Welcome to the first Tutorials Tuesday of a brand new year! We've been around the web a time or two to find some more filmmaking tutorials, with a new mix including some motion-graphics ideas for Adobe After Effects, ideas about the basic grammar of drone cinematography, techniques for tabletop shooting, a way to use Houdini particle effects to generate heat waves for your footage, and a quick look at the Use Remote Grades feature in DaVinci Resolve.

Here are the links:

aerials

How to Film Amazing Aerials with Your Drone

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Tabletop Effects

davinci-remote

Use Remote Grades in DaVinci Resolve

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Dots to Lines to Letters in Adobe After Effects

heat

Heat Distortion in Houdini and Nuke

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