This is a brief introduction to some of the most unbelievable Visual Effects in Hollywood’s biggest movies. This “Part 2” will describe the making of movies: King Kong, Harry Potter, X-Men First Class and Pirates of the Caribbean.

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You’ve watched thousands of tutorials. You’ve put in countless hours and spent many late nights working on personal projects. You’ve finally come to the conclusion that this may just be something you would like to do for a career. It can seem a little intimidating at first, because how are you going to convince someone to pay you to do this? Up until now you’ve been your only client. How do you get more? I’m going to share my insight and experiences on how to successfully launch your freelance career this year!

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Last Friday, I was invited to participate in a PRSSA alumni panel with other Communications graduates from Liberty University. Since many of our Aetuts+ readers are high school and college students, I thought I would share some of my responses to questions asked by current students. I’ve expanded a bit in explaining the short responses I shared.

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This is a brief introduction of some of the most unbelievable Visual Effects in Hollywood’s biggest movies. This “Part 1″ will describe the making of movies: 2012, Avatar, Alice in Wonderland and The Lord of the Rings.

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Today I just wanted share a few principles that have helped me keep my sanity as I approach rotoscoping work. There are many different types of situations that might require you to do roto work, but in general these tips should help your workflow over time.

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More often then not, we don’t get to work sitting in a chair next to the client. As a result, we are forced to communicate either by video chat, phone, or most common… Email. Today I just posted 5 Client Emailing Tips that I’ve learned literally in the past year. Hopefully you’ll walk away with something helpful.

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In this Sneak Peek Ben Griggs shows the ShapeShifter plug-in soon to be released by Mettle.com. With amazing speed text, masks, shapes and imported vectors are transformed right in your AE composition into live 3D mesh. ShapeShifter runs ultra fast using the 3DNAE engine developed by Mettle. To receive a discount and to be notified when ShapeShifter ships sign up here.

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The first Tuts+ bundle is finally here! An exclusive bundle of eleven fabulous items for an astonishingly low price!

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Adobe After Effects CS5 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques by Mark Christiansen surveys the art of compositing and visual effects using Adobe After Effects. While most books on AE focus on motion graphics or step-by-step instruction, this one gives you a succinct overview of optimizing the use of AE for effects compositing, as well as covering a variety of advanced topics to get you closer to photorealistic renders.

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A few years after my first light saber, I learned how to track footage, then eventually I was able to put in a cheap animated 3D spider robot… I was getting to the place where I thought I knew the basics of After Effects pretty well. Then one day my professor at college told us briefly about render order in After Effects… I found this fascinating and wanted to know more. Today we’ll do some experimentation and go through After Effects’ render order!

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