New CartoonSmart Tutorials!

Okay, finally got my stuff together to release these new lessons after a dry spell of non-newness. Also this month we’re selling two more templates from my old student Tibi. He sells both these templates for quite a bit more on other component/template sites, so he’s really doing us a solid by offering them at [...]

2 Left! Free 250GB Hard drive with CartoonSmart Bulk Purchase

The title says it all doesn’t it? Well almost. I’ve got a couple hard drives loaded with lessons ready to ship out to the next two bulk buyers. You can still download after the order, but you’ll also get a Western Digital 250Gb Passport Hard drive shipped with every tutorial on it.  If you’re interested, [...]

CartoonSmart’s First Component….

…is not even really our component, but it was built by a former student, Tibi from Romania! You might remember his portfolio that was linked up here the other day. Well he and I got to chatting about his components, and he’s offered to let CartoonSmart sell this one for cheaper than usual. Its $10, [...]

Flash CMS: The Sequel! And an Intro to Classes Tutorial!

What a week! Star Trek and the Lost finale are to blame for these lessons not coming out yesterday. Sad right. Entertainment first.
Before I get into the details below, here’s the discount link for this month’s tutorials. Just remember, if you are reading this sometime in the not-so-distant future, that discount page probably will have [...]

Flash CMS! AE Expressions! Missile Game Tutorial!!

These were actually ready yesterday, but since it was the dreaded “worm-attack day”  I figured everybody would be too scared to buy or download anything. But since its a day later, lets get loose again. So here’s the latest newsletter….
NEWSLETTER DISCOUNT PAGE!!
…With a not-as-different-as-I-planned-look. But whatever. I tried a white background, heck I even tried [...]

Flash and CMS course (taught by me) coming soon

Okay, I can’t help but preview this early. Tonight I’m recording the remainder of this lesson in the works, but I wanted to show it off now for those wondering what’s coming up. And to prove I actually still do lessons for the site (after 5 months I really can’t use the “but I have [...]

Many new CartoonSmart videos on Vimeo…

Just added a slew of new tutorial videos to my Vimeo account. You can find them here all. Here’s some detials…
These first 3 are oldies but goodies….
45 minutes from our Titles and Bumper animation course: Vimeo Demo – Full Lesson link
61 minutes from our Four Leg Walk Cycles animation tutorial: Vimeo Demo -  Full Lesson [...]

YouTube, you’re out. Vimeo, you’re in!

Since last weekend I’ve been trying to get all of CartoonSmart’s free & demo videos up on YouTube. First problemo is I can only upload 10 minutes chunks at a time. That’s YouTube’s cap these days for time, which isn’t too cool for the lengthy college-lecture-ish CartoonSmart vids, So I had to break up the [...]

CartoonSmart’s First Photoshop Tutorial!

YES! The site finally has a Photoshop lesson. But why right? I mean everyone already knows Photoshop, don’t they??  Well I thought I did. Or at least thought I was an intermediate level user. WRONG. I got schooled watching this tutorial. And over and over again. It was humbling seeing how little I really knew [...]

New! After Effects Dynamic Text Tutorial released!

After Effects instructor extraordinaire, Jeremy Hicks teaches his latest lesson (he also taught the Arrivals Board tutorial)  This time the theme is on broadcast quality title bumpers, made easy though, by using dynamic text in After Effects. Dynamic, meaning text that is stored in a .text file outside of the actual AE project files. Unlike [...]