The rigging section of this tutorial shows you how to get your model ready for animation and covers blend shapes, skeleton creation, painting weights for smooth deformations of your geometry, IK handles to move the legs, as well as adding hand and foot controls using locators and set driven keys.

The Matte Painting tutorial is a 39-page guide showing you, over five parts, the basics
of Matte Painting, whilst also giving some more advanced techniques in the final chapter.
Industry professional Tiberius Viris takes an interesting photograph and creates an
easy-to-follow set of tutorials about how to add varying conditions to this or any
other scene.

This exclusive digital painting DVD is a chance to watch and learn as you work on one of the most detailed portraits to date, starting with a blank canvas and ending with a personalised portrait of photorealistic detail.

Kent Lind teaches airbrush painting on shirt. Standard drawings: bubbles, hearts, stars, palm trees, eyes. In short then, with what it takes to start mastering the airbrush.

Guest instructor and illustrator extraordinaire Neil Phyfer presents a real-time tutorial on how to transform a sketch into an amazingly detailed digital painting. This lesson starts with Neil sketching and finishes with all the amazing detail that only a professional illustrator can add. The tutorial is broken into separate videos where you'll learn advanced Photoshop techniques for...

Matte painting affords seamless integration between an artist’s painting with live action film footage and allows for greater flexibility and creative input in the appearance of movie settings. This unique book reveals a variety of tools and techniques that are both industry and classroom tested and will enhance your existing skill set.

In this tutorial we will learn about the integration between 3ds Max and Vue xStream for creating digital environments. Throughout these lessons we will look at the basic parameters needed when constructing environments inside Vue. We will also look at building an efficient pipeline between 3ds Max and Vue. By the end of this tutorial, we will have gone over integrating seamless integration between multiple pieces of software in order to achieve our final image.

In this Illustrator tutorial we will focus on creating hand painted skateboard artwork that pays homage to vintage zombie comics. For many designers, Adobe Illustrator is a program they use daily for tasks such as building logos. While it’s tools and vector results make it perfect for these type of projects, as you might have guessed, it’s also a powerful painting program.

In this Photoshop tutorial we will look at the basic principles of designing a video game character utilizing Photoshop as a drawing and painting tool.
We'll learn about subjects such as sketching, design, rendering techniques and orthographic models sheets. We'll begin with the exploratory sketching phase, which is a stage where the concept artist produces loose grayscale sketches to communicate ideas to the team.

Finally! An easy way to give your photos that sought-after cartoon look. ToonIt! Photo uses Toonamation technology to process your image and create cartoon effects like shading and lines. This Adobe Photoshop cartoon plugin frees you from time consuming techniques like rotoscoping and hand painting. An easy-to-use interface and custom controls give you unlimited flexibility. Pre-made combinations of cartoon settings get you started quickly. No other cartooning solution produces such good results, especially with faces and figures.

Digital Character Painting Using Photoshop CS3 is a brilliantly illustrated, full-color book that combines both the fundamentals of character design and the skills of digital painting. Completely updated using Photoshop CS3 as the primary tool, the book details how to create characters that elicit specific emotions and how to beautifully render those characters by applying conventional painting skills to digital tools. Written for both the seasoned professional and aspiring artist alike, Digital Character Painting Using Photoshop CS3 explores the key principles of design and reveals how to enhance traditional skills and apply them to digital art for use in games, film, animation, and other commercial productions.

This book takes you outside the studio and walks you through the museum of life. This full color book combines traditional texture creation principles with digital texturing techniques to enhance your scenes and animations. In the first half of the book, you will learn about the history of textures in fine art and in the second half, how to apply these principles to your 2D and 3D digital scenes.

Corel Painter Essentials 4 is the simple to use home art studio that makes it easy for you to sketch, paint and turn your photos into paintings. Two new workspaces put the tools you need at your fingertips, whether you re turning a photo into a painting, or sketching and painting on a blank canvas. Based on the world s most powerful painting and illustration software, Corel Painter, it s the ideal way to get started with digital art!

Thirty-two designs for creating colorful stained glass dragons of every shape, mood, and attitude are featured in this guide. From the fearsome, fire-breathing Cernunnos to the freewheeling Gwydion who loves to dance and play; from Liorth the ice dragon, who patrols the North, to Elliot the baby dragon, who just needs someone to hug, dragon patterns for every occasion are provided. Each design includes tips for construction and a verse that further defines the personality of each of these mythological creatures. With full-color examples, this book provides inspiration to crafters who find creating their own designs a challenge. These designs can be used with other crafts such as quilting, appliquй, machine or hand embroidery, and silk or china painting.

Janine Jansen follows her first Decca album of violin favorites with this high-energy account of Vivaldi s four violin concertos, known and loved as The Four Seasons . The Dutch violinist leads her specially selected group of soloists in a fresh look at the most loved of all classical works. What gives this recording its tremendous freshness and sparkle is Janine s use of just one player per part. Gone is the heavy orchestral sound which is so familiar, this is a four seasons which sparkles with new life and energy, like a freshly cleaned old painting revealed in its true colors.

modo delivers the next evolution of 3D modeling, painting and rendering in a single integrated and accelerated package for the Mac and PC. And now, modo is a true end-to-end solution that includes true 3D sculpting tools, animation and network rendering!

AKVIS plugins for processing digital photographs: the restoration of old photos, removing defects, retouching, photocorrection, the creation of collage, painting pictures, making pictures in the picture. Full list of plugins and their detailed description is present.