In this course George Maestri introduces the tools needed to create and animate highly controllable characters using After Effects. The course covers how to design the characters in Photoshop or Illustrator, as well as draw them straight from After Effects; how to assemble characters with hierarchies; make realistic deformations with the Puppet tool; automate rigs with expressions; create realistic head turns; and show advanced techniques such as using null objects as bones. Finally, the course shows how to perform a basic animation with the character and ensure the rig works correctly. Exercise files are included with the course.

The all-in-one animation tool for professionals and digital artists! Anime Studio Pro 7 is perfect for professionals looking for a more efficient alternative to tedious frame-by-frame detailing when creating quality animations. With an intuitive interface loaded with pre-rigged characters and additional content, Anime Studio Pro delivers advanced animation tools and effects to speed up your workflow. Anime Studio combines cutting-edge features with powerful technology to deliver the most unique animation program for digital artists. Resize your images with no loss in quality using Anime Studio's vector-based layer system. Also, using the bone rigging system you can add a skeleton to any image by simple point and click, then bring it to life!

Meet a truly monster graphic designer, Stefan G. Bucher. Stefans projects range from his Daily Monsters, to the Daily Letter on the PBS television show, The Electric Company, to CD designs for Sting and Whitney Houston, products for the Echo Park Time Travel Mart (featuring canned mammoth chunks), to writing and illustrating his latest book, You Deserve A Medal: Honors on the Path to True Love. Stefan is a prolific artist who is seemingly obsessed with finding impressive new ways to put ink on paper.

A powerful, easy-to-use utility for finding, extracting, creating and editing icons and cursors and managing icon libraries and image lists.

Adobe? Creative Suite? 5 Master Collection software enables you to design and develop amazing work, collaborate effectively, and deliver virtually anywhere. Adobe? Creative Suite? 5 Master Collection software delivers a comprehensive toolset for designing across media. Explore exciting enhancements that include new ways to create interactive content, breakthrough performance, and integration with new Adobe CS Live online services to boost productivity.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium Retail - Full boxed for 4 DVD discs. Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium is an indispensable component in the work of professional designers, who need to set deadlines to create high-quality video, audio and interactive material for broadcast on television, publishing on the Internet, or output to different devices.

Art Files is a stand-alone application that takes the tedious task of collecting Illustrator documents, linked images and fonts for graphics files and turns it into a simple point & click operation. Art Files focuses on gathering just the information you need to get your files packaged up or ready for archiving.

Finally, high quality map production software that works. MAPublisher cartography software seamlessly integrates over 40 GIS tools into the Adobe Illustrator environment to help you create maps the way you want, how you want. Import the most widely used GIS data formats, including those from ESRI, MapInfo, MicroStation, AutoCAD, Google and the U.S. Government.

DevWPI - Disc is avtoustanovschik programmynh packages and development tools, applications from the most famous companies. There is also a set of programs on each day. " To install a particular program, you need a list of programs to mark them tick, when you click "Install" and set everything to itself, without any user intervention in the process of installation.

QuarkXPress - the most powerful publishing system, with its intuitive interface and expanded set of tools for word processing, color management and graphic elements, and designing web pages. The program is widely used in book, newspaper and magazine publishing, advertising and marketing agencies, design firms and printing houses. Contains more than 160 new features and improvements to combine the processes of modeling, designing and creating content.

A Monster Tutorial on T-Shirt Design, Inking, and Coloring in Photoshop

With the advent of social media and photo sharing sites came a whole new wave of image theft that is not going away any time soon. Join RC as he takes you through some of the finer points of how to protect your images, from exit data to copyrights and beyond, in order to make your photos less vulnerable to theft and more easier to prove ownership of in case an incident ever arises.

IconCool Studio is a complete solution for 32 bit icon editing and creation. The program includes all standard image editing tools, as well as a variety of filters and effects that can be used to enhance your icon designs. The included Mixer enables you to create custom icons from scratch, using multiple layers and a variety of ready-to-use design elements. In addition to icon and (animated) cursor formats, the program also supports editing of GIF, JPG and PNG image files. Other features included support for Vista icons, Photoshop plug-in and transfer, multi-format import/export and more.

In this series of lessons we'll be focusing on Understanding Perspective Drawing in Illustrator.
We'll begin this process by taking some time to learn how to enable and configure our perspective grid. Next we'll learn some basic workflows for creating artwork with perspective and transforming objects in perspective. Once we are familiar with this process, we'll dive in and begin drawing our skyscraper concept based on a simple orthographic drawing. Throughout this process we'll learn how to precisely control the placement of perspective objects. We'll learn how to apply perspective to objects that don't fit on a perspective plane and we'll learn how to use several time saving features such as automatic plane positioning. After working through this series of lesson, you will have a good understanding of how perspective drawing in Illustrator works.