Winter Sports is an arcade oriented 3D simulation of the most popular winter sports, including 9 sports and 15 total disciplines. The challenging yet intuitive controls and the extraordinary pictures of wintry landscapes make it a joy to play. You are placed in the center of sporting events broadcast live around the world. The excitement of this major international competition is portrayed authentically with commentators, TV cameras, and sound background. The exciting multiplayer modes for up to four players provide party fun and long lasting motivation.

In this session,Gary Davis,a Certified Discreet trainer,Challenges the view that many 3D animators have that 3D renders are a finished piece . Instead, 3D render can be seen only as a starting point in a chain of applications such as compositing and editing environments .

Matthew Loel. T. Hepworth, a long-time Cubase user and Steinberg product specialist, will demonstrate tips and coverage of the more advanced topics on working with Cubase 4. Cubase 4, although designed for professional musicians, composers and audio engineers this tutorial covers the newly expanded features, the intuitive interface and integration of external audio and MIDI compatible hardware. You will learn the essential information needed to use this software effectively and this new level of competence will undoubtedly speed up your workflow and your boost creativity. Steinberg Cubase is one of the top digital music creation, audio editing, sequencing, and recording digital audio workstations available to audio professionals today, and this training will ensure that you can effectively harness that power.

This session, led by Mike McCarthy, focuses on using Reactor to create dynamic simulations. There are some things that just can't or shouldn't be key-framed-- with the power of Reactor you don't have to! By giving objects real world properties like mass, elasticity, and friction you can set up a simulation and have Reactor build the animation for you .

The limited edition sketchbook measures 5.5w x 8.5h and includes 28 pages of full color character design ranging from crazy monsters to lost spacemen (and everything in between). In addition, each book comes complete with a 40 minute, region free, progressive scan DVD displaying 6 all new character designs from start to finish.

This session focuses on at least three visual effects shots which use afterburn and pflow. Presented by Allan McKay, this lesson leads you through creating visual effects shots as you would in production, starting with an animated scene and then applying the effects. Examples include having a tornado procedurally tear apart a house, trees and other surroundings as well as pull lots of dirt, rocks and other debris into its base funnel. Another illustrates planes firing at each other showing basic level flocking behaviors while displaying ways to make two pflow sources communicate with one another. Lastly, we'll examine other "Hollywood" effects such as earthquakes. This seminar is considered advanced and focuses primarily on finished and polished shots. Some scripting is used.

"What has cost me millions of dollars and over 30 years to learn, I've now put into a 16-DVD box-set combining my Masterclasses with over 400 specially animated examples." These DVD's are for professionals and students and cover the knowledge of the underlying principles of sophisticated animation which apply to any style or approach to the medium, including computer, classical, games, stop motion and internet animation. The Animator's Survival Kit - Animated is about how things move, and specific work methods used to make characters live, breathe, think and give a sustained commanding performance. Williams demonstrates his points with drawing, performance and over 400 specially animated examples - many from his best-selling book.

Led by Ted Boardman, this session is designed for users who have mastered the fundamentals of 3ds max materials and maps but need to coax more from the Material Editor to create convincing images and animations. Whether you're an artist or designer, you will learn methods that will increase your productivity and the richness of your images.

In this session, Ted Boardman unlocks the secrets of lofting that allow designers and artists to take advantage of one of the most powerful modeling tools in 3ds max. If you could use more flexibility in modeling and need to make frequent changes during the design process, this class is for you.

"What has cost me millions of dollars and over 30 years to learn, I've now put into a 16-DVD box-set combining my Masterclasses with over 400 specially animated examples." These DVD's are for professionals and students and cover the knowledge of the underlying principles of sophisticated animation which apply to any style or approach to the medium, including computer, classical, games, stop motion and internet animation. The Animator's Survival Kit - Animated is about how things move, and specific work methods used to make characters live, breathe, think and give a sustained commanding performance. Williams demonstrates his points with drawing, performance and over 400 specially animated examples - many from his best-selling book.

"What has cost me millions of dollars and over 30 years to learn, I've now put into a 16-DVD box-set combining my Masterclasses with over 400 specially animated examples." These DVD's are for professionals and students and cover the knowledge of the underlying principles of sophisticated animation which apply to any style or approach to the medium, including computer, classical, games, stop motion and internet animation. The Animator's Survival Kit - Animated is about how things move, and specific work methods used to make characters live, breathe, think and give a sustained commanding performance. Williams demonstrates his points with drawing, performance and over 400 specially animated examples - many from his best-selling book.