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Ballistic Publishing: d'artiste: Matte Painting

Ballistic Publishing: d'artiste: Matte Painting | 112.53 MB

d'artiste: Matte Painting showcases the skills and techniques of leading Hollywood matte painters Alp Altiner, Dylan Cole and Chris Stoski. In over 70 pages of detailed tutorial this book takes readers through the matte painting techniques used to create breathtaking, photo-realistic sets and backdrops for films including â€˜Star Wars: Revenge of the Sithâ€™ and the â€˜Lord of the Ringsâ€™ trilogy.
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The master artists also share unique personal insights, biographical highlights and sources of inspiration. Added to personal and invited artist galleries presenting over 80 perfectly reproduced environmental backdrops this book is for film enthusiasts and artists alike.

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Digital Tutors - Introduction to Maya 2009

Digital Tutors - Introduction to Maya 2009 | 2.4 GB

Software: Maya 2009 and up
Run Time: 9 hrs. 27 min., 4 discs

Discover over 9 hours of project-based training to learn the fundamentals of modeling, texturing, rigging, animating, dynamics, lighting, and rendering in Maya. Taught by four Digital-Tutors instructors, each teaching their core areas of expertise to provide an essential guide to utilizing the powerful tools available in Maya. Ideal for new and beginning artists.

Gnomon Workshop: Image Based Modeling : Advance

Gnomon Workshop: Image Based Modeling : Advance

In the second DVD of this image modeling series, Greg Downing delves into more advanced photogrammetry techniques. This lesson teaches you how to perform image-based modeling and texturing within Maya using cameras calibrated for Realviz ImageModeler. Greg shows you how using panoramas for photogrammetry allows you to construct a location with a minimal number of images. He then illustrates how to calibrate those panoramas in Realviz ImageModeler for image-based modeling and texturing within Maya. This DVD assumes a basic familiarity with polygonal modeling, and though the examples are demonstrated within Maya, the workflow is applicable to any 3D package.

01. Introduction to the Project
02. Image Modeling in Maya
03. Why Panoramas?
04. Getting What you Need from Stitcher
05. Calibrating from Panoramas
06. Setting up the Workspace
07. Modeling in Maya
08. Texturing in Maya
09. Conclusion

Gnomon Workshop - Maya Mental Ray: Global Illumination

Gnomon Workshop - Maya Mental Ray: Global Illumination | 1.17 GB

In the third disk of this series, Matt Hartle focuses on Mental Ray's special rendering features, including global illumination, caustics, final gathering, and image-based lighting. Using multiple examples for each topic, this DVD teaches you efficient ways of using tools, examining numerous ways to recognize and eliminate artifacts.
Instructor: Matt HARTLE

Chapters:
01: Global Illumination
02: Caustics
03: Final Gather
04: Final Gather and Global Illumination
05: Image Based Lighting

CG Academy Animation Fundamentals 2 Adding Character

CG Academy Animation Fundamentals 2 Adding Character | 2.0GB

RS & HF | Release Date:September 26, 2009

The second part of our Animation Fundamentals series will build on the core animation techniques Simon taught you in the previous tutorial. Here we look at the importance of analysing and understanding our characters before attempting to animate them. How good staging, contrasting poses, observing silhouettes and related techniques will help deliver your drama clearly to the viewer. Simon will show you how the pose-to-pose animation technique will allow you to quickly and effectively animate in a production environment. Simon completes the tutorial with a practical example of how to put all of these principles into effect in a real world example staring Floppy the alien.

This tutorial is aimed at a user that is comfortable in general 3dsmax and with the animation interface and general animation skills. It is highly recommended that you view DVD1 in this series, before viewing this tutorial.

CH01: Understanding Your Character

Exactly what is your character? How are they physically made up, one leg, two legs, a floating gas bag? And what makes them tick? Are they angelic but troubled, or a BBQ mephit? Here Simon looks at the importance of knowing your character before you move into animating them.

CH02: The New Rig - Translation

Our erstwhile hero of tutorial 1, Floppy has regenerated. He now has more expressive eyes and a mouth. Simon runs through the new rigs features here. Starting with the movement/translation controls.

CH03: Eye Controls

We continue our exploration of the new character rig with a look at its eye controls.

CH04: Mouth Controls

And we complete the new rig boot camp with a quick look at the mouth controls and how they are achieved using 3dsmax's morph target system.

CH05: Facial Animation Principles

Much of a characters emotion and intent can be read in its face, and especially in the eyes. Simon runs you through the key points to consider here.

CH06: Emotion, Body Language & Posing

Only so much can be conveyed using the face though. So here Simon looks at the importance of body language and how it can convey emotion, even when a character is trying to hide it.

CH07: The Pose-To-Pose Technique

The standard animation production method is called Pose-To-Pose. It is preferred as it is a quick and transparent method, where you can easily show your ideas early in the production process. Avoiding any possible wasted effort if an idea is not liked down the line.

CH08: Break-down Poses

Each key pose in the pose-to-pose technique can translate to one another in a myriad of ways. Often intermediate poses, know as break downs help inject more drama. Simon explores these here.

CH09: Line-Of-Action

What is the raw pose of your character. Are they erect and proud, tired and bowed, or twisting to launch a punch. Here Simon explores the importance of considering your characters line-of-action.

CH10: Silhouettes

Posing your character in a way that makes its form clear is what we look at here, with Silhouettes.

CH11: Exaggeration

Adding just a little more juice to each pose of your animation can give it just that spark your looking after. Simon discusses where to use, or not use exaggeration here.

CH12: Contrast

If you do not introduce enough change from one pose to another, your animation can appear bland and lifeless.

CH13: Staging

If you were an actor on a stage, would you play to the audience, or to the back of stage. These considerations are just as important in CG. Love your audience and they will love you!

CH14: Heavy Metal Headache

Floppy it seems is in for a nasty surprise. In this practical character animation example Simon will take you through the key stages in character animation. From block, through first pass animation and finishing with small refinements. Simon gives you an outline of the process ahead here.

CH15: Blocking - Part 1

Simon starts roughing out the basic poses of the animation here, in what is known as the blocking process. This gives us a frame-work on which later work is based.

CH16: Blocking - Part 1

And we complete the roughing, or Blocking process in this chapter.

CH17: First Pass Animation - Part 1

Now that we have our basic poses sketched in, Simon works into them, adding break-down poses as needed and refining the animation so that it does not follow a simple and mechanical looking linear interpolation from pose to pose.

CH18: First Pass Animation - Part 2

And the first pass animation run is completed in this chapter.

CH19: Refining - Part 1

Of course, first pass is not called first pass for nothing. Here Simon refines on the initial animation run, to add nuances and polish as needed.

CH20: Refining - Part 2

And with our animation reaching a high gleam, we wrap up work on our practical example, Heavy Metal Headache. You should now be ready to tackle your own first character animation!

Gnomon Workshop - Character Design for Animation Part 2

Gnomon Workshop - Character Design for Animation Part 2

Rls Date : 04/02/09 | Supplier : iNK H0RN

In this second in a two DVD series, Gil continues to develop Francis' and Paulo's designs into full-body orthographic and 3/4 views. The demonstration finally culminates in a ?look and feel? master shot posing the fighters in an alley behind Paulo's butcher shop. In the process, Gil reinforces the key principles from the first DVD: dynamic silhouettes, rhythms, graphic design and composition. He then explores the design brief further, introducing unique lighting approaches, shadow and light relationships, larger composition fundamentals, color treatments to complement the mood, and applying textures, atmosphere and visual effects to enhance the final result.

The Design Brief

Reference Gathering

Full Body Orthographic Views

3/4 Views

Graphic Design

Value Structures

Color Application

Look and Feel

Pitch and Idea Presentation

01: Orthographic View Full Body B&W Francis

02: 3/4 View Full Body B&W Francis

03: Orthographic View Full Body Color Francis

04: Orthographic View Full Body Color Paulo

05: Look and Feel B&W

06: Look and Feel Color

Source: http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/dvds/gri02.html

Gnomon Workshop - Character Design for Animation Part 1

Character Design for Animation Part 1-Gnomon Workshop | 1.69GB
Rls Date : 04/02/09 | Supplier : iNK H0RN

In this DVD, Gil Rimmer simultaneously develops two characters, Francis and Paulo, who are classic

pugilists in a fictional turn of the century metropolis. This first in a two DVD series focuses on creating the faces and heads of the two fighters, using dynamic silhouettes, rhythms, graphic design and composition principles. Gil stresses the various visual relationships within individual characters while addressing the complementary relationship between the two fighters. Through a methodical process, beginning with a design brief followed by reference gathering, through traditional approaches to silhouette design and ending on detailed ortho- graphic views and expression sheets, Gil shares his thoughts about the design process and its place in the animation production pipeline.

The Design Brief

Reference Gathering

Designing the Character Head

Traditional Approaches

Orthographic Views

Graphic Design

Value Structures

Color Application

Facial Expressions

Design Pipeline

01: The Brief

02: Head Design Paulo

03: Head Design Francis

04: Orthographic View B & W Francis

05: Orthographic View Color Francis

06: Orthographic View B & W Paulo

07: Orthographic View Color Paulo

More Info: http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/dvds/gri01.html

Learning 3D Character Animation with Jeff Lew

Learning 3D Character Animation with Jeff Lew | 3 DVDs | 828 + 827 + 814 MB

From the Lead Animator of Matrix Reloaded, the â€˜Learning 3D Character Animation with Jeff Lewâ€™ series is one of the few real character animation classes on DVD. There are so many how-to videos on the market showing you how to setup a character or model a character in a specific 3D software package, but very few training videos showing you actually how to animate a character in 3D.

This 3-part DVD series will teach you strong fundamentals necessary for creating great character animation in any 3D animation software package. This DVD series will also teach you how to animate efficiently and effectively on the computer, something you cannot learn from reading a book.

Jason Ryan - Animation Video Tutorials

Jason Ryan - Animation Video Tutorials | 3.54 GB

Language: English
Website: http://wwww.jasonryananimation.com/
Category: Jason Ryan Animation Teaching

Jason Ryan - Disney's animated guide network training courses

Disney released an animated guide Jason Ryan AnimationTutorial, Mainly through the traditional two-dimensional animation professor of theory and techniques to create three-dimensional animation. In this tutorial are based on two-dimensional small draft began, by drawing the key frame animation to represent each of these issues, and then in Maya In the achievement of these two-dimensional small draft, while each one is very animated cartoon, Walt Disney flavor! Throughout the tutorial covers all the animation theory, also a professor at the same time course curve of the understanding and regulation, expression animation, animated shows will be described in detail 11. This tutorial will not only use animated teaching, the role of setting and control ofSystemWill explain, we can know through these introduce foreign animators what kind of working environment, also find out the industry-standard animation process look like. But I think people expect that Jason will teach you the idea of character animation, animation, pre-thought and preparation should be what kind of, which inDomesticAt this stage of the training environment, it is also regarded as a right way bar!咱not only learn new skills but also learn from other people's ideas, so this tutorial should be very much looking forward to the people.

In addition Jason Ryan is itself a veteran of Disney animation guidance, but also Animation Mentor teachers, teaching experience, this time animated the introduction of the teaching should be very great value.

Over $1000 of high quality Maya and FlipBook animation Training, spanned over 18 lessons. This DVD containes Fully Animated Tutorials from "Basics to Advanced", concentrating on my "anti-technical" approach to Animation. It also contains a fully rigged character "Boris" and various free props to help you get started in this really amazing industry. Over $ 1000 of high quality Maya and FlipBook animation Training, spanned over 18 lessons. This DVD containes Fully Animated Tutorials from "Basics to Advanced", concentrating on my "anti-technical" approach to Animation. It also contains a fully rigged character "Boris "And various free props to help you get started in this really amazing industry.

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Ballistic Publishing: d'artiste: Matte Painting

Digital Tutors - Introduction to Maya 2009

Gnomon Workshop: Image Based Modeling : Advance

Gnomon Workshop - Maya Mental Ray: Global Illumination

CG Academy Animation Fundamentals 2 Adding Character

Gnomon Workshop - Character Design for Animation Part 2

Gnomon Workshop - Character Design for Animation Part 1

Learning 3D Character Animation with Jeff Lew

Jason Ryan - Animation Video Tutorials

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