Here’s the greatest demo I’ve ever seen, and I watch lots of presentation videos:

Lightstage technology allows you to cross the uncanny valley, by using high speed cameras to capture the way different light conditions affect the skin, and generating a normal map, a texture map, and the mesh itself.
Lightstage has already been used in a few movies such as Spiderman 3, and the Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It truely revolutionizes the traditional way of generating meshes.

Here’s the second part of the tutorial. It covers how to import images from a program like Photoshop into Multimedia Fusion.

I just finished up my first video tutorial ever. I always wanted to make one. I think it turned out ok. The tutorial goes through using Graphics within Multimedia Fusion, but in the second part I start using Photoshop and explain how to then import images into Multimedia Fusion.

Let me know what you think in the comments, and some constructive criticism is always welcome.

I edited the video a bit more by adding in credits and sound.
Plot: Someone stole Ambo the Bears’ honey, and now he’s out to get his honey back.
An animation based of my original drawing, yet animated by master animator Charles Zhang.

I was playing around with After Effects some more and created an intro for triShot Films, and added it to my pre-existing flame on video. I also found an awesome website for Visual Effects generation in After Effects. You can find all the awesome free tutorials and products at http://videocopilot.net/

My friend Charles worked from my original Bearambo drawing to create the BEARAMBO MOVIE! Yes it’s just that awesome and had to be written in all caps.
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