Digital Tutors : Digital Tutors – Mental Ray Nodes In Maya
Learn the fundamentals of mental ray nodes in Maya and add visual depth to your work. Contains over 4 hours of project-based training. Perfect for intermediate artists.
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Simply Maya – Ball throw animation
Description:
The ball pick up and throw is intended to help break new Maya users into the world of keyframe animation.
You will learn how to set up your character in a starting pose then work your way through key framing individual
joints to start making the model move in the desired way.
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digital tutors – The Artist’s Guide to Mel (Full CD)
Discover creative alternative uses for MEL. Learn Maya Embedded Language
(MEL) with an artist-driven approach and add greater flexibility in your workflow.
Contains over 4 hours of intuitive project-based training. Ideal for artists new to MEL.
Digital Tutors – Render Passes in Maya 2009 | RS
Software: Maya 2009 and up
Run Time: 2 hrs. 3 min., 1 discs
Learn a production workflow to the completely updated Render Pass feature set in Maya 2009. Gain precise control over render outputs and learn time-saving techniques to optimizing the interoperability with Maya and compositing applications such as Toxik. Contains 2 hours of project-based training.
If you’re interested in animation then you’ll love the Robot Animation tutorial
It will take you though the steps used to get him moving around on screen.
We begin by importing a fully rigged character and will spend some time getting familiar with his controls,
like selecting control handles. Once we have a feel for moving him with his controls we will set him up for the animation.
Starting off with a basic walk pose we will learn how to key frame our robot so that he begins to move forward and eventually tries to open a door.
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Digital Tutors – Stereoscopic 3D In Maya (4 parts in full CD)
– Create audience excitement and interactive experiences.
– Learn practical workflows to making stereoscopic 3D imagery with Maya 2009.
– Gain total control over the camera, characters, and environments
to create one of the most powerful effects in cinema.
– Contains over 2 hours of project based training and step-by-step examples for any artist.
Learning 3D Character Animation with Jeff Lew
From the Lead Animator of Matrix Reloaded, the ‘Learning 3D Character Animation with Jeff Lew’ series is one of the few real character animation classes on DVD. There are so many how-to videos on the market showing you how to setup a character or model a character in a specific 3D software package, but very few training videos showing you actually how to animate a character in 3D. This 3-part DVD series will teach you strong fundamentals necessary for creating great character animation in any 3D animation software package. Continue Reading
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within The Making Ony DVD
This movie turned out to be much better than we thought. Ignore the critics, this flick is way cool. If you’ve got even an inkling of the Final Fantasy series of videogames, you’ll catch enough of the jokes to make the viewing more than worthwhile (is there a ‘Cid’ in every FF Universe?). Nevertheless, the voice-acting is dead-on, the characters are good, and
the computer animation simply rocks.
Free tutorials from AllanMckay
introducing fire, smoke, explosions and all other concepts that are tied to fume fx. We cover working and handling fluids and understanding the complex process. Working with particles, compositing fire and making the most of the entire fluids process! Definitely one for people who want to raise the bar on effects, essentially aimed at advanced users, but designed thoroughly enough for most users to be able to keep up.
Cartoon Smart Blender Basics 1
This two hour tutorial will give brand-new Blender users a comprehensive introduction to working in a 3D environment. Even if you’ve never used a 3D program before you’ll feel at ease in no time. Alter a 40-minute introduction, the course focuses on how to model and shade the character above!
