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Eat 3D – Autodesk 3DS Max 101
Eat 3D – Autodesk 3ds Max 2011 – CAT, Slate, Viewport Canvas, Rendering, and More
Eat 3D – Autodesk MotionBuilder – Motion Capture Production Pipeline
Eat 3D – Character Skinning – Skinning A Low-Res Character For Animation
Eat 3D – CryENGINE 3 – Vol 1-3 – An Introduction and Application
Eat 3D – CryENGINE 3 Materials – Vol 1-3 – An Introduction and Application
Eat 3D – Live Action in CG2
Eat 3D – LowRes Character Production

Design in Motion is a series of creative techniques featuring short projects using After Effects and CINEMA 4D. Taught by motion graphics expert Rob Garrott, the course covers how color correction, expressions, rendering type, lighting, and animation are used in each program, and the topics are updated weekly. Using these tips and tricks, motion graphics designers will find designing to be a more efficient process. Exercise files are included with the course

Explore and exciting wave of possibilities with the newly enhanced 3D features in Photoshop CS6 Extended. With these new performance enhancements, implementing 3D into your design work has never been easier or more fun! Join Corey as he shows you how to hit the ground running with these newly enhanced and intuitive features. If you haven’t started experimenting with 3D yet, now is the time!

This module will start by blocking out your shot. We will explore the different parameters that are utilized in a Houdini Camera. We will then focus on understanding how to set up lights in Houdini. We will go through point, spot, area, geometry, and sun lights. Finally we will set up Mantra for rendering. We will discuss the differences between Micropolygon and PBR renders.

This Tutorial will show you how to create a Cube Ocean using Cinema 4D’s MoGraph module with some Deformers.

NAIAD Fluid Simulating Volume 2 – Into The Deep
This blockbuster second video release dives deeper into more advanced solution for NAIAD water simulations.

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In this first DVD of our series, Helder Pinto starts by studying the materials and examining reference. He then sets up the scene in CryENGINE and gives an overview of the Material Editor. From there Helder shows how to create a golden material, tinted glass material, shattered glass material, car paint material, velvet material, rubber tire material, and a worn and painted metal material.

In this Professional Series course, we will explore some the techniques and concepts used during the lighting and rendering of our transforming robot project. In Volume 9 of this 'Transforming Robot Production Pipeline' series, we will discuss the techniques that were used and some of the issues that were encountered during the lighting and rendering of this transforming robot project. We will look at how we went about matching the lighting between our CG and live-action elements, setting up our materials and textures, and rendering all of the passes and other information that our compositing artists will be using during Volume 10 of this series.

In this Professional Series course, we will explore some the techniques and concepts used during the compositing of our transforming robot project. We will learn how to deal with issues importing our passes and how to create a missing pass. From there we will learn the basic shuffle and compositing techniques, along with some novel uses of various passes to enhance our composite. We will color correct the foreground and background to match. To ground the vehicle we will create particle effects in NUKEX. Finally we will finish the shot with post effects like flares, lens reflections, lens distortion, blooms, grain, etc. In the end we will have our completed shot in NUKE

In this series of Maya tutorials, you'll learn how to create realistic hairstyles for your characters using Maya Hair. We will begin the tutorial by learning how to create the basic shape and style of our hair with a high level of precision and a minimal amount of effort. We will use paint effects strokes to assist in the styling and creation of our hair, we will learn how to apply dynamic forces while retaining the styled shape of our hair, and many additional topics that will allow you to start creating beautiful hairstyles for your Maya characters.

This Time-Lapse Video by Glen Southern covers the process of Modeling a Demon Dog Head in Cinema 4D R13 using lot of Brush Tool set to Smear and Smooth.

This 30 min Time-Lapse Tutorial will show you the process of Box Modeling a Cartoon Creature in Cinema 4D R13. Unfortunately there is no Audio but it gives a good example of the Modeling Workflow in Cinema4D.

This is a complete tutorial series covering modeling, texturing and mood lighting of a cartoon set, with a little bit of dynamics towards the end to add to the final render. It is a very entertaining beginner project and great if you're new to using Maya. This twelve hour long series comes with the unposed model of the mad scientist and during the modeling tutorial we will build the med lab to create the complete scene.

This process was created by bringing together our top designers, illustrators, modelers, texturers, riggers, animators, lighting and rendering artists and compositors to focus on the specific hurdles and production decisions that goes into each step of creating a transforming robot shot. You'll get a look at the entire production pipeline from the conceptual phase through the composition of the final shot. This series is intended for intermediate to advanced artists and a strong understanding of your preferred choice of software in the various steps of the pipeline is highly encouraged. This series is specifically created to have the techniques be applicable to any industry-standard CG software. If a certain step in the pipeline, software or an equivalent application in the pipeline is new to you, check out our Beginner's Guide and Introduction courses to quickly get up to speed before beginning.

This tutorial will show you how to model a clapboard in Cinema 4D and then label the clapboard with XPresso.

This tutorial by Animation Methods will show you how to use Maya’s depth of field to make you animation look awesome.

In the duration of this course you will be taken through the entirety of a character creation process. This includes all the pre-production work that often goes overlooked such as gathering references, setting your layout, and a look at picking out your colors to compliment each other and lighting your scene.

BOXX and Autodesk present an overview of iray featuring expert insight and analysis from George Matos (Chipman Design Architecture) and Shane Griffith (3ds Max).

In this Maya tutorial we will approach lighting for two scenes with an eye towards efficiency and creative thinking. These lessons will guide you through lighting for sets and characters in two scenes: one interior and one exterior. Lighting and rendering are often the biggest bottleneck for student and independent productions and can grind a project to a halt. In these lessons we'll focus on the tools and techniques that will help your lighting stay lean without sacrificing quality. Along the way we'll learn about the tools, techniques, and terminology used in character lighting