When to Consider an NVIDIA RTX Graphics Card

It’s widely held that being an early adopter of technology comes with incredible benefits. NVIDIA itself is a testament to the practice; they became a market leader by bringing state-of-the-art visualization and compute technology to market.

NVIDIA RTX GPUs, which provide the benefits of real-time ray tracing, are remarkable technology that you’ll likely want to harness as soon as possible.

So, when should you begin thinking about upgrading to an RTX graphics card or utilizing it in a new configuration?

When You’re Building for 4K & Next Gen

In the professional world, you’ll want to start taking advantage of real-time ray tracing built into NVIDIA RTX graphics cards if you’re developing modern entertainment products. The ubiquity of RTX’s capabilities is inevitable, and in a developed society that is rapidly pushing for 4K screens as a standard, there’s no room to leave out previously unaddressed details of realism in the imaginary worlds we create.

3D modellers will need to bring an unprecedented level of realism to movies and games both in the current generation and the next; animators will have to begin working with real-time, hyper-realistic lighting effects as well, and many will have to rethink their workflows to compensate for an even greater number of considerations when setting up environments and scenes.

Equipping workstations with NVIDIA RTX GPU will enable teams to start constructing workflows that integrate enhanced realism so that when next-generation home gaming systems emerge, professionals will already be taking advantage of the incredible capabilities of real-time ray tracing.

When Your Industry Demands It

4K resolution and unparalleled realism in lighting and colour will become the standard for home entertainment faster than ever before. That’s because our exponential acceleration of graphics technology and always-on update capability has allowed us to spread even minute improvements in technology nearly instantaneously.

If you’re a creative professional, your directors and clients will be expecting you to work with the latest technologies and continue meeting tight deadlines with ever more complex projects. Luckily BOXX is ahead of the competition and is already building workstations that bring you the wonders of NVIDIA RTX GPUs. Read more about it and take a look at what we have available.

Animated titles within media projects are almost a given, especially at the level of output that video production studios are expected to meet or exceed. It helps to have a few tricks stored away to generate impressive titles with minimal time and effort when client demands increase.

Beginner 1. Minimalistic Title Animation 2. Corporate Title Animation 3. Title Animation That Follows Video Shots

Intermediate 4. 3D Corner Text Title Animation 5. Write on Title Animation. Perfect for Travel Videos. 6. Dots to Lines to Letters Title Animation

Advanced 7. Glitching Title Animation 8. Kinetic Typography 9. Dynamic, Rhythmic Typography

1. Minimalistic Title Animation

This tutorial will help you create modern and clean animated titles for the minimalist video. There’s also a handy tip in this one about how to make sure that, when you’re resizing a shape, you don’t have any issues with the scaling of the shape’s edges.

2. Corporate Title Animation

Brush up on two different corporate title animations. The video is very similar to the minimalist title animation tutorial, however, the second animation starting at 8:12 covers a corporate info title that’s more text-heavy, left aligned, and has different movement patterns.

3. Title Animation That Follows Video Shots

Discover how to create call-out titles that follow the movement of an object in a shot or video. The title essentially looks like it’s connected to the object and a true part of the video as opposed to being an effect laid on top.

4. 3D Corner Text Title Animation

Create text that goes around the “edge” of an imaginary shape and rotates like a 3D object. This title is perfect for effects creators and animators who haven’t yet entered the world of 3D.

5. Write on Title Animation. Perfect for Travel Videos.

You’ll learn a few things in this tutorial by Motion Array. First, how to write on an animated title using your own handwriting, then speed ramping the footage, and finally, adding texture.

6. Dots to Lines to Letters Title Animation

Learn how to create the movement of dots to lines to actual letters. This animation is a little more advanced because you’ll have to start out in Adobe Illustrator to create your letters versus downloading a font.

7. Glitching Title Animation

Glitching is a title animation style you’ll absolutely want to have in your tool kit. This tutorial will teach you how to achieve this animation completely within After Effects so you don’t have to source any footage.

8. Kinetic Typography

What’s trending besides paint brush travel style titles and glitching? Kinetic typography is. Basically, kinetic typography is the coordination of typography with on-screen motion.

9. Dynamic, Rhythmic Typography

A kind of subset of kinetic typography is rhythmic typography. Whereas most kinetic typography is associated with text that reiterates the words being spoken or sung, rhythmic typography is animated to the rhythm or beat of the song underneath. This tutorial is a more hands-on approach that will break down in about 8 minutes how to recreate the example given in the beginning.

There are many more After Effects tutorials across the web. Here we have highlighted a selection that will give you ideas about how to extend your After Effects knowledge.

Learn more about our workflow-optimized After Effects workstations on our Adobe Creative Cloud Solutions Page.

Adobe’s Creative Cloud software makes it extremely possible for nearly anyone to learn a thing or two about communication design. UI/UX (User Interface and User Experience) has become a major forefront of the marketing and selling process. Adobe has gradually made learning its ins and outs more accessible anyone can start learning the Experience Design (XD) software for free.

About Adobe XD

Adobe XD (Experience Design) is a groundbreaking UI/UX application that allows almost anyone to model and design from wireframe outward – going as far as allowing users to prototype them. Adobe’s experience design app is useful not only because of its streamlined UX-building process for current designers but also because it has opened up the forum for newcomers and those in need of incredibly powerful computers to render the files they’ll create. Artboards for various devices allow users to see how their app could look between a series of timesaving tools that honestly changes the game. With XD, Adobe has enabled the belief that, as ideas grow more intricate, so do designs and the overall execution of ideas.

Adobe’s XD CC plan looks to broaden the scope of users through a free basic user plan and upgrades between £9.98 (for unlimited, individual app use) and £49.94 per month for access to all of the Adobe CC apps. While for businesses, the same free plan exists for team members, going up to £25.28 per month for unlimited access to XD and up to £59.00 per month for all-in access. The free “starter” plan is designed for those just testing the waters of UI/UX, granting them 2GB of space plus a single active shared prototype and one design spec.

For Anyone & Everyone

While designing a beautiful app is an incredible feat in of itself, bringing said app to life is the real ticker, Adobe’s free download option for XD makes it easy for almost anyone to add input to UI/UX design.

For automotive designers prototyping and testing their vehicle’s UX and ergonomics, XD’s streamlined, teamwork-enabling software allows for any and all valuable input to be heard, tested, changed and implemented. Apps that allow car buyers to customize their vehicles, learn more about the building process, and compare interiors, parts, mileage, reviews and durability all create a better, more interactive user experience. Because almost anyone can intricately create, design and prototype UI/UX, they’ll need powerful computers to help render and smooth out their designs.

What It Means for the Future

With reports of Adobe smoothing and ironing out the kinks in their XD software, its increased compatibility with other Adobe CC software—namely Photoshop—along with Sketch, users can also play around with multiple artboards and create variations of their choosing in singular actions. Automobile and videogame designers and film producers/editors alike could benefit from this Adobe XD CC, as it allows them to go as far as creating plug-ins for third parties and other accessible features to showcase their brand and test the effectiveness of their user experience.

Those newly utilizing Adobe’s state-of-the-art XD software could benefit from high-powered workstations that easily render, save, and process their work, so as to avoid unexpected shutdowns, buffering, system failures, and many other hair-pulling issues that come with computers lacking the power these brilliant minds need. If these businesses want to stand out, they should begin with Adobe XD CC and reliable software.

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