Trish Meyer leads beginners through a gentle introduction to Adobe After Effects: from creating a new project and importing sources, through arranging and animating layers, applying effects, and creating variations, to rendering the final movie. However, this is no paint-by-numbers exercise. Trish demonstrates how she makes creative decisions and saves time through the use of keyboard shortcuts and smart working practices. Additional movies explain further details about how After Effects works under the hood. Her measured pace helps even those completely new to After Effects understand the program so that they can use it effectively on their own projects. Exercise files are included with the course.

Have you ever wanted to create and release such profound intimate connections in a woman, that when she is talking with her friends, about you, and you walk into the roomпїЅ you are greeted with a moment in timeпїЅ that slows way downпїЅ only yielding to the silence of curious smiles and hungry eyesпїЅ that will no longer concealпїЅ the hidden thoughts and unanswered questions of her deepest desiresпїЅ becauseпїЅ she knowsпїЅ you have the answers?

WouldnпїЅt it be great to administer every aspect of Windows 7, including: installation, daily administration, optimizing configuration, and troubleshooting reliability and performance issues?After watching this great training series from James Conrad, thatпїЅs exactly what youпїЅll do. And youпїЅll be thoroughly prepared for MicrosoftпїЅs 70-680 exam.Soon youпїЅll be your organizationпїЅs go-to person for selecting its OS, installing that OS using mass deployment methods, performing advanced troubleshooting and administration

This DVD introduces Sitni SatiпїЅs 3dsmax volumetric particle rendering system, Afterburn to the advanced level Particle Flow user. Allan gives you an overview of the Raymarching technology behind the system and goes on to guide you through the user interface and a number of practical examples that demonstrate the myriad of uses Afterburn can be put too.

In this DVD Allan McKay takes you through the real world scenario of creating a huge fireball bursting down the passenger aisle of a commercial jet. The tutorial covers such topics as tackling the creation of the various effect elements, including a Birth Script Operator to facilitate the fireball ripping chairs from their bases as it tears through the aircraft.

In this DVD Allan tackles a real world production scenario using a highly procedural workflow. He demonstrates how to use a combination of Particle Flow and Afterburn to form a flow that creates an air strike by a squadron of bomber jets. Each jet drops a bomb and this triggers a chain of events that leads to a number of effects that cascade from the original bomb release.

This class will immerse the student into an interactive environment where they will be shown how to scan, test, hack and secure their own systems. The lab intensive environment gives each student in-depth knowledge and practical experience with the current essential security systems. Students will begin by understanding how perimeter defenses work and then be lead into scanning and attacking their own networks, no real network is harmed. Students then learn how intruders escalate privileges and what steps can be taken to secure a system. Students will also learn about Intrusion Detection, Policy Creation, Social Engineering, DDoS Attacks, Buffer Overflows and Virus Creation. When a student completes the course they will have hands on understanding and experience in Ethical Hacking. This course prepares you for EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker exam 312-50

NHibernate is a mature object-relational mapper (ORM) for the .NET Framework: it bridges the gap between an object-oriented domain model and a traditional relational database. Its purpose is to relieve the developer from a significant portion of relational data persistence-related programming tasks. This course provides an introduction to configuration, mapping, and querying with NHibernate.

The Data Access Application Block is a part of the Microsoft Enterprise Library. In this block there are many classes that you can use to help simplify your data access code and make it more portable. In this course we will learn about the Data Access Application block, how to use it to do basic querying of data and even map data from our database to objects. This course also covers the entire Data Access Application block, and is designed to help you master the block.

Exchange Server 2010 Unified Messaging Training Become a Stand-out Exchange Unified Messaging admin & Learning Specialist by the Hidden gem That Already exists within your Exchange Environment. This course will show you how to provide your users with so much more than a legacy voicemail system can offer. With a universal inbox for email, voicemail, and fax, your users will save time and be more efficient.

Join Fu-Tung Cheng in this step-by-step instructional guide for creating beautiful and functional concrete countertops for kitchens and bathrooms. Fu-Tung's approachable style combined with his 25-plus years as master designer and craftsman offer easy-to-follow, proven methods for bringing your own concrete countertops to life. The detailed processпїЅdesigned and tested by Fu-Tung Cheng takes the guesswork out of making concrete countertops. The result Concrete counters with a minimum of time and energy plus valuable skills that will allow you to express yourself with this remarkable and versatile material.

In this DVD, Instructor Riki Babington guides you through many of the powerful features in Autodesk Mudbox. Riki starts off with the UI and then goes into importing and exporting your meshes. From there he gets into the sculpt brushes and then into the extensive painting features. Further topics include using pose tools, curves, cameras and lights, viewport filters, map extraction, sculpting with maps, and rendering. As a bonus he then goes into the new features recently released in the Subscription Advantage Pack including the Gigatexel Engine, smoothing groups, creating and combining normal maps from bump maps, using the tiling plane, and much more. Finally, Riki demonstrates how to create a portfolio quality sculpt of an old wall. He begins inside 3ds Max and goes all the way through completion.

Two well-structured, well-taught interval workouts. Each one has athletic-style aerobics, challenging пїЅmini-burstsпїЅ and dumbbell body-sculpting. ItпїЅs a Firm-optimized concept proven to burn calories as it builds strength. The basic aerobic combos are taught add-on-style пїЅ a mix of higher and lower-impact classics. The mini bursts are 8 to 10 seconds of truly intense flying jacks and vertical leaps (пїЅI want air under your feet!пїЅ). TheyпїЅre always followed by a well-deserved recovery segment. The toning intervals feature fluid progressions of complementary exercises (e.g. a front lunge, low row, rear leg-extension sequence). Easy-to-follow cuing by Emily Welsh and Rebekah Sturkie. Requires two sets of dumbbells (e.g. 3 and 5 lb.). пїЅ2010.

In our SharePoint 2010 Administration course, J. Peter Bruzzese delivers 15 hours of training that will help you earn one of the most powerful Microsoft certifications in the industry. You will walk away from this course with the knowledge to pass the 70-667 and the skills to setup, deploy, configure, and manage a real SharePoint environment.

This intermediate programming tutorial will teach you more advanced scripting practices within Unrealscript. We'll first learn a few useful skills when using Unrealscript, then develop a deeper understanding of the API and the implementation of these theories. Finally, we'll explore more detailed procedures like Controller/Pawn relationships and User Input.

Three hours of art instruction from Jim Wilcox, who has taught successful workshops for more than 20 years. His DVDs are like workshops in a box. In this DVD Wilcox focuses in on studio painting from photographs. He covers in depth the do's and don'ts of working from reference materials while he paints a 20 x 30 snow scene that he later enlarged to a 30" x 48" that went on to win two awards (the People's Choice Award and the Award of Merit) from the Western Rendezvous of Art.

Rawsome by Brigitte Mars and Tom Pfeiffer The DVD Companion to the best-selling book, Rawsome. This covers recipes for maximizing health, energy and culinary delight. We recommend everyone have the book Rawsome for their food preparation library. It has a great array of great recipes that will help you any time of the year. Cooked foodists love the recipes too! You no longer will need to fear parties and holidays with friend and family when armed with the Rawsome book. So why not have the DVD too and see how easy raw and living food preparation can be. We still look here first for ideas.

We love spaceships! You could argue that CGI was invented to make spaceships, but whether you believe this or not thereпїЅs no denying that CG spacecraft have been the stars in many iconic productions, from battle sequences in Babylon5 to opening shots of Star Wars Episode 3 and more recently Avatar. For many CG artists, these epic scenes really get the blood racing. In this modo modeling tutorial, Andy Brown pays tribute to the CG spaceship and has some fun while creating a very special vehicle.

Creating highly detailed textures for our characters can often be a difficult task. MARI gives us a lot of flexibility in creating those textures and allows us to break down our models into a large number of high resolution textures that we can paint on simultaneously. In this series of lessons we will go through the process of using MARI to create textures for high resolution creatures. We will begin by setting up our MARI project, with our geometry and texture channels, and setting up the workspace.

IпїЅm back in Chicago from NAB and hitting the ground running with course work for the new term. Sunday afternoon, designer Mark Ward visited the fxphd studios to film the first class for our new After Effects project-based course, afx211. HeпїЅs a long time friend and incredibly talented designer who came up with the concept boards for the project. The first class examines the design process on jobs such as this.
The goal for this course is to work through a broadcast design project and in our case, itпїЅs the opening of a new mock reality show called пїЅThe Next FX MasterпїЅ. Basically, Top Chef for visual effects artists. WeпїЅre going on set later this week to film both the material for the course as well as behind the scenes tutorials on various aspects of being the vfx supervisor. Throughout the term, weпїЅll be distributing high quality 720P material so that members can make the open their own and have something great for their reel. ItпїЅs gonna be a blast!