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Creative Cow together with Aharon Rabinowitz, Pete O’Connell and Eran Stern has released three new After Effects Video Tutorials.

1. Advanced Rotoscoping Techniques for Adobe After Effects by Pete O’Connell
2. After Effects: The Next Level, vol, 2: CS 3 Tips and Techniques by Aharon Rabinowitz
3. Motion Design with Adobe After Effects by Eran Stern

Film compositor Pete O’Connell shows you the secrets of advanced rotoscoping that will save you hours, even days, on your toughest jobs. Eran Stern has quickly become one of the Cow’s most popular authors; here he presents tutorials for real-world motion graphics that you can start using right away. And Aharon Rabinowitz, one of the world’s true AE masters, leads you through AE CS3

A week ago a Russian Wanted trailer with new unseen footage was released. This movie looks great and promises a lot of great visual and digital effects.

“The story: What if someone came to you and told you your father was part of a secret organization and was one of the world’s greatest assassins and you have it in your blood to be one, too? “25-year-old Wes was the most disaffected, cube-dwelling drone the planet had ever known…” (Wanted a new VFX & DFX rich movie www.StrongMocha.com)

The movie is based on a comic book series by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones published by Image Comics.Wanted is directed by Timur Bekmambetov.

Other coverage:

• Wanted a new VFX & DFX rich movie (www.StrongMocha.com)
  
• World Exclusive Wanted Featurette (empireonline.com)
• www.wantedmovie.com has more on the story, pictures and some trailer.

The art of retouching clip from room.tv a Venice, CA based company shows how clips are polished these days.

This clip and the ones on room.tv web site shows a great before and after comparison from the wonderland of retouching. On room’s website you find more fx & design examples of their recent work. room’s mission is to merge editorial, motion graphics, computer animation and sound design into a complete creative experience. room edits commercials, music videos and films, design CG effects and title sequences and more.

room’s team members are:

Jeff Selis (editor), Elisa Bonora (editor), Bill Pollock (online artist/editor), Elad Marish (composer/designer), Brandon Toh (sound designer/mixer), John Musemecki (cgi arist) & Jason Barager (executive producer)

“Until then” a new futuristic Ad from Puma, featuring sensational animations and outstanding graphics.

Start the flash movie below to see this great Ad more about the add can be found on Puma’s website

The Making off is available on YouTube

I would like to point you to the Wired Mag article “The Software That Will Take Digital F/X to the Next Level of Awesome” that has been published. Written by Michael Behar.