• Furniture is pleasing to the eye when various elements work together to create a harmonious whole. 18th Century furniture design, like architecture, relied heavily on proportional schemes derived from classical architectural orders. Today's furniture makers can use these design principles to create contemporary or period furniture. George Walker demonstrates how to use this approach to create visual harmony.

• Scott Burdick is known for his bold brushwork and lush color in his figurative paintings. What underlies those powerful paintings is a mastery of figurative drawing and anatomy. In this new four-hour program, Scott demonstrates how to use various drawing media to create masterful drawings in red conte, traditional charcoal and wet-brush charcoal powder. Burdick is a master of many media, which this program will introduce to you. Working with the live model, he takes you through a drawing session that begins with five-minute gestures and ends with 20-minute long poses, over a period of three hours. The last demonstration is a portrait executed totally in a charcoal wash; that is, powdered charcoal applied with brush and water. Always an articulate instructor, Burdick will demonstrate how to begin a drawing session, relax into longer poses and gather the most information for the model. The program has been edited to present to the viewer the most information you would wish to see, including the posed model and close-up views of the drawings as they are created. Additional material includes how to square up a photo to enlarge the composition to drawing or painting size, and sight-size measurements. This is a program you will want to add to your art reference library, and refer to often to see how a master draftsman approaches the human figure.

• Scott Kelby, Editor of Photoshop User magazine, once again brings to life some of the most popular special effects, the latest techniques, and the coolest tricks from the magazine’s . This time around, Scott is joined Dave Cross, Matt Kloskowski, and Corey Barker to give you 3.5 hours of nonstop tutorials, who add into the mix their favorite tricks and techniques.

• Three video tutorial on Maya Fluids, which will acquaint you with the basic concepts of dynamics in this three-dimensional srede.Uroki help beginners take the first step in mastering this subject, since almost everything in this world has its own dynamics ...

After Effects Project - The Notebook

CS3/CS4/CS5 | AEP | 1280x720 | 15.9 MB

The collection contains projects for Adobe After Effects CS2, CS3, CS4. All done in AE and (almost all) do not require additional plug-ins. If you add your pictures, videos, logos, etc. - And you have a professional beginning (or ending), clip to your presentation or film. All projects to edit, they are working, each file has a preview (JPG, FLV)

NUK214 is a project based course that solves real world challenges and provides insight and techniques in a visual effects workflow. The course is taught by ZERO VFX artists Charles LaPage, Jeremy Brown and moderated by longtime fxphd prof Sean Devereaux. NUK214 will cover the key skills that artists need to have for success on the job, this includes the common daily tasks every artist needs to know, from advanced clean-up and paint work to Nuke 3D environment creation, all the way to macro/gizmo tools to make artist's daily routine simpler and more powerful.

NUK214 is a project based course that solves real world challenges and provides insight and techniques in a visual effects workflow. The course is taught by ZERO VFX artists Charles LaPage, Jeremy Brown and moderated by longtime fxphd prof Sean Devereaux. NUK214 will cover the key skills that artists need to have for success on the job, this includes the common daily tasks every artist needs to know, from advanced clean-up and paint work to Nuke 3D environment creation, all the way to macro/gizmo tools to make artist's daily routine simpler and more powerful.

Aimed at beginner to intermediate users this course will go through the entire process of creating a highly realistic interior scene using Cinema 4D and VRay. We will model the environment, furniture and accessories and then move on to exploring materials, light and camera parameters, colour mapping, VRay's various GI engines, its Image Sampler and antialiasing techniques, as well as IES lights, HDRI and Depth of Field. We will finish up by taking our final image into Photoshop for some post production techniques. The tutorial culminates in the exploration of other lighting methods including the creation of an alternative evening mood.