Free HD Video Stock Download Links

My search for free HD video,for few compositing projects ended up in these Quality,Rich and Free resource from web.I thought to share with you.

http://www.stockfootageforfree.com/table/stock-footage/ 

http://worldclips.tv/NewYorkCity.html 

http://xstockvideo.com/?page_id=2 

http://vimeo.com/groups/freehd

http://www.videezy.com/browse

http://www.ignitehd.com/

http://bottledvideo.com/main.html

http://www.pond5.com/Free-Stock-Footage

http://www.vidsplay.com/index.html

16th Hollywood Film Award to Honour The Avengers

The 16th Annual Hollywood Film Awards, presented by the Los Angeles Times, is pleased to announce that writer/director/producer Judd Apatow will be given the “Hollywood Comedy Award”; actor John Hawkes will receive the “Hollywood Breakout Performance Award”; actress Quvenzhane Wallis will receive the “New Hollywood Award”; cinematographer Wally Pfister, A.S.C. will receive the “Hollywood Cinematographer Award”; and Disney and Marvel Entertainment’s The Avengers, directed by Josh Whedon, produced by Kevin Feige and with visual effects from VFX supervisors Janek Sirrs and Jeff White will receive the “Hollywood Visual Effects Award.”

3D without Glasses!

Berlin:The Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute has developed software that can convert stereoscopic content – like that of off-the-shelf 3D Blu-rays – into an autostereoscopic format. The software generates depth maps from the two views of the stereoscopic 3D which are then used to generate the number of intermediate images required for 3D viewing without special glasses – automatically and in real-time!

Project Geppetto-Easily add crowds to 3ds Max scenes

3dsmax usersProject Geppetto is a research project that explores making it easy, fast and fun to add crowds to 3ds Max scenes.The free^* technology preview of Project Geppetto now includes the Evolver character generation technology.

Project Geppetto comes with a set of animations and characters for use in common public settings like sidewalks, hallways, lobbies and plazas. Project Geppetto is the first crowd technology to offer both ease of use and high quality results.

With Geppetto you will be able to

1. Creating believable motion easily
2. Creating the look of any kind of human population or demographic and allowing for cultural influences
3. Creating an efficient framework for interacting with tens of thousands of such characters

DOWNLOAD LINK (Need a Autodesk Login id to download)

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Adobe Touch Apps!

Adobe Touch Apps are a set of creative apps that let you design, edit, and present your work on a tablet. 

Transform images with core Photoshop features in an app designed for tablets

Adobe Ideas is the digital sketchpad app to create vector drawings anywhere.

Adobe Debut lets you present designs and capture feedback on your tablet.

Adobe Kuler lets you generate color themes that can inspire any design project.

Find it here  (Android - Google Play)

Foundation Degree Frame Work by Animation Industry

Skillset has developed this sector  frame work with input from employers in the animation
industry and from those already offering a foundation degree in this area. The purpose of the Framework is to offer guidance to Universities and Colleges wanting to develop Foundation Degree programmes in animation matched to the industry's current and future skills needs. It sets out industry skills requirements, pointers on what should be covered in the course, information about work-based learning and the modes of study preferred by employers.

Please Download the entire pdf from here

Autodesk Combustion Tutorial-Flame Text

Hi all
After a long a very long time I found some time to create a Flame Text animation tutorial in Auto desk combustion.But you have to be satisfied with a step by step pdf. sorry since I couldn't come up with a video.But you can see a video version of the Pdf in my YouTube Channel..
Click Here to Download the Tutorial

Pre-request:You need to have a basic Knowledge of Combustion