Oklahoma City, OK - Today Digital-Tutors released 18 new tutorials now available in the Digital-Tutors training library. The May 2012 release includes over 55 hours of detailed and in-depth training for artists of every skill level and pushes the total-content mark in the training library to over 17,000 video-based lessons.

May's release includes training for two new software titles with the additions of the Beginner's Guide to Maxwell Render in Maya and the Beginner's Guide to Vue xStream. Members will see more training in the coming months for both applications.

May also includes seven additions to the popular Creative Development series with training for intermediate and advanced artists, as well as tutorials for Maya, 3ds Max, Softimage, CINEMA 4D, Photoshop, Illustrator, ZBrush, Unity, NUKE, MARI and more:

Beginner's Guide to Maxwell Render in Maya
Beginner's Guide to Vue xStream

Polygon Modeling Workflows in CINEMA 4D
Creating Fast Rigs with the Character Object in CINEMA 4D
Reusing Custom Rigs with the Character Component in CINEMA 4D

Rigging Quadrupeds in 3ds Max
Creative Development: Hard Surface Modeling Workflows in 3ds Max with Stas Poritskiy
Creative Development: Realistic Hairstyling in 3ds Max and Hair Farm with Dani Garcia

Creative Development: Creating Long Hair Using FiberMesh in ZBrush with Joseph Drust
Creative Development: Modeling a Female Character for Animation in Maya with Gene Arvan
Creative Development: Modeling a Human Marionette in Softimage and ZBrush with Daniele Angelozzi

Creative Development: Character Concepting Workflows for Games in Photoshop with Eric Chiang
Creative Development: Building Attractive Banner Ads in Flash and Photoshop with Christopher Fuller
Painting Skateboard Graphics in Illustrator
Drawing Expressions for a Stylized Character in Photoshop

New Features in Unity 3.5
Rotoscoping Techniques in NUKE
Multi-Tile Texture Workflows (for Maya, 3ds Max, ZBrush, Mudbox and MARI)
MARI Shader Module Reference Library

To view the new-training release video and see more details about all of the new tutorials, visit the May new-training page.

Pricing and Availability
April's new tutorials and every tutorial in the world's largest CG and VFX training library are available with a subscription to Digital-Tutors.

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