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The Ultimate Maya 2009 Resource for Intermediate to Advanced Users If you already know the basics of Maya, now you can elevate your skills with Maya 2009 and the advanced coverage in this authoritative new reference and tutorial. From modeling, texturing, animation, and visual effects to high-level techniques for film, television, games, and more, this book provides professional-level instruction on Maya Complete and Maya Unlimited.

You will start off the pirate ship project by creating Image planes o use as reference to achieve the basic shape and size of our ship using nurbs primitives and nurbs curves. Once we have our ship blocked out we will begin converting into polygons to start adding details to the wood on the side of the ship. We’ll be using a variety of tools and techniques such as split polygon tool, 'move vertices' as well as 'convert to Subdivisions'to have a bit more control over shaping the geometry. We will also do more nurbs curve work to create ropes that hang down from the sails. After are ship model is complete the tutorial switches to preparing the model for texturing.We will then enter the world of UV layouts and will be using a few different options to achieve this called such as automatic map'and planar map', as well as learn how to effectively move any UVs that are overlapped using the tools in the UV editor to obtain a flat map.Once our UV's are finished and we've taken a UV snap shot we then import our snapshot into a paint program and learn how to color and hand paint the ships'surface.

Over the course of its over ten-year history, Final Cut Pro has become the video editor of choice across all levels of video production, from independent filmmakers to episodic broadcast TV and feature film. With the latest release, Final Cut Pro X, Apple has redesigned the application from the ground up — making it more approachable and easier to learn and use, while still providing many of the features professionals need. In this course, Joseph Linaschke takes you through the basics of Final Cut Pro X to get you ready to start editing as quickly as possible. You’ll learn the fundamentals of video editing while also getting up to speed on advanced features like auto shot-detection, keyword ranges, auto color balance and matching, auto stabilization analysis, and much more.

Industry veteran Szymon Masiak has put together over 4 hours of incredible Particle Flow and Autodesk Certified Animation Plug-in AfterBurn 3 training for animators looking to increase their understanding of how these two systems work in concert to produce everything from fiery explosions to drifting clouds. With each effect type, the set up of the Particle Flow system is covered in easy-to-understand, logical steps, and Szymon explains how to make the most of your flows to get the looks you're after.