In this series of lessons, we'll learn how to draw various features of the face.

For each part of the face, we will begin by learning about the anatomy and musculature that makes up that area. We'll then move into the forms of that area that we need to keep in mind while we illustrate. Finally, we'll build upon our anatomy and forms to create a finished result. After we have our illustration, we will learn some variations that occur in real life and how we can use these variations to show things about our characters.

In this series of lessons we'll learn how to use Nuke's tracker to create keyframes from real life footage. This is an important technique for matching an image or animation's position, rotation, scale and perspective shift to film.

We'll begin this project by learning the basics of the tracker node and create a one point track using some simple footage. We'll then learn how to apply the tracker data to other nodes using expressions. We'll then learn how to do a two point track on real footage and create a black-bar effect over someone's eyes. We'll track the four corners of a TV to replace the image on the screen. Lastly, we'll then learn some tips for getting a track from difficult footage using color correct techniques.

In this lecture the instructor demonstrates the digital sculpting and rendering of a classical style marble sculpture, showing how accurate anatomy and a dynamic pose combine to produce a professional and aesthetically pleasing result.

In this novel approach to teaching anatomy, the instructor regularly overlays the model with anatomy images as he sculpts, which makes it easy to visualize how the underlying anatomy relates to the sculpted surface of the model.

In this series of lessons, we will be taking you through the process of rendering your Maya scene into multiple passes, and using some advanced techniques for compositing these passes using Toxik.

We will dedicate the first portion of this course to using Render Passes in Maya to separate various elements of our scene at render time. We'll use mental ray's render passes, contribution maps, custom framebuffers, and render layers to create the necessary render passes for our scene. In the second portion of this course we will begin with some quick compositing similar to our Compositing 3D Renders in After Effects course, but we will quickly get into more advanced topics such as basic and advanced Depth-of-Field, Proxies, spot paint fixing and chromatic aberration.

In this series of lessons we'll learn how to use some of the hard-surface sculpting tools in Zbrush.

Zbrush has always been a great application for sculpting incredibly detailed organic shapes. But did you know that Zbrush has a number of useful tools that will help you to sculpt more hard surface shapes as well? In this course, we'll talk about the Polish brushes, which will allow us to combine smooth curves and sharp edges in a single stroke. The strokes themselves have been enhanced with Backtrack, allowing us to get smoother, straighter lines when sculpting. We'll also cover the Re-mesh functionality which will allow us to combine multiple shapes in Boolean-type operations. We can also take advantage of the Zbrush primitives to give us a great starting point for some of our hard surface shapes.

This tutorial demonstrates a simple, yet effective, solution for creating dynamic turntables. Utilizing Maya's two-node camera, motion path animation provides a flexible way to move the camera around the model. Precise and cycling rotations are combined with a moving camera, to allow for various views of the model in a single turntable.

We begin the tutorial by creating a three-point lightrig using raytraced shadows and Mental Ray. This tutorial demonstrates how to render a Maya animation from the Command Line. While it is possible to render from within Maya using Batch Render, there are several advantages to avoiding this approach. More memory is available to the renderer when Maya is closed which is often a necessity. But furthermore, command line rendering simplifies the process of managing rendered frames, network rendering and the batch rendering of multiple scenes.

Open wide! Here comes a monster serving of tasty animation and VFX plus 20 minutes of Behind the Scenes extras and 36 minutes of Bonus music from (weewerk) records.

This video is ginormous! Originally, we hoped we'd have two smaller videos with titles like "Module Development Basics" and "Advanced Module Development", but they just wouldn't hold up on their own. We didn't want people to end up with only half the story, so we decided to just create one massive comprehensive video with everything you need to know to create Drupal modules of your own. The result is "Drupal Module Building", the first Lullabot double-album – 5 hours and 10 minutes of action-packed PHP coding, Drupal hooks, and Form API arrays. After watching this video, you'll be a module building ninja, ready to customize and extend Drupal and bend it to your will!

This second training kit from freelance particle and destruction effects guru Anselm v. Seherr-Thoss will help you get up to speed quickly with the workflow and operators that are part of the PFlow Tools: Box 2 Pro plug-in for Particle Flow. This course will give new users and intermediate professionals alike the ability to assemble dynamic Particle Flow systems using these advanced plug-in technologies. Additionally, several bonus videos show you how to take advantage of the popular RayFire destruction plug-in.