This book is intended as a travel guide, an atlas to the Blender World. Everything you need to bring your creative ideas to fruition is inside. Developed originally as an in-house tool for a leading European animation studio, Blender is capable of creating broadcast-quality videos and has been used in hundreds of professional productions for major corporations. Find out how you can use the Blender software to create professional 3D graphics packages at a fraction of the cost and size of comparable products. Explore Blender’s versatile animation system, contemporary modeling principles, advanced rendering tools, deformation tools, inverse kinematics, and post-production editor. Soon you’ll be creating commercials and other broadcast-quality content, as well as multimedia and 3D game content. CD includes full version of Blender V2.03. ItemID: 0761535136

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This DVD is using a brand new way to understand how to model in Autodesk Maya 8.5. Inside this DVD , you will enjoy lectures with friendly atmosphere teaching style and detailing explanations. Included NURBS surface, Curves, Polygon ,Subdivision and nCloth Modeling. This is the prefect self – training DVD for Beginner in Maya.

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This is quite simply the most comprehensive set of Maya training DVDs available, and exclusively created by 3D Buzz. It has been carefully structured to transform even the complete beginner into an intermediate to advanced Maya user. Covering three projects from start to finish, ‘Mastering Maya: The Fundamentals’ is your key to becoming a true Maya master. From beginner to expert, this single product will push your education further than any other Maya training available today.

BONUS CONTENT – Advanced Techniques
This highly technical section will also discuss the variety of utility nodes found within Maya, a part of the application that was designed to allow various controls of shading and texturing networks. Through a series of detailed lectures, you will see how these nodes can also be applied in a variety of other circumstances, allowing you to bypass a great deal of overhead on your computer as you make adjustments to any aspect of your scene, from controlling moti (more…)

Focus On 3D Models covers today’s most popular 3D model formats! Every programmer can take advantage of this 3D model and animation reference because it contains models that range from simple to complex based upon the skills and knowledge of the programmer and their intended use. Beginners can experiment with the easy-to-use basic 3D model formats. Intermediate and advanced programmers can expand their 3D modeling skills by mastering other popular formats presented in this book. The CD contains all source code from the book (including the necessary media and executables), Gmax, Paint Shop Pro 7 demo, Milkshape 3D, sample 3D models, and various freeware and shareware modeling programs.

About the Author
After programming for several years, Evan Pipho discovered gamedev.net in mid-2000 and immediately became a devoted gamer. At age 17, Evan has already tackled DirectDraw, Direct3D, and OpenGL in addition to co-creating Ngine.

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The Toy Man 2007 Product Review: The content quality of Care for Kids: The Essential Guide to Preparing Caregivers was well above average. The lessons and examples were simple, real-life, and easy to understand. The approach used has a strong influence in causing caregivers to desire to learn more from additional sources. It makes the labors of caregiving more fully understood. As stated before, Care for Kids: The Essential Guide to Preparing Caregivers is well above average in its scoring for this category… The educational value is incredible with this product. It is very well structured with a logical flow for maximum educational potential for caregivers who are fully experienced as well as those who are new to this work. This demonstrates the true value of the educational value of this product. Skill Improvement is one of the primary fringe benefits of using Care for Kids: The Essential Guide to Preparing Caregivers. The logically structured program (more…)

Let this in-depth professional book be your guide to Blender, the powerful alternative to expensive CG packages like Maya and 3ds Max. Using clear step-by-step instruction and pages of real-world examples, expert animator Tony Mullen walks you through the complexities of modeling and animating, with a special focus on characters. From Blender basics to creating facial expressions and emotion to rendering, you’ll gain all the skills necessary to build and animate a well-modeled, fully-rigged character, which is included as a .blend file on the DVD.

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Zack Petroc’s creative gifts place him at the forefront of the emerging field of digital art direction. Zack’s great talent in all the traditional areas of artistic expression, coupled with a technical ability that takes a back seat to no one, combine to make him a truly unique talent. A rare ability to bring true artistry to life in a highly technical environment helps to set Zack apart. –Kevin Conran – Film Maker

In this DVD Zack Petroc presents a modern approach to digital sculpting that includes technical discussions, and features in-depth techniques for adding life and realism to your characters. Using a Maya-to-ZBrush workflow, the viewer takes a step-by-step look at how underlying muscles and bone structure affect the true form of the human body. The Maya content highlights creating and preparing a low-resolution base mesh, and includes techniques that apply to other Poly modeling packages. The central part of this demonstration takes place in ZBrush, (more…)

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“Anyone interested in 3D graphics needs to closely examine this book, the 3D tutorials alone are well worth the cost.” — Robert Richmond, TechIMO.com, 6/28/03

The Official Blender GameKit is a complete guide and reference to creating interactive 3-D animation and games with Blender. It begins with an extensive introduction to 3-D graphics, explaining basic concepts and the Blender interface. Step-by-step tutorials teach the art of creating and animating models, then show how to turn them into simple games. Experienced 3-D artists will appreciate the complex game demos, character animation tutorials, introduction to Python, and advanced reference section. The included CDROM offers 10 playable and editable games that readers can use to build their own games and distribute them for free.

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