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Pluralsight – Techniques for Effective Character Skinning in Maya

06/09/2017 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

Pluralsight – Techniques for Effective Character Skinning in Maya
English | Size: 760.0MB
Category: Tutorial

Creating a character rig is only half the work of the rigging process, and easily done by using auto rigs. However, connecting a rig to your character model is the challenging part. In this course, Techniques for Effective Character Skinning in Maya, you’ll learn how a humanoid character model will be bound to Maya’s quick rig to demonstrate a skinning technique that effectively leads to an appealing deformation. First, you’ll explore joint placement and what to watch out for when defining your joints position.
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Pluralsight – Techniques for Effective Character Skinning in Maya

18/08/2017 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

Pluralsight – Techniques for Effective Character Skinning in Maya
English | Size: 760.0MB
Category: Tutorial

Pluralsight Studio Lighting Techniques with Maya and Arnold-XQZT

08/08/2017 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

Pluralsight Studio Lighting Techniques with Maya and Arnold-XQZT
English | Size: 486 MB
Category: Tutorial

Understanding real world studio lighting techniques is an invaluable help in creating realistic and well designed CG renders. Knowing classic lighting setups provides a solid foundation for a wide variety of scenes. This course, Studio
Lighting Techniques with Maya and Arnold, will demonstrate studio lighting techniques and how to render scenes as if shot in a studio. First, youll learn all about real world lights and lighting setups.
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Packt Publishing – Advanced Puppet Techniques

04/08/2017 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

Packt Publishing – Advanced Puppet Techniques
English | Size: 795.79 MB
Category: CBTs

Puppet is a configuration management tool that allows you to automate all of your IT configurations, giving you control over what you do to each Puppet Agent in a network, and when and how you do it. In this age of digital delivery and ubiquitous Internet presence, it’s becoming increasingly important to implement scalable and portable solutions, not only in terms of software, but also the systems that run it.
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Lynda – Photoshop Texturing and Shading Techniques

02/08/2017 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

Lynda – Photoshop: Texturing and Shading Techniques
English | Size: 4.2GB
Category: CBTS

This course provides techniques you can use in Photoshop to add texture and properly shade a variety of materials and surfaces-whether fibrous, hard, translucent, three-dimensional, or organic. First, learn how to prepare an artboard and import reference images. Next, find out how shaders, highlights, shadows, color, and subsurface scattering can be leveraged to create textures and shading. Then, see how to set up seamless textures and flats, and how to adjust linework, colors, and values. Additionally, this course covers base shading and highlighting steps you can follow to control lighting and refine shadows. Last, discover how to make refinements and final touches. [Read more…]

Creative Portrait – Painting Techniques for Photoshop

29/07/2017 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

Creative Portrait – Painting Techniques for Photoshop
English | Size: 4.06 GB
Category: CBTs

Scott Deardorff is happy to introduce the second installment in his MASTERING THE DIGITAL CANVAS™ Photoshop training series. LESSON TWO: CREATIVE PORTRAIT-PAINTING TECHNIQUES FOR PHOTOSHOP will demonstrate Scott’s state-of-the-art techniques for transforming photographs of people into painted masterpieces primarily with the smudge tool, and introduce you to the newest Photoshop painting features. Included on this DVD are all the brushes, image files and other tools necessary to follow along and learn.
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Lynda – Documentary Photo Techniques with Photoshop and After Effects (updated Jun 26, 2017)

17/07/2017 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

Lynda – Documentary Photo Techniques with Photoshop and After Effects (updated Jun 26, 2017)
English | Size: 1,015.4MB
Category: CBTs

In this course, Rich Harrington explores the world of documentary storytelling, using various techniques in Adobe Photoshop and After Effects to transform damaged photos into brand-new works of art. Throughout the course, Rich covers basic image editing techniques in Photoshop such as toning, cropping, sharpening, and resizing. He also shows how to add movement to photos in After Effects, which can help you create a dramatic story. [Read more…]

FXPHD – FCP213 – Techniques and Creative Editing

11/07/2017 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

FXPHD – FCP213 – Techniques and Creative Editing
English | Size: 932 MB
Category: Tutorial

“Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and
persistence that any art form does.” – Walter Murch
Wise words from Walter, but where to begin?
Taught by Enzo Tedeschi, FCP213 will take you through some of the basics and some of the intricacies of Final Cut Pro. As with any other post-production
tool, true value comes from its proper use within a well-designed workflow. So in addition to a bit of “what does this button do”, Enzo will more importantly
be talking about Final Cut Pro’s place within the larger context of a production as well as more creative editing techniques for storytelling. While this course
will slightly touch on items covered in our other FCP offerings, with a new prof comes new and interesting perspectives. [Read more…]

Fashion and Glamour Lighting Techniques Revisited -Thorsten Ott

28/06/2017 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

Fashion and Glamour Lighting Techniques Revisited_Thorsten Ott
English | Size: 755 MB
Category: Techniques

This first video examines fashion and glamour lighting using just 1 or 2 light sources. We will examine each of the 12 lighting modifiers and how or when we might use them. We will discuss the 18 lighting diagrams and the 19 images created. Follow me as I comment on the lighting diagrams and watch a behind-the-scenes video of the 4 models photographed. This video spans what I have learned over the last 20 years of shooting and modifying the light quality of my studio flash units to a give a 3-dimensional and cinematic light quality. [Read more…]

Cmivfx nuke facial replacement techniques

26/06/2017 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

Cmivfx _nuke facial replacement techniques
English | Size: 493 MB
Category: CBTs

This new video discussed several areas of Visual Effects in regards to doing facial / muzzle replacement techniques while in a compositing environment. We will show you how to stay in Nuke for the entire voyage of capturing the motion and turning it into a monstrous transformation. [Read more…]