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Water Splashing Tutorial

CgLesson — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 20:07:30 GMT

by CgLesson

Price: $25.00

With this course using 3Ds Max 2013 plug-in, just shows how to create editable poly with a water splash effect, as well as coating and lighting is also described. Vray 2.0 rendering engine as used.

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Cedric Seauts Character Modeling

3DTotal — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 08:08:06 GMT

by 3DTotal

Price: $15.64

The aim of this eBook is to provide both an efficient and methodical approach to creating characters that can encompass both organic and mechanical components and equip artists with the knowledge to learn techniques used by industry professionals. The series provides an in depth account of creating a character from the concept and base mesh stages through to the final detailing and high poly sculpt. It will as its subject adopt the theme of an alien humanoid in battle dress, partly clad in armor and carrying weapons. Each of the chapters will address a certain aspect of the design and show a step by step guide covering the principal techniques and methods used to sculpt the numerous components including the chest and body armor, anatomical detail, footwear and clothing along with various accessories and weaponry. Much of the high poly sculpting and anatomical refinement takes place in Zbrush, discussing the appropriate brushes and tools used but the author will also integrate 3dsMax into the pipeline as a way of preparing some of the base meshes and mechanical components. Although 3dsMax is used in conjunction with Zbrush the modeling techniques are equally applicable to most other 3d packages with the principal lessons proving universal.

CONTENTS

Chapter 01 - Concept
Chapter 02 - Shoes (ZBrush Plastic Sculpting)

Chapter 03 - Handgun (Hard-Edge Max/Silo)

Chapter 04 - Chest (ZBrush Mechanical Sculpting)

Chapter 05 - Pants (ZBrush Fabric Sculpting)

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Introduction to Rigging

3DTotal — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 08:05:03 GMT

by 3DTotal

Price: $15.64

The aim of this eBook is to show and explain how you might tackle rigging your 3D character for animation. The six chapters within this eBook will give help and advice to novices and experts who are looking to build on their rigging skills or approach rigging for the first time. The series gives a detailed step by step guide as to how to approach rigging but also shows us how to tackle common problems and issues that regularly occur even in a professional environment. The artists will be reflecting on working in the industry as well as talking us through their individual approaches to creating the best rigs possible.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1 - Planning Your Rig

Chapter 2 - Knowing Your Tools

Chapter 3 - Rig Creation Part 1

Chapter 4 - Rig Creation Part 2

Chapter 5 - Rig Creation Part 3

Chapter 6 - Facial Rigging & Scripting

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Portraiture

3DTotal — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 07:59:48 GMT

by 3DTotal

Price: $15.64

Portraits are one of the most commonly tackled subjects in all forms of art, but they are also one of the easiest forms of art to spot mistakes with. If there is something wrong with a painting of someone’s face you will notice it instantly. To avoid falling into this trap many digital artists will paint over a photograph which also leaves tell tale signs. In this eBook our 6 talented artists will talk you through how to use a photo reference to create an interesting portrait of both males and females, and it will even teach you how to paint a caricature. If you are a fan of character work or enjoy painting portraits this is the eBook for you.

CONTENTS

Chapter 01 - Male Self-Portrait by Mike Lim (Daarken)

Chapter 02 - Female by Nykolai Aleksander

Chapter 03 - Child by Richard Tilbury

Chapter 04 - Male Caricature by Jason Seiler

Chapter 05 - Female Self-Portrait by Charlie Bowater

Chapter 06 - Female Caricature by Guillermo Ramirez

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Beginners Guide to Digital Painting

3DTotal — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 07:55:00 GMT

by 3DTotal

Price: $15.64

Have you ever thought about taking up Digital Painting? Or do you think that you could do with improving your basic skills? If this is the case then The Beginners Guide to Digital Painting is the eBook for you. This eBook will guide you through your first steps on the path to becoming an accomplished digital painter, from setting up your workstation and familiarizing yourself with the tools available, to making the most of the benefits of painting digitally. Others areas covered include the Photoshop techniques that are used by industry professionals around the world. So what are you waiting for? Your creative future starts here!

CONTENTS

Chapter 1 - Introducing Photoshop’s workspace, graphics tablets, screen calibration, color profiles and the Brush tool
In the first chapter we look at organising Photoshop’s workspace, setting up the programme for optimal usage and setting up a tablet to work with it, calibrating your screen, choosing colour profiles in Photoshop, as well as what to do with the Brush tool and its many options.

Chapter 2 - Canvas settings, scanning drawings, swatches, color pickers, color theory, layers and custom brushes
The second chapter drags you deeper down the proverbial rabbit hole that is Photoshop, with canvas settings and the process of scanning drawings explained, and the use of swatches, color pickers and color theory covered. We also look at what layers are good for, how to work with the Layers palette and how to make those ever-useful custom brushes.

Chapter 3 - Composition rules, sketching and perspective, understanding light and blocking-in
The third chapter covers the rules of composition, sketching and perspective. We also examine how to determine and apply a light source in paintings, which brushes to use for blocking in a sketch, and also what tools can be used for drawing straight lines without much hassle.

Chapter 4 - Coloring from grayscale, colors beyond blocking-in, blending methods and using photos
In the fourth chapter we cover coloring a grayscale sketch or painting, how to paint with colors beyond blocking-in – including a more in-depth approach to the actual process – different blending methods and the tools to use for this, as well as how to use photos directly in your paintings.

Chapter 5 - Photo textures, quick masks, using the Wand tool, Liquify filter uses, Layer Masks and painting
In the fifth chapter we look at adding photo textures to a painting with the use of custom brushes. This chapter also covers the use of tools such as Quick Masks, the Extracting tool and the Wand tool, what use the Liquify Filter has, and the greatness of Layer Masks.

Chapter 6 - Finishing touches, filters, the Unsharpen Mask and saving your work
In the final chapter of this tutorial, we look at bringing our work to a close by adding some finishing touches. These include using filters such as the Blur filter and the Unsharpen Mask, changing colors if we’re not quite happy with them, and finally saving images in different formats.

Important Please Read:
All additional material (Brushes) can be found in the resource folder that accompanies this eBook.

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Super Saver Pack

Zillionarts Workshop — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:20:59 GMT

by Zillionarts Workshop

Price: $30.00

This is Super Saver Pack with 2 great video tutorial:
1. Character Design
2. Environment Design with Jeremiah Humphries

Buy it now and save your money.

Digital, Painting, Super, Saver, Pack, 2d

Environment Design with Jeremiah Humphries

Zillionarts Workshop — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:08:42 GMT

by Zillionarts Workshop

Price: $25.00

In this workshop Jeremiah Humphries takes you through the process of creating concept art of a frozen planet colony just after sunset. It will feature prefabricated stressed membrane structures, and northern lights illuminating the night sky.

Through the process Jeremiah will be showing you How to achieve perfect perspective by combining Google Sketchup meshes with Photoshop painting. He will also be demonstrating his process for speeding up the illustration and achieving a consistent style by Drawing over painting, Painting in selections, Conveying surface properties with specific brush types.

With this Workshop Jeremiah has also shared his custom made textured brushes that he created over the years.

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Character Design

Zillionarts Workshop — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:06:22 GMT

by Zillionarts Workshop

Price: $19.00

In this workshop Carlo Spagnola walks you through his visual development process as he creates a Sci-Fi Zombie. In this volume he begins the process from Thumb nailing the character concept using ‘Painter X’. Then he demonstrates a step by step procedure of creating the zombie from a thumbnail to a fully rendered character using Photoshop.

Carlo emphasizes on using real life images for inspiration and coloring. He also shows you a detailed approach in painting the highly complicated skin texture of the zombie in an easier way. He also explains how value, composition and lighting are all integral for creating drama and mood in a scene. Carlo will also be sharing his valuable experience and the principles he personally follow, which makes this workshop much more than a DVD.

NOTE: You can find the Download Link immediately after the purchase.

NOTE: Download Quick Time player for better streaming of the video.

Digital, Painting, Character, Design, 2d

The Most Beautiful CG girls Magazine

CGChosen — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:30:37 GMT

by CGChosen

Price: $0.00

We represent you unique e-magazine in the world devoted The most beautiful CG girls. In this magazine you will fine and surprising, bright and original works of the artists recognized all over the world. It is more than 60 hot girls wait for you. It’s really shakes!

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CG Chosen Architecture magazine No7

CGChosen — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:20:23 GMT

by CGChosen

Price: $2.99

A new issue of downloadable PDF CG Chosen Magazine is dedicated to the endless theme of architecture. As many CG artists work in the area of architecture visualization which usually assumes making an ordinary job on modeling and rendering a certain object one can say it's no more a creative work. We tried to prove the opposite mixing ordinary visualization projects and real masterpieces devoted to outstanding architecture buildings. You will find really interesting projects described here in 6 Making Of articles, stories about artists and companies working on architecture visualization and design in 2 interviews and lots of inspiring artworks including 4 Chosen Artist sections and the Gallery. You'll find all that on the 90 page of the magazine that is moreover available for printing now.

Interviews:

Jiang Gao Wei & GinSun CG
Stanislav Orekhov

Making Of:

Business Center by Andrey Korotchenko
Yttergrund Lighthouse by Michael Brown
Merry X'mas & Happy New year by Nitin.D.Mahale
Chateau Frontenac by Sebastien Gaudard
Piazza Grande by Tiziano Fioriti
Facade Proposal by Vince Chua

Chosen Artists:

Gianni Melis
GinSun CG
Michael Brown
Stanislav Orekhov

Gallery:

Alejandro Ruano
Andrzej Majewski
Jakub Goda
Jie Ma
Luis Melo
Manuel Molar
Marco Mosetti
Mauricio Santos
Mohammad Saatchi
Nelson Liaw
Romain Gouzenne
Sven Dannart
Tom Wolski
Xiaoge Liu

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CG Chosen Robots magazine No6

CGChosen — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:05:36 GMT

by CGChosen

Price: $0.00

CG Chosen No.6 | Robots brings to you an amazing world of wild and intelligent, crazy and usefull and all the best robots in CG. 4 chosen robot artists with their amazing artworks, 5 outstanding robot making of's, articles and interviews and as usually - lots of robot images.

Fell free to download 67 pages of mechanical fantasy and robotic inspiration.

Content:

INTERVIEWS:
Axel Medellin
MAKING of’s
BattlefiFIeld by Carsten Holtmann
Beholer by Georgi “Calader” Simeonov
Refueling by Ted Terranova
Caterpillar Police by Nikolay Yeliseyev
Prolog by Artur “Tortur” Sadlos
ARTICLES
Lord Retro by Kim Anderson
GALLERY
Alon Chou
Andr? Kutscherauer
Artur “Tortur” Sadlos
Carsten Holtmann
Daniel ‘Mirach’ Zak
Jochem van Wetten
Mehran Khan Khan
Nikolay Yeliseyev
Ruidan Lv
Ted Terranova

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CG Chosen Environments magazine No5

CGChosen — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:53:55 GMT

by CGChosen

Price: $0.00

INTERVIEWS
Joshua Caez

MAKING of’s
The Jungle - by Radoslav Zilinsky
Down The River Arend - by Christian "Tigaer" Hecker
Long Jorney Home - by Nathaniel West

Chosen Artists
Bechira Sorin, Sergey Musin, Phil Mcdarby, Toni Bratincevic

2D GALLERY
Christian Hecker, Dan Blomberg, Frederic St-Arnaud, Gerardo de Gerardo, Nathaniel West, Raluca Iosifescu, Valentin Petrov

3D GALLERY
Eugenio Garcia, Geofrey White, Jason Godbey, Michel Lanoie, Radoslav Zilinsky

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CG Chosen Monsters Creatures magazine No4

CGChosen — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:42:13 GMT

by CGChosen

Price: $0.00

CG Chosen Magazine No.4 | Monsters&Creatures. If you'd dare to open it you will discover breathtaking opposite side of digital art, articles on makings of the most impressive monsters and creatures, interviews and lots of pictures. Funny and Scary, Strange and Horrable, all famous CG monsters and creatures live here in this magazine. So do not download it if you are afraid of any of these.

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CG Chosen Characters magazine No3

CGChosen — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:10:46 GMT

by CGChosen

Price: $0.00

CG Chosen Magazine No.3 | Characters contains artworks by the most advanced and professional character artists as well as exclusive interviews and making of's. It is not just a collections of recent works (though they are included) but a final line of state-of-the-art in the area of Character Design.

Content:
1. Making of Wrestler (by Eduardo Martin Julve)
2. Making of Three Lines (by Henning Ludvigsen)
3. Making of Night Rider (by Hyun-hee Lee)
4. Making of Revised Holy Warrior (by Glen Angus)
5. Chosen Character Artist Olivier Ponsonnet
6. Chosen Character Artist Marta Dahlig
7. Chosen Character Artist Glen Angus
8. Chosen Character Artist Henning Ludvigsen
9. Chosen Character Artist Soa Lee
10. Interview with Soa Lee
11. Interview with Marta Dahlig
12. Gallery: Eduardo Martin Julve, Florian Delarque, Piotr Fox Wysocki, Suresh kumar, Jack Zhang, Hyun Hee Lee, Marcin Klicki, Silvia Fusetti, Nikolay Yeliseyev, David Munoz Velazquez, Marcos Aurelio, Dean Holden

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CG Chosen Fantasy magazine No2

CGChosen — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:08:05 GMT

by CGChosen

Price: $0.00

CG Chosen Magazine No.2 | Fantasy follows tradition of thematic series. It is not just a collections of recent works (though they are included) but a final line of state-of-the-art in the area of Fantasy. You will find artworks by the most advanced and professional artists as well as exclusive interviews and making of's. Lots of amazing images and video!

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CG Chosen SciFi magazine No1

CGChosen — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:03:55 GMT

by CGChosen

Price: $0.00

We are proud to present you the first magazine in our absolutely new thematic series. Each CG Chosen magazine is not just a collections of recent works (though they are included) but a final line of state-of-the-art in a certain area for the last years. Current CG Chosen issue is dedicated to Sci-Fi theme in 3D and 2D computer graphics. You will find artworks by the most advanced and professional artists as well as tutorials and making of's.

Menu:
- Artworks from Fausto De Martini
- Tutorial: Fury of Sesrenity by H. Pashkov
- Artworks: from Laurent Menabe
- Tutorial: A new World by H. Pashkov
- Artworks from Alexandr Preuss
- Tutorial: In the red offset by H. Pashkov
- Artworks from Chris Wilson
- Making of Return to Abalakin by A. Preuss
- Artworks from Diego Avesani
- CG Chosen Gallery

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