Making Your Microphone Placement Work – Basix

Miking up an instrument isnt an easy thing. Its not like a digital camera where you point towards what you want to capture and then click. Super cool vacation photo! You might not end up with a great photo, but you can certainly make it better afterwards. Not to offend photographers, but in audio, if [...]

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5 Basic Ways To Populate Mass Groups Within After Effects – AE Basix

In this tutorial we look at 5 individual ways of duplicating crowds. These methods are: Simple Masking (garbage matting) Rotoscoping Difference Matting Chroma Keying Camera Technique The tutorial explains each of the methods, the pros and cons, and goes in depth to show how to create the final preview using the difference matting technique. The [...]

A Quick-Start Guide to Cinema 4D

In the first of several tutorials looking at the different aspects of Cinema 4D, Aleksey Voznesenski begins by giving a fast-paced, quick-start overview of the interface, basic primitive objects and lighting/HDR maps. If youve always wanted to try C4D, or even if youve got a good amount of experience using it, this tutorial will help [...]

Quick Tip: Spice Up Your Drum Patterns With Reverse Hits

Using reverse drum hits is a great way to enhance a drum pattern or mix things up in an arrangement because it reuses the existing sounds, creates tension, and easily adds interest. Download audio file (afReverseDrumHits.mp3) Step 1: Starting Pattern First, here is the pattern well be starting with. It uses four sounds from the [...]

Core Art Skills: Part 5, Traditional Media Techniques

If youve been following the course youve hopefully been using your sketchbooks more and have have tried your hand at clay. If so, you should now be happy to get your hands dirty and make some textures. In this Session Ben Mounsey will continue on with the core art skills and show you different methods [...]

CSS: Noob to Ninja – The Complete Video Series

This exclusive premium video series will take you from a state of absolute CSS “noobness,” all the way up to ninja-status, capable of taking advantage of the latest CSS3 techniques. The series begins with the basics: the syntax, properties, etc. However, each new video expands upon the previous, as you work your way up and [...]