CartoonSmart Tutorials - This two part lesson teaches stylish silhouette animations in Flash CS3, Flash 8 or Flash 7, Rotoscope (Tracing-Over) of Video Frames, Water Effect using Shape Tweening, Fake 3D "Camera" Turn/Pan, Animated Masking, and advanced masking.

SilhouetteFX - speed and pitch processing. SilhouetteFX turns your images into colored silhouettes. Use the inspector panel to gain full control over the color mix of the silhouette effect. You can adjust the texture of the silhouette, and choose from a number of built in preset configurations of color mix and textures. Save your own presets too. SilhouetteFX saves your images at the same resolution as the original source image.

SilhouetteFX - speed and pitch processing. SilhouetteFX turns your images into colored silhouettes. Use the inspector panel to gain full control over the color mix of the silhouette effect. You can adjust the texture of the silhouette, and choose from a number of built in preset configurations of color mix and textures. Save your own presets too. SilhouetteFX saves your images at the same resolution as the original source image.

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Following on the success of our business silhouettes, Digital Juice continues the Motion Designer's Silhouettes line with Motion Designer's Silhouettes Freestyle Dance - Men. This cool new downloadable library of crisp, clean live-action Motion Designer's Silhouettes doesn't miss a beat, bringing you an array of male dancers performing various freestyle steps, poses and gestures -- ready to breathe life into your animations and tell a story with fluid motion and graphic boldness. These silhouette sequences will help you step it up by adding a funky edge and a cool rhythm to your work, giving you the best of both worlds - the fluidity of real life and the sharp graphic symbolism of an animated silhouette -- all in a drag-and-drop element that even a novice motion designer will find easy to integrate into any project. Turn your projects into a party! Express a thought, evoke an emotion, or convey an idea without adding the complexity of an actor's features or clothing to detract from the simplicity of your message.

Description:
Following on the success of our business silhouettes, Digital Juice continues the Motion Designer's Silhouettes line with Motion Designer's Silhouettes Freestyle Dance - Women. This cool new downloadable library of crisp, clean live-action Motion Designer's Silhouettes doesn't miss a beat, bringing you an array of female dancers performing various freestyle steps, poses and gestures -- ready to breathe life into your animations and tell a story with fluid motion and graphic boldness. These silhouette sequences will help you step it up by adding a funky edge and a cool rhythm to your work, giving you the best of both worlds - the fluidity of real life and the sharp graphic symbolism of an animated silhouette -- all in a drag-and-drop element that even a novice motion designer will find easy to integrate into any project. Turn your projects into a party! Express a thought, evoke an emotion, or convey an idea without adding the complexity of an actor's features or clothing to detract from the simplicity of your message.

Digital Juice once again introduces a first of it's kind product line specifically tailored for the needs of motion design professionals. Over a year in the making, this new library of crisp, clean live-action Motion Designer's Silhouettes brings you an array of actors in various poses, gestures, and movements -- ready to breathe life into your animations and tell a story with fluid motion and graphic boldness. These silhouette sequences will add a professional high-end look to your work, giving you the best of both worlds - the fluidity of real life and the sharp graphic symbolism of an animated silhouette -- all in a drag-and-drop element that even a novice motion designer will find easy to integrate into any project. Express a thought, evoke an emotion, or convey an idea without adding the complexity of an actor's features or clothing to detract from the simplicity of your message. Captured live in the Digital Juice green screen studio, on a RED ONE at 3K resolution, these clips were shot under very controlled conditions, specifically for the purpose of making Silhouettes. Each clip was then meticulously hand rotoscoped and keyed to achieve the highest quality possible results from the high-resolution source material.

Living in a gray world of silhouette, Lord Taris Wellingham conceals his fading eyesight from society. He has long protected himself from any intimate relationships.

In this DVD, Gil Rimmer simultaneously develops two characters, Francis and Paulo, who are classic pugilists in a fictional turn of the century metropolis. This first in a two DVD series focuses on creating the faces and heads of the two fighters, using dynamic silhouettes, rhythms, graphic design and composition principles. Gil stresses the various visual relationships within individual characters while addressing the complementary relationship between the two fighters. Through a methodical process, beginning with a design brief followed by reference gathering, through traditional approaches to silhouette design and ending on detailed orthographic views and expression sheets, Gil shares his thoughts about the design process and its place in the animation production pipeline.

In this DVD, Gil Rimmer simultaneously develops two characters, Francis and Paulo, who are classic pugilists in a fictional turn of the century metropolis. This first in a two DVD series focuses on creating the faces and heads of the two fighters, using dynamic silhouettes, rhythms, graphic design and composition principles. Gil stresses the various visual relationships within individual characters while addressing the complementary relationship between the two fighters. Through a methodical process, beginning with a design brief followed by reference gathering, through traditional approaches to silhouette design and ending on detailed orthographic views and expression sheets, Gil shares his thoughts about the design process and its place in the animation production pipeline.

In this DVD, Gil Rimmer simultaneously develops two characters, Francis and Paulo, who are classic pugilists in a fictional turn of the century metropolis. This first in a two DVD series focuses on creating the faces and heads of the two fighters, using dynamic silhouettes, rhythms, graphic design and composition principles. Gil stresses the various visual relationships within individual characters while addressing the complementary relationship between the two fighters. Through a methodical process, beginning with a design brief followed by reference gathering, through traditional approaches to silhouette design and ending on detailed orthographic views and expression sheets, Gil shares his thoughts about the design process and its place in the animation production pipeline.

In this DVD, Gil Rimmer simultaneously develops two characters, Francis and Paulo, who are classic pugilists in a fictional turn of the century metropolis. This first in a two DVD series focuses on creating the faces and heads of the two fighters, using dynamic silhouettes, rhythms, graphic design and composition principles. Gil stresses the various visual relationships within individual characters while addressing the complementary relationship between the two fighters. Through a methodical process, beginning with a design brief followed by reference gathering, through traditional approaches to silhouette design and ending on detailed orthographic views and expression sheets, Gil shares his thoughts about the design process and its place in the animation production pipeline.