In this tutorial, Joe Mason shows you how to create the unique structural look you often see in high impact broadcast graphics. Joe shows you from start to finish just how easy it is to make everything look great. He works in 3D Invigorator but the techniques apply to ProAnimator too. You won’t believe how simple it is to make high quality production graphics.

Topics discussed:

• Illustrator shape setup

• Customizing depth, bevel and edge offset settings in 3D Invigorator.

• Creating materials with different wireframe and reflectivity maps.

• Setting up splits in the Edge Profile editor.

• Alternating materials for each profile split.

Click on the image above, or the link below to watch the video tutorial.

Click to watch Joe Mason’s tutorial!

In this tutorial, Rob Birnholz shows you the entire workflow for ProAnimator! He starts from the Illustrator File, all the way through to the animation process. This comprehensive two-part tutorial provides all the details so you can comfortably set up a logo, apply all the materials, and add all the final touches of a professional looking logo.

Topics discussed:

Part 1:

• Illustrator logo setup.

• Customizing depth, bevel and edge offset settings in ProAnimator.

• Adding a sense of depth to the look of the skyline.

• Creating Splits in the Profile Editor and assigning different materials.

• Setting up lights and shadows.

• Applying a camera animation.

Part 2:

• Integrating the ProAnimator project into After Effects.

• Adding a background in After Effects.

• Setting up Layer Maps for Reflections and Bump surfaces.

• Using the Composition Camera and Lights.

• Applying other filters and effects for the finishing touches.

Click on the links below to watch the video tutorials:

Click to watch Part 1 of Rob Birnholz’s tutorial

Click to watch Part 2 of Rob Birnholz’s tutorial

In this tutorial, we’re going in depth to create a baseball animation. One of the cool things you can do with 3D Warps is to create interesting reveals. So, we’ll go over how to create an animation where a baseball splits open to reveal a baseball player!

Topics discussed:

• Applying 3D Warps correctly.

• Mixing 3D Invigorator, 3D Warps, and After Effects 3D Layers together.

• Learn how to create an animation path with an After Effects 3D Layer, and use it as a tracker layer.

• Applying scaling and rotation for a nice ball animation.

• Casting shadows onto After Effects 3D Layers.

• Adding cool effects from Zaxwerks Easy Glow to enhance the looks.

Be sure to download 3D Layer Warps version 1.5.1 to have all the latest bug fixes!

http://www.zaxwerks.com/download/

Click on the image above, or the link below to watch the video tutorial.

Click to watch the 3D Warps Baseball Tutorial

In this tutorial, join Serge Hamad as he takes you alongside his pencil animation project. Learn how to adjust the pivot point correctly so that you can have your 3D Invigorator objects integrate the way you want with your After Effects objects. See how a good pivot point can allow your pencil to trace the path perfectly.

Topics discussed:

• Setting up the pencil animation.

• Importing the pencil into 3D Invigorator.

• Creating and setting up the null layer for the pencil to follow.

• Tips to set up a precise pivot point.

Click on the image above, or the link below to watch the video tutorial.

Click to watch the Serge’s new video tutorial!

3D Warps Quick Start is now available! Learn how to install the plug-in as well how to set up 3D Warps. Learn how to apply multiple warps together, as well as using the different presets.

Check out the new video tutorial below:

Zaxwerks Video Tutorials

Embryo has released a new tutorial on Noise Industries Generators combined with the effects of ProAnimator FX. Watch Zak Peric’s tutorial on how to to create a news reel for a imaginary TV Station.

Zak Peric is a freelance artist and lecturer teaching for Creative Computing at Tower Hamlets College and London College of Communication.

You can follow more of his tutorials on his website:
Embryo

Watch the tutorial from the original source below:
Tutorial Movie

Watch the completed animation below:
Completed Tutorial Animation

John Dickinson from Motionworks has re-released his 3D Invigorator Pro training videos. If you use 3D Invigorator Pro or ProAnimator, it’s highly recommended that you watch the movies.

- These are the topics covered in his training videos:
- Creating Layer Maps (3D Invigorator Classic/Pro/ProAnimator)
- The Wireframe Material (3D Invigorator Pro/ProAnimator)
- The Absolute Color Material (3D Invigorator Pro/ProAnimator)
- The Cartoon Material (3D Invigorator Pro/ProAnimator)
- The Matte Color Material (3D Invigorator Pro/ProAnimator)
- 3D Object Tracking Part 1 (3D Invigorator Pro)
- 3D Object Tracking Part 2 (3D Invigorator Pro)

Be sure to click on the link to download all the videos and tutorial files!

Join Zax as he is demonstrating features for the TV crew.

If you are attending NAB, be sure to visit our booth at SL 2529G where we have all our products at NAB special pricing, and watch as we unveil our newest product, “3D Serpentine”.

3D Serpentine brings big-time 3D effects
to Motion Graphics and Video artists. Creating 3D noodles, also called path extrusions, is no longer difficult nor time consuming. Now you can do them live, right inside of Adobe After Effect

If you know how to make a 3D path in After Effects you can create fanciful 3D noodles with the 3D Serpentine plug-in.

Create cool 3D effects like moving film strips, shooting stars, animated marquee signs, swirling tubes, winding helixes, twisting extruded text, arrow pointers and self-tying ribbons.

Early reviews of 3D Serpentine have already started coming in:

“3D Serpentine will completely redefine how After Effects artists approach 3D motion graphics design. Dynamic 3D lines, extruded sweeping 3D text, and action-intensive 3D graphics no longer require animators to leave the After Effects environment that they already know so well … A MUST HAVE.”

- Ko Maruyama CREATIVEMAC.COM

For more information, check out:

3D Serpentine

Jim is a media specialist/trainer whose work takes him all over the world working with a wide range of clients. He specializes in Apple-based systems.

3D Motion Graphics with ProAnimator

Las Vegas Convention Center: N254
April 19 * 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Long considered a secret weapon of savvy motion graphics designers,
Zaxwerks ProAnimator has made creating eye-popping 3D text and logo
animations quick and easy. At the same time, it also allows tremendous
flexibility to create and customize sophisticated 3D text, objects and
animation. Available as a standalone application or plug-in that works
in After Effects, Motion and Final Cut Pro, you will learn how to use
this powerful tool to easily create great 3D elements in your
projects.

Audience: Motion Graphic artists just starting to learn about the
benefits of ProAnimator.

Introduction to Illustrator for Motion Graphics

Las Vegas Convention Center: N254
April 20 * 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Now part of the Production Premium bundle, Adobe Illustrator has
become an important tool for video. New users will learn about the
many tools and techniques that will allow them to easily create paths,
shapes, blends and complex gradients. Master the pen tool, text
manipulation, creating paths, shapes and masks, preparing outlines for
building 3D objects, converting photos into vector art, and how to
integrate these elements into After Effects, Motion and Zaxwerks
applications.

Audience: Motion graphic artists and editors new to using Adobe Illustrator in video.

ProAnimator FX video tutorials are now available!

These two tutorial movies show the basic setups of how to work within Motion and Final Cut Pro.

The Motion quick start movie will guide you as you create a Color Solid Generator and apply ProAnimator FX to the Color Solid. You’ll learn the basics of creating a 3D text, how to apply an animation preset, apply a material to the 3D text, and also seeing your animation in the Motion interface. You’ll also learn where to change your render settings to improve your workflow.

The Final Cut Pro quick start movie will show how to apply a Color Solid from the video generators and how to apply ProAnimator FX from the video filters. This introductory movie will show you the general layout of the new interface as well as where the basic controls are located. You’ll also learn how to change interfaces to improve your work flow. In addition, this movie will guide you on how to apply preset animations, object styles, material swatches, and also how to work with the animation controls and the timeline. Finally, when you are finished applying all your changes within the ProAnimator FX interface, you will see how to change rendering settings for ProAnimator FX.

After watching these two tutorial movies, you’ll be ready to create 3D animations inside of Motion and Final Cut Pro!