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Great lighting is the key to getting professional-looking output from Maya and Mental Ray. Now, for the first time, Pixar Technical Director Jeremy Birn shares his secrets, his settings, and his Maya scenes, in a Maya-specific training DVD. This new DVD features over 3 hours of tightly edited demonstrations of professional lighting and rendering techniques using

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* Be introduced to modeling theories
* Learn how to use powerful tools like the Soft Modification Tool and the Split Edge Ring Tool.
* Learn how to create custom hotkeys and marking menus
* Import image planes and block out a character

* Create an Adobe Photoshop network
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Learn an artist-friendly workflow to creature rigging and a solution-based approach to building controls for faster animation in Maya. Contains over 6 hours of project-based training for setup artists learning new methods of rigging multi-limbed creatures.

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