Workflow In Zaxwerks ProAnimator Part 1

Workflow In Zaxwerks ProAnimator Part 1

on Apr 28th 2010 with 12 comments
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3D movies, 3D televisions, 3D on the desktop. Everything cool these days is in 3D! For an animator, there is no faster way to create professional 3D animation than with the Zaxwerks ProAnimator. Everyone’s heard of it, and in this 32 minute tutorial Rob Birnholz will teach the basics of how it works. This is not a sales pitch, but an actual workflow. For the basics, After Effects is not required, but the tutorial steps are same for both the standalone ProAnimator application and the AE plug-in version. A trial version of ProAnimator can be downloaded from www.zaxwerks.com.

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Rob Birnholz has 30 years experience in video and film, beginning with 15+ years as a director/cameraman and more than 25 years in post as an editor and motion graphics artist. He is a nationally recognized Adobe After Effects expert, skilled Final Cut Pro editor and a popular speaker and demo artist at user groups and industry trade shows.  

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Discussion 12 Comments

  1. Terminator says:
    April 28, 2010 at 7:11 am

    nice job but it is ae

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    • Loay Emad says:
      April 28, 2010 at 10:39 am

      YEP!……It’s all inside AE.

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      • Rob Birnholz says:
        April 28, 2010 at 10:48 am
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        You don’t need AE at all for this tutorial. I did virtually everything in this tut using Illustrator and the standalone version of the Proanimator app (including rendering). Part 2 will cover the Proanimator plug in for AE and what extra goodies you get by working that way.

  2. IANH - BR says:
    April 28, 2010 at 7:44 am

    Thanks for this, Great work!

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  3. Billy says:
    April 28, 2010 at 9:20 am

    Very nice. Finally a tutorial that doesn’t look like it was ripped off from a 14-year-old kids youtube channel. And yes…..this IS for AE….if you don’t know anything about zaxwerks, you should check it out.

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    • Topher Welsh says:
      April 28, 2010 at 10:54 am

      Billy you are back! I was wondering we would ever see you again?!? haha,…

      Killer tut Rob… stoked to see this actually come about since we were talking about it at NAB.

      Reply
  4. Modisana says:
    April 29, 2010 at 7:57 am

    Very Nice Tutorial.. thank you

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  5. limewire says:
    April 29, 2010 at 9:31 pm

    lol fun stuff bro.

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  6. Rory says:
    April 30, 2010 at 1:33 am

    ae-toots!

    lol. Looks good though.

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  7. John Stanowski says:
    May 1, 2010 at 10:21 pm

    This is great, can’t wait to watch this. I really never figured out how to do anything except just plain text with ProAnimator.

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  8. James S Welling says:
    May 17, 2010 at 1:48 pm

    Could you do a tutorial based on ths?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uz7k6iuHDs

    I believe this is more of a professional piece for the new age broadcaster, the folks like the justin.tv etc.

    If this could be done only using ProAnimator I would be very greatful, as I have had great problems getting CS4 installed on my computer!

    Cheers

    James

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