Daarken: Sci-fi Environment Design (Photoshop Tutorials)
English | 1920x1400 | 2 hours 29 mins | MOV | 1.52 Gb

Daarken, a freelance illustrator and concept artist, will take you through his process of painting a Sci-Fi environment. Starting with black and white thumbnails, Daarken will show you how to add color to a black and white image and give you a glimpse into his design process. Topics such as creating mood with color, composition, creating custom brushes, setting up your Wacom tablet, creating keyboard shortcuts, and refining an illustration will be coverd in this tutorial. Various layer modes and brushes will also be covered throughout the process. At a 149 minutes of real-time video you can see, in detail, his every step. Also included in this tutorial are Daarken

Daarken: Painting Female Hunter (Photoshop Tutorials)
English | 1440x900 | 2 hours 8 mins | MOV | 1.64 Gb

n this video Daarken will take you through his process of painting a female hunter. Starting with a digital sketch, Daarken will show you how to add color to a black and white image and give you a glimpse into his design process. At a 128 minutes of real time video you can see, in detail, his every step. This HD video also comes bundled with Daarken's brushes and psd file so that you can explore his use of layers.

Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects: Essential and Advanced Techniques
PDF | 705 Pages | + DVD Video | 4.52 Gb

Trish and Chris Meyer share fifteen years of real-world film and video production experience inside the critically acclaimed Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects. More than a step-by-step review of the features in After Effects, you will learn how the program thinks so that you can realize your own visions more quickly and efficiently. This full-color book is jammed full of tips, gotchas, and sage advice that will help you survive whatever your next project throws at you.

Photoshop CS5 Top 5 (2010)
English | 3h:00m | Video: 1542 Kbps, 1280 x 716, 29.970 fps | Audio: AAC, 118 Kbps, 44.1 KHz | 778 Mb

Every day this week, the lynda.com blog features a movie spotlighting some of the best new features in Photoshop CS5. Your tour guide is one of the most influential voices in the Photoshop community - Deke McClelland, who has been burning the midnight oil updating his encyclopedic Photoshop One-on-One series of courses

Gnomon Workshop: Making of the Worms (4 Discs FULL)
English | QuickTime | avc1 H.264 1024x768 | MPEG-4 AAC LC 22050Hz 64 kb/s , mono| 3.62 Gb

In this four-disc set, Sil van der Woerd reveals the entire production process of making Worms, a music video in which Sil integrated live action footage with complex digital sets and characters to create imaginative worlds.
The first disc in this set gives a general overview of the entire production pipeline. The following three discs feature breakdowns of different scenes which are fully analyzed and discussed from sketch to the final composition.
Sil covers many technical subjects including motion tracking in Boujou, compositing, rotoscoping and keying in After Effects, previsualization, modeling, texturing, digital sets, animation and dynamics in Maya.
The combination of behind-the-scenes material, practical tricks and technical tutorials make this set an enjoyable way to learn and absorb valuable knowledge.

Gnomon Workshop: Look Development with Mental Ray: 3Ds Max Techniques with Alessandro Cangelosi
English | 1024x768 @ 621 Kbps 15 fps | MP3 48 Kbps | 1.67 Gb

In this DVD, Alessandro Cangelosi introduces you to the different techniques needed for realistic architectural visualization, creating procedural naturalistic environment, scripting, and secondary effects such as depth of field and volumetric light. He tells the story of a procedural modeling, shading, lighting, scene management by mental ray, as well as about the final unification of rendered passes through Autodesk Combustion and Composite, (aka Toxik), and all for the sake of photo realistic look. Alessandro also explains how you can effectively control the imaging setup using MAXScript, with the possibility of add the necessary tools in the manufacturing process.

Blender Foundations: Durian Open Movie Project - Sintel (DVD 3)
English | 720x480 | 3 hours | MPEG-2 | 7.22 Gb

In total 12 artists and three developers were invited to come over to Amsterdam for almost a year to create this fantasy action-based 3D short movie with Blender. Lead by renowned Blender artists Colin Levy (direction) and David Revoy (art direction) and with a script from Esther Wouda - based on ideas from famous Dutch cartoonist Martin Lodewijk - and music by Jan Morgenstern, this has been an exciting project!

Blender Foundations: Durian Open Movie Project - Sintel (DVD 4)
English | 720x480 | 3 hours | MPEG-2 | 6.67 Gb

In total 12 artists and three developers were invited to come over to Amsterdam for almost a year to create this fantasy action-based 3D short movie with Blender. Lead by renowned Blender artists Colin Levy (direction) and David Revoy (art direction) and with a script from Esther Wouda - based on ideas from famous Dutch cartoonist Martin Lodewijk - and music by Jan Morgenstern, this has been an exciting project!

Hollywood Camera Work: The Master Course (2 DVD + 4 DVD-Rip)
English | MPEG-2, 720x480, Menu, XViD, 936 kbs, 29.97 fps | AC3, 160 kbs, 128 kbs | 10.14 GB

Years in the making, The Master Course In High-End Blocking And Staging is the most comprehensive and ambitious Directing Course in the world. A groundbreaking learning tool, the course teaches high-end camera work through over 9 hours of 3D animated instruction on 6 Region-Free DVDs.
For Directors, Cinematographers, Script Supervisors, 3D Animators, Visual Effects Artists, Game Designers, Videographers, Actors, Editors, Writers.

Blender Foundations: Durian Open Movie Project - Sintel (DVD 2)
English | 720x480 | 3 hours | MPEG-2 | | 6.67 Gb

In total 12 artists and three developers were invited to come over to Amsterdam for almost a year to create this fantasy action-based 3D short movie with Blender. Lead by renowned Blender artists Colin Levy (direction) and David Revoy (art direction) and with a script from Esther Wouda - based on ideas from famous Dutch cartoonist Martin Lodewijk - and music by Jan Morgenstern, this has been an exciting project!