About this Course
This four-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to deliver Proof-of-Concepts and implement solutions based on the System Center Client Management Suite.

This DVD focuses on the fundamental implementation and functionality of Mental Ray from within Maya. The chapters cover many areas, beginning with an in-depth exploration of the interface of Mental Ray, including the use of MEL scripts to access custom features. Next, you'll explore an initial scene setup using a custom naming script to label files automatically and correctly as they are output. Many other topics are covered in depth, including setting up basic frame buffers, using diagnostics to debug your scenes, various implementations of motion blur including the rasterizer (rapid motion), lens shaders, a custom shader allowing you to blur in post, depth of field, displacement utilizing the latest techniques, including a thorough explanation of ccmeshes (Catmull-Clark meshes) and how to access them from within Mental Ray for Maya.

In Chechnya, an American doctor takes a detour in life when he helps a mysterious woman escape from her would-be assailant.

The year is 8000 B.C. A man wanders across a field of prairie grasses in search of edible berries and roots and wild game to feed his family. As he walks, the tips of the grasses brush against him, releasing seeds. He collects a few of these seeds and brings them back to his camp. Later, he notices that when they fall on earth, they begin to sprout, and a new plant grows.

While human history is usually studied from the perspective of a few hundred years, anthropologists consider deeper causes for the ways we act. In this course, anthropologist Barbara J. King uses her wealth of research experience to open a window of understanding for you into the legacy left by our primate past.

A widower who realized his only connection to his family was through his wife sets off on an impromptu road trip to reunite with each of his grown children.

BFD Big Orchestral Marching Band is a spectacular new expansion pack for BFD 1.5 and BFD2, delivering a heavy payload of orchestral and marching drum instruments to your percussive arsenal.

BFD Big Orchestral Marching Band is a spectacular new expansion pack for BFD 1.5 and BFD2, delivering a heavy payload of orchestral and marching drum instruments to your percussive arsenal.

A detective in the deep South is led into a series of surreal encounters with a troop of Confederate soldiers.

Tells the story of Dante Alighieri's journey through Hell, based on his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy.

Football hooligans organize themselves into firms that represent their favorite team.

A high-powered attorney duct tapes her adulterous husband to the toilet ... right before their home is invaded by burglars.

The seventh installment in Capcom's versus series, this stylish fighting game pits famed characters from the animation studio Tatsunoko Productions against some of Capcom's most familiar faces. Ken the Eagle and Jun the Swan, Ryu and Viewtiful Joe all make an appearance, complete with devastating special attacks and stunning animations. The game features a streamlined, pick up and play control sch...eme that should minimize the barrier to entry normally found in modern fighting games.

A young man having an existential crisis convinces a Canadian self-help guru to come to London and become his personal life coach.

It's the fall of 1969 and winds of a change are blowing across America. But on a remote family farm in the hills of Virginia, a storm of evil has been brewing for years. Now for a group of young people hitchhiking to a rally in D.C., a detour to the nightmare homestead of Staunton's will rip apart their young lives forever. A grisly secret is waiting. The raw terror is growing. And the clan's brutal harvest is about to begin. Kathy Lampkin (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Kiko Ellsworth (Dexter), Cooper Huckabee (The Funhouse), Cristen Coppen and David Rountree star in this extreme shocker from Pittsburgh filmmaker Cameron Robero - son of legendary Night of the Living Dead director Geroge A. Romero - that unleashes a new generation of graphic horror.