[Ron Lindeboom]

I am not sure that I have a favorite AE artist, I respect many.

Here is a link to an an article that really inspired me…

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/oneil_bill/3d_world.php

Amazing stuff. Very original thinking.

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

Also, if you want the posts organized in chronological order, merely set the “View Posts By…” pulldown to the date sort. It is the pulldown menu just below the hosts pictures. Then you will get it sorted by date instead of thread.

Best,

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

[Ron Lindeboom]

Are you looking for Mac, Windows or Linux-based software, Sam?

Best,

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

You are welcome, Russell. We are glad that you find it useful.

Best,

Ron, Abraham and All Them Cows

[Ron Lindeboom]

I clicked the link from both Mac and Windows machines in three different browsers and there are a bunch of articles there, many more than four.

One of your links returned over 40 articles for me, the other was almost as many but not quite.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

We needed one word that covered all of the articles. Tutorials are articles, sorry if that seems confusing to you but they are articles.

Sadly, Abraham has now switched the Articles link to read Library. We talked about this in the beginning but I didn’t want to do it as I am not sure that many of our younger Americans know what a Library is. If the concept of Tutorials being Articles is tough for people to understand, then the Library seems like it will just further complicate the issue. In any case, the change is made and we will see how it plays out in the days ahead…

To understand the logic and simplicity of the Articles interface, if you click the Articles (now: Library) button, the first page you come to contains the 25 newest articles (most are tutorials) along with a list of tool-specific links (in the colored bar area along the right edge of the page) that points to articles related to the specific tool/forum you may be interested in. The list starts with After Effects and goes down the list from there. In the “C” area, there is Cinema4D.

So far, you have had to click one button to get this far — and you have both the newest articles, the list of software- and hardware-specific articles along the rightside, and a list of links at the top that include all video tutorials, author names, etc., along the top to choose from.

All of this in one click.

So, from there, if you wish the Cinema4D-related articles (of which, the tutorials are presented in that sort along with other articles like reviews), you make a second click and there you are.

Not too difficult yet, eh?

So, with two clicks, you are now to the list of all the C4D articles.

If that is complicated, then I don’t know how to make it any simpler.

We have nearly 900 articles in our library now and this is a clear, simple and logical way to get at this incredible wealth of information. What you originally described was Kathlyn’s hand-coded page library that was easy to do when we had so few articles — but things have changed over the years.

There are no perfect answers, only solutions. This is ours.

Thanks for your feedback, it is appreciated and we are talking about possible ways to simply the process even further. Thank you for your ideas and the report.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

Hello zygotesoup,

You can find a number of Trapcode tutorials here at the COW that are found here

They include a few about Shine, some with 3D Stroke and a number that feature Particular.

Best,

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

Try searching out the thread just a bit lower down the page on the same subject, Dave. It explains factors that can cause this.

It’s good to see one of the “old names” visiting again, Dave. You go all the back to the beginnings of the original site long ago. We’re glad to see that you are still around doing business, Dave. As you know, many aren’t.

Hope all is well there in Florida,

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

Hi Barry,

I was aware that Matsushita was the larger company but was using their camera/broadcast divisions as comparisons as most of the parent corporations mentioned are so big that most of the people that work at them probably have no idea that the camera divisions even exist.

I remember once reading a business magazine many years ago that talked about Matsushita having a 500 year plan. As I read it, I thought it had to be a joke but it wasn’t. Most companies have a one, five and ten year plan. This is a company on a whole other level. ;o)

Have fun,

Ron Lindeboom