It doesn’t matter whether you are a designer, a developer, an artist or an amateur learner – at some point you need to improve the quality of the original picture or video. You may want to retouch and enhance his or her photographs and videos, make it look better, more spectacular and more original. It could be for personal or commercial use. Most of us know how to edit and enhance the digital photographs using our favorite image editing software. But when it comes to videos, the techniques are completely different from that of classic image editing. In this post we present best tutorial for visual effects in movies (with Adobe After Effects, 3DSMax etc.) that will (hopefully) teach you how to create impressive videos which can be used for your presentations or websites. Visual effects are used in post production which involves integration of live-action footage and computer generated imagery. You can use it to enhance or manipulate videos, just the way you usually do with image processing tools. Best Tutorials For Visual Video Effects The 007 Intro This tutorial shows you how to achieve the classic introduction of James Bond films using only basic After Effects plug-ins.

Create a MoGraph Urban Jungle Use 3D Match moving to create stunning Urban Jungle effect where vector graphics are perfectly tracked to a city footage.

Energy Create a complex energy scene with CC particle world in Adobe After Effects. Also learn to animate particles in 3D with multiple instances.

Droste Effect This tutorial demonstrates the use of new Pixel Bender plug-in to obtain “Droste Effect”.

Light Streaks This tutorial shows you how to create light streaks inside live action footage

Car Racing Scene Create a scene of cars racing down a road towards camera. This can be added to your car chase footage. Although the title states the use of photographs, it can be also used with your moving footage as well. Part 1 and Part 2

3D Shadows Learn how cast 3D shadows onto live action footage.

Disintegration Build a furious procedural disintegration effect in Adobe After Effects.

Futuristic HUD Create 3D interface display in Adobe After Effects inspired by Iron Man’s helmet.

Underground Blast Simulate a dramatic underground explosion that ripples and dislodges the ground.

Aurora Borealis Learn how to create the Northern Lights.

The Juno Opening Credit Look Adobe After Effects tutorial to create famous handmade juno opening sequence.

Artistic Look Creating an Artistic Look with Minimax and Overlay in After Effects .

Realistic Camera Move with Parallax Need to add realistic camera moves? This tutorial will help you to achieve it. Also you can refer to “Virtual 3D Photos” tutorial to get more deeper into it. “Virtual 3D Photos” tutorial will teach you to create a video footage from photos with “realistic camera move” effect.

Historic Naval Battle Scene This is another tutorial that will teach you how to create a VFX naval battle scene from an ordinary footage.

3D Crater Create a realistic crater into a live footage. This tutorial has been divided into 3 parts - 3D Crater p1, 3D Crater p2 and 3D Crater p3.

Creating an interior scene This tutorial shows you how to make an interior scene using 3dsmax with realistic rendering in Vray. It could be used with your green screen video footage later.

Better Compositing with Particles This tutorial shows you a technique for placing layers inside the middle of a particle system - crucial to truly integrating your CGI effects with your live action footage or motion graphics.

Realistic Car Hit

Old Film look

Particle Half-tone Effect

3D Rain This tutorial will teach you how to turn an aerial video footage into a cold nighttime storm with torrential rain and lightning.

Lightsabers Apple Motion tutorial for creating lightsabers.

Healer Adobe After Effects tutorial to create a realistic self healing effect.

Time Freeze Adobe After effects tutorial to a create illusion of frozen world around a person.

Breathtakingly Awesome Rain Scene Adobe After Effects tutorial shows how to create the dramatic slow motion rain drops falling scene. Part 1 and Part 2

Slow Motion Create a slow motion video footage without use of high speed camera.

Car Light Trails Create car light trail effect in Adobe After Effects with help of 3d stroke effect.

Instant Freeze Adobe After Effects tutorial will explain how to add instant freeze effect to a footage. Also shows how to add camera lens frost over and crack to give it a realistic look.

Futuristic Floating Hologram Effect This tutorial will show you how to make a futuristic floating hologram over a cellphone.

Track Live Video to a Postcard This tutorial shows how to track video to a Postcard using scripts which are freely available. Also shows how to recover highlights from the tracked footage and apply them back over the moving video for a very convincing effect.

Compositing Fog Daniel Broadway shows the correct way compositing fog elements in a video footage.

War scene This tutorial shows you how to create a realistic war movie from a video footage shot using only one actor and a camera man. This is an advance tutorial in which color correction and effects like realistic camera shake and bullets hitting the ground are used to give it a realistic look. Part 1 and Part 2

Soul Removal Create soul removal effect using particle system in Adobe After Effects. This tutorial also shows you to add facial Distortion and handy expressions to make it more realistic.

Object Removal In this tutorial you will learn techniques for removing unwanted objects from the footage.

Body Shatter Effect This shows you how to create a body shattering effect.

Meteor Crash Create ground destruction using 3D Max and Adobe After Effects. Tutorial has been divided into 2 part Meteor Crash 3D p1 and Meteor Crash AE p2.

Simulated Lighting Make explosions and muzzle flash.

CE ColorCorrection Adobe After Effects tutorial will teach you to change the look and feel of your footage easily with Color correction plug-in.

Kamehameha Learn how to make a kamehameha using Adobe After Effects with Trapcode’s Shine.

Day to Night Conversion Tutorial to transform daylight footage to night footage along with artificial lights and illuminate windows.

Bleach Bypass Effect This tutorial shows you how to get bleach bypass look to your footage in Adobe After Effects. You can also have a look at similar tutorial which uses color correction filters available with Final Cut Pro.

Lava from dry field image This tutorial shows you how to create lava from a dry lava field image.

Sky Replacement One of the most useful tutorial for your everyday videos, to fix blown out sky.

3D Eyeball Tutorial for creating a 3D eyeball that can look around the room, using CC Sphere to create a material of the eyeball.

Demon Face Very useful tutorial if you want to create a horor film. You can also have a look at the similar tutorial Vampire fang growth.

Water Drops This tutorial will teach you to create water droplets on the camera lens with DOF.

Old TV Footage Effect

Skin Displacement Simulate the look of bugs crawling under the skin using Adobe After Effects.

Turning to Skittles Tutorial is quite detail (but no explanation) which shows how to create those skittles using 3D Max and compositing it in Adobe After Effects. It makes use of many techniques like rotoscoping, tracking etc. The final output it similar to Hilarious Skittles Commercial. This tutorial is split into two parts Part 1 and Part 2

Sin City look Tutorial for adding sin city look to a footage. This tutorial makes use of Silhouette Roto plug-in.

Blemish Removal You must have gone through several skin enhancement Photoshop tutorials before. But when it comes to video, the technique totally differs to that used for digital photos.

Blood Splatter Learn how to make blood stick to things.

Assisted Suicide Tutorial for compositing digital blood burst and a muzzle flash.

EarthQuake Tutorial to add earthquake effect in a video footage.

Flashback Effect This tutorial shows you how to add flashback look to your footage, like in the film “The Bourne Ultimatum”.

Set Extensions This tutorial will help you to customize or extend a live action set with custom matte painting. You will also learn to link several motion trackers into one null object.

Frosty Breath Create the illusion of cold breath on a warm day.

Orbing and Beaming Effects

Talking Head The fastest way to create talking creatures without the use of keyframes.

Invisible Effect

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Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard when it comes to the creation of vector graphics. Though a very robust tool - the learning curve involved in mastering it can be high. Thankfully, there are abundant resources on the web that allows you to “learn by doing”. Video tutorials (in general) enable the learner to witness – step-by-step – how a particular technique works. We often learn best by seeing how things are done and following along with the instructor (much like in a classroom environment). In this article, we present to you 50 excellent Adobe Illustrator video tutorials. We’ve broken down the video tutorials into several categories that include creating objects, effects, and general tips and techniques. So fire up Illustrator, watch a few of these videos, and hopefully you will have learned a tip or two by the end of your adventures into these Illustrator video tutorials! General Tips and Techniques Patterns and Shapes in Adobe Illustrator This tutorial is based on an advertisement that uses patterns and shapes to create a unique design effect.

Importing and Manipulating Images in Illustrator Learn the concepts of importing and manipulating external images in Illustrator.

Creative Masking Techniques See a method for using complex masking techniques in Illustrator.

Making a Custom Art Brush Create your own custom Art Brush that you can re-use in multiple projects via this Illustrator video tutorial.

Using Kuler with Illustrator This tutorial walks you through the process of interfacing with kuler (a community website for sharing color themes) via Illustrator so that you can easily select your color pallete.

Live Color in Illustrator CS3 Learn about the Live Color option in Illustrator.

Complete Guide to the Pen Tool Master the Pen tool (one of the most used and complex features in Illustrator) in this video tutorial.

All about Masking Learn the concepts of masking in Illustrator in this video tutorial.

Adobe Illustrator Masking Tutorial This short and sweet tutorial will cover the basics of masking in Adobe Illustrator.

Opacity Mask You’ll learn about a technique for performing opacity masking (usually done in Photoshop) in Adobe Illustrator creative selecting with the Marquee tool.

Clipping Masks Learn about clipping masks to streamline the creation of complex objects in this excellent Illustrator video tutorial.

Vespa Speed Trace In this video, you’ll see a method for speed tracing a stock image (in this particular case, a Vespa scooter is used as the reference image).

Offset Path tool Master the Offset Path tool by following along this video tutorial.

Using the Paintbrush Tool You’ll discover the powers of the Paintbrush tool in Illustrator in this excellent video tutorial.

Working with Layers and Groups Understanding layers and groups in Illustrator (which is slightly different in Photoshop) can be a daunting task – but not so if you watch this video tutorial.

Working with Gradients and Blends Learn the concepts and techniques behind utilizing gradients and blends to add graduated colors onto your Illustrator objects.

Select Objects Faster and More Efficiently Maximize your workflow by learning how to select different objects on your Illustrator document in this video tutorial.

Creating Objects Creating an iPod In this video tutorial, you’ll see the process involved in rendering an iPod Nano from scratch using the 3D Effect tool (among other tools and techniques) in Illustrator.

Creating 3D Shapes in Illustrator Utilize the Revolve tool in Illustrator to create a great-looking 3-dimensional shape.

Draw Fluffy Clouds Create an illustrated cloud using the Pencil tool in Adobe Illustrator via this video tutorial.

How to Draw an Eye In this video tutorial, you’ll learn the process of drawing an eye in Illustrator.

Drawing Face Witness a process for creating a vectorized face using a reference photo.

Create a Gear You’ll witness the creation of a complex gear object in this Illustrator video tutorial that involves a variety of techniques and tools like the Pathfinder tool.

Drawing a Gel Progress Bar Learn how to create a stylish progress bar (inspired by the iPod progress bar) using a combination of techniques including the use of gradients and masking techniques.

Create Swirling Rainbows with Ease Create the popular swirling rainbows graphic in Adobe Illustrator by following along this video tutorial.

Make a Fully Vector Metal Help Icon/Button Make a metallic, shiny vector (and thus flexible in scale) icon via this Illustrator video tutorial.

3D Brochure Add a bit of flare onto your print design mock-ups by making them 3-dimensional. This video tutorial shows you how to do it with a brochure, but it can easily be adapted to CD labels, software boxes, and other print design objects.

Watermelon Learn how to render a watermelon in Adobe Illustrator via this excellent video tutorial.

Vector Drawing: “Dog” In this fast-paced video, you’ll witness the steps involved in drawing a dog in Illustrator.

Creating Vector Swirls and Swooshes This tutorial shows you how to create trendy swirls and swooshes using the Pen tool.

Roundtrip Logo from Illustrator to Photoshop Find out the methods of an effective workflow that utilizes the power of Illustrator and Photoshop to create a grungy logo design.

Batman Logo Create the Batman logo via this tutorial that shows you the true powers of the Illustrator’s Pathfinder tool.

Feynman Diagrams Create a Feynman diagram in Illustrator for presentations and reports.

Create 3D Pyramid This Illustrator video tutorial will walk you through the creation of a 3-dimensional pyramid.

Drawing a Nice Vector Golden Badge Award In this video tutorial, you’ll be using a variety of Illustrator techniques including masking and working with the Pen tool to create a gold badge.

Vectoring an EyeBall Learn to vectorize a human eye using a reference photo.

Creating Seamless Pattern You’ll be creating a seamless floral pattern in this Illustrator video tutorial.

Tribal Sun Vector Create a tribal Sun illustration by following along this excellent video tutorial.

Effects Simple Silhouettes in Illustrator CS4 Apply silhouettes onto objects by utilizing the Gradient Mesh tool.

Create Wood Effect Using Gradients Create a wood texture in Illustrator by using the Gradients tool.

Creating a “Firebrush” Logo Make a fiery, fierce abstract logo design in Adobe Illustrator video tutorial.

Brushed Metal Effect Give objects scalable “brushed metal” (also known as “brushed aluminum”) texture by following along this Illustrator video tutorial.

Vector Grunge Patterns and Distressed Text Give text a distressed/worn effect via this Illustrator video tutorial.

Creating Glass, Shining, Reflective, and Vector Text Go Web 2.0 in Illustrator by creating this sleek, shiny, glossy text effect.

Creating Comic Book Style Text Give your text a comic book look-and-feel by following along this video tutorial.

Creative Background Effects In this video tutorial, you’ll learn how to create abstract backgrounds/textures in Illustrator.

Abstract Vector Background Create a stylish vector background by viewing this excellent Illustrator video tutorial.

Adding Texture You’ll learn how to give your vector objects some texture in this video tutorial.

Create Intricate Patterns Learn to create complex patterns in Illustrator via this detailed and highly-involved video tutorial.

Creating Vectorized Shining and Sparkling Heart Artwork and Icons Make a vector heart piece by following along this wonderful Illustrator video tutorial.

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