Cartoon Smart Character Design using Adobe Illustrator | MOV | 4 hours | 753 Mb

Learn traditional sketching techniques then trace over your designs in Adobe Illustrator to add depth and color. Four hours of instruction are included with these tutorials. The lesson begins by sketching the characters above for 30 minutes, then the rest of the tutorial involves tracing over the designs in Adobe Illustrator. This part covers many of the basics of drawing with vector art in Illustrator. Mike also shares some personal tips to developing a career as a professional artist in Part 3.

Lynda.com Illustrator CS4 Beyond the Basics
Author: Mordy Golding | Duration: 09:42 | Level: Intermediate
Genre: Video Training | 893 MB
Covering a wide range of topics, from advanced masking to chart creation, Illustrator CS4 Beyond the Basics reveals a whole new level of power, creativity, and efficiency with Illustrator. Instructor Mordy Golding explores how to work with Live Paint groups, get the most out of the Live Trace feature, and take advantage of Illustrator’s wide range of effects. He also discusses advanced transformation techniques, powerful 3D functionality, and important color concepts. Exercise files accompany the course.

Total Training Character Animation Fundamentals DVD | 502 MB
In this training, you'll learn the basics of feature film style character animation. Starting with the bouncing ball and then moving on to using a character rig, this series gives you a guided tour of the inner workings of Maya, covering the interface and how to develop good workflow habits. It explores the basics of acting and emotion and demonstrates how to setup the always challenging walk cycle, from blocking in and smoothing out the animation to refining it by adding attitude and feeling.

EAT3D: Low-Res Character Production - Constructing A Character For Next-Gen Games
English | 1280x720 | H264 | 15fps 722kbps | AAC 25kbps 44.1khz | 2.18GB

In this DVD instructor Adam Schuman walks you through the entire process of constructing a low resolution character worthy of any "next-generation" game. Follow him as he shows you his techniques in exporting the high-res model from ZBrush, reconstructing the low-res meshes, creating the UV's for all of the meshes, baking out all of the maps (3ds Max and xNormal), creating all of the textures, using real-time viewport shaders, and rendering out the final for your portfolio.

Sampletekk The Rain Piano MULTiFORMAT DVDR-DYNAMiCS | 741 MB
A serious Upright piano with character. Sometimes a Grand Piano is simply too much or lacks personality. Rain Piano is professionally setup to add character while staying in tune with your other instruments. A true 8 velocity X2 (pedal Up / pedal Down) The extra velocities provide smooth response from softest to loudest timbres. Recorded at Studio Kuling, Sweden using only the finest gear and mastered in 24 bit stereo.

Street Fighter III: The 3rd Strike (Portable) [66mb]

Street Fighter-III released on May 1999, the third and final installment of the Street Fighter III brought back the classic Street Fighter II character Chun-Li, along with four new characters, and Gill could be unlocked as a playable character extending the selectable roster to 20 characters (with Akuma now a regular character).

Illustration: A Theoretical & Contextual Perspective
AVA Publishing | 2007 | ISBN: 2940373515, 2940439990 | 218 pages | PDF | 38,4 MB
Successful, forward-thinking illustrators no longer operate the way many did and still do, as merely colouring-in technicians, receiving briefs that are heavily directed and prescribed regarding content and overall visual concept. Nowadays, illustrators need to be educated, socially and culturally aware communicators, having knowledge, understanding and insight regarding the context within which they are working, the subject matter that they are engaged with, and to be able professionals working within the parameters and needs of the market place and target audiences.

Fusion of AE and Zaxwerks Invigorator Vol.1 | 1.3 GB
Genre: eLearning
Creative Cow Master Series: Zaxwerks Invigorator Training with Serge Hamad
Need 3D modeling inside Adobe After Effects? Then you need this DVD! Creative COW Leader and Contributing Editor Serge Hamad shares his award-winning motion graphic expertise to unlock the power of the Zaxwerks Invigorator AE plug-in. Even if you've got no 3D modeling experience whatsoever, Serge will show you how easy it can be, and how great it can look. And even advanced AE and Zaxwerks users will find plenty of tips and tricks to work more effectively.

The Secret of Kells (2009) LiMiTED DVDRip XviD-LPD
English | 01:15:33 | AVI x264 624x352 1119kbps | MP3 160kbps 48khz | 698.33 MB
Genre: Animation | Adventure
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 (214 votes)
Directed by: Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey
Starring: Brendan Gleeson,Liam Hourican,Mick Lally
The story is set in the 9th century. Twelve-year-old Brendan is educated by his uncle, Abbot Cellach, who holds a firm grip on his nephew and expects him to follow in his footsteps. One day, Brendan meets Brother Aidan, a master illustrator who shows him the beauty of art and stimulates his creativity and fantasy. Finally, Brendan decides to break free in search of his dream: completing the valuable Book of Kells. On his journey through the forest, he has to face his biggest fears.

Total Training Adobe InDesign CS4 Essentials DVD | ISO | 1.1 GB

Get an introduction to Adobe InDesign CS4 with this essential training that introduces you to the basics tools, skills and techniques required to create professionally styled text, layouts and graphics that deliver a powerful impact. In this series, you’ll be guided through the techniques needed to work with text and graphics in your layouts. You will also learn how to apply artistic effects to text and placed artwork, without prior knowledge of other applications like Illustrator or Photoshop.

The Gnomon Workshop - Concept Techniques | 997 Mb
BEHIND THE SCENES (BTS) is a new and exciting DVD series developed to showcase the creation of a game cinematic sequence. The series follows a team of artists as they demonstrate their production techniques from concept phase to final rendered animation. In this first chapter, concept artist Peter Han designs the lead character Geo, a seasoned veteran of numerous infiltration missions. Peter demonstrates his process for quick sketching, character exploration, prop design, gathering reference and producing orthographics and final illustrations for the 3D modelers. This DVD features production meetings with Art Director Mark Goerner, as he provides design direction for Geo.

Navicat Premium Enterprise 9.0.9 | MacOSX | 24.5 MB
Navicat Premium allows you to perform multiple server administration to MySQL, SQLite, Oracle and PostgreSQL databases from a single interface. It combines the functions of other Navicat members and supports most of the features in MySQL, SQLite, Oracle and PostgreSQL including Stored Procedure, Event, Trigger, Function, View, etc. This is a time saver, and beneficial to any administrator managing multiple servers.

ZIP Password Recovery Magic 6.1.1.208 | 1.85 MB
ZIP Password Recovery Magic is an easy-to-use program that can help you to recover lost passwords for zip archives. ZIP Password Recovery Magic provides brute-force and dictionary recovery methods, you can pause and resume recovery job easily. ZIP Password Recovery Magic has an easy to use interface. All you need to recover your password is just to add your file to the operation window.

GraphicsGale 1.93.11 Portable | 5.23 Mb
GraphicsGale is a software for editing raster format image. You can retouch a photo, paint a picture, and so on. Unlike most bitmap editors, GraphicsGale can make an animated image with seeing its preview. This feature must be useful for making an animated GIF or a video game character. Built-in GaleBrowser helps you to see and manage many images on your disk. Animated files are displayed in motion. Also you may convert a file format or an image format of many files quickly by Batch conversion.

Poser 8.0 Incl Addons & Updates | 4.1 GB
Easily Create 3D Character Art and Animation! Poser 8 is perfect for creating 3D character art and animation. Includes over 2.5GB of 3D figures and content. Render photorealistic art for web, print and film. Get creative with Poser!

ZIP Password Recovery Magic v6.1.1.115 | 1.81 Mb
ZIP Password Recovery Magic is an easy-to-use program that can help you to recover lost passwords for zip archives. ZIP Password Recovery Magic provides brute-force and dictionary recovery methods, you can pause and resume recovery job easily. ZIP Password Recovery Magic has an easy to use interface. All you need to recover your password is just to add your file to the operation window.

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 Beta 3. Added Portable version (22/01/2010) | 983 MB
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite - a well-known software package for working with different types of graphs. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite allows you to work on all sorts of projects - from logo creation and Web graphics to multipage marketing brochures and eye-catching signs. The package CorelDRAW Graphics Suite implemented advanced means of ensuring compatibility with commonly used formats, including Adobe Illustrator, PhotoShop, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Office, JPEG and PDF.

Mortal Kombat 5 M.U.G.E.N 2009 | 83,73 Mb
This is a modified Mortal Kombat Project MUGEN! Was added a few characters from MK: Deadly Alliance, MK: Deception and MK: Armaggedon!! There are even Water God (the god of water) of the MK: Mythologues!! And as a new mystery character (in the lower left corner) Supreme Liu Kang! In fact, Liu Kang, with modyfitsirovannymi sprites and super-strength! A total of 36 characters! There is a mode 2 for 2! The game is comparable to the MK: Deadly Alliance!! Author - Michael Ghukasyan

Gnomonology: Sculpting Clothing | MOV | 260 MB

In this tutorial Richard Smith demonstrates how to sculpt amazingly realistic folds in clothing using ZBrush. He covers the fundamentals of direction and weight as well as gathering reference. This tutorial documents the entire process for sculpting the jacket of Richard's latest character, Bad Girl. It is an absolute must-have for anyone wanting to learn how to create more realistic clothing for their characters.