In this course,FXPHD covers the Avid Media Composer software, available on both Mac and Windows platforms, with a focus on Independent filmmaking and new media projects. In the first few courses, we take you from Final Cut – the standard tool for most Independent Filmmakers – into Avid – the standard in Hollywood. We will focus on the similarities and differences, with many, many examples.

In the world of HTML5, mobile devices, and modern development techniques, HTTP has become the default option for building rich, scalable services. The ASP.NET Web API was designed from the ground up to meet the need of developers who want to build HTTP/RESTful services. The API provides an easy-to-use set of default options, while providing a deep extensbility infrastructure to meet the demands of any scenario using HTTP.

Over the last decade, ZBrush has become the industry standard application for digital sculpting and has been used in nearly every blockbuster film and video game produced during that time. Introduction to ZBrush 4 with Scott Spencer provides the most comprehensive set of instructional videos ever created for ZBrush users, covering everything from the absolute basics, to more advanced sculpting and detailing topics.

In this DVD Rusty Sempsrott dives into the world of UnrealScript. He starts off with the very basics by going over getting set-up, variables, arrays, enumeration, structures, if statements, case statements, loops, functions, and classes. Once the basics are covered in detail, Rusty then demonstrates some practical uses of UnrealScript like creating custom Kismet functionality and creating a custom weapon class. You’ll be able to create very different and unique results with only a small amount of new code to write, leaving you with more time to design and implement your ideas.
If you have never used UnrealScript you should be able to follow along and understand. Even if you are experienced using UnrealScript, you should pick up useful information throughout the DVD.

This unique disk will teach you the basics of 3D. Then you will understand how to use the 3D tools in Photoshop for yourself. You'll learn about 3D objects (Geometry), lighting, custom texturing and more. This training provides a comprehensive, overview of the 3D workflow and features of Photoshop CS5 Extended. This DVD will also address the concept of importing and exporting 3D objects from 3rd party programs. Understand UV map texturing, Image Based lighting, general lighting techniques and texturing. create a single 3D scene with multiple 3D objects in a visual story line.

Learning Objective-C can be intimidating for developers looking to learn some Mac OS X or iOS development skills. This course is designed to make that process easy and as painless as possible. We will start at the very basics of the Objective-C programming language and focus on getting a good practical understanding of the language. This course is designed to cover basic topics that can help you to be introduced to the language without being overwhelmed. By then end of this course, you should have the skills you need to understand and write basic Objective-C programs.

Have you ever found yourself, perhaps after visiting a museum, an art gallery, or a historic site, wanting to know more about a long-lost civilization, a fortress that was bitterly fought over ages ago, or a ruined city sitting mute but poignant in the midst of what was once a thriving human world but is now a trackless jungle or a lonely plain?
If such experiences have gripped your imagination, then you have probably also wondered how, more generally, groups of human beings dealt at different times and places with the challenges of their environments, and how, in turn, the environment shaped past peoples across the unchronicled millennia of human prehistory.