The Andy Warhol Silkscreen Effect (from Deke)

Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Photoshop CS4, video tutorial by Thorsten Meyer on June 14, 2009 No Comments »

Have you ever wanted to create an authentic looking Andy Warhol silkscreen? Deke shows you how to do it.


Looking for a  high-quality QuickTime movie?  right-click here or you can subscribe to dekePod via  iTunes.

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Photoshopping the Great Masters (by Deke)

Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Photoshop CS4, Tutorials, video tutorial by Thorsten Meyer on June 13, 2009 No Comments »

Deke’s official marketing description:

They say you can’t be too rich or too thin. So how about getting rich by making others thin? Plenty of experienced retouchers make small but enviable fortunes shaving body fat off already lithe models. But rather than showing you a present-day example–honestly, how many times do we need to see underfed waifs made skinnier?–Deke takes us back to a time when ideas of beauty were very different: the High Renaissance. In those times of mean circumstances and manual labor, body fat was a thing to be envied. How best to take a well-fed model rendered by the likes of Raphael and turn her into a slim, trim, big-eyed beauty?

Deke’s great books and Tutorials are available on amazon

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Create a Split-Flap Type Display (on Aetuts+)

Adobe After Effects, video tutorial by Thorsten Meyer on June 2, 2009 No Comments »

Create a Split-Flap Type Display

Split-Flap-What? It’s the term used for displays that are found in train stations and airports, where they typically display departure and/or arrival information and do that cool flipping of letters to display the new information.

This Aetuts+ tutorial does not show how to create the effect from scratch but instead it is a tutorial to explain how to use the project file created by Mattias Peresini who runs the totally awesome mattrunks website which has incredible tutorials for After Effects in French.

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Hard Training for Independent Filmmaker

filmschool, movie, Tutorials, video tutorial by Thorsten Meyer on March 8, 2009 No Comments »

Cinemacuteo “a place where you learn how to do guerrilla filmmaking” has  plenty of video tutorials, you can learn everything you need to know to make your movies, videos or audiovisual projects.  Visit the free Film School Group at: vimeo.com/groups/filmschool

Some examples the team has collected in the vimeo channel


Why get a 35mm adapter from jehu Garcia on Vimeo.


Comparing moving cameras from Ammonite on Vimeo.


New Zacuto Zuca for HV30 from Steve Weiss, Zacuto USA on Vimeo.


White Balance your camera Warmer with Warmcards from Guy Cochran on Vimeo.

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World Builder from Bruce Branit

Adobe After Effects, movie, Tutorials, video tutorial by Thorsten Meyer on March 8, 2009 No Comments »

World Builder is an award winning short was created by filmmaker Bruce Branit, widely known as the co-creator of ’405′. World Builder was shot in a single day followed by about 2 years of post production. Branit is the owner of Branit VFX based in Kansas City.


World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

Bruce Branit has some  great show reels from 2008 and 2009 to watch

Branit|vfx 2009 Reel from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.


Branit|vfx 2008 Show Reel from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

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After Effects Tutorial: “Creating a Realistic 3d Earth using only AE” by Michael Park

Adobe After Effects, video tutorial by Thorsten Meyer on March 8, 2009 No Comments »

Creating a Realistic 3d Earth using only AE

Michal Park did release a new After Effects Tutorial on how you can create a realistic 3D earth in After Effects. You can watch the Tutorial here and download the project file.

Michael Park shows you how to create a realistic 3d earth, complete with clouds and atmosphere, using only After Effects’ built in effects. Special attention will be given to combining multiple instances of the CC Sphere effect to create unique layers with different specular properties for the land and water masses, as well as creating lights from urban centers on the night side of the earth.

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Adobe’s Everyday Timesavers on Adobe TV

Adobe After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop CS4, Premiere Pro, Tutorials, video tutorial by Thorsten Meyer on February 24, 2009 No Comments »

Adobe’s evangelists plan to post a series of short, to-the-point videos called “Everyday Timesavers.”

First time savers are already available:

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