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What is Optical Flares?
Optical Flares is a plug-in for designing and animating realistic lens flares in After Effects.

Featuring:
? 3D Lens Flares with AE Lights
? Intuitive Design Interface
? Live Visual Preset Library
? Real Texture Support
? Dynamic Triggering Animations
? Chromatic Aberration
? Up to 32 bpc color support

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Dosch HDRI Skies

High Dynamic Range Images – or HDRI for short are the lighting technology for truly realistic 3D-Design.

The extra illumination info of a scene which is wrapped into the HDRI-surround image gives your radiosity-scenes a new degree of realism.

The product line Dosch HDRI offers the user a high-quality and comprehensive library of HDRI effects for the direct use in high-end 3D-Design and animation applications.

This technology saves the 3D-designer from elaborate manual definition of multiple light-sources and also from lengthy experimenting with color choice and light-volume. The HDRIs also contain the information whether there is a direct light-source (e.g. sun, spot light) with defined shadows – or a cloudy sky/neon lights with diffuse light and “soft” shadows.

But also the color spectrum of the real scene (environment) has great effect on the virtual, rendered object or scene. The color of things (e.g. trees, gras, forest ground) in the surroundings for instance will impact the appearance of the rendered 3D-model … likewise will the fiery red-tone of a sunset cloud create a realistic mood of such an event in reality.

56 HDR-Images of various sky-moods are provided in the most widely used formats:

Light-Probe (Angular Map)
Spherical Map (Latitude-Longitude)
Vertical-Cross
Horizontal-Cross

All HDRIs are license-free and can therefore be used without any additional cost in all* commercial productions.
(* view License Agreement)

Radiosity – and therefore the use of HDRIs is directly supported in many 3D-applications like 3dsmax 6, VizRender 2005, Viz 2005, Lightwave (version 6.0 and higher), Softimage|XSI, Bryce 6, Maya & Mentalray, Pixar RenderMan, Autodesk VIZ4, messiah:render (Arnold), InSight (Integra), 3ds-max & VRay, 3ds-max & Brazil r/s (Splutterfish), 3ds-max & finalRender (Cebas), Cinema4D Version 8.1, Vue5, Lightwork Render System and many more.

High-resolution HDRIs:
The HDRIs of this collection (V1 content) are provided in the following resolutions – and are therefore also perfectly suited for background use.
Light-Probe – 2048×2048 Pixel
Light-Probe Small – 512×512 Pixel
Spherical Map – 2048×1024 Pixel
Vertical Cross – 2048×1536 Pixel
Horizontal Cross – 1536×2048 Pixel
Format: .hdr (RADIANCE Image Format)

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Maya Studio Projects: Dynamics
The only hands-on book devoted to mastering Maya’s dynamics tools for water, wind, and fire

In the world of animation, the ability to create realistic water, wind, and fire effects is key. Autodesk Maya software includes powerful dynamics tools that have been used to design breathtaking effects for movies, games, commercials, and short films. This professional guide teaches you the primary techniques you need to make the most of Maya’s toolkit, so you’ll soon be creating water that ripples, gusting winds and gentle breezes, and flickering fires the way Hollywood pros do.

The one-of-a-kind book is completely project-based. Learn the intricacies of Maya’s Dynamics tools and continue to build your skills with projects that increase in complexity.

Maya is the industry-leading 3D animation and effects software; Maya dynamics tools create water and other fluids, wind, fire, fur, particles, and more
Build professional skills in Maya Dynamics with this project-based guide
Put your skills to work by completing a series of projects on water, wind, and fire effects
Maya Studio Projects: Dynamics is one of a new series of books designed to teach animators and designers fresh skills through project-based instruction.

Table of Contents:

-1. Particles.
-2. Fluids.
-3. Breaking Ground.
-4. Volcanic Activity.
-5. Tornadoes.
-6. Playing with Fire.
-7. Explosions.
-8. The Flood.

My personal opinion-
This book is awesome! A lot of useful information, and it really nails the theory, helping you to better understand how everything works in Maya.
Maya Studio Projects: Dynamics not only teaches you the authors techniques, but allows you to walk away with the knowledge to create your own dynamic effects. Im so glad I found this gem, and can share it with the rest of you at CGPersia :)

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Maya: Secrets of the Pros
In this unique full-color book, a cadre of professionals led by Maya expert and best-selling author, John Kundert-Gibbs, team up to share what they’ve learned using Maya in the CG trenches.
Contributing authors include veterans of such high-profiles projects as The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Star Wars: Episode I, The Perfect Storm, as well as animations featured at SIGGRAPH.

Whether you’re new to the field or already have solid 3D experience, Maya: Secrets of the Pros offers insights and step-by-step instructions designed to help you build and sharpen a range of critical skills, including:
* Preparation techniques for modeling and animation
* Improving motion capture and lip synching
* Creating crowd scenes from a small number of base models
* Controlling dynamics in plot-driven sequences
* Developing massively complex particle systems for film effects, such as those in The Perfect Storm
* Modeling subdivision surfaces
* Creating a GUI animation set-up for animators
* Using effective natural lighting
* Writing software for a multi-platform renderfarm

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Aquafadas PulpMotion Advanced 2.3.2 Mac Os

Create professional looking presentations using your own pictures, videos and music! PulpMotion Advanced brings the beautiful animations of PulpMotion to the next level. Fine tune the timing at the media level, add audio annotations, create regions of interest on your pictures to create stories with your media like no one has seen before.

Feature :-

All your media at your fingertips and more

PulpMotion advanced introduces a new way to browse your media. Not only can you access all standard media repositories, such as iPhoto, Aperture, Lightroom but it lets you navigate in your media in full screen. A convenient timeline shows on which dates you have images or videos. Select date ranges to quickly access the media by date.

Rich set of themes and presets

PulpMotion Advanced ships with a rich and extensible set of themes. We have also worked out a number of great looking presets that you can choose from to achieve great looking results in no time. Simply drag and drop your preferred photos or movies, then add your own music, apply a visual theme from the PulpMotion slideshow themes menu and you’re done!

Powerful export

PulpMotion Advanced has the same powerful export function provides a simple menu that allows you to share your work quickly and easily in a variety of video formats.

You can even achieve greater control with this version by add a realistic motion blur to the scene and control its parameters very precisely

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If you like this software,Buy it

Enjoy !

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Issue 30

Techniques
The latest and greatest techniques;
– Applying Lighting renders
– Integrate Poser renders
– Professional retouching masterclass

Creative Tutorials
Challenging and inspiring Masterclasses including;
– Create a photomontage
– Design a lowlight landscape

Also featured;
– 2007 Graduate Showcase
– Photoshop CS3 and CS3 Extended update
– Win one of three work placements with McFaul

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Nuke 6.0
Nuke 6.0 incorporates a completely new shape rotoscope and paint toolset based on a rewritten core curve library and new RotoPaint node. This release introduces a flexible, non-destructive, layer based paint hierarchy integrated with Nuke?s animation and tracking capabilities and supporting per-object attributes such as blending modes and motion blur.
As an additional benefit, The Foundry?s highly acclaimed Keylight keyer is now a standard feature included with Nuke 6.0.
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