Online Training Simplified, Organized and Easy Online Videos to Watch!

Written by Siotha on February 29, 2008 – 11:39 am -

Have you noticed how unorganized training sites feel when they have hundreds and thousands of videos. It could take 3 or 4 minutes to get through them. So, Jeremy, my team, and I have been feverishly working on making xTrain better… Just take a look at this quick intro to the site…. (Note: Please login to xTrain before trying the following! It’s free and won’t cost you anything just to sign in and easy to watch the free classes). We’ve worked really hard to make our site logical for the different types of artists – photographer courses are in photography – designer courses are listed in graphic design – internet marketing courses are only in internet marketing sections. How cool is that – we’ve designed the site – so that you choose your training by passion – then by subject – then by topic!


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Motion Graphics, 3-D Animation, Ratatouille Movie Observations

Written by Siotha on January 19, 2008 – 10:45 pm -

Today’s Blog is about 3-D appreciation.  After watching some of the show’s from xTrain, I’ve realized wow there’s alot more to 3-D graphics that I had ever appreciated.  While watching Pixar’s Ratatouille movie with my daughter and my mother, I even noticed it has some really great textures! There are times when the finite details in the Rat’s fur are so detailed and move so fluidly with the transitions that I almost forget that this is a cartoon rather than a dream. Then,  I got to noticing the art direction of the whole  color palettes used in the movie, the scheme is so  synchronized through the movie,  that I forget what shows like Dora or the Mickey Mouse Club house (and their VERY vivid colors) are all in computer graphics. It has taken a little while, but after a year, I’ve finally come to the realization – our 3-D set that movies live with the camera is absolutely genius… It’s like every day that I’ve been in the control room – it’s like watching a major 3-D production live in action…but without the render farms, without the thousands of hours that it takes to produce one minute of a “Pixar” quality film… we do it in mere minutes!

So – here’s my question – for those of you who’ve watched an xTrain show – did you know that our set is Live? As in – none of our backgrounds are done in post production?

Take a look at some of our free classes and give a shout out on your opinion!


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