Digital-Tutors Announces New Creating Digital Humans Series
Latest training provides comprehensive guides to learning production-tested workflows to organic modeling, texturing, and rendering using an array of tools and techniques for creating realistic humans from photographic reference.
Oklahoma City, OK - September 5, 2007 - Digital-Tutors, an Autodesk Authorized Publisher and leading provider in video-based training, today announced the availability of the ‘Creating Digital Humans Series’ - a four-part collection of training and the latest release in a growing library of interactive training for emerging digital artists using Maya, the award-winning 3D modeling, animation, effects and rendering solution. The ‘Creating Digital Humans Series’ provides a total of over 20 hours of project-based training and guides artists through the technical and artistic processes of creating digital humans for use in Film and Games. Artists will learn time-saving techniques for organic modeling and establishing anatomical volume and musculature, refining topology and strategically adding details, alternative methods for UV mapping and texturing, and fundamental concepts for photorealistic rendering with mental ray. - An ideal learning solution for new and experienced artists.
Creating Digital Humans 1: Volume and Muscle
Highlights include: polygon and subdivisional modeling techniques, anatomical structure, anatomy concepts, primitive modeling, blocking-in form, establishing volume, organizing topology, creating edge flow, adding muscle structure, evaluating proportions, modeling to photographic reference, re-routing edge loops, strategic use of edge loops, symmetrical modeling, and connecting geometry.
Creating Digital Humans 2: Definition and Detail
Highlights include: polygon and subdivisional modeling, anatomical structure, anatomy concepts, creating believable likeness, refining edge flow, strategic use of small detail, hair construction using curves, sculpting geometry, muscle definition and flow, matching facial features and characteristics, localizing detail, detailing hands and feet, adding wrinkles to skin, adding asymmetrical details, matching photographic reference, creating eyeball geometry, problem-solving common geometry concerns, and optimizing geometry for uv mapping and texturing process.
Creating Digital Humans 3: UV and Texture Mapping
Highlights include: making resolution considerations, using UVLayout from Headus, UV layout in Maya, UV snapshot, using reference images as texture base, blending multiple images seamlessly, warping textures to fit UV layout, color correcting texture sections, blending seams, blending between multiple maps, texturing NURBS surfaces, adding realism to hair with transparency maps, creating procedural eyes, creating eyelashes with transparency, troubleshooting common UV concerns, and moving details with Photoshop tools.
Creating Digital Humans 4: Shading and Rendering
Highlights include: fast skin shader in mental ray, sub-surface scattering techniques, generating sub-dermal maps, generating epidermal maps, creating shading networks, adding bump maps, adding specularity, scene maintenance, creating hair strands with Paint Effects, adding digital makeup, creating lighting setups, and understanding the effects of light on skin.
Pricing and Availability
For a full outline and pricing information of ‘Creating Digital Humans Series’ visit: http://www.digitaltutors.com/store/p…productid=3374
A sample video can be seen directly at: http://www.digitaltutors.com/digital…re.php?vid=978
About Digital-Tutors
Digital-Tutors is an internationally known innovator of interactive training whose client list includes thousands of students, professionals, Fortune 500 Companies, U.S. government agencies, schools and nonprofit associations from across the globe. Digital-Tutors develops award-winning training solutions for emerging digital artists using a unique teaching approach designed by university professors and industry professionals. Recognized as the largest resource for free online training, Digital-Tutors delivers intuitive project-driven training for artists of all levels. Learn more at www.digitaltutors.com.
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