Character Animation: Skeletons, Rigging & Skinning. Deformers & Blendshapes: Coiled Hoses, Pool Covers & Human Faces. Emitters & Particle Dynamics: Rain, Smoke, Water & Pouring Cold Cereal. Hard/Soft Dynamics: Pool Balls & Metal Deformations. Basic Animation: Rotate/Scale/Translate, Keyframing & Motion Paths. Renderers: mental ray, Arnold, Redshift, Octane, V-Ray, Renderman & Maxwell. Popular 3D Applications: Maya, Houdini, MODO, Rhino3D, 3DS Max & ZBrush. Using Plugins: Natural Terrain, Dynamics, Lighting, Painting & Renderers. Blending Texture Layers: Aging & Grunging Materials. Materials: Brick/Stone/Plaster/Marble, Metals/Glass, Wood, Soil/Rocks & Skies. Shaders: Seamless Textures, uv Mapping & Bump/Displacement/Normal Maps.

Lighting Approaches: Point/Area/Spot/Directional, HDRI & 3-Point Lighting. Photorealistic Rendering: The Interplay of Materials, Lights, and Rendering. Advanced Materials, Lights, and Rendering. Advanced Curve-Based Modeling Tools: Adding Organic Detail to Our Moai. Basic Organic Models: Bottles & Glasses, Trees & Plants. Doing A Lot with A Little: A Core Set of Curve-Based Modeling & Sculpting Tools. Two Ways of Being Organic: Smoothing Polygon Models VS Curve-Based Models. Organic Modeling: The Mathematics of Bezier and NURBS Curve Mathematics.

Organic Modeling with Curves and NURBS Curves. Bringing Polygon Meshes to Life: Materials, Lights, Ray- Tracing & Rendering. A More Complex Exterior Architectural Scene: A Modern Home & Grounds. A More Complex Interior Architectural Scene: A Modern Home. A Basic Exterior Architectural Scene: A Modern Greenhouse. A Basic Interior Architectural Scene: A Prison Cell. Going Deeper: More Polygon Primitives, Reuse of Components & Issues of Scale. Building Complete Scenes & the 3D Workflow. Adding Detail to Models and Smoothing Organic Polygon Surfaces: Plant-life. Placing Polygon Meshes into Object Hierarchies: Furniture. The Top-Down Crafting of a Basic Polygon Mesh: A Moai from Rapa Nui.

Doing A Lot with A Little: A Core Set of Polygon & Sculpting Tools. What Is Polygon Modeling: Why Is It Still the Gold Standard'. The 3D Surface Modeling World: Viewing 3D Vector Models in a 2D Pixel Space.

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