HDR
English | 4 Hours | 960?600 | H264 | 30fps 495kbps | AAC 64kbps | 1.19GB
Genre: eLearning
Learn how to extend the dynamic range of any Photograph!

Have you ever looked at a stunning HDR image and wondered, ?how did they do that?? Wonder no more! This video will serve as your simple to follow and informative guide to the world of HDR. You will be being paid results better than you dreamed of with maximum ease. Colin clarifies in Plain-English all you need to get going in HDR. All new and prolonged for Photoshop CS5 and Photomatix 4.

When used correctly the 32 bit tools in Photoshop will enable you to make drop-dead gorgeous images with effortless ease. Learn everything from completely natural to jaw-dropping surrealistic looks. You will also learn some gifted tricks that will enable you to boost the dynamic punch of Low Dynamic images. You?ll be able to supercharge any image with this bag of tricks in your arsenal.

HDR (High Dynamic Range) is not just a trend. It?s the future of Photography. Get a jump start on the newest Photographic technology with this 4 hour indepth guide and learn why as well as how!

The bar has been raised on HDR training? again!

This quick loading DVD ROM/or Download contains 4 hours of sharp widescreen video. The well ahead interface allows the user to instantly jump to any of the lessons with complete control over the playback. All the lesson files are built-in, so you can follow along at your own pace!

Lessons Include:
Pull the most natural result from your images.
Make stylized Tone effects
(HDRI) High Dynamic Range imaging clarified.
7 tips for shooting HDR images.
Full HDR Workflow clarified
Post processing workflows
Photoshop CS5 HDR Pro
Using Camera Raw and Lightroom with HDR
Painting with light and shadow. Use layers and masks to paint your perfect exposure.
Single image techniques for dynamic range and for effect.
Pseudo Bracketing techniques
Pseudo Maskingtechniques
Use Photoshop to make right 32-bit HDR images.
Master the HDR curve and get the very best results from your HDR images
Photoshop 32 bit Adjustments
Avoid the pitfalls and maximize your results in Photoshop.
Let loose the powerful Photomatix tone mapping plug-in for Photoshop.
Extreme Tone Mapping
Natural Tone Mapping
Tone Mapping and Photoshop Workflow
Photomatix Pro 4 overview and Batch Processing

Download:
For premium user: http://www.url-dead/file/803018301/PhotoshopCAFE.HDRandPS.CS5.2nd.Edition.Premium.rar
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http://www.url-dead/file/802509421/PhotoshopCAFE.HDRandPS.CS5.2nd.Edition.part1.rar
http://www.url-dead/file/802616851/PhotoshopCAFE.HDRandPS.CS5.2nd.Edition.part2.rar
http://www.url-dead/file/802761141/PhotoshopCAFE.HDRandPS.CS5.2nd.Edition.part3.rar
http://www.url-dead/file/802907311/PhotoshopCAFE.HDRandPS.CS5.2nd.Edition.part4.rar
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cartoon
English | 5 Hours | 960?600 | H264 | 10fps 118kbps | AAC 125kbps | 918MB
Genre: eLearning
Learn from an award winning artist!

The demand for cartoon illustration is booming. The creative industry is crying for artists who can work digitally. Photoshop has become the leading software for cartoonists and illustrators worldwide. Whether you?re cartooning for your own enjoyment, or you?re a traditional cartoonist looking to make the leap to digital, these lessons will walk you through the process of turning a sketch into a cartoon illustration. Patrick?s approach is easy enough for a beginner to learn cartooning, but is also full of valuable information for working industry professionals.

This video will teach you how to use the Photoshop tools required for sketching, inking, flat color, shading & tone, patterns, textures, and brushes, from the perspective of a syndicated cartoonist producing work on a daily basis for publication across North America.

This fast loading DVD ROM contains over 5 hours of video! The advanced interface allows the user to instantly jump to any of the 25 lessons with complete control over the playback. All the lesson files are included, so you can follow along at your own pace!

If you have ever been intrigued by the art of cartooning, had a desire to create your own cartoons, or if you just want to look behind the scenes? experiencing the first-class instruction of Patrick, a successful working cartoonist, makes this disk a must for your library.

Lessons Include:
Document Setup
The Layers Palette
Brush Basics
Sketching in Photoshop
Importing a Sketch
Freehand Inking
The Pen Tool
Inking with the Pen Tool
Ink Layer Cleanup
Color Fills
Selections and Color
Basic Color Theory
The Brush Engine
Brush Creation
Lighting Basics
Dodge and Burn
Soft Light
Painting
Shadow and Light
More Painting
Light and Layer Masks
Backgrounds and Composition
Patterns and Texture
Final Touches
The Final Image

Download:
http://www.url-dead/file/803251261/CARTOON.Illustration.Techniques.in.PS.part1.rar
http://www.url-dead/file/803356441/CARTOON.Illustration.Techniques.in.PS.part2.rar
http://www.url-dead/file/803438261/CARTOON.Illustration.Techniques.in.PS.part3.rar
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magic
English | 5 Hours | 960?600 | VP6F | 8fps 500kbps | MP3 80kbps | 1.1GB
Genre: eLearning
Covers Everything from Shooting, using on-camera filters, understanding light, and extra shooting tips. Also covers some basic post production, photo fusion and HDR techniques for landscape photography.
Magic light. Sweet light. Sunset and sunrise.

Covers Everything from Shooting, using on-camera filters, understanding light, and extra shooting tips. Also covers some basic post production, photo fusion and HDR techniques for landscape photography.
Magic light. Sweet light. Sunset and sunrise.

This famed light goes by many names but is known to all landscape photographers as on of the best time to make images. This warm light is soft enough to lower contrast but directional enough to define the landscape. Join Tim Cooper as he explains exactly how to use this light to make stunning and dynamic photographs of the natural world.

This video begins with a study of the aspects of light that pertain to photographers- angle, quality, and color. Tim demonstrates how light affects our images at different times of day and under various atmospheric conditions. Making great landscape photos will often require a little planning so Tim explains the differences between Civil Twilight, Nautical Twilight, Sunrise and Sunset so that you can be in the right location at exactly the right time.

Understanding the light is only half the battle though. To create dramatic imagery you must understand how to compose and expose for this tricky light. ?The Landscape Photographers Guide to Magic Light? outlines a host of considerations, tips and tricks from using filters to getting correct exposures that will help you bring home dramatic photographs.

The DVD finishes with an in-depth explanation of how to fine tune your images on the computer. Using Photoshop and Lightroom Tim fully explains the developing tools so that you can maximize the impact of your imagery. He also demonstrates his techniques for blending high contrast images together using the HDR software Photomatix.

All Lessons
Explanation of Magic Light
Components of Magic Light
Understanding the different Twilight times
How to plan for your shots
Preferred Camera settings for Landscape Photography
Camera techniques for working in the field
Exposing for single exposure images
Exposing for HDR imagery
Landscape composition
Using Flash to enhance a foreground element
Sunrise and sunset tips and tricks
Using Split Neutral Density filters in the field
Developing your Raw image in Photoshop and Lightroom
Recreating a Split Neutral Density filter in Photoshop
Blending images together using Photoshop
Using PhotoMatix to create HDR images

Download:
For premium users: http://www.url-dead/file/804275021/The_Landscape_Photographers_Guide_to_Magic_Light.rar
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http://www.url-dead/file/804031681/LandscapePhotographersGuideToMagicLight.part1.rar
http://www.url-dead/file/804116181/LandscapePhotographersGuideToMagicLight.part2.rar
http://www.url-dead/file/804031691/LandscapePhotographersGuideToMagicLight.part3.rar
http://www.url-dead/file/804116191/LandscapePhotographersGuideToMagicLight.part4.rar
http://www.url-dead/file/804154601/LandscapePhotographersGuideToMagicLight.part5.rar
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http://www.fileserve.com/file/3NSau9z/LandscapePhotographersGuideToMagicLight.part4.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/zHCFEJb/LandscapePhotographersGuideToMagicLight.part5.rar

designing
English | 70 Min | 800?600 | H264 | 10fps 352kbps | AAC 64kbps | 459MB
Genre: eLearning
Expand your creativity with ease.

What?s the quickest way to produce professional looking artwork and album pages from your photographs? Use some high quality templates. Graphics/Photography expert, Judy Host shows you how to get the most out of templates in Photoshop. You will learn to go way beyond the ordinary. Follow along as Judy shows you how to use Layers, Blending Modes and more to maximize your creative results. Discover how to create some of today?s hottest looks and master the tools you need to create stunning and original artwork for yourself in a fraction of the time.

This fast loading DVD ROM contains 70 minutesof brand new sharp video. The advanced interface allows the user to instantly jump to any of the lessons with complete control over the playback including Full Screen.
3 Graphic Authority Templates are included free with this training.

If you use templates, or create layouts, this disk is a godsend.

All Lessons
Create an aged look.
The ?Grunge effect.?
One Template ? Several Looks.
Blending Modes
Painting with Templates
Antique Paper
Dramatic Backgrounds
Blending Templates

Download:
http://www.url-dead/file/804290711/DesigningInPSwithGraphicAuthorityTemplates.part1.rar
http://www.url-dead/file/804283281/DesigningInPSwithGraphicAuthorityTemplates.part2.rar
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poser
English | 2.5 Hours | 960?592 | H264 | 10fps 516kbps | AAC 64kbps | 501MB
Genre: eLearning
Using Smith Micro Poser, you?ll learn the features and workflow that the pros use. In a simple step-by-step, plain English approach, Stephen will show you exactly what you need to know.

Even if you have no prior experience, this video will teach you what you need to know to create stunning artwork in Poser 8. (Also covers the new interface of Poser 2010). This PhotoshopCAFE training video shows you how to pose a character, apply clothing and accessories, lighting, rendering and much more. You will import to Photoshop and integrate it into a scene. This DVD will also address the concept of posing characters into a visual story line.

This fast loading DVD ROM contains sharp wide-screen video. The advanced interface allows the user to instantly jump to any of the 23 lessons with complete control over the playback. All the lesson files are included, so you can follow along at your own pace!

If you?ve ever dreamed of easily creating 3D characters to integrate with your 2D or 3D artwork this is the video for you!

Lessons Include:
Poser 8 overview
Navigating the 3D interface
Selecting individual components on the character
Setting up the 3D visual components
Posing your character
Creating and setting lighting
Setting up custom libraries and importing 3D
Creating and applying custom poses
Applying clothing to your characters
Workflow for setting up your scene for an IBL environment.
Pose your character in the desired backdrop
Working with multiple cameras
Setting up lighting to match a photographic scene
Adding additional characters into your scene
Working in the Texture Room
How to use inspirational sources to learn poses
Altering the body type of your character
Exporting Poser 3D objects into Photoshop

Download:
http://www.url-dead/file/804361521/IntroductionToPoser8.part1.rar
http://www.url-dead/file/804339731/IntroductionToPoser8.part2.rar
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The release of version 2.3 marks the introduction of full 64 bit support. Significant changes include:

  • 64 bit support
  • Rendering performance in 64 bit is improved vs. current 32 bit versions
  • New colour picker
  • New node palette
  • Geometry export improvements
  • Object readers support object sequences
  • New note node
  • UI performance and workflow improvements

http://www.url-dead/file/806135604/Terragen_2_x64.rar

http://www.url-dead/file/806135594/Terragen_2_x32.rar

http://www.url-dead/file/806135574/Terragen_2_mac.zip

http://bitshare.com/files/e35yz0l9/Terragen-2-x64.rar.html

http://bitshare.com/files/big9h5zh/Terragen-2-x32.rar.html

http://bitshare.com/files/eo3g99lz/Terragen-2-mac.zip.html

http://www.fileserve.com/file/SqkSQ42/Terragen 2 x64.rar

http://www.fileserve.com/file/q2xtUCb/Terragen 2 x32.rar

http://www.fileserve.com/file/wA8FZMY/Terragen 2 mac.zip

Please take a look at my other terragen related threads

NWDA CONTENT

All preset packs

http://forum.cgpersia.com/f14/nwda-packs-terragen-2-full-preset-libary-11513/?highlight=nwda

Grass Packs

http://forum.cgpersia.com/f16/nwda-grass-packs-tgo-obj-c4d-max-28498/?highlight=nwda

Weed Packs

http://forum.cgpersia.com/f16/dandelion-chickweed-nwda-pack-obj-terragen-max-vray-formats-29311/?highlight=nwda

Drawing
cmiVFX – Houdini Smoke And Dust | .m4v | project files | 550Mb
cmiVFX launches its latest full feature training video on SideFX’s Houdini, premiere Visual Effects Animation Package called “Smoke and Dust Simulations”. This video covers topics in producing large scale simulations within Houdini using the latest tools and custom techniques in the industry.

The learning structure used in this video, gears all users up to be able to follow its contents from start to beginning. This is one of the few videos made that allow a novice or experienced Houdini user the ability to learn on the same level. The degree of quality, of the produced results only vary by a few settings in the software, so we created this entire video with the learning addition of Houdini, called “Apprentice”, so that even the Master Magician himself could learn this technique if he were still alive today! We leave no man, woman, or child behind! With cmiVFX nearby, EVERYONE can learn the answers to the most complicated problems in the visual effects universe.

Layout – Preparing Collisions and Emission Objects
The Pyro material?s interface may appear intimidating at first, so we will help reduce it down to its basic components, smoke, fire, and scattering. The first chapter will explain of the preparation of emitters and collisions objects before plugging them to the dynamic world. It will cover key points that needs the attention before starting your simulation.

Basic Smoke Simulation Set-up
In this section of the video, we insert a dynamic smoke solver simulation, tweaking the different elements for the desire chimney smoke effect. Adding Custom forces and overview the key aspects of the simulation. This will allow for the artist to start visualizing what our system will look like. Its important to run these systems in a lower resolution to get the basic fluid moment working in the way that is desired from you or your supervisor.

Basic Up Res Simulation
To “Up Res”, is a technique used to increase the detail of a low resolution simulation. This is where you take a basic smoke design fluid motion and start adding the detail in order for it to look more like a smoke cloud and less like the hot steamy shower you might have taken this morning. This chapter covers each step from a low-res behavior to an Up-Res Smoke Volume cached to disk.

Auto Resize Fluid container
This section of the video will discuss the technique of Auto Resizing the boundaries of your simulation based on density of it self. This method will optimize any simulation to its quickest simulation time and will set you free with no need of simulation boundaries container. The Smoke will only occupy as much space as needed to help reduce overall calculation of a formerly larger dynamic field.

Large Scale Pyro Simulation in depth
Up until now, we have been working with a smaller scale, atypical “enhancement scene” in which the hero of the shot would not be the smoke. However in this Blockbuster Film style, large scale hero smoke effect shot, we take what you have learned so far to the next level by increasing everything! Below is a simple breakdown of the steps used in the project. For more information, you will need to watch the video itself!

PROJECT: New Mexico Dust Storm Project
The shot for this project was taken at our New Mexico Studio Lot location in Albuquerque. This particular plate was acquired during the production of “Book Of Eli” during our LIDAR scanning collection for the movie.

1) Layout – Creating a layout HIP file based on the image of our New Mexico facility background, matching the ground and camera as well as adjusting scene scale for simulation a large scale dust storm effect.

2) DustStorm Driving Simulation Setup – Setting up the initial pry simulation and implementing the AutoResize technique to it.

3) DustStorm Pyro Tweaks – Tweaking the initial simulation Turbulence forces, Custom Forces and movement behaviors.

4) DustStorm Advect to Particles – Advecting the movement of the initial dust simulation on to a particle network, copying velocity attributes on to points and prepare them to be imported back to DOP’s

5) DustStorm Driven Simulation Pyro Setup – This chapter will show you how to lay down a secondary pry objects and solvers, as well as importing the advected particles as a custom velocity field onto this driven secondary simulation.

6) DustStorm Driven Pyro Tweaking – Adjusting the methods of affecting the driven simulation, using micro solvers, turbulence and custom forces in order to increase the detail level of the Driven Low-Res Pyro Object.

7) DustStorm Driven Pyro Caching To_Disk – Firing the driven by particles Pyro Low Res simulation to disk.

Download:
http://www.url-dead/file/763233981/cmiVFX-Houdini_Smoke_And_Dust.part1.rar
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Collection
release: 2010-2011 | Runtime: 9h:01m | project files | .FLV | 3.03 GB
Genre: eLearning

Exploring Animation Principles in 3ds Max 2011: Appeal (8 lessons, Runtime: 01:04:00)
This course will delve in the animation principle of Appeal in Max. The goal of this course is to give you a greater understanding of what appeal is. We will explore various ways appeal can be added successfully, which will, in turn, strength your ability as an animator as you use this principle to refine your work for more captivating results.
1. Introduction and Project Overview
2. Adding Appeal through gestures
3. Tweaking the last extreme pose for Appeal
4. Creating a breakdown to enhance the appeal factor
5. Fine-tuning the Animation
6. Creating Appeal through composition
7. Another example of adding Appeal through composition
8. Refining an animation with Appeal in mind

Exploring Animation Principles in 3ds Max 2011: Arcs (4 lessons, Runtime: 00:16:37)
This course will venture into the animation principle of Arcs in 3ds Max. What are arcs? Why is this subject so vital in animation? These are but a few questions we will answer as we learn techniques that will assist us in checking for and fixing arcs in our animations. By the end of this course, you will know how to improve your arcs, which will help you become a stronger animator, as you use this principle to add an extra level of realism to the movement of your character.
1. Introduction and Project Overview
2. Why Arcs are so important
3. Correcting Arcs on complex actions
4. Improving Arcs on the head

Exploring Animation Principles in 3ds Max 2011: Climbing a Wall (18 lessons, Runtime: 03:22:00)
In this course we will build an animation of a character climbing over a wall from scratch, using techniques that can be implemented in any animation. Step by step, we’ll create this climb while covering various techniques like: how to block in your extremes so that finalizing the animation becomes a faster process, strengthening poses to get a more entertaining outcome, and we’ll also learn how to work smarter by utilizing Animation Layers to tweak pre-existing animation non-destructively, so that by the end of this course, you’ll have the knowledgebase you need to create animations quickly and proficiently.
1. Introduction and Project Overview
2. Blocking in the first extreme of the climb
3. Blocking in the second extreme of the animation
4. Posing the action of the character scaling the wall
5. Posing the character getting ready to leap over the wall
6. Starting to animate the character’s descent
7. Animating the character descending from the top of the wall
8. Wrapping up the extremes
9. Locking down the extremes
10. Refining the upper body
11. Tweaking the right Leg
12. Correcting the left Leg
13. Adjusting the upper body and legs
14. Making corrections to the right arm
15. Finalizing the right arm
16. Adjusting the movements of the left arm
17. Finishing the left arm
18. Completing the animation

Exploring Animation Principles in 3ds Max 2011: Ease In and Ease Out (5 lessons, Runtime: 00:30:49)
In this course, we will explore the animation principle of Ease In and Ease Out in 3ds Max. Why is Ease In and Ease Out so important? Do our characters always need to cushion in and out of their movements, or are there special cases where doing so will just not work? We will answer these questions as we cover tips and techniques for using this principle to help enhance the sense of authenticity in characters. By the end of this course, you will have a deeper understanding of the principle of Ease In and Ease Out, which will help your characters become more life-like to the viewer.
1. Introduction and Project Overview
2. Understanding Ease In and Ease Out
3. Where to avoid using Ease In and Ease Out
4. Ease In and Ease Out for blinks
5. Ease In and Ease Out for cartoon takes

Exploring Animation Principles in 3ds Max 2011: Exaggeration (5 lessons, Runtime: 00:35:17)
This course will delve in the animation principle of Exaggeration in Max. The goal of this course is to give you a clearer understanding of what exaggeration is all about. We will explore various ways exaggeration can be implemented successfully. We’ll also cover how and how not it should be used, which will, in turn, strength your ability as an animator as you use this principle to refine your work for a more entertaining end result.
1. Introduction and Project Overview
2. Using Exaggeration to Accentuate Gestures for Appeal
3. Exaggeration and Timing
4. Adding more life and personality with Exaggeration
5. Finishing the exercise

Exploring Animation Principles in 3ds Max 2011: Pose to Pose and Straight Ahead (8 lessons, Runtime: 01:15:00)
This course will delve in the animation principle of Pose to Pose and Straight Ahead in Max. The goal of this course is to, not only learn the differences between both Pose to Pose and the Straight Ahead approach of animation, but is also for you to learn the advantages of bridging the two methods together. We’ll even look a different technique for animating with Pose to Pose than we’ve used in the past. That way you can find which workflow is more suitable for you. By the end of this course, you’ll have a firm understanding of Pose to Pose and Straight Ahead, so that your animation skill-set can be expanded as you use this principle to rough-in and refine your work.
1. Introduction and Project Overview
2. Delving into the Pose to Pose method of animation
3. Continuing our Pose to Pose animation
5. Exploring the Straight Ahead approach of animation
6. Concluding the Straight Ahead animation
7. Bridging the two methods
8. Finishing our Pose to Pose and Straight Ahead animation

Exploring Animation Principles in 3ds Max 2011: Secondary Action (3 lessons, Runtime: 00:13:17)
This course will venture into the animation principle of Secondary Action in 3ds Max. What is Secondary Action? Is it another way of describing Follow-through and Overlap, or is it much more? Throughout this course, we will define Secondary Action and work through a variety exercises to help get the point across. By the end of this course, you will understand what the principle of Secondary Action boils down to, which will help you enhance your animations by adding an extra level of realism to your characters.
1. Introduction and Project Overview
2. Understanding Secondary Action
3. Using Secondary Action to enhance realism

Exploring Animation Principles in 3ds Max 2011: Squash and Stretch (3 lessons, Runtime: 00:23:42)
This course will delve in the animation principle of Squash and Stretch in Max. The goal of this course is to provide you with a deeper understanding of what squash and stretch is all about. We’ll cover everything from learning a technique for automating squash and stretch that computes fast, to exploring ways it can be used to add more flexibility to characters.
1. Introduction and Project Overview
2. Automating Squash, Stretch for muscle bulges
3. Adding flexibility to gestures with Squash, Stretch

Exploring Animation Principles in 3ds Max 2011: Timing and Spacing (5 lessons, Runtime: 00:26:27)
This course will delve in the animation principle of Timing and Spacing in Max. Throughout this course, we’ll define Timing and Spacing and work through a variety exercises to help get the point across. We’ll even discuss techniques we can use to make sure our animations are Timed accurately. By the end of this course, you’ll have a deeper understanding of the principle of Timing and Spacing, which will help you become a better animator.
1. Introduction and Project Overview
2. Understanding Timing and Spacing
3. Tweaking the Spacing of the first exercise
4. Timing and Spacing for weight
5. Correcting blinks with Timing and Spacing

Exploring Animation Principles in 3ds Max 2011: Follow-through and Overlapping (5 lessons, Runtime: 00:36:17)
In this course, we will explore the animation principle of Follow-through and Overlapping in 3ds Max. What should be considered when animating Follow-through and Overlap? Can Follow-through be automated to save time? We will answer these questions as we cover techniques for using this principle to help add more realism to our animations. By the end of this course, you will be more knowledgeable of Follow-through and Overlapping Action, which will help you create more natural-looking animations.
1. Introduction and Project Overview
2. Understanding Follow-through and Overlapping
3. Finishing the first exercise
4. Working with the Spring controller
5. Completing the jiggle rig

Download:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/pwkPBG9/DT-ExploringAP3dsMax2011_Collection.part1.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/VQryr5b/DT-ExploringAP3dsMax2011_Collection.part2.rar
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2DArtist
2DArtist 2011 04 Issue 064 Beauty And The Beast | .pdf | 130.42 MB
Welcome to the 64th issue of 2DArtist. I hope the weather is improving where you are as it is here. It may be tempting to get outside and enjoy some sunshine, but if you would rather stay inside and get some painting done, 2DArtist is here to provide the inspiration and tutorials you need.

This issue is crammed with some fantastic articles. I know you are going to love it! We will start this month by talking about the interview. This month we catch up with one of the most talented design studios in the UK, perhaps even the world – Atomhawk Design. 3DTotal and Atomhawk have just completed work on a fantastic printed book ?The Art of Atomhawk design? which is available in the 3DTotal shop now. If you like what you see in this interview you should definitely check out the fantastic 192 page book. Atomhawk tell us how they rose like a phoenix from the ashes after the collapse of Midway games and have gone from strength to strength. This is definitely a company to keep your eyes on!

We have some fantastic artists contributing with tutorials this month. The first of these is our Art fundamentals series. Tomasz Jedruszek is back in this issue. Many of you will know that Tomasz is an outstanding illustrator, and therefore the ideal person to teach the art of story-telling in images. This tutorial may give you a totally different outlook to creating illustrations.

This month we also feature a tutorial by one of the Atomhawk Design team. Charlie Bowater is a new artist to both the Atomhawk team and 2DArtist magazine. In this issue she will be showing us how to paint a self-portrait from a photograph. This is a great tutorial and well worth a look at. I would also recommend checking out Charlie?s deviant art page, she is a cracking artist.

I don?t know about you but I found the first part of the comic book series very helpful and informative. In this issue David Nakayama picks up where he left of by inking his traditional sketch. David provides some really cool tips about cleaning up your line art in Photoshop that I know a lot of you will find very helpful.

Our Photoreal Fantasy Creatures series has been fascinating so far. Our artists have provided some really handy tips to help us make our illustrations as believable as possible. In this issue Weiye Yin shows us how he made his Yeti look real. He doesn?t only help us with the fantastic character, but also with its environment. There are a lot of cool tips in this one, and I am sure you will agree that the final image is very cool.

Wow, we really do have a lot of great content here, and I haven?t even mentioned the Making of by Songnan Li, the sketchbook by Robbie Lawrence or the gallery images by artists like Serge Birault, Branko Bistrovic, Steve Jung and Vanja Todoric. I could talk all day about how good this issue is, but the only way that you will believe me is to have a look yourself. I promise you won?t be disappointed.

What in this month?

Interview: Atomhawk Design
Sketchbook: The Sketchbook of Robbie Lawrence
The Gallery: 10 of the Best 2D Artworks
Tutorial Series: Art Fundamentals – Chapter 4: Story Telling by Tomasz Jedruszek
Tutorial Series: Portraiture – Chapter 6: Female Caricature by Charlie Bowater
Tutorial Series: Mastering Comic Art – Chapter 2: Inking by David Nakayama
Tutorial Series: Photoreal Fantasy – Chapter 4: Yeti by Weiye Yin
Making Of: Soul Hunting – Project Overview by Songnan Li
Promotion: Digital Art Masters: v5 – Free Chapter Book Promotion

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PS Tutorial: Photorealism-Photoshop Painting | Video Training | 674Mb
This exclusive digital painting DVD is a chance to watch and learn as I work on one of my most detailed portraits to date, starting with a blank canvas and ending with a personalised portrait of photorealistic detail.

A running commentary will explain what techniques I use and some of my decisions, while real-time speed videos allow you to follow each process and every stroke along the way. The “After Dark” feature, included on this disc, will show you how to transform your portraits into concept characters or fantasy art for use in games, fiction or commission work. Videos come in high quality Xvid format so you get to see the painting process at full detail. The disc also includes extras, such as brushes, palettes and work stages. Read complete details on next page.

More than 7 Hours of Video Tutorials with Exercise Files. For MAC and WINDOWS.

A Portrait of Emily Rose captures almost 15 years of experience and contains many unique approaches to digital art not found anywhere else. Videos come in high quality Xvid format so you get to see the painting process at full detail. The disc also includes extras, such as brushes, palettes and work stages.

DVD Features:
High quality videos
Full audio commentary (English)
Working stages in PSD format with preserved layers
My personal set of skin brushes
My personal colour palette

View the entire painting process from start to finish, including.
Proportionate sketching
Shading and blending
Stylized colouring
Detailed hair painting
Skin texturing
Fault fixing
Jewellery, sweat droplets and other fine details
Glow effects and atmospheric lighting
“After Dark” tutorial for creating fantasy and concept art

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