After Effects CS4 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide / by Antony Bolante (Author).Here to get filmmakers, Web designers, broadcasters, and digital artists of all kinds up to speed on After Effects CS4-and in time to meet their next deadline-is everyone s favorite task-based guide. Through step-by-step instructions, enhanced by tips, sidebars, and plenty of visual aids, veteran video editor Antony Bolante shows readers how to effectively and efficiently import and manage footage, view and edit layers, apply effects, animate type, and more. They ll learn about key features with real world examples of how and when features should be used, including what s new in After Effects CS4: the addition of Imagineer System’s Mocha for Adobe After Effects, which allows users to do motion tracking for difficult shots; the ability to export rich media compositions from After Effects to Adobe Flash; searchable timelines and projects, plus easier composition navigation; the ability to import Photoshop 3D layers; independent keyframing of X, Y, and Z axis positions; the new Cartoon effect for creating an animated look to live footage; and many more enhancements.

Video Avatar is a tool for creating animated GIF avatars, userpics and signatures.

You can choose the video file and its part and then crop it for your avatar, userpic or signature. So basically Video Avatar is a video cropper. By using Video Avatar you can create original video avatars for your blogs, journals, you can also set userpic in your profile page for any forums, communities, your website, etc.

Video Avatar supports all the video formats for inputing, such as avi, asf, mp4, mpg, mpeg, mov, wmv. Output file will be controlled with width, height, Frames Per Second and reverse mode. So you choose a video file, such as your favourite movie, music video, cartoon or any video you have, choose a part for cropping in the video preview and manage range bar for time limits and click Start. After converting you will got an animated GIF with pixelsize that is set.

Like many movie tie-ins, the video game rendition of The Ant Bully is a far cry from the feature film that it's based on. This 3D adventure game tries to expand on the movie by putting players through a sequence of missions that delve into what Lucas, the insect-sized boy, went through off camera to learn the ants' ways, but it mostly succeeds at showing why events such as these weren't portrayed in the movie in the first place. Nearly every mission involves fetching items or fighting the same enemies over and over again. Moreover, the noninteractive scenes that accompany each mission spend more time preaching the story's morals than they do developing the characters or building toward an exciting conclusion.

Lightning Mc Queen and his friends back in the game based on the main cartoon blockbuster of 2011 Cars 2! Talking, funny and charming car plunge into the world of international espionage, but do not forget about his mission and his favorite hobby: racing! Choose a four character from the more than 20 available and act on the secret training academy. Become a world class spy, participate in races in all corners of the globe, use spy gadgets to track and cunning tricks. Win the competition for the best car!

Mysterious forces are at work when worlds collide as 26 of the biggest Cartoon Network characters battle one another in this all-star brawler! This XL version of the fast-paced fighting game features iconic locations and an all-star cast of fan-favorites recruited from Cartoon Network s most popular television series including: Ben 10, Samurai Jack, Johnny Bravo, The Powerpuff Girls and Dexter’s Laboratory. The all-new brawler video game with 26 playable characters, including eight new characters, gives players the power to duke it out with their friends for cartoon supremacy.

PSP GAME CREATION FOR TEENS shows teens and other beginners how to make awesome video games and cool cartoon animations for the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP), the popular handheld game console, using Adobe Flash. This step-by-step guide provides all the tools and information readers need to get started making games and cartoons they can play and share with their friends.

CartoonSmart.com’s Exciting Flash Ads: Create cool flash banners and ads that viewers actually want to click. All lessons are best used with Flash 8 because of the heavy use of Filters, but Flash 7 users will still get a lot out of these courses. All videos are recorded in high definition Quicktime Video, so you’ll never have to squint your eyes to see the screen, or worry about the video suddenly getting pixelated. And all CartoonSmart.com tutorials work the same for Mac and PC.

This is a complete tutorial series covering modeling, texturing and mood lighting of a cartoon set, with a little bit of dynamics towards the end to add to the final render. It is a very entertaining beginner project and great if you're new to using Maya. This twelve hour long series comes with the unposed model of the mad scientist and during the modeling tutorial we will build the med lab to create the complete scene.

Aren't all training videos like books on video?... Yes and no. Here at CartoonSmart we like to keep things project-based, so you can actually build something while you train. But there comes a time when the best approach to teaching something is to cover it like a book.

High Definition XCode & Cocos2D Training Videos. Plus Starter Kits for Quick App Creation! Take Part in Our Incredibly Thorough mulit-session video series on Cocos2d and iOS App Development

In this series of Maya tutorials, we will go step-by-step through the process of building and texturing a child character in a cartoony style. Cartoony, stylized characters are prevalent in the world of TV and film CG, as well as video games. These types of characters are a lot of fun to build, but they do present their own set of challenges.

During this ZBrush tutorial, you will learn how to speed sculpt a cartoon head from start to finish. First we will make custom brushes, then we will learn how to put together a custom User Interface for speed. After that we will delve right in using DynaMesh and masking to pull out our shapes.

During this ZBrush tutorial, you will learn how to speed sculpt a cartoon head from start to finish. First we will make custom brushes, then we will learn how to put together a custom User Interface for speed. After that we will delve right in using DynaMesh and masking to pull out our shapes. We will continue refining the head and polishing it to get a clean sculpt. Then we will add a hat and sweater along with fiber mesh hair. Lastly we will setup a light cap, and render out a character sheet and a turntable with professional results.

We’ll get started by exploring three very simple shapes and how they should play a role in every cartoon character we draw. We will start by breaking heads down into these three simple shapes and then move into creating body shapes. From here, we’ll begin applying these shapes using three different characters. First we’ll design a cheerful Italian chef.

We’ll get started by exploring three very simple shapes and how they should play a role in every cartoon character we draw. We will start by breaking heads down into these three simple shapes and then move into creating body shapes. From here, we’ll begin applying these shapes using three different characters. First we’ll design a cheerful Italian chef. When we are done there, we’ll design a bone-headed cowboy sidekick. Finally we’ll create a creepy pirate captain. After completing this course, you’ll be well equipped to begin designing highly appealing cartoon characters of your very own.