Throughout these lessons will work through a pipeline from tracking to rendering and finally compositing CG elements into a live action plate. Over the course of the tutorial we will find the most efficient way to communicate through the different programs to achieve our final result. We will examine how essential the 3D space within linear space of a compositing package is and use it to our advantage. By the end of the tutorial you will have and understanding of how to create custom passes from within your compositing package. You'll also be able to work within a linear workflow to take your color corrections to the next level.

Throughout these lessons we'll delve into the animated growth of a tree branch as a time-lapse video. We'll learn everything from modeling, texturing and shading to the animation and final compositing. By the end of this tutorial, you'll have a better understanding of how you can employ efficient and productive techniques for a time-lapse video that can be used when up against a tight deadline.

Throughout this course, we'll explore some of those uses like using fur to great different types of grass for your scene. We'll also create tendrils and spines by altering some of our fur material settings. We'll build an energy burst or fireworks explosion using fur and we'll also build a nice thick carpet for our interior scenes. In addition, we'll look at how we can utilize the built in uvs created for the fur to map images onto them, creating sprites that we can use for trees, bushes, or any number of applications. Finally, we'll use fur to add some feathers to a bird character, complete with color and transparency maps. By looking at some of the alternate uses for fur, hopefully you'll get some new ideas of how you can integrate fur creatively into your workflow.

Through these lessons we will explore features such as blurry reflections and refractions, and how we can gain a high level of control over each of these, we will also discuss the new Shadow Catcher feature, which provides for a much easier way of rendering our scenes over a background plate. In addition we will be learning about new features such as volumetric lighting effects, caustic and dispersion calculations, utilizing multiple environments, and other rendering features now found in modo 401.

Popular highlights include: Look Development; Exaggerated Proportions; Adding Appeal; Mesh Sculpting; Image-based Sculpting; Vector Displacement; Painting Textures in modo; Utilizing Shader Tree; Global Illumination; Constraining to Background; Copying/Pasting Polygons; Reusing Geometry; SDS Subdivide; Sub-D Modeling Tools; Morph Maps for Facial Expressions; Deformers; Combining Falloffs and other Tools; Combining Images with Effects in Shader Tree; Organizing Item List; Pen Tool; Loop Slice; Mirroring Geometry; Modeling with Symmetry; Element Move; Selection Methods; Edit/Delete Message.

Topics covered in this tutorial: Creating the gradient layer; Editing gradients; Setting input parameters. For a comprehensive guide to modeling in modo, check out Introduction to Modeling in modo, an in-depth resource that provides a multitude of modeling tools and techniques for use in film, games, and design.

Topics covered in this tutorial: Adding the Process layer; Modifying the Process settings; Changing the visibility of the layer. For an in-depth overview of modo check out Introduction to Modeling in modo, a comprehensive guide to learning workflows, tools, and techniques to modeling in modo.

Topics covered in this tutorial: Adding new texture files; Layering textures in the Shader Tree; Using the Text Brush. To learn more about modo check out Introduction to modo, a complete guide to learning a time-saving workflow to automotive modeling and a multitude of modeling tools and techniques.