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Jake & Dan
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Create a blizzard scene out of a summer photo with these bad ass techniques!
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Free Ink Chamber Footage!
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Create an ink and paper effect like in Sherlock Holmes (2009)
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27.11.2010
5 Best iPhone Apps
for the VFX Set
We ultimately entered the era in which mobile phones come close to being capable of even making your breakfast. Hence we’d like to take the time to present to you five apps we believe will relieve a Visual Effect artist’s equipment case from a few pounds.
20.10.2010
Automated Folder Structures for PC
jdStructure for the PC is here! The application watches your designated BIN folder for specific file extensions to automatically sort them accordingly into their proper directories. Read the rest of this entry »
10.10.2010
Automated Folder Structures for OS X
Everyone who has been working on larger projects knows how essential a tidy folder structure is. But even with a good system files often get lost in the hustle of last-second tasks or fast paced projects. To spare the time of sorting the files every single time we looked for a way to automate the process and came up with an easy-to-customize solution. Looking for specific file types the script takes files from a specified BIN folder and moves them to their designated subfolder. Read the rest of this entry »
15.04.2010
Top 10 Free Ressources
1. sxc.hu is our #1 source for good stock footage. Just register for free.
2. vyonyx.com offers free pre-keyed still footage of people and trees.
3. lostandtaken.com/ regularly releases great hi-res textures.
4. abduzeedo.com also releases hi-res textures in their category ‘Tuesday Total Textures’
5. mediamilitia.com offers a wide variety of brushes and free texture packs.
6. freesound.org although the sounds aren’t always processed and here and there come with some background noise, they have got a huge library of virtually everything good enough to serve as raw source material
7. dafont.com gives you loads of free fonts
8. interfacelift.com is a good source for free wallpapers and icons – the high resolution wallpapers often make a good footage.
9. grafplus.com offers a broad variety of useful free stuff, especially a good place to look for vector graphics!
10. And last, but not least: creatogether.com – we provide you with footage, textures, fonts and other free stuff as often as we can!
Jake & Dan
01.04.2010
Boost your Creativity
I like to spend ten minutes a day reading up on topics I am usually not confronted with — the manufacture of marshmallows for instance.
It keeps the brain challenged and opens your mind to new views and hence new ideas.
Let’s hear from you: we want to know what you do to refuel your creative energies!
Share your tricks as a comment!
Jake & Dan
14.03.2010
5 Soothing WordPress Plugins
If you are familiar with Content Management Systems there is a good chance you stumbled upon WordPress. It is a very powerful Blogsystem and there are a bunch of plugins and add-Ons available you should definitely know about. Of course you could replicate most of these functions yourself, but why reinvent the wheel? Read the rest of this entry »
17.02.2010
Make Your Own Ink Drop Footage
We needed some inkdrop footage for our Ink and Paper effect. Sure, we could have bought some stock footage… but where’s the fun in that? So we created some footage on our own, and here is how:
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15.01.2010
TextMate on Windows
After switching back to PCs, I missed MacroMate’s TextMate a hell of a lot. Looking for an alternative for Windows, I stumbled across a couple of board discussions, mostly with the conclusion that there is no such thing as TextMate for Windows users.
It appears research is not everybody’s vocation.
The solution bears the short and concise name ‘E’. The whole workflow is pretty much the same, the E texteditor even supports original TextMate-Bundles and snippets. A few shortcomings still bother me (where the heck has the clipboard history gone??), but overall I can’t find any words to describe what a deep of an impact it had on my workflow…
Dan Borufka