Author: Gaurav Birla

  • A Photoshop Reference: Portrait Retouching

    A video tutorial that takes a look at enhancing portraits using tools such as Liquify, adding catch lights, and skin tone adjustments by the numbers. For more free tutorials, visit www.radiantvista.com!

  • Juicy – 3d Animation Reel

    This is my first proper 3d animation video, made using Maya, Photoshop and After Effects. The video is a take on the very famous ‘Desperate Housewives Season 2 Promo – Juicy’ and has been inspired by a number of sources – characters like Catwoman and Poison Ivy and various music videos. Its cheesy and corny, and hopefully shows the skills I’ve got in using different programs. Visit my website for more info: www.rafis.co.nz Music: Juicy by Better Than Ezra Album: Before the Robots Record: Artemis Records 2005 *This video is copyright Rafi S 2007 and has been created by Rafi Sengupta* *Music edit based on Desperate Housewives Juicy Season 2 Promo*
    Video Rating: 4 / 5

  • Architecture 3D-Animation with VRay for Maya in HD

    All this took just 18 hours to render on one Quad-Core… V-Ray is great! What do you think of that? Comments are more than welcome 🙂 more examples on www.motionfarm.de
    Video Rating: 4 / 5

    Debug animation made in blender with chameleo as main character. This is my first 3D animation.

  • 3D Stereoscopic Mountain Stream, Stormy Sea and UK Snow clips

    These are some test clips done with my new XDCAM EX 3D side by side camera rig. The video here is an anaglyph so dig out those Red-Cyan Glasses to view these clips in 3D. I will be filming more natural wonders throughout the year. Next week I will be in the Arctic filming the Northern Lights, then it’s off to Iceland to film the geysers and Glaciers and in the spring I will attempt to film a Tornado in 3D.
    Video Rating: 5 / 5

    During my visit to Pixar Animation Studios in March, I got to interview Stereoscopic Supervisor, Bob Whitehill who describes himself as the person who gives you a headache when you watch 3d movies. He then went onto explain that hopefully, if he’s done his job right, you shouldn’t be experiencing that headache when watching one of his movies. He talks to us in depth about working with 3d in Toy Story 3. Please note, some small spoilers are mentioned during the interview.

  • Making Anaglyphs in Ubuntu Part 2

    This is part 2 of the anaglyph tutorial, if you are unsure on setting up the taking pictures of an object for use when making an anaglyph then look at part 1 first. – Scripts – (press return after each line) cd Downloads sudo mv script-fu-make-anaglyph.scm -t /usr/share/gimp/2.0/scripts/ -Link- registry.gimp.org Hope this helps! Thanks, Jordan
    Video Rating: 5 / 5

    Make a 3d picture using your friend photoshop. ghghgh123

  • 25 March, 2010 – Worthwhile Workshops

    http://www.luminous-landscape.com/workshops/podas.shtml

    As regular readers know I am taking 2010 off from teaching field workshops – a sort of sabbatical year to concentrate on my own personal projects and travel.

    But I am frequently asked about workshops and seminars that I can recommend. That’s what my Workshops page is about. It provides links to those educators and companies with whom I am familiar, who I’ve personally worked with in the past, and who I can recommend with confidence.

    Two new ones, which were announced today are the Phase One Digital Artists series (PODAS) and also Art Wolf’s lecture series on The Art of Composition, taking place this year in major U.S. and Canadian cities.

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    The new Canon 17mm tilt-shift lens is quite remarkable. I used it with the Hartblei Cam late last year, and was knocked out by its performance.

    Sean Reid at Reid Reviews has recently published extensive reviews of the two new Canon tilt/shift lenses – the 17/4.0 L TS-E and 24/3.5 L TS-E II.  Reid Reviews is an independent review site which accepts no advertising but instead is subscription-based. Recommended.

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    "If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video must be worth a thousand pictures.
     
    Just to let you know that I found your Lightroom Tutorial most helpful in understanding, not only which buttons to push, but the gestalt behind the program.  Especially helpful was the orgainzation.
     
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  • Nikon D700 Review (Dom Bower) and comparison with the Nikon D300 (part 1)

    www.dombower.com This is the first part of a multi video indepth review of the Nikon full frame Digital slr camera the D700. In this part we compare the nikon D700 and the D300 for its shape and size, then also look at the effect on image from going from dx cropped sensor to the full frame sensor. then we look at the effect of depth of field. next video will show iso performance all photos and opinions are of dom bower nikon d700 vd d300 hope this helps in your camera buying. www.dombower.com
    Video Rating: 4 / 5

    Video Rating: 3 / 5

  • Animusic – Pipe Dreams

    This is rather nifty. It’s an animation done to some music, by a company called Animusic (www.animusic.com). The song for this one isn’t as cheesy as most of the other videos they’ve done (though it’s still a little cheesy).

  • 3D Kyoto Higashiyama Flower Lantern Festival 2009

    Stereoscopic HD video of parallel side by side format on The Flower lantern Road Festival held every March in Kyoto Higashiyama District. 2400 Lanterns of both traditional and modern are arranged along with the streets 4.8 km long. Laser and LED lights are also used to illuminate the gardens and buildings of historic temples. Shot with homemade stereoscopic video rig attatched with DOF adapters consisting of 50mm/F1.4 DLR Lenses and Ee-A focusing screen in front of HC3 HDV cameras. Rig photos: v-galleries.com On 22/7/2009 I made change to utilize YouTube 3D function to this already uploaded video. I could not reshape the 3D video format. Specification of yt3d:let/right can not be accepted. Sorry for your inconvenience. To vie HD version: www.youtube.com
    Video Rating: 4 / 5

  • Beauty Retouch: Part 1

    Part 1 of a 5 Part editing series going through a Beauty Retouching Project covering: Removing blemishes, enhancing eyes, skin retouching, enhancing eyelashes, hair highlights and extending the neck. Part 1 covers: Removing Blemishes & Enhancing Eyes.