http://xeler8r.com/01/index.php Accelerate the Learning Curve Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:23:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a heads up - if you're thinking of upgrading your shop - or your personal computer power pc - it might be high time to get 'em up on ebay before they're worth next-to-nothing. I'm sure you can find other uses for them as above. Micheal Coleman has announced that ... http://xeler8r.com/01/index.php/?p=54 I've been doing a lot of 3d compositing lately... This is a bit of a dream come true. Sign me up! Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene from pro on VimeoI can thinkof about a thousand uses for this... One of them is making movie playback graphics like those ... http://xeler8r.com/01/index.php/?p=53 From tech to retro... all art and design has roots and inspiration. I love seeing how things develop, change and get recycled... Check these out. Chances are you'll recognize a lot of these recreated by modern designers. Here's the whole book of 'vintage' logo designs: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_carl/sets/72157604144345854/   It's awesome! Now when a beginner designer ... http://xeler8r.com/01/index.php/?p=51 Hey guys, just a quick note to let you know that I'll be hanging out at the GridIron booth on Monday the 14th and Wednesday the 16th showing people both Nucleo Pro and the soon to be released Flow (as seen below!) Come by and say hi if you get a ... http://xeler8r.com/01/index.php/?p=50 You may have noticed that as a designer - you're constantly fighting file management. Fonts are missing. Images changed but not updated - "Why are the links to media broken again? Oh yeah - that .aep needed THAT missing plug-in!" It's kind of archaic isn't it? Well get ready for something entirely ... http://xeler8r.com/01/index.php/?p=43 The future of research - faster and, more importantly, fun. Install the new browser plug-in called PicLens Restart your browser Go to google image search and search for your favorite artist or model (my good friend, designer Daniel Palacios, suggests trying his favorite model 'vida guerra' if you can't think of anything else) click ... http://xeler8r.com/01/index.php/?p=41 E-mail from Javin: "Hi jayse, I notice you have an excellence sense of unique color harmony in your work. Can you please share with us how you learned this? Or is it just from birth?" I believe we're all artists from birth, and it's always good to learn as much as ... http://xeler8r.com/01/index.php/?p=36 From 'Mastering 3d Cameras in After Effects' by Jayse Hansen Class Preview at Post Production World Israel, Nov. 2007 Here is the code that Dan Ebberts wrote that I demonstrated in class for spreading out 3d layers proportionately using one slider control. (Thanks be to Dan!) Basically the steps are: Import your psd in ... http://xeler8r.com/01/index.php/?p=32 Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web My good friend Aharon Rabinowitz has just released an excellent new DVD training through the Creative Cow Master Series. This is the first in depth video training to tackle high-end video compression for the web in a straight ... http://xeler8r.com/01/index.php/?p=18 Here is the PSD file for a simple image created entirely with vector shapes and custom layer styles. The benefit of setting up your files this way is that you can now insert any photo (or video) into this image and the grunge scratches and reflections will appear over the ... http://xeler8r.com/01/index.php/?p=28