In this Best of Tuts+ roundup you’ll learn how to simulate a sniper scope, design and code a flexible website, create an intense movie poster, create a golden vector compass, build a minigolf game with ActionScript 3.0, take sports photos like a pro, create a rocky video game terrain in Blender and get a useful introduction to home recording–among many other things! Let’s take a look.

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I had the pleasure of meeting Harry Frank, the founder of Graymachine a resourceful website filled with various tutorials and many articles related to the industry. He is a popular freelancer and a veteran in Motion Graphics and is extremely popular for his training series “After Effects Expressions” and his training series on Trapcode products.

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I was up in NYC recently to go a conference. Finding myself with a few hours to kill in the city, I took a little train ride across town to visit Aharon Rabinowitz. He was kind enough to allow me to shoot some of our conversation to share with you guys. Make sure to check out his website All Bets Are Off Productions to see everything he has to offer!

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Welcome to the first installment of an on-going series. Best of the best will feature a few files from each category on VideoHive that are… well… the best of the best, at the time of writing (in no particular order). All files chosen excel in terms of quality, complexity, and usefulness. Not so much based on sales, and popularity. I can guarantee that any file listed below will knock your socks off, and plan to continue the BOTB installments from now on. So stay tuned!

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First place winner of the Aetuts+ Logo Reveal Contest goes to Morten Kühl Christensen. Morten is a part of Two Penguins VFX, an internet based FX house with artists located Sweden, Germany and Denmark. Check out their work! Thanks to all who participated!
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In the United States it’s Independence Day this weekend which is a day spent celebrating. In that spirit we decided to celebrate design studios doing some of the most inspiring work at the moment.

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Every graphic designer aspires to do title sequences at some point in their career. Here’s 18 tasty ones to wet your ambition appetite.

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Inspiration comes in many forms but for motion graphic designers it’s hard to beat a great demo reel. For this week’s roundup Topher gathered 16 killer motion graphics and vfx demo reels. Please feel free to add any links to reels you find inspiring in the comments.

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Here are some of the best tutorials and articles published on the Tuts+ Network over 60 days in March and April. You might be surprised at how much you can learn from a site outside your area of expertise. Why not make it your goal this month to learn a new skill? Whether it’s motion graphics, web development and design, music production, Flash, illustration, logo design or digital art, the Tuts+ network is an excellent place to start the journey.

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We are going to begin doing interviews with artists that we feel are at the top of our industry and we have the priviledge of starting with an incredibly talented artist and current art director at design studio Buck: Chris Lee.
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