Hi folks-

OK… Another tutorial for you – Episode 10: Creating Traffic Patterns.

Click on the image to see the example video.

In this episode, I’ll show you how to create a realistic traffic pattern backdrop – great for a scene in which the camera overlooks a low lying, but developed area – perhaps looking down from a high hill onto a residential neighborhood.

You can watch the tutorial here.

I use Planespace and Text Anarchy to get this effect. And, as always, we’re giving a discount on the products I use in the tutorial – you can get that here.

Hi folks – new episode of RGTV is ripe and ready to go.

In this episode, I’ll show you how to turn your video into an animated watercolor painting, and shares some techniques in varying the look and color. You can watch it here.

The tutorial uses ToonIt – a great plug-in for creating a cartoon look – which if you watch the tutorial, you’ll find out how I am wholly responsible for it’s creation as a video plug-in (OK, that is a gross exageration, but I did have SOMETHING to do with it).

Don’t forget, you can get 35% off ToonIt just for watching.

You may have noticed it, but one of my favorite Red Giant Products, Magic Bullet Looks, was used in the Oscar-nominated film, “The Curious case of Benjamin Button.”

“One of the scenes in [The Curious Case of Benjamin Button] is a fable told by Cate Blanchett. We were looking for ways to set this scene apart and decided to give it an old movie look, since it’s a movie-within-a-movie. To that aim, we settled on treating these shots with Magic Bullet Looks. The final version that appears in the film was processed through [Adobe] After Effects where we ‘baked in’ the effect. There are also a few other scenes throughout that received a little Magic Bullet love,” said Angus Wall, editor of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Read full article here: http://www.videography.com/articlefeatures/58904

So, in summary, yes, it’s true: Magic Bullet Looks makes Brad Pit look really really really good. With out MB,  he’d just look really good.

Oh, and while we’re on the subject, you can find some great tutorials that use Magic Bullet Looks  here.

Retooled, Revamped, and Now Released into the Wild

Save 35% on the five former Digital Anarchy video plug-ins. Watch our video to learn more! Sale ends February 20, 2009 at 11:59  PM PST (California). To find out when the sale ends in your time zone,visit the World Clock web site.

Visit: Retooled Sale Page

In this episode, I’ll shares some tips for simplifying and working with 3D compositions. We’ll also get look at at some cool tools designed to easily distribute layers in 3D space, and that help create complex 3D shapes.

Watch the tutorial here.

Hi folks -

We’ve been hard at work updating the RGTV site, and as you can see, there have been a lot of changes.

But “Version 1?” you ask. “I thought this was version 1!” Actually it was Red Giant TV Beta. So here we are with our official launch.

Here’s what’s new:

1. Episode RSS: Subscribe directly to the episode RSS feed to immediately learn when there’s a Flash streaming video available in full screen (1024 x 768)

- Learn more: http://feeds.redgiantsoftware.com/redgianttv/

2. Commenting: Comment on tutorials, and interact with the host and other viewers on each individual tutorial page

- Read the Red Room Blog: http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/blog/

3. Podcast RSS: subscribe to the podcast RSS feed, and have the tutorials directly downloaded to your iPod or computer

- iTunes RSS: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=304284344

- Podcast Feed: http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/videos/redgianttv/podcast/feed/

A special sale on five terrific products is coming on Tuesday, February 10. Red Giant Software is celebrating the re-launch of some old favorites.

Which Products? Wait and find out.

You can bet I’ll be making tutorials on them though. Just you wait and see…

OK, the bad news first – no new episode this week.

But now the good news:

The reason we’re not releasing an episode is because we’re devoting all of our resources this week to make major changes to the site and RGTV as a whole. When those changes are complete it will include a lot of good stuff you’ve been asking for. But that’s all we’re saying… So hang in there!