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SHAKE TUTORIALS
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Link 2 - make sure to click uploads then search Shake to see all the Shake videos. There are also Motion videos here.
Link 3 - Creative Cow
Link 4 -Creative Crash
Link 5 - Shake manual PDF
Link 6- vxftalk.com

Link 7 - creativecash Macros and Plug-ins for specific looks
Link 8 - more macros

MOTION TUTORIALS
Link 1

Copyrights
link 1 - arts law
link 2 - US copyright law
link 3 - Copyright in Visual Arts
link 4- Copyright Basics for Visual Artists
link 5 - US Copyright Basics
link 6 - Fair Use
link 7 - Fair Use on Wikipedia
link 8 - CREATIVE COMMONS

History of Special Effects and Compositing:
Milestones in Film History:
Greatest Visual and Special Effects and Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI)

Unresolved Bugs in Shake

Free 3D Software - Blender

Pitch Notes Doc

Software that Helps You get what You Want
please be aware of issues of copyright infringement - see copyright links

Link 1 - ffmpeg  is a Mac OSX graphic user interface designed to easily operate more than 20 powerful Unix open-source video and audio processing tools includuing ffmpeg the "hyper fast" video and auidoe encoder.

Link 2 - Mac The Ripper is a DVD ripper (extractor). It removes CSS encryption, Mactovision protection, sets the disc's region to '0' for region-free, and is capable of removing RCE region checking. It can also copy ARccOS copy-protected DVDs. This is to backup your legally-purchased DVDs onto your hard drive.

Link 3 - VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Link 4 - MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim, and join movies.

Link 5 - MacTubes is a YouTube video palyer and downloader.

Storyboarding for MultiMedia
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example -not acceptable
example- acceptable
example - acceptable
Matrix Example
Storyboard_blank.pdf

Student Links to How to's
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If and when you find more, email them to me at ebach@iaia.edu and I will post them for everyone.

Motion Worksheets
Worksheet #1
Worksheet #2
Worksheet #3 - the real chapter 3 worksheet (the last one was actually ?'s for 4)
Worksheet #4
Worksheet #5
Worksheet #6
Worksheet #7
Worksheet #8

Shake Worksheets
Worksheet #1
Worksheet #2
Worksheet #3
Worksheet #4
Worksheet #5
Worksheet #6
Worksheet #7
Worksheet #8
Worksheet #9
Worksheet #10
Worksheet #11
Worksheet #12
Worksheet #13

 

Shake Chapter 1
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pdf2
pdf3
pdf4

Shake Chapter 2
zip1
zip2
zip3

Shake Chapter 3
pdf1
pdf2

Shake Chapter 4
pdf1
pdf2

 

 

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