Gnomon 3D Matte Painting and Camera Mapping
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.1
Simplify photography from shoot to finish. Adobe? Photoshop? Lightroom? 2 software is essential for today’s digital photography workflow. Now you can quickly import, process, manage, and showcase your images – from one shot to an entire shoot. With Lightroom 2, you spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the lens.
Inside LightWave v9
Dan Ablan, “Inside LightWave v9”
New Riders Press | ISBN:0321426843 | June 6, 2006 | 744 Pages | PDF | 27.3MB
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Final Cut Studio On the Spot
Richard Harrington, Abba Shapiro, Robbie Carman, “Final Cut Studio On the Spot, Third Edition”
Focal Press | ISBN 0240810074 | October 26, 2007 | 320 Pages | PDF | 10.3 MB
Focal Press Character Animation in 3D
Steve Roberts, “Character Animation in 3D: Use traditional drawing techniques to produce stunning CGI animation”
Focal Press | ISBN 0240516656 | July 26, 2004 | PDF | 264 pages | 6 Mb
Automatron 1.0
Automatron is a powerful new character animation tool for 3ds Max 8 and up, designed and written by Andy Murdock of Lots of Robots, the creator of the animated movie ‘LOR’. In order to make this feature film project, new tools were needed to complete the enormous amount of character animation. So far in ‘LOR’, there are only a handful of robots, as the movie continues, there will be hundreds… or lots of robots. Automatron is born!!!
The award-winning Autodesk? Maya? software is a powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, visual effects, and rendering solution. Because Maya is based on an open architecture, all your work can be scripted or programmed using a well-documented and comprehensive API (application programming interface) or one of two embedded scripting languages, the Maya Embedded Language (MEL) or Python?. This level of openness, combined with an industry-leading suite of 3D tools, enables you to realize your creative vision for your film, television, game development, and design projects.
Welcome to ‘HDR Images in a Production Pipeline
This tutorial focuses on the use of HDR images in a production pipeline, including color theory, bit depths, and file formats. Learn how to create HDR images from real-world photographs and discover the advantages to rendering to HDR formats from within 3D applications such as Autodesk 3ds Max software. The class covers the Material Editor, the mental ray rendering engine, exterior lighting, and the EXR/RPF file formats. Continue Reading
Designed by professional artists in the film, games, and design industries, Autodesk? Mudbox? digital sculpting and texture painting software gives 3D modelers and texture artists the freedom to create without worrying about the technical details.
Autodesk Mudbox 2009 combines a highly intuitive user interface with a powerful creative toolset for creating ultra-realistic high-poly 3D models. Breaking the mold of traditional 3D modeling applications, Mudbox 2009 provides an organic brush-based 3D modeling experience that ignites the creative process.
