

• Path Creation – drawing one individual path, and having all the elements of 3D Serpentine tie to that path.

• Assigning multiple text elements to one instance of 3D Serpentine.

• Changing different head and body serpent colors.

• Creating the cascading animation for all the extruded text.

• Offset the circle design.

• Applying a reflection map to all the 3D Serpentine elements.

• Adding additional camera animations and particle effects.


Click on the image above, or the link below to check out the tutorial!

Eran Stern’s 3D Serpentine Tutorial

Reflector Quick Start Available!

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Reflector Quick Start is now available! Learn how to install the Reflector plug-in as well as the Reflector Updater Script. The tutorial will go over applying Reflector to your reflective surface, and how to set up Reflector with a camera animation and also with an object animation.

In addition, see an example on how you can use 3D Invigorator and ProAnimator to create realistic reflections for your 3D objects.

Check out the new video tutorial below:

Zaxwerks Video Tutorials

Update: ProAnimator FX version 4.9.1 and 3D Flag FX 1.1.2 now available!

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009












Both ProAnimator FX and 3D Flag have been rebuilt. Both programs are now fully compatible for Motion 4 and Final Cut Pro 7.

Visit our download page: HERE

Below are the release notes for both programs.

ProAnimator FX Version 4.9.1 Update:

- Full compatibility with Motion 4 and Final Cut Pro 7.

- Contains new presets for Materials and Object Styles.

- Updated authorization dialog messages.

- Fixes an issue where the Material and Object Style Swatches can become corrupted.

- Fixes Display issues in Motion and Final Cut Pro where the image may become pink, blue or upside down.

- Fixes a Field rendering issue where the ProAnimator FX objects are not being rendered.

- Fixes an issue where the project settings are not displayed properly within the ProAnimator FX interface.

- Fixes an issue where rendering with compressor or batch may cause memory leak issues and / or freezes.

3D Flag FX Version 1.1.2 Update:

- Fixes an issue where duplicating layers containing 3D Flag will lead to a crash in Motion 4.

- Fixes a memory leak issue while rendering in Motion 4.