Adobe Acrobat Connect lets team members quickly collaborate and communicate on projects using its screen-sharing, teleconferencing and whiteboarding features, which can also be powerful tools for online training and support. In Getting Started with Acrobat Connect, instructor Tim Plumer explains how to use Connect’s key features to save time, improve productivity, and he also demonstrates how to use Connect in collaboration with other applications.

Encore DVD 2.0 Essential Training demonstrates each step involved in authoring a DVD with Encore DVD 2.0. From planning a project, gathering content, and creating navigation to bit budgeting, authoring (creating and burning), and testing, instructor Chad Perkins teaches users how to complete a professional DVD project. Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.

Good business depends on good communication, and Acrobat Connect Professional can help facilitate the process. Instructor Tim Plumer has spent more than a decade teaching people how to best utilize Acrobat in business. In these tutorials, he demonstrates in detail how to use Adobe’s latest professional-level meeting, presentation, and instructional tool to its fullest potential. He shows how to use the application to bring people together via online meetings in real time, with the ability to collaborate at various levels with other participants and control content flow. He also covers how to deliver smart presentations with or without audience participation, and how to use Acrobat Connect Professional with work teams in various locations to share files and streamline communication. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

Autodesk 3ds max 8 is a mature, robust, full-featured 3D modeling and animation application used by the world’s top 3D professional artists and designers to create eye-catching visual effects, cutting-edge games, and unique design visualizations. It features a powerful built-in scripting language, MAXScript. Its Character Studio and “biped” features, offer rich character animation functionality. Pelt mapping makes applying textures to complex characters faster and easier. In this advanced tutorial, Virtual Training Company author Michael Thomas Green focuses on MAXScript, Character Studio and biped, as well as new features in 3ds max 8, such as cloth, hair and pelt mapping.” A perfect follow up to VTC’s discreet 3ds max 7 Tutorial by the same author. To get started learning 3ds max 8 today, simply click on the links.
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The precise judging of tonal values provides the underlying structure of a portrait. No other factor is more important to the portrait’s success. This video explains the bases on which these critical judgments are made… the six kinds of tone… the nine-tone value scale… “reading” values… making a tonal study of simple objects… making a tonal study of complex objects… Relationship of light and shade in portraiture. 90 minutes.

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When light is projected through a medium like atmosphere, water, or a field of very fine particulate matter such as smoke, water vapor, or dust, it illuminates that medium. Maya does not do this in the same way as the real world. However Maya can simulate this phenomenon with Light Fog. While in the real world the effect is a result of the atmosphere and is independent of the lights, in Maya this fog is added to and adjusted for each light seperately. Not only can light fog be used to recreate natural phenomena, but it can be used to simulate plasma, vorticies, spells, and a number of particle-like effects, without the overhead of creating and managing particles.

On this DVD Scott walks you through the industrial design rendering techniques that he employs within Adobe Photoshop®. He quickly demonstrates draft view sketching before scanning one of the sketches that will be rendered to a photo-real level. During the rendering of a bicycle, Scott discusses basic lighting and reflection strategies to indicate a variety of materials and colors. Watch along, and by the end of the DVD, you will see all of steps taken in Adobe Photoshop® to transform the initial loose sketch into a very real looking object.

In this DVD, Ethan Summers shares his techniques for e-on’s Vue Infinite, an amazing landscape creation tool and general purpose rendering engine capable of handling scenes as large as 50 billion polygons. Starting at an introductory level, Ethan covers all the main windows and functions within Vue. He then discusses more advanced topics including strategies for creating ecosystems, methods for designing realistic terrains, and ultimately how to employ DEM maps through the function editor and in conjunction with Maya. Ethan also covers XStream, e-on’s new plug-in for achieving seamless lighting and render integration with Maya and Max.