KeyShot (sort of formerly known as HyperShot), is a cross platform (Windows and OS X) progressive rendering system that�s perhaps one of the easiest to use on the market.

KeyShot can already import data from a wide range of systems using a variety of formats. IGES, STEP and OBJ are the standards as well as Rhino, SketchUp and Pro/E. For this release, there�s been some heavy work done on allowing the user to import from both Autodesk�s Alias (using the .wire file on Windows and OS X), Siemens� Solid Edge (PC only) as well as some improvements in the existing tools (Pro/E is now cross platform).

You've decided to start your own blog - congratulations! Knowing what you want to say is the easy part, but if you're new to blogging, figuring out how to set up a blog can be a daunting task. But don't walk away from the computer! The Complete Idiot's Mini Guide to Creating Your Own Wordpress.com Blog teaches you the basics of the #1 publishing application in the world. You'll learn everything you need to know to create, customize, manage, and share your own WordPress blog, including: *Designing your blog theme *Creating and publishing posts *Using plug-ins and widgets *Adding subscribers

Basic. This is the key word in Scenic Design and Lighting Tecniques: A Basic Guide for Theatre, written by two seasoned professionals with over twenty years of experience. This book is designed to show you how to turn a bare stage into a basic set design, without using heavy language that would bog you down. From materials and construction to basic props and lighting, this book explains all you will need to know to build your set and light it.

* Be inspired by the images of real productions and learn from the instructional images

* Learn from designer's concepts and drawings from actual professional and university productions

* Know that after reading this book, you'll be equiped with exactly what you NEED to know to design your stage scenery and lighting

Contents

*SECTION 1, BUILDING THE SET: What do I need? The Building Blocks of a Scenic Design; What are they made of? Scenic Construction Materials; What tools do I use? Scence Shop Tools and Techniques; How do I assemble it? Building the Building Blocks;

*SECTION 2, CREATING THE ENVIRONMENT: What do I need? Interpreting the Script for its Basic Scenic Needs; What should it look like? Creating the World of the Script; How do I get them to build it? Communicating Your Ideas; How do I get them to believe it? Adding Realistic Details; How does this all come together? Summary;

*SECTION 3, LIGHTING THE SET: The Basics of Light; Special Effects Lighting

Moofe Ltd. is a UK-based photography company who specializes in supplying images and backplates which they have photographed all over the world for CGI projects. These guys are obsessed with quality and have a tremendous collection of great shots from their many treks around the globe. They are also modo users; and through special arrangement Luxology is able to offer a handy collection of their imagery – along with rights to use in your own projects – in our latest HDRE Kit for modo.

HDRE Kits from Luxology

HDRE Kits are collections of photo-based environments that provide subtle and realistic lighting to your models. By combining high-quality HDRI panoramas with matching background plates, these High Dynamic Range Environments provide modo users with the power of image-based lighting with an incredibly simple workflow. Simply choose your location from the Assembly preset browser, select a background plate from the visual HDRE Card View, and then fine tune the shot with the HDRE heads up display (HUD). Photorealism was never so simple.

The perfect companion for taking the Microsoft Office suite to the Mac!

So you finally got a Mac, but you’re not looking forward to figuring out how Office works in a different environment? No worries! All you need is Microsoft Office 2008 For Mac All-in-One For Dummies to learn the fundamentals of Office 2008. With six books in one, it shows you how to use every Office 2008 for Mac application, so you can start getting things done right away.

Written by Microsoft MVPs, Microsoft Office 2008 For Mac All-in-One For Dummies provides a user-friendly guide on how to master all the programs: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Entourage. This book explores ways to:

* Use the new galleries to find features, formats, wizards, templates, and recently used files

* Create your own templates on Excel and open Web pages in HTML format

* Take advantage of PowerPoint by adding animation to your slides, inserting music from your iTunes library, and fine-tuning the timing

* Organize your schedule on My Day, handle contacts and e-mail, and manage a database—all through Entourage

* Manage projects of all sizes on the Project Center

* Use all the applications together, and to their full potential

With this all-in-one reference, you’ll become an expert on sharing files with Windows users, integrating Office 2008 with iLife and other Mac applications, and working with Office and Web 2.0, as well as other common business tasks. This book makes it that easy!

This Playmate calendar include follow girls:

Myo Ling, Katie Steiner, Nadin Matthes, Estefania Wieland, Vivien Cetin, Iris Bakker, Anna-Maria Kagerer,

Silvia Hauten, Bernadette Kaspar, Jannina Hofmann, Monika Kalisz, Miriam Markov and Julia Schober.

Lighting La Ruelle is an outdoor illumination eBook that focuses on lighting a base scene under very different atmospheric conditions. The tutorial covers how to build a light rig and set up the renderer to portray an environment, which includes fog/mist, sunrise/sunset, moonlight, midday sun and overcast.

Throughout the five chapters Luciano Iurino provides a step-by-step account of how the scene can be transformed into one of the above environments, encompassing a range of techniques that will present a comprehensive insight into both lighting and rendering exterior scenes.

Lighting La Ruelle is an outdoor illumination eBook that focuses on lighting a base scene under very different atmospheric conditions. The tutorial covers how to build a light rig and set up the renderer to portray an environment, which includes fog/mist, sunrise/sunset, moonlight, midday sun and overcast.

Throughout the five chapters Andrew Finch provides a step-by-step account of how the scene can be transformed into one of the above environments, encompassing a range of techniques that will present a comprehensive insight into both lighting and rendering exterior scenes.

In this course we will cover tools and techniques for curve-based facial rigging in Maya.

We'll take the Facial Action Coding System approach of controls muscles to mold facial expressions. Step by step, we'll construct a facial control rig that is robust, sufficient, and animator-friendly. We'll learn everything from how to deform a mesh by a curve's shape, to creating controls for those curves that will provide the animator with the functionality they need to create entertaining facial animations. We'll also learn how utilize nodes and expressions to automate certain components of our control rig. By the end of this course, you'll have the fund of knowledge you need to create your own curve-based control rigs that produce natural and appealing facial expressions.

1. Introduction and Project Overview

2. Driving the New Mesh of the Animation Character

3. Setting up the Joints of the Facial Rig

4. Adding Tools to a Custom Shelf

5. Building the Curves that will Deform the Face

6. Adding the Facial Curves as Influence Objects

7. Wrapping up the Initial Weight Pass of the Facial Curves

8. Refining the Weights of the Brows and Orbicularis Curves

9. Fine-tuning the Deformations of the Mouth Curves

10. Finalizing the Weights of the Buccinators

11. Controlling the Facial Curves with Clusters

12. Mirroring Influence Weights/Setting up Brow Controls

13. Creating Controls for the Orbicular Curves

14. Building Controls for the Buccinators and Zygomatic Curves

15. Starting on the Lip Controls

16. Adding Clusters to the Driver Curve for the Lips

17. Creating Groups for the Lip Controls

18. Attaching the Lip Controls to the Driver Curve with an Expression

19. Finishing up the Connections of the Lip Controls and Driver Curve

20. Connecting the Zygomatic Controls to their Driver Curves

21. Correcting the Weights Around the Corners of the Mouth

22. Rigging the Nose

23. Creating a Jaw Control/Blocking in the Weights of the Jaw Bone

24. Automating the Corner Lip Controls to Follow the Jaw

25. Wrapping up the Automation of the Corner Lip Controls

26. Setting up the Lower Lip Controls to Move with the Jaw

27. Finishing the Connections Between the Lower Lip Controls and the Jaw

28. Refining the Deformations of the Jaw

29. Shifting the Lower Lip Controls as the Jaw Rotates in the Y Axis

30. Closing in the Gaps Around the Lips When the Mouth Closes

31. Setting up the Lip Rolls

32. Tweaking the Facial Rig

33. Creating the Tongue Bones/Binding the Tongue

34. Rigging the Tongue Controls

35. Stretching the Tongue

36. Tying the Facial Controls to the Control Rig

37. Connecting the Blend Shape Controls to the Animation Controls

38. Finishing the Setup of the Animation Facial Controls

39. Cleaning up the Scene

40. Creating a Sub Character Set for the Facial Controls

41. Exploring a Technique for Correcting Deformations in the Face

'Introduction to Elements' is the essential all-round resource pack for all users of Adobe Photoshop Elements 7. Bestselling author Philip Andrews has refined this industry-standard resource over numerous editions, to bring you exactly the information you need to get right up to speed with the software, cut out wasted time in your workflow, and consistently achieve photographic results you can be proud of.

Philip approaches the subject of Photoshop Elements in a straightforward and accessible style. As a working photographer, he brings an in-depth understanding of the image-manipulation needs of photographers, and the best ways to meet them to his teaching. In the words of one reviewer: 'he comes across as a friend, who wants you to succeed'. His approach is always practical, with an emphasis on clarity. Step-by-step tutorials guide you through every essential Elements process, from image import right through to optimised output for print, web, and email, using a winning combination of inspiring images, clear screenshots and clean prose. Key subjects covered include: layers and selections, combining text with images, 'painting' tools, stiching, scrapbooking and file management. Additionally, the accompanying Website features over 2 hours of video tutorials to further boost your knowledge.

Completely overhauled for Elements 7, this resource is right up-to-date for photographers using the latest edition of this powerful software. Whatever your Elements level, you will find a wealth of invaluable advice in the pages of this book.

* Essential reference for all things Elements, fully updated for version 7

* Includes Website featuring over 2 hours of invaluable video tutorials to help you get up to speed quickly

* Written by renowned Elements guru and bestselling author Philip Andrews

Get a nice fantasy cloth pack for Mavka by Smay.

Conforming Suit and slippers, cap,glasses and a bed.

A few poses for Mavka and sweet styles for the clothes.

Product Requirements: Poser6 UP, and with / Mavka by Smay/ Not tested in DS

It's rare to find good, comprehensive books on drawing the anatomy. Each of these the first, the return of a classic; the second, a focused study; and the third, lessons from the masters deserves a place on library shelves. Bridgman was a legendary teacher at New York's Art Students' League. There, he originated a system of drawing known as "constructive anatomy." In 1952, his seven books on anatomy were gathered into one volume, which became a standard work at art schools and universities. Published now for the first time in paperback, it holds up as an indispensable volume, with more than 200 illustrations of hands and hundreds of images of arms, shoulders, heads, torsos, legs, knees, and feet. Fairley's book concentrates on those troublesome extremities hands and feet. Sketchbook exercises are followed by eight detailed painting demonstrations in watercolor, oil, and other media. Fairley then continues on to portraits in which variations in age, skin tone, composition, mood, and movement are integrated. Advanced students will find Hale and Coyle's Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters a rich source of inspiration. Hale, like Bridgman, was one of the great teachers at the Art Students' League. His student, Coyle, gathered together Hale's famous lectures to produce this compendium. Hale drew on principles found in 100 masterpieces by such artists as Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rubens, Raphael, D?rer, Titian, and Rembrandt. In 1995, Giovanni Civardi's trilogy Drawing Human Anatomy (Sterling, 1995), Drawing the Female Nude (Sterling, 1995), and Drawing the Male Nude (LJ 3/15/96. o.p.) reached a high standard for good, basic books in this genre. These three surpass Civardi's works and are highly recommended for serious artists and comprehensive library collections.