Rendering Multiple Passes in Maya
Modeling a Muscle Car
Mental Ray sketch and cell rendering in Maya 2009.

1. Rendering Multiple Passes in Maya (Includes Scene Files)
Duration: 30 min
In this tutorial Christophe Desse shows how he uses Maya's Render Layers to give him more control over his final render. Using a production-ready scene file, Christophe covers Render Layers, Masks, Ambient Occlusion and settings for Mental Ray. This tutorial also includes all the files necessary for you to follow along and create your own hot-rod render.

2. Modeling a Muscle Car
Duration: 140 min
In this tutorial Christophe Dess shows us how he models the wheels for his super-charged cars. Using Maya's polygon modeling tools, Christophe creates all the components necessary wheel, rim, tire tread and hub. Once modeled, he uses XNormal and Photoshop to create a tread pattern which he later uses as a bump map. Finally, he lays out his Uvs and brings everthing together in a final render.

3. Mental Ray sketch and cell rendering in Maya 2009 (with Maya 2009 scene files)
Duration: 90 min
In this video Christophe Desse show his workflow for the creation of his sketch and cell rendering in Maya 2009. This tutorial includes setting up the shaders and all the steps necessary to render them in Maya. He also details the compositing and finaling stages in Photoshop.

This tutorial covers an introduction to the ZBrush plugin ZMapper for use in creating normal maps for next-gen game engines. ZMapper is an extremely versatile plugin that allows the artist to create normal and cavity maps from their high resolution ZTool sculpts. The power of ZMapper comes from the fact that all the options are open to the artist when generating maps - which also creates many options in the interface. This video breaks down the interface into simple to understand options and covers the settings you will need to successfully generate high quality normal maps in ZBrush.

Learn to play five of Metallica's greatest songs with Jamie Humphries. Includes clear step-by-step instruction for each section of each song. Also includes play-along backing tracks with and without lead guitar for easy learning and practice. Songs include; Master of Puppets, Welcome home, One,Enter Sandman, Nothing else matters.

Novel of World War II, the story of a German U-boat commander. Reeman places you on the U-Boat so that you feel you are actually there.

In this DVD, Stephen Platt covers how to create a fully penciled page from beginning to end. He begins with exploration in the thumbnail stage and enlarges the chosen rough thumbnail using a photocopier and lightbox. During the course of the demo, Stephen shows how he indicates change in form, graduated shadows, texture and mass, all while maintaining a dramatic graphic expression. In addition, he discusses industry conventions as well as advice on portfolios and earning a living in professional comics.

In this first DVD of a series on comic book illustration techniques, David Finch takes you step-by-step through the processes he uses to create the highly detailed pencils of a comic book page. This lecture will lead you from the very basics of tube forms and page layouts to the finishing techniques of rendering and texturing an image. You'll also learn about the physical tools used by the artist to create various effects and backgrounds. This DVD also gives you a first-hand look at the evolutionary process an artist undertakes in the conception and development of a new character, including the artist's thoughts and decision making, and how mistakes and design problems can be resolved when they arise.

Five videos reveal the secrets of the masters.
King of Skulls, Rich Evans demonstrates the technique of execution drawing on bits and pieces of large-scale vehicle.
The whole process of sanding and polishing to matting and mounting.
The study of processes overlapping masks, using stencils, painting shadows, living tissues, the projection of the figure, drawing the pattern and skull frihendom, the combination of parts of the future masterpiece.

World-renowned belly dancer Princess Farhana is known for her incredible abdominal technique, and on this DVD she will share the secrets for developing truly amazing abdominal work. After laying the foundations with core strengthening, powerful muscle isolations and breath control, you will learn technique for a strong, sustained flutter and how to achieve amazing belly rolls- upwards, downwards and from side to side! You will also learn to layer your abdominal movements, like the outrageous “flundulation”, a flutter layered over a belly roll; plus how to combine abdominal work with figure eights, hip circles and upper torso isolations.

Five videos reveal the secrets of the masters.
King of Skulls, Rich Evans demonstrates the technique of execution drawing on bits and pieces of large-scale vehicle.
The whole process of sanding and polishing to matting and mounting.
The study of processes overlapping masks, using stencils, painting shadows, living tissues, the projection of the figure, drawing the pattern and skull frihendom, the combination of parts of the future masterpiece.

Build Websites for Today and Tomorrow
With HTML5 and CSS3 bursting onto the scene far more quickly than anticipated and the rapid spread of web-enabled smartphones and tablets, designing and building a website has suddenly become more complex. Fortunately, javascript libraries like jQuery reconcile browser incompatibilities and make light work of adding dynamic features, and Dreamweaver CS5.5 has risen to the challenge by providing the tools you need to build modern websites with HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery. In this course, experienced author and trainer David Powers explains which parts of HTML5 and CSS3 you can use now and how to convert existing pages to HTML5 or build new ones from scratch. You’ll learn how to adapt a website that was originally designed for desktop computers so that it works properly on mobile phones and tablets and how to use CSS media queries to apply different styles depending on screen width, viewing the changes in real time in Dreamweaver´s Live view. You’ll also learn the basics of jQuery and how to use it to enhance forms, how to create CSS3 effects without images, how to choose the right CSS selector, and much more.

Four targeted aero/tone interval workouts: upper body, lower body, core and total body (plus a yoga segment).
They’re all super-varied — each program has three completely different circuits, repeated two times. So you can do the same moves again or boost the intensity with a level option (e.g. a faster tempo or a tougher body position). The toning intervals feature familiar targeted exercises like bicep curls, reverse lunges and planks. Even the cardio segments are often body-part-focused (e.g. fast-paced low squats for the lower-body aerobics). The final workout is Vinyasa yoga — a free-flowing series of classic poses. A very friendly and motivating instructor; Chris is always smiling. Requires 2 to 10 lb. dumbbells.

While trying to avoid the clichés of Hollywood romantic comedies, Dylan and Jamie soon discover however that adding the act of sex to their friendship does lead to complications.