This five part series will focus on the topic of setting up a variety of lighting rigs that reflect natural lighting at different times of the day and manmade interior lighting. Each of the chapters will use the same base scene as a starting point, and will show a step by step guide to finding a lighting and rendering solution that best reflects the desired lighting situation.

The tutorials will explain the type of lights used and how to set up the parameters along with talking about the different methods of tackling the subject. The manipulation of textures may also be covered in order to turn a daylight scene into night scene for example. The artists will also look at some useful post production techniques in Photoshop in order to enhance a final still.

The Fundamentals of Interior Architecture offers an introduction to the key elements involved in the creation of aesthetically appealing and practically appropriate interior architecture.

The book contains five sections, which together encapsulate the principle ideas, skills and knowledge that are employed in effective interior architecture and design. Areas of study include space and form, site and function, materials and texture, light and mood, and presentation and representation. Emphasis is placed on spatial solutions that support the needs of the client and which recognise the qualities of the building and its situation. Each chapter uses theory and contemporary and historical references to illustrate the richness and diversity of design practice.

Using examples taken from work created by contemporary practitioners, The Fundamentals of Interior Architecture offers a unique insight into the principles and processes that underpin the work of the professional interior designer. The book includes practitioner biographies and work from leading designers, such as Blacksheep, Bluebottle, Jonathan Stickland, Universal Design Studio and Virgile & Stone.

* Offers readers an introduction to the key ideas that inform interior architecture design.

* Each chapter draws upon theory as well as contemporary and historical references to illustrate the richness and diversity of design practice.

* Includes a ‘Buildings of Interest’ directory and information.

* The discipline-specific titles in our Fundamentals range are aimed at students embarking on further education and offer a thorough grounding in the subject.

* This book provides students with an understanding of the basic concepts of interior architecture, before they move into more specific areas of expertise.

Archinteriors vol. 2 gives you 10 textured and shadered visualization scenes ready to be rendered.

In this DVD, Michael Pavlovich takes up where he left off on the ZBrush 3.5 Comprehensive Video. With the release of ZBrush 4 comes many new amazing features and Michael explores them in detail. He first starts off with an overview and then goes straight into many new modifiers, from there he gets into the many new brushes and settings included. Michael then goes into the new subtool features, shadowbox, layers, and then an extremely detailed overview of spotlight. From there he goes into Timeline, UV Master, Transpose, Materials, and Rendering with BPR. Finally there is a bonus chapter included that goes over the creation of the characters body.

This DVD is perfect for those who want to get the most out of ZBrush 4's many new features and put them to use making amazing character right now.

About the Instructor:

Michael Pavlovich has been in the game industry since graduating from the Ringling School of Art and Design in 2005. Starting as an environment artist, Michael has worked on several titles for multiple platforms, at both Electronic Arts and Sony Online Entertainment. Michael is currently a Senior Character Artist at SOE, Austin.

Archinteriors vol. 1 includes ten textured and shadered visualization scenes ready to be rendered.

In this series of lessons we will explore the various techniques and some helpful tips for setting up realistic lighting for an interior scene using V-Ray for Maya.

The ability to set up realistic lighting for an interior environment is a skill that is highly sought after in the CG industry. Problems to overcome, arise with every digital set. So we will be covering a lot of very common issues that you will want to be aware of such as using V-Ray lights to create physically-accurate light behavior, achieving realistic light bouncing in our scene, optimizing our render speed, using V-Ray materials to simulate a variety of surface types, using an external image-editing application to add some finishing touches to our renders, as well as many other tips, tricks, and techniques that will help you become a stronger, more effective rendering artist in V-Ray.

1. Introduction and project overview

2. Establishing proper scene scale when rendering

3. Setting up the primary light source for our scene

4. Adding secondary illumination sources to our scene

5. Finishing the rough lighting of our scene

6. Adding V-Ray materials to the floor and ceiling

7. Refining the V-Ray floor material for our room

8. Applying V-Ray materials to the chair in our scene

9. Creating materials and textures for the pillows

10. Adding materials to the rug and artwork in our room

11. Adding materials to the table in our room

12. Creating materials for the oranges in our room

13. Rendering Maya Smooth Mesh objects in V-Ray

14. Adding translucency to the curtains

15. Making final quality adjustments to our render

16. Using Photoshop to add final touches to our render

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Maya 2011: Creating Textures and Shaders with Eric Keller shows how to create textures and materials, and then apply them to models to render realistic surfaces. The course covers working with the mental ray shading nodes, including the mental images architectural node, subsurface scattering nodes, occlusion, and car paint shaders, as well as how to incorporate these nodes into shading networks using the Hypershade editor. It also explores using textures, Maya software nodes, normal maps, and displacement maps for adding detail to models. Exercise files accompany the course.

* Understanding shading concepts

* Simulating the Fresnel effect for realistic reflections

* Rendering transparent and translucent surfaces

* Comparing mental ray and Maya standard shaders

* Introducing the mia_material

* Developing shader networks

* Using subsurface scattering shaders

* Mapping polygon UV coordinates

* Incorporating texture nodes into networks

* Improving skin detail with ambient occlusion

* Painting bump maps

* Creating normal and displacement maps

* Troubleshooting maps

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Maya 2011 Lighting and Rendering in mental ray with Eric Keller shows how to master practical mental ray techniques for rendering models created in Maya. This course walks through the most efficient and innovative mental ray techniques, including direct versus indirect lighting methods, creating different types of shadows, using the new ShadowMap camera, and reusing shadow and final gathering maps. A chapter on optimizing render times and enhancing render quality is also included. Exercise files are included with the course.

* Understanding computer-generated lighting

* Creating depth map and ray traced shadows

* Softening and shaping shadows

* Working with global illumination

* Lighting with the caustic settings

* Applying physical and portal shaders

* Adding depth of field with the Bokeh shader

* Splitting a scene into render layers

* Comparing render passes and render layers

In this DVD, Instructor Tony Reynolds takes you through the process of creating and rendering out a portrait using Mental Ray in Maya 2011. Tony starts off by taking a previously sculpted head from ZBrush and shows you how to prepare and export the model for Maya. From there he goes into great detail on all the Maya setup and settings, lighting with Mental Ray, simple and advanced skin shader setup, skin textures, rendering eyes, rendering teeth, rendering a tongue, creating hair for the face and head, using render layers, and compositing the render layers in Photoshop.

About the Instructor:

Tony Reynolds has been training in the visual arts from a young age, and started his video game career in 2005. He has worked at Electronic Arts and Sony Online Entertainment, Austin, where he is currently the Lead Senior Character and Technical Artist.

Project Files: Included are the Maya files, ZBrush files, .obj files, renders, textures, and final .psd as shown in the DVD.

AV Bros. Puzzle Pro is an extremely high quality, powerful and flexible filter plug-in (8bf) for Adobe® Photoshop® and compatible hosts.

Puzzle Pro 2.2 greatly increases your creativity and productivity and thanks to both the superb engine and the convenient graphic user interface it gives you absolute control over the process of creating the desired effect. And although AV Bros. Puzzle Pro 2.2 is targeted to help you create a jig-saw puzzle effect, it also produces a plethora of various high quality image effects.

This is the physical DVD edition which will ship to your address, you may also be interested in the immediate download option.

Introduction to R12 is a complete starter course with 5 hours of tuition for anyone just starting with CINEMA 4D. Targetted towards someone who is currently using Photoshop or After Effects, or anyone currently using an old or low-end 3D application that is looking to move up to a professional piece of software.

Matthew takes you through everything from setting your projects up, adjusting preferences to make your life easier, through all the expected areas such as modelling, lighting, animation, texturing and rendering.

Everything is explained clearly and tips about common mistakes and misunderstandings are explained so that you don't get stuck. This DVD is suitable for all versions of CINEMA 4D R12 but does predominantly cover the features found in the Prime edition. Some extra pointers are mentioned though so that users of other versions such as Broadcast and Studio know where to look if they wish to read up on specific extra features which might help them.

* General application guide

* Modeling, from simple spline-based to full poly editing

* Animation

* Materials and textures

* Setting up renders

* Particle systems

* Easy object deformation

* Which buttons you shouldn't worry about

Dieses Video-Training ihr Reiseführer in das noch weithin unentdeckte Reich der Lab-Bildbearbeitung. Traditionell erfolgt die Bearbeitung von Bildern im RGB-Modus. Durch die Trennung von Helligkeits- und Farbkanälen bietet der Lab-Modus interessante Alternativen und oftmals überraschende Bearbeitungsmöglichkeiten.

Im ersten Block lernen Sie die Grundlagen kennen. Umwandlung in Lab, wie hell kann dass hellste Blau sein oder ist ein dunkles Grün in Lab noch zu erkennen? sind nur einige der Fragen, die beantwortet werden.

Der Erleichterung des Workflows ist ein weiteres Kapitel gewidmet, denn nur wenn ihre „Werkstatt“ gut eingerichtet ist, können Sie darin auch gut arbeiten. Mit eigenen Tastaturkürzeln und Aktionen richten Sie so Ihre persönliche Umgebung ein.

Die Füllmethoden stellen ein zentrales Element der Bearbeitung im Lab-Modus dar. Nach einer Präsentation der einzelnen Füllmethodengruppen mit ihrer Wirkungsweise stelle Ihnen Michael Jordan quasi als Zusammenfassung die von ihm entwickelte Füllmethodentafel vor. Sie kann Ihre Arbeit enorm erleichtern und liegt diesem Video-Training bei. Die Lektionen zu Bild- und Kanalberechnungen sowie den Fülloptionen runden diesen Teil ab.

Wie Sie mit der Gradationskurve oder der Tonwertkorrektur im Lab-Modus monochrome Bilder erzeugen oder tonen, eigene Bild-Looks gestalten, mit Ebenen und Bildberechnungen gezielt bestimmte Tonwertbereiche auswählen oder den Tiefen-Lichter Filter in Lab anwenden, sind weitere wichtige Themengebiete dieses Trainings. Die Strategien beim Schärfen - nicht nur in Lab - werden im letzten „Grundlagenkapitel“ besprochen.

Praktische Schritt-für-Schritt-Bearbeitungsbeispiele aus beliebten Themengebieten wie Architektur, Landschaft oder Porträt runden das Training ab. Dort finden die Techniken aus den Grundlagen in konzentrierter Form ihre Anwendung.

Aus dem Inhalt:

Grundlagen

Im ersten Kapitel bekommen Sie einen Überblick, wie Sie den Lab-Modus richtig nutzen und anwenden. Sie lernen die wichtigen Unterschiede der drei Farbmodi RGB, CMYK und Lab und einiges mehr.

Die Werkstatt einrichten

Um schneller ans Ziel zu gelangen, zeigt Ihnen Michael Jordan in diesem Kapitel, wie mit Tastaturkürzel und Aktionen gearbeitet wird.

Wahlfreiheit

Wie Sie ein Bild in den unterschiedlichsten Kanälen öffnen, ist Inhalt dieses Kapitels. Nutzen Sie alle zehn Kanäle, die ein Bild hat, um Ihre Aufnahmen zu optimieren!

Füllmethoden, Fülloptionen, Bild- und Kanalberechnungen

In der Einführung in die Füllmethoden lernen Sie die beiden ersten Methoden "Normal" und "Sprenkeln" kennen und widmen sich anschließend den unterschiedlichsten Bild- und Kanalberechnungen.

Schwarzweiß

Das Ein- bzw. das Umfärben ist Inhalt dieses Kapitels. Sehen Sie zunächst die Wandlung in Schwarzweiß und danach die Einfärbung mittels Tonwertkorrektur.

Spezielle Techniken

Spezielle Situationen erfordern angepasste Techniken: lassen Sie sich zeigen, was Sie mit Hilfe des Raw-Konverters und der Tonwertauswahl bewerkstelligen können, wie der Trick mit dem Gamma bei unterbelichteten Bildern Wunder wirkt, was bei missglückten Spitzlichtern hilft oder wie Farbstiche und Rauschen elegant in den Griff zu kriegen sind und noch viele andere Techniken mehr.

Kanalarbeit

Wie Ihnen die Kanäle hilfreich sein werden, demonstriert Ihnen Michael Jordan in den Filmen dieses Kapitels.

Lab in Landschafts-, Architektur- und Porträtfotografie

Wie sich der Lab-Modus bei Landschafts-, Architektur- und Porträtfotografie verhält und wie Sie mit seiner Hilfe spezifische Probleme bearbeiten, erfahren Sie im abschließenden Kapitel.

World Sabaku is a new science-fantasy series - based on themes from the 1960's and 1970's of science fiction and science fantasy television and movie themes. Here you won't find a lofty extension of the internet, but instead find buttons, levers and heroism on the desert planet of Sabaku.

This series includes a 3DS format, Poser 6+ Prop PP2, Bryce BR5 and Vue VOB version. Includes an �unwrapped� medium resolution texture map (2048x2048). Some models also include transparency maps for windows.

See the Hightlights page and the announcement for each model for detailed information on the model.

* WSSFV101 World Sabaku Power Station

* WSSFV102 World Sabaku Water Collection Station

* WSSFV103 World Sabaku Plebian Apartments

* WSSFV104 World Sabaku Police Station

* WSSFV105 World Sabaku Pilot's Bar

* WSSFV106 World Sabaku Space Port

* WSSFV107 World Sabaku Transport Repair Station

* WSSFV108 Bonus Model - Medical Response Center