Detailing, Destruction and More with Five New Titles by Digital-Tutors

[Digital-Tutors]

Hi everyone!

We're excited to bring you a new list of courses that cover essential topics and techniques in Maya, Nuke, Toxik, ZBrush and Backburner.

Check them out!

The Digital-Tutors Team

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: 2 hrs
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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: 2 hrs 20 min
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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: 1 hr 22 min
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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: 1 hr 27 min
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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: 1 hr 14 min
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Available for Monthly and Semi-annual Members: December 5, 2009

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