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This highly anticipated training kit from freelance particle and destruction effects guru Anselm v. Seherr-Thoss focuses on many of the advanced subjects for getting the most of the popular Particle Flow plug-in technologies: Box 1 (now included as part of 3ds Max 2010) and Box 3 Pro. This training course will give new users and intermediate professionals alike the ability to assemble complex Particle Flow systems using these advanced plug-in technologies.
Create effects ranging from scripted fracturing of objects to using sound files to affect your particles' behavior. Tutorials that explain, ocean wakes, nanomites and precise alignment of particles to objects are included in this training course. Ansi takes you step-by-step through each effect and provides you with the start and end scene files to explore and dissect on your own as well. And as a little something extra, the training comes with over 20 bonus scene files that you can dive into on your own to see how Ansi creates some of the killer effects he's responsible for daily.

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From A to Z, Vue materials, how they work and interact. This series contain 42 tutorials. Design to cover all aspects of creating and modifying any materials with in Vue application.
Vue xStream - professional program for the simulation of landscapes, animation and rendering natural three-dimensional environments, has integration modules with software 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, LightWave, Maya and Softimage. Vue xStream 9 is designed for CG professionals can create and edit any scene, and provides many unique capabilities to create a landscape.

This series contain 22 tutorials that are designed specifically for beginners who’ve just started exploring the Vue application. Intermediate users who want a quick update on the new features in the Vue 8 application, will also benefit from this series. Each episode will guide you step by step, resulting in the creation of a complete project
Vue xStream - professional program for the simulation of landscapes, animation and rendering natural three-dimensional environments, has integration modules with software 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, LightWave, Maya and Softimage. Vue xStream 9 is designed for CG professionals can create and edit any scene, and provides many unique capabilities to create a landscape.
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Vue xStream - professional program for the simulation of landscapes, animation and rendering natural three-dimensional environments, has integration modules with software 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, LightWave, Maya and Softimage. Vue xStream 9 is designed for CG professionals can create and edit any scene, and provides many unique capabilities to create a landscape.

Any scene can be downloaded directly to your favorite program, including your entire ecosystem, all types of atmospheres, cameras, lighting, plants, landscapes, etc. Because some items are special (eg, ecosystem), xStream uses OpenGL technology to display their more clearly and quickly. You can choose to enable this option or change the screen resolution to speed up loading of large scenes. Autonomous scene created in xStream, stored in a format vue combined scenes are saved in native format 3D-applications, or may be divided into the format 3D applications and vue format. In the latter case the native scene in 3D-applications will refer to the vue scene.

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In this DVD, John presents the process of creating an underwater effects shot, thoroughly explaining each step of the process from inception to completion. Starting with an ocean bottom and a camera move, John shows how to create underwater atmospheric conditions such as floating particulate matter, photo-real bubbles, water fog and caustic light rippling down through a wavy sea surface. John then uses Maya's Dynamics syst ... Read more »

In this series of lessons we'll learn how to take some footage and move it through the entire MatchMover to Maya to Nuke pipeline to create a finished shot.

We'll begin this project by solving four of our shots in MatchMover and combining them in Maya into a cohesive 3d scene. Then we'll create our last camera in Maya and match it. Once all our camera are set-up, we'll learn how to model our object, create dynamics, animate, texture and render our scene. We'll then jump into Nuke to do some color treatment on our backgrounds and then composite our layers together. Now, this is a long project that will take some time to complete. If you get stuck or have any questions, please join our forums and ask. We c ... Read more »

In this series of lessons we will be taking an introductory look at many of the rendering features found in V-Ray for Maya.

Using the V-Ray rendering engine, we can create highly realistic renders inside of Maya, but understanding how to properly use the rendering features of V-Ray is of critical importance. In these lessons we will explore many tools and concepts of V-Ray such as the various methods for simulating global illumination and understanding when each of these methods should be used. We will also look at the specialized V-Ray lights and how to properly use these lights in order to achieve a high degree of realism. We will also learn how to utilize the V-Ray Sun and Sky to create realistic outdoor lighting, we will learn how to util ... Read more »