This lecture demonstrates a technique that encourages the artist to pursue three-hour figure gesture studies in 3D. These 3D gesture 'paintings' allow the artist to experiment and avoid being consumed with the detail work ordinarily associated with the medium of 3D. While a reference photograph is used for the purposes of the lecture, the techniques have been developed under the time constraints of working in front of a live model. Techniques will be demonstrated for the three phases of creating a quick study; modeling, texturing and lighting using ZBrush, 3D Coat and Modo. Each of the phases will be built from the ground up, and the purpose of each component is demonstrated. This methodology can easily serve as a foundational 'underpaint' for a more polished, realized work. When the underpaint is solid, more finished work is solely a matter of adding additional layers and filling in details.

Welcome to a unique sound collection for the discerning drum & bass producer, created by master engineer and electronic music pioneer Jamie Myerson. With a full palette of 100% original and new breakbeats, basses, synths, effects and acoustic instruments, this collection is sure to breathe new life into your productions. Both sensual and scientific, with a precision rarely found in sound collections of this type, Elemental Drum&Bass Vol.1 is sure to lift your tracks above and beyond.

Inspired by T Pain, Jason Derulo, Imogen Heap and numerous current urban pop artists. Urban Pop Sensation captures the essence of today's processed vocal sounds. Supported by a solid bed of music, these pop vocal hooks will truly inspire producers at any level. Ten kits fully loaded with vocal hooks, synth melodies and full drum tracks and drum hits folders will take your tracks places you have never been. Stop messing around and get down to business with Urban Pop Sensations.

 

The  ISE  Design Suite: System Edition provides  a  comprehensive  suite of integrated    development environment, software tools, configuration wizards, and  IP  that  facilitates your design and  utilizes  all  of the flexibility offered  by  a  programmable platform. Xilinx    CORE    Generator System, included  in  all  Editions of the ISE Design  Suite, accelerates design time by    providing    access    to highly parameterized  Intellectual Properties (IP)  for Xilinx FPGAs and is included in the ISE Design Suite. The available user-customizable  IP  functions range in  complexity  from  commonly used functions, such as memories and FIFOs, to system-level building blocks, such as filters and transforms. Using these IP  blocks  can save days to months of design  time.  The highly optimized IP allows FPGA designers to focus efforts on  building  designs  quicker while helping  bring  products  to market faster.

 

In this demonstration, Nate explains and shows the process by which a piece of concept art is interpreted and used to model out a game environment in Maya. In the process, Nate will explain various modeling tools, techniques, and workflows, as well as numerous theories and methods used to create game art. A timelapse video of the entire modeling session is included so that the viewer can see and understand all the techniques being used. Nate will also cover common errors and mistakes to avoid so that the scene will run efficiently in real time and light correctly.

Dubstep Skillz' is the latest product in Ueberschall's Vodovoz series. You'll find ten professionally mixed and arranged tracks split into massive punchy beats and breaks, ultra deep wobbles and distorted basses, pulsating synths, hitting space tones, robotic and glitch vocals, SFX and warped textures.

OS X Mountain Lion is the latest release of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system. Mountain Lion includes over 200 new features to update your Mac into the best computing experience yet. With the new Messages app you can send text, photos, videos, contacts, web links, and documents to anyone using another Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch — you can even start a conversation on one device and continue it on another. The new Share button makes it easy to share files, web pages, photos, and videos, as well as tweet right from the app you are using. With the Reminders app you can create to-do lists and alerts that appear in the new Notification Center. With Notes you can write down all your ideas and even speak your words with voice dictation. Play head to head games on your Mac with friends on their Macs or iOS devices with Game Center. And with iCloud built in, it’s simple to keep all your mail, contacts, calendars, reminders, notes, to do lists, music, photos, iWork files, PDFs, and more up to date across all your devices.

Transient Shaper allows shaping the dynamics with 2 knobs only, making it uniquely easy and fast to use - yet its sonic manipulation scape ranges from gate-like to compressor-like.

Photoshop CS6 is an incredibly rich and deep set of tools for editing, optimizing, and retouching images, and also offers some great features for working with text, video, and 3D. In this Learn by Video course (created in partnership with our friends at Peachpit Press), Adobe Certified Expert Kelly McCathran is your guide to the myriad capabilities of Photoshop CS6. You'll learn how to make selections, work with layers and masks, use Adobe Camera Raw, create artistic effects, and much more, including lots of hands-on exercises and projects to help you apply what you've learned.

Jump into the world of web graphics and design with VTC's QuickStart - Adobe Fireworks CS6 course. Join award-winning trainer Geoff Blake as he takes you through a full design process in Fireworks CS6, beginning with a scratch-built wireframe structure. Once the structure is placed and organized, you will learn how to apply design to the structure, making use of colors, text formatting, imported content from Illustrator and Photoshop, and even special effects.

In this course, expert web developer and trainer Candyce Mairs gets you up and running as a mobile site developer using the jQuery Mobile framework. You'll learn the difference between jQuery Mobile and HTML pages and become familiar with the idea of using libraries and themes to feature and style your mobile website. Then you'll get started creating and updating pages in the mobile space, and even learn how to add features like a date picker for forms, a Twitter feed, and a photo gallery. Along the way you'll see how to test your designs on a variety of devices to make sure they're ready for prime time.

This lecture covers the principles of good composition with an emphasis on effective cinematic lighting. Jeremy begins by discussing the fundamental concepts behind how light operates in the physical world, providing an overview of topics like reflection, absorption, refraction, color temperature and atmospheric dispersion. He then moves into camera based composition, discussing topics like camera angles, distance, lenses and depth of field which all help to define the mood of a shot. The lecture then transitions into more of the artistic elements of lighting and composition as it relates to computer graphics.

EXPLORE THE SOUNDWORLDS OF THE MASTERS: The instruments of the great composers are museum pieces now; hundreds of years old and not in playable condition. But in recent times period instrument specialists have begun recreating our musical past in the form of reproduction instruments. By sourcing authentic materials and using traditional techniques from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, incredibly accurate copies of the finest historical instruments can be produced. These beautiful new instruments bring the soundscape of our musical past to life, showing us how incredibly diverse our modern instruments’ predecessors were. We are now able to enter into our musical heritage more faithfully, and the new palette of sounds available offers fresh inspiration for composers today.

The Indie ADpak is the perfect choice for any production that needs drums with character! Real analog sound, detailed grittiness and the perfect ambience to frame it all. This ADpak is all about the sound, character and analog perfection. Simply put: creative sounds for creative people! The unmistakable warmth and punch of analog tape are highly sought after characteristics in today’s digital domain. The hassle of actually owning and operating a tape machine versus the choice of using one of the digitally remodeled plug-ins out there it’s not much of a choice for most people. When it comes to drums the options of creating a sound is endless but among most technicians and producers they agree on one thing: Drums on tape simply sound better!

This exceptional value includes all of Volumes 1–3 of the Wacom MasterClass collection, including lessons from artists Angie Taylor, Steve Caplin, Daniel Lieske, and Uli Staiger. In addition to a basic course covering the tablet’s tools and settings, you get training on everything from beauty retouching and painting in Photoshop to drawing in Illustrator and motion design with After Effects. The package also includes crash courses on Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Aperture, Painter, SketchBook Pro, ZBrush, and 3D with Photoshop, all designed to get you working right away. Each class features lessons with picture-in-picture live footage of the artist working with their pen and tablet, enabling you to see and learn from their techniques up close.

In this DVD, Alex thoroughly covers how to create realistic plants using Maya, Paint Effects and Mental Ray. We begin by evaluating the default paint effects library and how to convert the strokes into renderable geometry with mia Materials. Using Physical Sun/Sky, we create more photorealistic renders through the creation of our own materials in a tonemapped workflow circumventing the default shaders created by Paint Effects. Everything necessary to create double sided shaders with realistic glossy reflections and translucency is demonstrated in detail.

Plug-ins included: TB Equalizer, TB Isone, TB HumRemover, TB DeEsser, TB Ferox, TB EZCompressor, TB Gate, TB Reverb, TB XYTool, TB Compressor...

In this lecture, one of Hollywood's most prolific concept sculptors, Jordu Schell demonstrates the techniques he employs in creating a dynamic creature concept sculpture. Jordu begins with a rough armature, then walks you through the process of correctly building up forms by roughing in the large masses of the creature before the addition of muscular and other anatomical forms. He then covers the topic of dynamically posing the creature for maximum impact. Once the pose is decided on and the shape of the creature is established, Jordu transitions from using only his hands to using tools to begin refining the creature, working on defining the muscular forms, adding definition and detail, and finally blending the forms back together to create a unified appearance.

The Indie ADpak is the perfect choice for any production that needs drums with character! Real analog sound, detailed grittiness and the perfect ambience to frame it all. This ADpak is all about the sound, character and analog perfection. Simply put: creative sounds for creative people! The unmistakable warmth and punch of analog tape are highly sought after characteristics in today’s digital domain. The hassle of actually owning and operating a tape machine versus the choice of using one of the digitally remodeled plug-ins out there it’s not much of a choice for most people. When it comes to drums the options of creating a sound is endless but among most technicians and producers they agree on one thing: Drums on tape simply sound better!

You’re going places—literally and figuratively. Having the right video editing and finishing tools that move with you is crucial. That’s why we broke Symphony Nitris DX apart, so you can work wherever and however you please. Symphony 6 is now available in a software-only version, giving you a cost-effective, highly versatile solution that works with your existing hardware. For better performance, bundle it with an Avid video interface or get the complete Symphony System. Plus, you get many exciting new features and workflows that professionals like you asked for.

The 'Crowd-choir' was an idea for a crowd-sourced sampled instrument, partly inspired by the 10cc track 'I'm not in love', which famously featured a vocal pad sound created by painstakingly over-dubbing a single vocal note over and over again.

The Celtic Harp - also known as the folk harp - dates back over 4000 years. While the Celtic Harp brings to mind the Celtic green isles that has influenced Celtic culture and music through the centuries, the harp developed in many variations in Africa, Europe, North and South America and Asia.

'Laya Project' is an exceptionally high quality bundle of rare recordings which provide a journey of music and visual discovery through six countries affected by the 2004 tsunami. 'Laya Project' contains authentic and organic folk instruments and vocals, recorded in the remote villages of Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, India, Sri Lanka and Maldives using warm Neve and SSL preamps and Neumann vintage tube mics.

'World Drum Sessions Vol 3: African' from Earth Moments is the third in this unique series of authentic, sought after world music percussion and drum samples. Performed by top class world music drummer Yoav Bunzel, you'll find 148 African groove loops recorded using the finest equipment, in a range of tempos.