What do dental wax, aluminum foil, and socks all have in common? They are just three of the simple, everyday items you can use to help you take interesting and highquality images and expand your photographic portfolio. "Irreverent Photo Tools for Digital Photographers" shows amateur and professional shutterbugs alike how to use inexpensive and readily available tools to shoot and edit great pictures.

In this series of tutorials we're going to learn how to create stunning renders for game art using Marmoset Toolbag. We'll begin by learning the interface and how to navigate in the viewport. After that we'll jump into production by learning how to import our 3d files into Marmoset Toolbag. Then, we'll start creating and modifying materials to apply to our game character. After that, we'll push our scenes even further by setting up lights in our scene using the Sky Tool and dynamic lights.

In this series of Maya tutorials we will learn advanced character rigging techniques in Maya. We'll start by creating a modular rig we can insert into our skeletons for flexibility and speed. We'll learn how to create and utilize custom tools to work smarter. We'll learn how to create IK FK systems, and learn how to enhance these systems to produce more exaggerated results. We'll even explore ways we can create non-flipping twist rigs that do a great job at holding volume.

Completing the Feature Animation Series, this DVD teaches various tools and techniques for creating the controls & flexibility necessary for animators to create the broad range of expressiveness essential to Feature Animation.

In this tutorial we will learn how to create concept-art environments in Photoshop made specifically for our pre-designed characters.

In this set of Maya tutorials we will learn techniques that you can use to add volume and musculature to your characters without sacrificing the rig's speed. Throughout the tutorial you'll learn everything from how to create custom Pose Space Deformers, which do a wonderful job at maintaining volume in areas that are prone to collapse. We'll cover how to create custom muscles that slide underneath the skin, and we'll also learn how to create a modular rigging component we can incorporate to add an extra level of flexibility and stability to your control rigs.

DSP is utilized in just about every electronic system or device. DSP is taking one piece of information be it data, image, video, or audio, most likely compressing, sending, and filtering it to another location within your application to appear in the form of a document, picture or video.

DSP is utilized in just about every electronic system or device. DSP is taking one piece of information be it data, image, video, or audio, most likely compressing, sending, and filtering it to another location within your application to appear in the form of a document, picture or video.

The action of the second episode of Black Ops, dedicated to the secret operations of heavily armed special forces, will unfold in 2025. Technology development does not impact on common sense, and the slogan "World Peace" has remained a distant dream. The leading countries are mired in a new Cold War, and find a way out of the impasse can only elite fighters of special units. And the ultra-modern weapons, robotics and drones will be the last hope for victory.