The Apprentice Magician's Guide to particleIllusion is the most comprehensive set of video tutorials created to teach novice users every aspect of particleIllusion 3.0 Setting up projects, how to use all the tools, and basic emitter creation are all covered on this DVD, along with a healthy dose of tips and tricks that will save you time when creating particle effects.
Hosted by Elvis Deane, moderator of the Creative Cow particleIllusion forum,the video contains 21 lessons and runs for 1 hours and 40 minutes.

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Discover how to turn your digital portraits and panoramas into masterpieces that mimic the oil and watercolor styles of Great Masters like Rembrandt, Monet, and Norman Rockwell. Join internationally renowned portrait artist, Fay Sirkis, as she shares the secrets and techniques behind her signature style of « photo painting » that uses Adobe® Photoshop® and Corel® Painter™X to create beautiful works of art!

One of only a few character animation classes on disc,and possibly the only one to focus on acting, this set is the perfect tool for beginning animators who would like to avoid the pitfalls of being self taught; and for more intermediate animators who would like to improve their ability to add those final touches that truly bring a character to life.

People are always asking, 'How do I make my video look more like film?'..... well for starters, light it like film, that is to say, light it professionally. I have been a still photographer all my life and I can tell you that it is all about light. So many people pick up a camera, turn on auto-exposure, set white balance and start shooting away, totally unaware of the fact that they are neglecting one of the most important elements of composing a scene, lighting. It is lighting that adds mood and character, time and place, depth and tone, light is an actor in your story, a most important actor at that.

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This tutorial is geared for intermediate Maya users. If you're into fun, stylized characters then this tutorial is right for you!. We begin this tutorial by setting up images to assist us in modelling the correct size and proportions of our character.
The modeling techniques used will be shaping in nurbs, converting to polygons to add details and then into sub'ds to define the final shapes. Some of the tools covered in the modelling sections are split polygon tool, cut face tool and sculpt surfaces tool, just to name a few.

Welcome to the first SimplyMaya.com showcased tutorial we hope to release one of these per month. This one is brought to you by Jason Edwards author of the popular internet 3D comic strip Outlaws Tales. Luckily for us Jason has just finished a series for the Discovery channel and has kindly consented to spend some time working with SimplyMaya to bring us a series of new tutorials the first of which we present to you in our new Hi Definition video format.
Simply Maya brings you this brand new 14 part hardsurface modelling and texturing tutorial in conjunction with Outlaws Tales. The tutorial is aimed at people who have an understanding of the fundamentals of Maya , Photoshop and Zbrush.

Autodesk 3ds Max - the market leader in software for three-dimensional modeling, animation and rendering. The program offers more advanced features that meet the growing needs of the creators of three-dimensional modeling and animation, as well as developers of interactive games. The open architecture of Autodesk 3ds Max allows animators to take advantage of more than one hundred connected applications to quickly and easily add impressive effects. Moreover, with the help of Autodesk 3ds Max SDK, they can even create their own application modules, to give an original look to their creations.

Microsoft Visual C# .NET programming is part of the comprehensive tool set for creating XML Web services and Microsoft .NET-connected applications for Windows and the Web using the component-oriented C# development language. VTC Author Brian Maxx will guide you through the starting steps of C# development, as well as moving into more detailed projects as the course moves ahead. This title also comes with plenty of Work Files to use in sharpening your C# programming skills

This is a perfect course about modeling which will show you all the most important functions of poly modeling and a lot of tips and tricks that will help you making your own car in cg. Professional voiceovers made by a native speaker will lead you through all the chapters providing a comfort of learning.

This fantastic DVD will get you up and running using After Effects. It has some great tips and tricks even for those already using the software. See all of the features in five-ten minutes bite size chunks. This is also a useful reminder after hands-on courses.