Looking to create your own 3rd-person game One of the first things you’re going to need is a solid character handling system. 3D Buzz makes that easy with our 3rd-Person Character System with C# videos. We take you through the entire creation of a customized character and camera setup. We show how to deal with camera orbiting, how to prevent the character from being occluded from the player, and how to establish an intelligent collision system with the camera to prevent scene clipping.

Lesa Snider takes a deep dive into the power of Adobe's Camera RAW tools.

In this course, we'll cover methods for adding topology to our existing model to make creating mouth shapes and expressions feasible. We'll use a variety of tools in 3ds max to manually add and remove edges and generally reroute the geometry as needed. We'll also add geometry for the interior of the mouth and make sure the head is reassembled with the existing body. When focusing on animation, having a character to work with is important.

This term Tom Gleeson returns and is joined by Mike Seymour for a camera production course that focuses on the technical side of film making. Each week the team will pick an area and discuss the technical issues associated and along the way show the newest cameras on the market. Rather than look at a different camera each week, the team will cover the technical topic and use several cameras to illustrate the key points.

Digital Tutors - Mental Ray Workflows in Maya: Global Illumination
A fundamental guide to learning global illumination in Maya Learn creative practices for utilizing global illumination and time-saving rendering techniques that can be used in a multitude of applications. Contains 2 hours of project-driven training - Perfect for intermediate artists.