Modeling Architectural Destruction in Maya Learn a variety of modeling tools and techniques to create damage effects using Maya. • Learn to efficiently damage your 3D images from a modeling point of view • Discover fundamental techniques for adding needed resolution to models • Explore different types of materials such as wood, metal and concrete, and how they react to damage • Easily break pieces of geometry as well as dress the set and use dynamics to quickly add rubble |
 Run Time: 12 lessons, 2 hrs  |
Advanced Compositing Workflows with Maya and Nuke Discover the process of rendering your Maya scene into multiple passes and learn advanced techniques for compositing these passes using Nuke. • Use Render Passes in Maya to separate various elements of your scene at render time • Create the necessary render passes for your scene with a variety of mental ray tools • Depth-of-field, depth-based compositing and working with HDR data • Learn a variety of painting fixes as well as chromatic aberrations |
 Run Time: 22 lessons, 2 hrs 20 min |
Getting Started with Toxik 2010 Quickly color correct, mask, composite and animate still images and image sequences using Toxik. • Explore the basic composition creation process and how to navigate through the Toxik user interface • Begin compositing images together and rendering out your finished materials • Color correction, garbage masks, blending modes and animation • Learn the new Tool Options panel and how to use Presets inside Toxik |
 Run Time: 14 lessons, 1 hr 22 min |
Architectural Detailing in ZBrush Discover essential tools and time-saving techniques for interior and exterior architectural detailing in ZBrush. • Easily add high resolution detail to your interior and exterior models
• Create seamless textures to apply to your geometry • Build individual elements using primitive geometry to append to your models • Gain a complete understanding of the tools you can use to detail environments |
 Run Time: 12 lessons, 1 hr 27 min |
Advanced Backburner Job Submission Explore the advance uses of Autodesk's Render Manager Backburner and how to manually submit jobs in a variety of applications. • Step-by-step through basic command line job submission • Efficiently break command line jobs into tasks and create custom task lists • Learn how to send scenes from applications such as Nuke, Softimage and After Effects • Easily decode a job script, create a single task job and generate a re-startable Toxik job |
 Run Time: 11 lessons, 1 hr 14 min |
Next Week's New Releases • Getting Started with ZSketching • Introduction to Fluid Containers in Maya • Advanced Compositing Workflows with Maya and Toxik • Modeling a Character for Animating in 3ds Max • Maya Rendering Node Reference: 3D Textures |
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These five training titles will become available to Monthly and Semi-Annual Members on November 6th.
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Multi-channel Compositing in Nuke | Compositing 3D Renders in Fusion | Getting Started with HDR Light Studio | Creating Next-Gen Game Assets in Softimage |
Movember - Changing the Face of Men's Health We need your support in the fight against Prostate Cancer! Our Digital-Tutors team has decided to join a global movement known as Movember, a world-wide event dedicated to bringing attention to cancers that affect men - specifically prostate and testicular cancer, and we want you on our Movember Team. For more information about the Digital-Tutors Team, please visit our Movember Forum. Learn more about Movember by watching the Intro Video at: http://us.movember.com |
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TDT3D Winners As proud sponsors of TDT3D's Architectural 2009 Contest, we are excited to congratulate and announce Léandre Hounnake as winner of the 3D Still Competition and Guillaume Le Berre as winner of the 3D Realtime Competition. We would also like to compliment all participants on their outstanding images and hard work. |
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| * All new training titles are available for Annual Members only. Monthly and Semi-annual Members must wait 30 days to access the latest releasess. | ||
