Maya 2018 Essential Training
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 8h 10m | Language: English
- Learn to create high-quality 3D models and animations in Maya 2018. This course covers the core Maya skills—modeling, texturing, rendering, and animation—within a real-world, project-based workflow. The techniques you'll learn here translate equally well to film, motion graphics, game design, and animation.First explore the basics of the Maya interface, including selecting and manipulating objects, organizing scenes, and customizing the interface. Next, learn about polygonal modeling, creating and refining meshes, sculpting, and working with NURBS surfaces. Once you understand modeling, discover how to create and apply materials—adding color, texture, and reflectivity to your creations. Then integrate cameras, lighting, and effects into the rendering process, and leverage the new Arnold for Maya renderer. Last but not least, instructor show how to add movement and life to your work with Maya's animation tools.
Maya 2017 Essential Training
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 8h 2m | Language: English
- Get the essential training you need to create high-quality 3D models and animations in Maya 2017. This course covers the core Maya skills—modeling, texturing, rendering, and animation—within a real-world project-based workflow that translates equally well to film, motion graphics, and game design.It starts with the basics of selecting and manipulating objects and organizing scenes, as you learn the interface and explore Maya's features. Author George Maestri then takes you through polygonal modeling, creating and refining meshes, sculpting, and NURBS modeling. Once you understand modeling, George will show how to create and apply materials to surfaces—adding color, texture, and reflectivity. He'll then integrate cameras, lighting, and depth-of-field effects into the rendering process, using the built-in software renderer, mental ray, and the new Arnold for Maya renderer. Last but not least, he'll show how to add movement and life to your work with Maya's animation tools.
Maya 2016 New Features
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 2h 28m | Language: English
- Find out what's new and improved in Maya 2016. Aaron F. Ross reviews the features and enhancements that will benefit 3D artists the most, such as the streamlined interface and color management system, the redesigned Hypershade material editor, and the powerful and fun sculpting tools. He'll also cover paint-free skinning with delta mesh deformers and improvements to instance and dynamic systems like XGen and Bifröst.
Maya 2015 Essential Training
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 7h 45m | Language: English
- Need to get a strong foundation in Maya? Start here. This Essential Training course covers all the latest features in Maya 2015, while giving you a background in the basics of 3D modeling, texturing, animating, and rendering. Need a quick overview? Check out the first chapter of the course, which covers the interface and basic object manipulation tools. Author George Maestri then takes you deeper into polygonal modeling, editing and refining meshes, and NURBS modeling—for sculpting curves and organic surfaces in Maya. After that, learn how to create and apply materials to give the surface of your models color, texture, reflectivity, and more. Next, create realistic images (with lighting and depth-of-field effects) in the final rendering process, and finally, add movement and life to your characters with Maya's animation tools.
Categories: Tutorials » Photography and Video
Lightroom Classic CC 2015: Mastering the Develop Module
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 2h 16m | Language: English
- In this course, Adobe Director of Product Management Bryan O'Neil Hughes explores the Develop module in-depth, stepping through the module's core tools and sharing insights along the way. The course concludes with chapters on essential time-saving shortcuts and on taking photos from Lightroom Classic CC to Photoshop for further enhancement.
Categories: Tutorials » Photography and Video
Lightroom Classic CC 2015: Customizing Tips and Techniques
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 1h 57m | Language: English
- Streamline your image processing workflow by taking advantage of the tips in this course on how to customize your Lightroom Classic CC experience. The layout of your workspace, the sort applied to your views, the type of data displayed, the file conversion settings, and even the treatment of exports can be catered to meet your needs. In this course, Taz Tally provides expert guidance and suggestions as he takes you through configuration options that allow you to adjust your Adobe Lightroom Classic CC experience to your preference. He explains the potential uses of different presets and templates, so you can decide which selections suit you. He demonstrates how to create custom views, keyword sets, synchronization options, import behaviors, file naming conventions, and more. He also shows you how to automate common tasks performed in the Develop module and during export.
Lightroom Classic CC 2015 Essential Training
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 6h 17m | Language: English
- Take what you know about Lightroom Classic CC—whether it's a little or a lot—and kick it up a notch, with this essential training from photographer/teacher Chris Orwig. Lightroom Classic CC brings this extremely popular photo-asset management, enhancement, and publishing program for Windows and Macintosh into the Creative Cloud, offering integration with the rest of the Adobe apps as well as access to Lightroom Mobile. There are more features to cover than ever before. Chris starts with the Library module: the hub for importing, viewing, ranking and rating your photographs. Then he'll move to the Develop module and show how to make one-click enhancements, correct exposure, retouch distractions, and perform localized adjustments. Want to push photos to their creative limit, and share them with family friends? Chris also covers creating panoramas and books, slideshows, and custom print layouts, and making localized corrections.
Lightroom Classic CC 2015 and Photoshop: Workflow Strategies
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 2h 23m | Language: English
- Many long-time digital photographers use a workflow that involves Adobe Bridge, Camera Raw, and Photoshop. If that describes you, you might be working too hard. In this course, discover how to modernize your photographic workflow—and save time—by swapping Bridge and Camera Raw for Lightroom Classic CC. Bryan O'Neil Hughes walks through a modern photographic workflow that incorporates Lightroom and Photoshop. He shines a spotlight on the highly-adaptable Lightroom, with which you can use your mobile device to capture high-fidelity raw files, offload your legacy camera raw files onto mobile devices, and edit both kinds of files on mobile devices. He also explains how to leverage Lightroom and Photoshop on the desktop. Plus—because the world is going mobile—he shares insights on how to fit Lightroom for mobile, Photoshop Fix, and Behance into your workflow.
Lightroom Classic CC 2015 and Photoshop: Photography Workflow Strategies
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 1h 42m | Language: English
- In this course, Bryan O'Neil Hughes describes a modern photographic workflow that pairs Photoshop with Lightroom Classic CC. Learn the differences between a Bridge and ACR workflow and a Lightroom Classic CC workflow, and see how to take advantage of Lightroom Classic CC's features to work more efficiently.
Categories: Tutorials » Development
Java: Build Automation with Maven
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 1h 24m | Language: English
- Maven makes Java programming easier! It's referred to as a build tool, but it's so much more. Use Maven to manage the entire lifecycle of your project, generate reports, and store documents with its POM repository. And it's not just for Java; C/C++, PHP, and Scala programmers can use Maven, too. This course introduces Maven for build automation in Java, and reviews the other features and functions to consider adding to your development workflow. Staff author Peggy Fisher shows how to install Maven on Mac or Windows, work with the Project Object Model (POM), and use its extensive library of plugins for compiling, testing, deploying, packaging, reporting, and more. Plus, learn how to create a complete start-to-finish project using Maven and two different Java IDEs: NetBeans and IntelliJ.
InDesign: Scripting Made Easy
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 1h 55m | Language: English
- InDesign scripts can help automate complex layout and design tasks. But scripting isn't as hard as you think. This is InDesign Scripting Made Easy. This course helps designers, production artists, and other InDesign users obtain, install, use, create, and modify scripts. Keith Gilbert eases you into InDesign scripting, starting with finding and installing existing third-party scripts. He then shows you how to edit those scripts to fit your unique needs, which means working with the friendly javascript-based ExtendScript Toolkit. But you don't need to be a programmer. Keith demonstrates how anyone can create simple scripts from scratch with a little bit of javascript. He also provides three practical examples—setting preferences, watermarking layouts, and transposing characters—to show what is possible when you harness the power of InDesign scripts.
InDesign: Print PDFs
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 1h 16m | Language: English
- Making a PDF: it seems like such an easy thing, but it's the way you make the PDF and the settings you choose that make a huge difference in quality, not to mention whether your printer will accept or reject your file. Learn everything you need to know to create a great print PDF with Adobe InDesign from insider David Blatner. David covers terminology, destination considerations, transparency flattening, and Adobe's large selection of presets. Once you have the basics out of the way, he'll show you how to optimize your PDFs for print and address common scenarios PDF designers face, like converting text to outlines and creating PDFs for email.
InDesign: Preflight and Printing
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 1h 26m | Language: English
- One of the major uses of Adobe InDesign is creating print documents, yet so many people struggle with getting their files to come out right. Learn the best way to preflight your document and check it for problems before it goes to print, in this quick InDesign Insider Training from David Blatner. Printing documents yourself? Make sure to watch the second chapter for a tour of the InDesign settings for maximizing print quality.
InDesign: Color Management
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 2h 13m | Language: English
- Do the colors of your graphics and images look different on your screen than they do in print? Color management is the key to having consistent color throughout your design process, from project setup to final output. This course explains the fundamentals of managing color in Adobe InDesign—in a way any designer can understand. David Blatner walks through what you need to know about color management and the three-step process to get great color every time: configuring accurate color settings, importing images the right way from Photoshop and Illustrator, and optimizing output settings for print and export.
InDesign for Editors
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 1h 5m | Language: English
- Designers aren't the only ones who use InDesign. Editors, copywriters, and admin staff often have to edit text right inside InDesign. This course speaks directly to the needs of writers and editors who have to use InDesign for the first time—or want to use it more regularly and efficiently.Author and designer Nigel French explains how to set up an "editorial workspace" that puts the tools you need most at close reach. He then moves on to selecting and editing text in InDesign: changing case, adding special characters, formatting lists, and inserting breaks. He also shows how to use the Story Editor, Notes, and the Track Changes feature, and explains how InDesign documents are constructed, so that you can edit them with more confidence.
InDesign: Elements of a Layout
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 1h 46m | Language: English
- Each element of a magazine should support and work in harmony with the other elements. This course deconstructs the elements that make up a typical magazine layout. Looking at examples from newsstand magazines, it examines the purpose of body text, headlines, subheads, captions, straplines, and more, as well as their typical usage. It then shows how such elements can be created in InDesign, with an emphasis on efficient techniques that emphasize flexibility and consistency. Graphic designer Nigel French shows how to create a magazine layout using a modular approach that improves the ongoing usability of the document template and the appearance of the resulting designs. In this course, Nigel uses a magazine layout to explain the purpose of each layout element and to demonstrate the use of InDesign features. He explores text elements, picture elements, and page elements. He demonstrates how to set up a document and how to format logically with Styles, Layers, and CC Libraries.
InDesign CC 2014: Interactive Documents
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 3h 46m | Language: English
- Using the powerful toolset in Adobe InDesign CC, you can create a variety of interactive documents: PDFs, ebooks, magazines, forms, and more. In this course, publishing expert Mike Rankin offers a foundation for designing engaging interactive documents and explores what's possible with each kind of document, so that you'll know which type suits the needs of your projects. Learn the basics of buttons, form objects, and other interactive objects, as well as techniques for setting up structured navigation. Next, tour the Digital Publishing Suite, a service for publishing InDesign documents to mobile devices, including the iPad, and take a look at some sample interactive document design workflows. Lastly, find out how to customize InDesign for working with interactive documents.
InDesign CC 2015 Essential Training
MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | Duration: 9h 34m | Language: English
- InDesign is an essential tool for designers, ad agencies, magazines, newspapers, book publishers, and freelancers around the world. It's used to build everything from traditional print publications to interactive PDFs, digital magazines, and ebooks. This course presents a thorough explanation of the core features and techniques that make this page layout application so powerful, fun, and easy to use.Want to learn InDesign in just 20 minutes? Watch the first chapter, which concentrates on the most essential skills: editing text, adding graphics, moving objects, and creating PDFs. Once you're ready to move on, InDesign insider David Blatner will show you the rest of what InDesign has to offer. Learn how to navigate and customize the workspace, manage documents and pages, format text and graphics, experiment with color and gradients, draw and transform shapes, create interactive documents, package your designs for print, and much more.
Categories: GFXTRA Special » Special Fonts
LTC Tourist Gothic Font Family | 3 x TTF
https://www.youworkforthem.com/font/T1219/ltc-tourist-gothic/
- Tourist Gothic is a Lanston Monotype adaptation of Modern Condensed Gothic (a design from the late 1800s.) Rounded alternate caps were designed by Sol Hess in 1928. The alternate version is offered as LTC Tourist Gothic Alt. Tourist Gothic Pro combines both variations and includes a full Central European character set and several other OpenType features.
Categories: GFXTRA Special » Special Fonts
LTC Goudy Sans Font Family | 6 x TTF
https://www.youworkforthem.com/font/T1224/ltc-goudy-sans/
- Goudy Sans Bold was originally designed by Fredric Goudy in 1922 as a less formal "gothic" and finished in 1929. The light was designed in 1930 and the Light Italic in 1931. Alternate letterforms are included in these three Goudy designs, which are digitized true to their original design.
Categories: GFXTRA Special » Special Fonts
Agenor Font Family | 5 x TTF
https://www.youworkforthem.com/font/T8932/agenor/
- Agenor is an all caps display typeface family. It comes in five weights and is suitable for headlines, headings, branding, posters, packaging, titles and logos.
Model Plus Model - Kitchen Appliances Volume 10
max | fbx | obj | 3D models | 825 MB
https://www.modelplusmodel.com/volumes/vol.10-kitchen-appliances.html
- Vol.10 Kitchen appliances is a great collection of high quality 3d models for your interior scenes. The volume contains 89 3d models of kitchen appliances arranged in 24 sets. All models are made with attention to details. They have reasonable amount of polygons and accurate grid. The models are textured and are ready to use. To view all models and get additional information, please download a PDF catalogue below. You can also download a free sample file from the volume.
Model Plus Model - Kitchen Accessories Volume 09
max | 3D models | 450 MB
https://www.modelplusmodel.com/volumes/vol.09-kitchen-accessories.html
- Vol.09 Kitchen accessories is a great collection of high quality 3d models for your interior scenes. The volume contains 3d models of kitchen objects arranged in 35 sets. All models are made with attention to details. They have reasonable amount of polygons and accurate grid. The models are textured and are ready to use.
Model Plus Model - Chairs & tables Volume 02
max | 3D models | 150 MB
https://www.modelplusmodel.com/volumes/vol.2-chairstables.html
- Vol.2 Chairs+tables is a great collection of high quality 3d models for your interior scenes. The volume contains 48 exclusive 3d models of modern chairs and tables. The models are fully textured and are ready to use. Moreover some models goes in various materials.
