Life & Style tutorial: Creative type effects
The included plug-ins with After Effects might seem a little limited, but some creative thinking can lead to some awesome type effects.
Tutorials
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Life & Style tutorial: Rigging a character for After Effects
Creating an After Effects character animation is a whole lot easier if you prepare your main figure beforehand.
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Life & Style tutorial: Create a TV bumper - pt 2
Add the finishing touches to a TV bumper using Null objects and the Collapse Transformations switch in AE.
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Life & Style tutorial: Create a TV bumper in After Effects
Create a cool TV bumper – using mattes in Adobe After Effects and this handy tutorial.
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Life & Style tutorial: How to build a multi-platform game in Flash
Chris Kempt shows you how to use Adobe Flash to create a simple art-based platform game, based on Kempt’s classic viral The Kung-Fu Statesmen.
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Life & Style tutorial: Create an underwater scene in Vue 6 Infinite
The Personal Learning Edition of Vue 6 Infinite makes it easy to create underwater 3D scenes.
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Life & Style tutorial: Retouching tips - pt 1
Replicate traditional photographic techniques using step-by-step walkthroughs - part one: adding grain
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Life & Style tutorial: Replicating Turner-style landscapes
Replicate traditional artistic landscape styles using step-by-step walkthroughs. Part one - Luminous landscapes.
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Life & Style tutorial: Replicate traditional artistic landscape: Canaletto
Replicate traditional artistic landscape styles using step-by-step walkthroughs. Part one - Italian landscapes.
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Life & Style tutorial: Working with RAW images - pt 1
Transform your photos with total control over colour, detail, lens and calibration settings using Photoshop's camera RAW plug-in. Part 1
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Life & Style tutorial: Digital Manga - pt 3
Learn how to recreate Manga art using Adobe Photoshop's Freeform Pen tool. Part three - continuing cel art in detail.
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Life & Style tutorial: Digital Manga - pt 2
Learn how to recreate Manga art using Adobe Photoshop's Freeform Pen tool. Part two - cel art in detail.
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Life & Style tutorial: Digital Manga - pt 1
Learn how to recreate Manga art using Adobe Photoshop's Freeform Pen tool. Part one - cel art preparation.
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Life & Style tutorial: Turning a figure to stone - pt 2
Add special lighting effects and drama to the image turned into a statue in the second part of this Photoshop tutorial.
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Life & Style tutorial: Retouching - part 3
Using lighting effects for portraits and night-for-day transformations. Part three - creating night from day.
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Life & Style tutorial: Retouching - part 2
Using lighting effects for portraits and night-for-day transformations. Part two - portrait lighting.
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Life & Style tutorial: Retouching - part 1
Using lighting effects for portraits and night-for-day transformations. Part one - lighting effects filter.
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Life & Style tutorial: Games Characters
Top advice on creating characters that players want to know and love.
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Life & Style tutorial: Designing DVD Menus 2
Part two of Designing DVD Menus looks at how design and interaction work together to guide the viewer to the content.
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Life & Style tutorial: Designing DVD Menus 1
For a DVD disc to stand out, it needs a menu that does the content justice. Part one: Designing with motion.