Five videos reveal the secrets of the masters. King of Skulls, Rich Evans demonstrates the technique of execution drawing on bits and pieces of large-scale vehicle.
The whole process of sanding and polishing to matting and mounting.

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In this first of two DVDs, Cameron Davis discusses character design at its most fundamental. He begins with basic design theory, color and shape, and shows how to use them to visually tell a story with a character. Beginning with a loose story, Cameron takes you through his thought process when designing for games or animation. From brainstorming to loose sketching, reference gathering and silhouette studies, Cameron shows all the stages of ideation and ends with a finished line drawing that is ready for color.

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Highly recommended set with over 7 hours of easy to follow step-by-step instruction from Daniel Power. An airbrush DVD set that has been acclaimed by Professionals and novices alike. Daniel is an internationally acclaimed Airbrush Master, Daniel owns and operates a highly successful commercial air brush studio in Melbourne, Australia which includes several large international clients. Daniel has exhibited and worked extensively overseas and conducts air brush classes in Europe, America and Asia.

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This DVD takes you step by step through the entire painting process answering all questions as you go and showing you how its done no guess work. All figures were fantasy type figures trolls, hobbits etc. Jeremie Bonamant Teboul uses GW paints as he states it is his preference. He went onto state this is not a deffinitive instruction as every one has their own style, use what he shows you with a provebial grain of salt.

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Like most CartoonSmart visitors you probably think of yourself as at least an intermediate Photoshop user, because at a basic level it is a very intuitive program and easy to teach yourself. But a bad habit that many self-taught users fall into is relying too much on Filters when they need to do something visually complex (and that includes yours truly, the author of this course summary) So this course dives right into plenty of advanced techniques you probably haven't ever seen used.

Autodesk Mudbox is one of the industry standard digital sculpting and texturing applications. From concepting, lighting, special effects previews and painting, artists can create compelling content for a wide variety of industries. Mudbox provides digital artists a wide variety of sculpting and painting tools, stencils, stamps and presets for lighting and materials. Professional illustrator, television animation art director and writer Dwayne Ferguson shows you how to get the most out of this powerful 3D content creation software. Learn the interface, sculpting and texturing and more. Work files are included.

Begin creating particle simulations in Maya with over 3 hours of comprehensive training. Ideal for new and beginning users.

Scott Kelby, Editor of Photoshop User magazine, once again brings to life some of the most popular special effects, the latest techniques, and the coolest tricks from the magazine's . This time around, Scott is joined Dave Cross, Matt Kloskowski, and Corey Barker to give you 3.5 hours of nonstop tutorials, who add into the mix their favorite tricks and techniques.

At Digital-Tutors, we've found that many students starting out in modeling have difficulty in creating the specific vision they have. In many cases it's not necessarily a lack of knowledge of the tools as much as it is a lack of confidence and experience. So, to give you a head start on your modeling, we've put together a number of tips collected from production and from teaching students that will help you build the best models you can with minimal frustration.

In this course we will explore the Maya Fur menu set and all of the advanced features tucked away in them.
We will learn things like how to control your render settings, shadows, use the Maya Hair system to add dynamics as well as how to render fur using mental ray. This is a perfect course for those of you using fur in production and want a refresher on the different menus as well as those of you touching Maya Fur for the first time. This is a second part of a two part training course. We'll build upon what we covered in the first course. You are welcome to start here but I would recommend you complete the first course as a pre-requisite.

In this course, we will guide you through the 12 Principles of Animation in 3ds Max.
Why does my character's motion look so unnatural and unappealing? How can my animations captivate an audience? What is missing in my character's movement that will enable it to be more convincing and entertaining? These are a few questions that will be answered throughout this training, all with the help of the 12 fundamental rules of animation. Principle by principle, we'l venture through understanding the meaning behind each question asked above, as well as how each can and should be implemented for success. By the end of this course, you will have the knowledge you need to create magnetic, natural, and memorable character performances.