Digital Tutors – Creating Cartoon Characters in CINEMA 4D 11.5
Release Date: 05/03/2010 | CINEMA 4D 11.5 | Runtime: 3 hrs. 16 min.
HF | 1.06 mb | Project files incl.
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Cartoon characters are everywhere, from Saturday morning cartoons to animated movies. Building cartoony characters is a great exercise in organic modeling and it’s a lot of fun. CINEMA 4D is a great option for building these kinds of characters and it offers a variety of tools we can use to create our model.

Using some limited reference, we’ll begin this course by building our beaver character, Woody, using some simple polygon shapes. We’ll use polygonal modeling tools, such as the knife and extrude tools to build out our character, and we’ll speed up our workflow by using such features as, symmetry objects and hyperNURBS objects. Once our modeling is complete, we’ll spend a couple of lessons creating a toon-style render of the character to better match our reference. We’ll go over a range of tools and techniques that will not only allow you to build Woody from scratch, but you’ll also be able to apply what you’ve learned to create your own custom characters.

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Digital Tutors – Understanding Perspective Drawing in Illustrator CS5
Project files incl. | release: 10/01/2010 | 583mb
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In this series of lessons we’ll be focusing on Understanding Perspective Drawing in Illustrator.

We’ll begin this process by taking some time to learn how to enable and configure our perspective grid. Next we’ll learn some basic workflows for creating artwork with perspective and transforming objects in perspective. Once we are familiar with this process, we’ll dive in and begin drawing our skyscraper concept based on a simple orthographic drawing. Throughout this process we’ll learn how to precisely control the placement of perspective objects. We’ll learn how to apply perspective to objects that don’t fit on a perspective plane and we’ll learn how to use several time saving features such as automatic plane positioning. After working through this series of lesson, you will have a good understanding of how perspective drawing in Illustrator works.

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Digital Tutors – Introduction to Rendering in Maya 2011
Project files | 285 mb
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This course is designed for users who are just getting started with rendering in Maya, so we will not be focusing heavily on using lights, materials or recipes to give your render a specific look. Instead, our focus will be on helping you build a strong foundational knowledge of rendering in Maya by talking about many of the key tools, features and concepts that every rendering artist in Maya really needs to be familiar with. We will also learn how to resolve some rendering-related issues that you may encounter, and we will focus very heavily on helping you develop good habits and strong workflow practices that will be extremely beneficial to you as an emerging render artist.

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Digital Tutors – Camera Projection in Maya 2011
Proj files incl.| 690 MB
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In this series of lessons we’ll learn how to turn a 2d image into a 3d scene using camera projection in Maya. By using a reference photo inside Maya, we’ll be able to create realistic scenes quickly and easily. We’ll begin this project by learning about the theories behind camera projection what makes a good image to project. We’ll then set-up our camera in Maya for match moving and look at a technique to get our camera in the correct position. Once we’ve set our camera, we’ll create the projection shader. We’ll then model the rest of our building and animate a new camera. We’ll then look at various techniques of completing our scene and adding a sky dome. We’ll finish by taking the extra step of adding reflective geometry for increased realism.
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Digital Tutors – mental ray Nodes Online Reference Library
Runtime: 10 hrs. 31 min./ 122 lessons| Maya 2008+
1.52GB | Work files incl
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