what can i learn now.....?

[Ogrus]

I know all i need to know (for what i want to do) about Premiere, AE, Maya, PI, and a few other smaller aplications...
I want to learn something new...
what's out there that is cool?
I was checking out realflow... but...hummm, not really what i want
any suggestions???

[Steve_Arm]

Software is not cool... software is a tool. What you do with it is cool. Every now and then the are different "design trends" going on. That's what you need, keep up with the latest fashion in productionland.

[Ogrus]

But i dont want to learn the trends!!!
I would like to learn studioartist but its only for mac grrrrrrrr

[Alex DePew]

Programs are tools. They are like the sword to a swordsman. You must weild them to perfect your art. You should learn how to do whatever it is you want to do with these programs to a higher degree (i.e. for Premiere you should work on editing until you can make outrageously good edits, for AE you should be able to seamlessly integrate youe AE projects into a film and have it make sense.) Work on the house, not on how to use the hammer.

Or you could pick up Shake.:Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)

[RokMartian]

Hey Ogrus -- I've been playing around with Corel Painter - one of the cool tools is to transform a photo into a painting. You can create water colors, oils, chalk, etc and have a lot of ways to customize the brushes and paper. I use it when I do photo montages and I can crossfade from the photo to the painted version. I am using it to take snapshots in a wedding video and transitioning from a live shot to a "artistic" version of the shot. I plan to use it for the cover for the dvd as well.

Here is an example -- it is pretty crappy, but you can get the idea.
http://www.cfex.com/images/testpaint.mpg (4.7MB)