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A Word About Mudbubble.

// August 9th, 2009 // No Comments » // Flash

Chris Georgenes Site Mudbubble.com

I haven’t blogged that much about Flash, but now I am working on a new Corn Star and knee deep in Flash.  Chris Georgenes started working with Flash in 1999 and now is an expert in the field.  He is a consultant to Adobe on the program and has a great tutorial there for character designing.  What I like about Chris’ background: he has a fine arts degree, he turned to Flash as a last resort to help bring a project in on a deadline, he’s now an authority in the field.  His approach in the above tutorial helped me to take Brad Goodchild’s design of Corn Star into a Flash reality.  Enjoy the site and his portfolio page.

A Road Map for Photoshop.

// August 3rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Photoshop

For great tutorials and advice about Photoshop checkout: PhotoshopRoadmap.com .  The owner of this site is very passionate about Photoshop.  He has over 9 years- yes that’s 9 years of experience, collecting tips and tutorials to help the novice user.   He’s compiled a list of 64 essential guides and tips, to help you master Photoshop.

Resources for Final Cut Pro: What Happened 2-Pop?

// May 31st, 2009 // No Comments » // Final Cut Pro

For those of you who have been following my blog/podcast you know I am an avid user of Final Cut Pro.(no pun intended) Recently for my podcast I went online to check out 2-Pop.com only to find out it is not as useful as it once was for FCP users.

Apple's Final Cut Pro

2-pop is more of a landing page for Creative Planet to promote their other companies. Yes there are articles and yes there is a forum, but the latest entry I saw was for February. Not an active forum in my book. To focus on the positive; I suggest Ken Stone’s website. He has a large number of tutorials. It is a very zenlike site laid out very clean. Each tutorial is the way I like it so a complete novice can understand step by step. Another resource is the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User’s Group – ok lafcpug.org also done with care and tutorials by experts in the field giving step by step instructions.
However, where is my favorite place to get help with Final Cut well that’s easy: Creativecow.net. I like CreativeCow because their tutorials are video based with the program open and running. This helps by which you can start and stop the tutorial – view it as many times as you like. Richard Harrington is their expert and he does a great job.