ZBrushWorkshops – Creating Realistic Human Skin Textures
English | Size: 3,41 GB
Category: ZbrushWorkshops

Course Description
Welcome to Creating Realistic Human Skin Textures with Brian Wade! Learn how to create realistic human skin textures using traditional sculpting techniques in ZBrush. Let legendary special effects artist, Brian Wade, show you how! This is an on-demand course. Although downloads are not available, you have lifetime streaming access to all course content, so you are free to watch all of the videos in this workshop at your leisure. You will find all of the videos listed on the right-hand-side. There are no structured critiques for this workshop, but you are free to submit your work in the projects section to share with your peers.
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Lynda – Understanding Maya nCloth
English | Size: 899 MB
Category: Lynda.com

Take an in-depth look at nCloth, the Maya toolkit for simulating high-resolution mesh cloth for 3D characters and animations. Author Aaron F. Ross explains the roles played by the various “actors” in an nCloth simulation, including the nucleus solver, nCloth objects, passive colliders, and nConstraints. The course begins with basic simulations such as flags and ropes, then progresses to building a simple garment, until finally integrating animation and special effects like falling leaves and tearing cloth. Aaron also covers performance optimization techniques such as nCloth and nucleus solver settings, proxy objects, collision layers, the Wrap deformer, and more.
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Digital Juice Matte Magic Transwipes Hard
English | Size: 631 MB
Category:Digital Juice Video

The Matte Magic TransWipes Hard volume includes 75 uniquely useful animated transitional mattes that provide a harder-edged, more defined transition from one clip to the next. The clips in this collection include a variety of intricately choreographed hard-edged geometric and organic shapes and motions, designed to pull the viewer’s eyes effortlessly into the next segment of your production without losing interest. Simply by adding any of these mattes on top of your footage with the appropriate luma matte setting, you can elevate your edit from the mundane to the sublime, raising the production value of a project instantly. Customize any type of production, from promos to montages, show opens to event videos, with the magic one-of-a-kind segues made possible with TransWipes.
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Digital Juice Matte Magic Strobes and Flickers
English | Size: 6,38 GB
Category:Digital Juice Video

The Matte Magic Strobes & Flickers volume includes more than 40 uniquely useful animated mattes with a variety of flashing, flickering, strobe-lit effects. The clips in this collection include a variety of intricately choreographed, rhythmically diverse, soft and hard shapes and motions. The matte motion is designed to momentarily distract your viewer with effects that add active vigor to your footage by simulating more energetic lighting environments in modern-day chiaroscuro tableaus. Simply by adding any of these mattes on top of your footage with the appropriate luma matte setting, you can elevate your footage from the mundane to the sublime, instantly raising the production value of any type of production from promos to montages, show opens to event videos.
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