Illustrator is a vector graphics creation software for print media and web, allowing the user to produce World Class Illustrations with 16.7 million colors.
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Creative tools for Print Media Output.
Sophisticated Web Graphic Tools.
Special Effects to Images.
Versatile Transparency Capabilities
Dynamic Media Projects
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Complex and High Quality Output.
Logos.
Libraries.
High Quality Illustrations.
Creating Banners, Posters, Handbills etc
CORELDRAW
CorelDRAW is a Vector graphic software, allowing the user to produce World Class Illustrations with 16.7 million colours.
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WithCorelDRAW you can create Illustrations from scratch, enhance the Designs, use and embellish scanned Photos of your Digital Art, and send your finished work out in many ways.
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Vector-based drawing Program with extensive text handling and precision-drawing features.
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Ideal tool for virtually any design project from Commercial Art to technical illustrations, advertisements, publishing and Internet publishing.
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Full-color Design Illustrations.
Complex Design Drawings.
Commercial Art.
Photorealistic Design Images.
Surrealistic Images.
Animation sequences.
Libraries of Designs.
High-quality drawings from low-resolution originals.
Web page designing.
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3D - STUDIO MAX
3D Studio Max is a tool from Kinetix for making 3D Models and Designs and also to create simple as well as complex 3-Dimensional Animations.
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Mechanical 3D Modeling and Rendering.
Architectural drawings and layouts of all kinds.
Interior design and facility planning.
Line drawings for the fine arts.
Using 3D-Studio Max, is an important part of communicating with the drawing community.
Achieve impressive presentations by simply souping up your 2D drawings and presenting them in dynamic views.
Gain a competitive edge by taking the time to build full 3D drawings.
A new paradigm for Design Visualization.
3D Studio Max is much more than just a form creation tool.
3D Studio Max software gives you the freedom to experiment and race ahead with your ideas and Imaginations.
Photographic & natural backgrounds made by yourself to create extraordinary environment.
The Special effects & extra lighting effects to make the environment much more vibrant.
Integrated Keyframe Animation. Subtle Visual Effects - Visual effects are available like fog, atmospheric effects, volumetric lighting and the effect of fire to help make, your Project Powerful and Natural.
Powerful Materials Editor - Simple materials with full control of color, textures shininess, strength of shininess, self-illumination and opacity are built-in.
Rich Lighting Tools - Quick, precise control of lighting effects.
Nondestructive Booleans and Lofts Merging outer Scenes or Film Clips with the Project made in 3D Studio Max.
Completely Redesigned Documentation and Tutorials.
Auto Back Light - Automatically position the sun for any day of the year, any time of day, any position on the earth, or any angle true north relative to your model.
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Create 3D Models and Render them into Images or Movie Clips.
With Autodesk 3D Studio Max, you can create High resolution, True-colour Image files in Industry standard file formats for Corporate Presentations, Broadcast Graphics, Interior designing, Walk-through Views, Design & Development.
Enhance the look of your interiors with special effects.
Give a Realistic look to your interiors as well as to your Architectural Designs.
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Charater Studio & Modelling
Character Studio 3 is the latest release of the powerful extension to 3ds Max the world's best-selling professional 3D animation and modelling solution. Character Studio 3 provides more ways to build and refine characters than any other product, including groundbreaking new tools for creating crowds. Now you can quickly animate a school of fish, a swarm of bees, or collection of humanoid characters.
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Can quickly animate a school of fish, a swarm of bees, etc.
Can retain total control over how each individual of a crowd interacts with its fellow creatures, the terrain, any dangers or opportunities in the environment.
Physique is an incredibly fast skinning system, allowing you to create flesh around the biped bones amazingly quickly.
Provides a uniquely rich palette of tools for motion capture, free-form animation and footstep animation.
Provides a high quality, cost-effective way to populate your 3ds Max worlds with characters that walk, run, jump, and move with incredible personality.
Inverse Kinematic pivot points for smooth, natural hand and foot movements.
An interactive skinning system Powerful new Motion Flow Editor features for accelerating non-linear animations.
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Character Animation
Advertising Cartoon films.
Training Programs for Corporate presentations.
Morphing.
Titling.
Sound addition.
Character animation.
Special effects in films
MAYA
Maya is the world's most powerful 3D animation and visual effects software for the film, video, broadcast, game development, interactive, and location based entertainment markets.
Maya Basics
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Maya Advanced
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ADOBE AFTRE EFFECTS
Adobe After Effects software delivers a comprehensive set of tools to efficiently produce motion graphics and visual effects for film, video, multimedia, and the Web
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After Effects.
New in After Effects 6.0.
Animation and Motion Graphics.
Formats that After Effects Produce.
After Effects Differ from Photoshop.
After Effects Different from Avid, Final Cut Pro, and Premiere.
After Effects Different from Adobe Flash.
Compositing.
To Get Video Content into AE.
Tools Need Besides After Effects.
More About Animation, Video, and Compositing.
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After Effects offers unparalleled integration with Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator to produce professional results.
Control the compositing environment while working in a 2D or 3D with this tool
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Create motion graphics.
Unbelievable visual effect for films film, video, multimedia.
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Flash & ActionScript
Adobe Flash multimedia applications that allow designers and developers the freedom to create rich and engaging applications, presentations, animations, and web sites.
ADOBE FLASH with ActionScript
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Adobe Flash CS3 multimedia applications that allow designers and developers the freedom to create rich and engaging applications, presentations, animations, and web sites.
FINAL CUT PRO
Final Cut Pro is a professional non-linear editing system developed by Apple Inc. that has found popularity amongst independent filmmakers and Hollywood film editors alike. The program has the ability to edit many digital formats including, SD, HDV, HD, Panasonic P2, Sony XDCAM, 2K, 4K, and IMAX film formats. The system is currently only available for Mac OS X version 10.4.9 or later.
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Broad Format Support:
Final Cut Pro 6 lets you edit virtually anything with the highest possible quality, including camera-native editing of leading SD and HD formats. Work with DV one day, then HDV, XDCAM HD, DVCPRO HD, or uncompressed HD the next. Or use ProRes 422, Apple’s new post-production format, for uncompressed HD quality at SD file sizes.
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Incredible Real-Time Effects:
Add visual interest to any production with the rich set of effects and visualization tools built into Final Cut Pro 6. Experiment freely and iterate quickly. You’ll see the results of your changes in real time as you work, with no need to waste time waiting for renders.
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Comprehensive Editing Tools:
The faster the tools, the more time you have to be creative. Final Cut Pro 6 makes it easy to edit quickly, accurately, and flexibly. Everything you do in Final Cut Pro — from editing and trimming to audio mixing to finishing to delivery — feels like second nature, so your creativity can flourish
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TV Channels
Production Houses
Multimedia Companies
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ADOBE PREMIERE PRO
A powerful tool for professional digital Video Editing Designed for video professionals, Adobe Premiere Pro software spans the world of broadcast and online media. Thanks to its elegant interface and superb editing tools, you can work with complete efficiency, control, and flexibility to produce broadcast-quality movies for video, film, multimedia, and the Web.
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Digital video & sound, hence eliminates transfer losses.
Edits video & multimedia movies in standard formats like AVI, MOV, RAM, MPEG etc.
Creates Movie titles and graphics.
Super imposes titles and graphics, animation on video and film.
Adds transition and special effects.
Uses digital filtering for special effects in video & audio tracks
Exports projects to video tapes.
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Multimedia presentations on any subject.
Film editing with special effects and movie making.
Movies and Video Clips for Online presentations and distribution.
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SOUND FORGE
Sound Forge is a world class Program used for Sound Editing, Compression, Special Effects and to super impose sound on video presentation and animation.
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You can Record Sound and then edit it.
You can superimpose the sound files on Video presentation and Animation.
You can compress the sound files.
You can give Special Effects to the sound files.
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Sound forge is used by various professionals from the Music and Sound Industry such as Musicians, Sound Editors, Multimedia designers, Game designers, Studio engineers etc.
Script Writing
Basics of Direction:
Imagination power, Artistic identity, Visualization, Screen language Treatment and direction department.
Production:
Fundamentals of film and video camera, lighting, shot division, taking of shot and scene, dialogue delivery, que sheet, costumes, movement of artists camera, dummy and miniature shooting, croma, shot composition, montage, resolution and climax, flash back, special effects and MORE.
Idea to Screen:
The complete process of film Making in Power Point presentation Idea to Screenplay - Pre production - Production
Postproduction
Pre-production: Principals of script writing, directors script, aesthetics of script, story structure, audition of artists , location hunting, schedule of shooting, script break down, story boarding, budgeting, screenplay, erection of sets properties of set and the creative team, permits, hiring staff and crew.
Practical Sessions in Script writing:
Concept Synopsis Story line Screenplay Dialog
Storyboard
Principles of Script writing:
Structural concepts of screen writing Story genres, Three act structure, Plot points, Scene description and Narrative treatment. Film appreciation and Analysis Visualization Script development Script analysis Screen play writing Character development Dialogues writing Story board writing Script editing and format Script terminology
(Fades, dissolves, cuts, angles, framing etc )
Script for New media
(Cable, Internet and direct to video)
Direction Film(Film and Video)
Post-Production:
Fundamentals of linear and non linear video editing, sound recording and dubbing, titles, release prints.
Direction:
Direction as an Art
The Job of Director
Working with Creative crew. Like Writers, Actors, Music Directors, Signers Director of photography, Designers etc.
Working with Technical crew - Cinematographer, Sound recordist, Editor, Art Director etc.
Advanced Technique:
Frame size, camera angle, fundamentals of 3D Animation,After effects, body language, gesters and movement, continuity, rehearsal and directing actors on set, film length, film analysis and film reading..
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- Practical- A Project
Practical Sessions In Direction:
Types of shot Taking - purposes of shots
Camera movements
Five Shot continuity
Screening of Model Films to understand the grammar of film making
Screening and Analysis of exercises shot in workshop