Building and detailing environments can be a time consuming process. To finish your models, you might need to create texture maps, either derived from photos, procedurally generated or hand painted. Adding higher resolution detail, like bricks or stone, to your interior and exterior models can be challenging as well. ZBrush can make this process a little bit easier. We'll start by creating a seamless brick texture that we can apply to our geometry. We'll look at using the Projection Master to quickly add detail to our models. We'll use Noise to interactively dial in some specific patterns, like a knockdown wall texture. We'll also look at building individual elements using primitive geometry that we can then append to our model. Once you're done, you'll have a better understanding of some of the tools you can use to detail your environments in ZBrush and a few ideas to get you going.

Sometimes the background in a photograph gets in the way. While you could take a photo and remove or mask out the background in a graphics program, it can often be a tedious and time-consuming operation. There is an alternative: Hemera Photo-Objects. A Photo-Object is simply a photograph of an object with the background removed. It’s also a world of design and composition possibilities.

Photo-Objects provide access to thousands of objects with transparent backgrounds — a great time-saver. There are currently half-a-dozen Photo-Objects collections. With Volumes I & II you get a combined total of over 100,000 images in dozens of categories. A printed catalog comes with each package. These collections are both affordable and flexible and are available for both the Windows and Macintosh platforms.

Thomas Bitler a professional bartender 11 years at the Waldorf Astoria in NY presents the magic of mixing drinks and explaining how to professionally create 50 of the most popular drinks cocktails and non alcoholic cocktails, at home. You will learn what you need in your drinks cabinet, how to create a Bartender station, type of glasses, garnishes and presentation as well as the specific ingredients for every drink.

Wood is one of the oldest and most versatile building materials. In addition to its superb qualities as constructional timber, today wood is also popular because of its warm and natural look.

The manufacturing of wood veneers takes great skill as well as experience. Similarly, the creation of textures out of such veneers is a very time and resources consuming task. The use of a newly developed scanning process made it possible to digitize large veneered panels in high resolution while avoiding the problem of surface reflection. The thus obtained 4GB of raw data per wood species were then processed into high-quality textures using our tried and tested map creation techniques.

KOMPLETE 6 brings together seven cutting-edge products that no studio should be without. Containing groundbreaking and multi-awarding samplers, synths, guitar/bass amps and creative effects, this collection represents Native Instruments' most powerful software tools.

From hip-hop to film scores, pop to techno, rock to classical and beyond – KOMPLETE 6’s 7,000 presets and 60 GB of samples have it all covered. Everything from dirty synths to heavenly choirs, pounding drums to full orchestras, subtle pads to screaming leads – it’s all ready to play in premium quality.

Combining spectacular Hollywood-style stunts with a gripping storyline, Wheelman provides an adrenaline-fueled, cinematic thrill ride guaranteed to leave you breathless. Vin Diesel stars as an undercover agent and highly skilled driver who must infiltrate the Barcelona underworld to gather intelligence surrounding a covert heist. Posing as a driver-for-hire, he ends up caught in a crossfire of corruption and chaos while trying to stay one step ahead of local law enforcement and rival gangs.

FIFA MANAGER 10 - World Cup Mode is an update for FIFA MANAGER 10 that lets the user enjoy the thrill and atmosphere of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. Do you have what it takes to become manager of the football champions of the world?

A full 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa play through just takes between 20 minutes and 3 hours depending on the user's style of play. It is an ideal game mode especially for novice football management players.

2DArtist Magazine will focus on techniques, tutorials, interviews, articles, project overviews and galleries. We will have news and reviews too but we find that these topics are best covered by the online news and CG sites that thrive on daily updates. Our magazine will focus on becoming more of a timeless resource for artists to turn to again and again whether you view it from your screen or choose to print it off.