Mastering Digital Design - Learn Technical Rigging for Creatures and Characters for Games and Film

Before you can animate characters and creatures – these creations must be setup with a process called “rigging”. These courses act as a guide through a vast understanding of how the technical aspect of rigging can be completed with ease, to prepare you for your career as an animator. In the Bipedal Rigging Series, we take a thorough look at the complete process of rigging, creating bones, skinning, and painting weights of a character from start to finish in Maya. In this course, Justin Harrison gives us a thorough introduction to Autodesk's Motion Builder, as well as instructor Chad Robert Morgan, who will go through the features of Human IK within Maya. Learn tips and tricks of creating dynamic animation and games design. - Know about the different branches in animation - Learn about what goes into making a successful animation - Understand better about the designing process with this course - Be able to create your own monsters and creatures at the end of this course

Adobe Photoshop Essentials - CS3 & CS4

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for Windows and OS X. Delve head-long into the world of Photoshop with expert video trainer, artist, and designer Geoff Blake in this massive 14-plus hour, course! Packed with tricks, techniques, and hands-on tasks, it’s an easy, non-jargonny approach for both Photoshop CS3 and CS4 users. Hang on tight as you’re guided through comprehensive exercises on resizing and resolution, color correction, and image touch up. Master advanced techniques for creating eye-popping visuals, including masking objects, tilt-shift photography, sizzling text effects, and workflows with InDesign, Dreamweaver, and Flash!Mesmerize your audience with your photographs with the help of Photoshop.- Understand about Photoshop and it key features - Know how to use the different Photoshop functions and features- Learn about the different techniques and tools available in Photoshop- Enable yourself to create dynamic and beautiful images

Mastering Digital Design - Organic 3d Modeling and Texturing for Games, Architecture, and Film

When working with organic surfaces such as trees, grass, dirt, wood and stone, the rules and software techniques that professionals use may require a unique approach. This course will cover advanced techniques and software used to create these sort of assets for games. This in-depth course covers everything you need to know about creating foliage! We'll look into how to make realistic looking grass, branches, and a full tree from the ground up. In this course, instructor Emiel Sleegers is going to walk us through the process of learning the SpeedTree to CryEngine pipeline while utilizing Maya as the middle-man 3D package for exporting. Emiel Sleegers will go over on how to make a terrain using both Mudbox and World Machine. Moving on from there, Philipp Schmidt is going to give us an introduction to PixPlant while showing us how to make some basic tileable textures.  Learn tips and tricks of creating dynamic animation and games design. - Know about the different branches in animation - Learn about what goes into making a successful animation - Understand better about the designing process with this course - Be able to create your own monsters and creatures at the end of this course