Autodesk Flame
Industry-leading real-time visual effects design and compositing system.

Autodesk Flint
Advanced visual effects system for post-production and broadcast graphics.

Autodesk Inferno
The ultimate interactive design system for high-resolution visual effects.

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.
Released by: LinG
Upped by: YeYo
Size: 720 Mb.

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.

Released by: W3D
Upped by: YeYo
Size: 780 Mb.

“Rendering With MicroStation” is the newest title from the Bentley Institute Press. Written by Jerry Flynn, a leading MicroStation visualization expert, the book is a product of Flynn’s years of experience helping hundreds of firms and thousands of AEC professionals bring designs to color and life from within the design program.
• Architecture – Interior/exterior scenes or structural elements
• Civil Engineering – Sites, roads, bridges, signing, lighting, and more
• Plant Design – Interior/exteriors of complex industrial plants
• Geospatial – Use 3D data to render realistic landscapes

Whether you’re creating animation for television, advertising, games, or multimedia, [digital] Character Animation 3 can help you bring your imagination to life. In this updated classic, both newcomers to digital animation and old hands looking to hone existing skills will find essential techniques for creating lively, professional-quality animation that are applicable to any software application. Combining the fundamentals of modeling, rigging, and animation with advanced-level information on characterization, directing, and production management, author George Maestri has created an essential resource for digital animators.

Transform flat drawings and concepts into impressive 3D visualizations that will amaze your clients with the comprehensive instruction you’ll find in Mastering Autodesk VIZ 2007. Written by VIZ experts, this book shows you how to get the most out of the latest version of Autodesk’s powerful 3D design, modeling, and animation tool with an in-depth, tutorial-based approach grounded in real-world examples.

This new edition has been fully updated and revised to cover all of Autodesk VIZ 2007’s new features—asset tracking, revamped Xrefs, an updated interface, and the improved rendering and editing tools—and it’s packed with professional techniques you can apply immediately to your own work for striking results. Whether you’re new to VIZ or simply want to master the latest features, this book offers the clear explanations and step-by-step instructions you need to create, animate, and render realistic architectural visualizations with VIZ 2007.

Spark your creativity with the world’s most popular animation software and the detailed instruction in this power-packed book from an industry expert. If you’re new to 3ds Max, jump right in with a Quick Start program that will have you modeling and rendering a complete image your first day. Experienced users, discover exciting new Max 8 features such as a new module for hair and fur, a new cloth system, and much more. This comprehensive book covers every feature, and it’s loaded with professional techniques and full color examples to inspire you.

One look and you’ll see this Maya book is different from all the others. It presents core Maya features visually, using pages that are packed with beautiful graphics and loaded with detailed explanations on every crucial feature of Maya’s interface. Engaging step-by-step tutorials provide hands-on reinforcement for what you’ve learned.Maya at a Glance is the perfect introduction and reference to the Academy Award® winning Maya 3D animation and effects software.

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.