This week The Gnomon Workshop is releasing two new titles:

• Introduction to 3ds Max: Tools and Workflow with Cetin Tuker
• Intuitive Animation with Robert Kuczera: High Velocity Production, Feature Quality Results.

Eat3D.com presents to its customers “Unreal Materials: An Introduction and Application” DVD. All content is dedicated to explanation of materials creation process for Unreal Tournament 3 scene. 3DM3.com performed a review of this product

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This week 2 new DVD’s are released, were artist Dave Dorman shares his techniques for creating a commercial illustration, from pencilling all the way through to painting the final piece.

It has been nearly 2 years since the last Total Texture Collection was released.
This NEW Total Texture collection is full of great Showroom Textures for really finishing those Architectural renders to the highest standards with as little effort as possible. As with all Total Texture Collections, the NEW DVD now contains 134 Texture Maps comprising of over 545 individual, hand crafted texture maps which are all fully tileable. Each texture has been hand crafted from 100% original photography, made seamless where required, and each having their own unique bump & specular map included. Each texture is also of course totally flexible and can be used in many projects - architectural or otherwise.

‘Introduction to Lighting in Maya’ provides three hours of practical scenarios demonstrating several creative practices and time-saving workflows to lighting.

“As much of the magic comes in the final stages of production, proper lighting can help exude the feel, mood, and atmosphere in addition to just a gorgeous shot,” said Kyle Green, Director of Curriculum at Digital-Tutors. “In Introduction to Lighting in Maya, we teach artists new and experienced with Maya the fundamentals of lighting, how to work with different types of shadows, creating effects often difficult to emulate, and proper placement and setups for different scenarios. We highly recommend this title as a learning resource for all artists seeking information on lighting and wishing to gain greater realism in their renders,” added Green.

The Gnomon Workshop announced three new additions to its 3D and 2D libraries. Zack Petroc (SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW) returns with Volume 2 of his ART DIRECTION AND DIGITAL SCULPTING series, utilizing ZBrush 3. Meanwhile, new instructors Henry Goecke (POSEIDON) and Jeremy Vickery (RATATOUILLE, WALL-E) offer the basics of modeling surfaces in StudioTools and light and color theory from a practical perspective as applied to 2D and 3D image creation, respectively.