Houdini Master is the most complete visual effects and animation solution available. This award-winning and production-proven product andles the most challenging shots without the need for additional plug-ins or an army of programmers. Film production facilities can rely on Houdini Master to help them create stunning feature film effects and character animation. Houdini Master is a full-featured 3D animation and visual effects software renowned for its particle and dynamics tools. Houdini Master is perfect for visual effects artists, technical directors and CG supervisors who want to experience total control over their pipeline.

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The engine is the core of the development system - it generates the 3D image and controls the behavior of the virtual world. Game Studio’s A7 virtual reality engine was developed in 2007. It’s new Adaptive Binary Tree scene manager switches seamlessly from indoor to outdoor sceneries. The brand new lighting engine overcomes the 8 lights limit of today's 3D hardware and supports an unlimited number of static and dynamic shadow-throwing light sources. Programmers can use plug-ins for adding new effects and features. The simple and straightforward C-style DLL interface allows painless access to the engine from all programming languages.

A rock-solid development system“We’ve now sold close to a thousand of our ‘3D Kitten’ game… Out of those thousand orders there has not been one bug report. Not one. That’s definitely a first, and this is the first product we’ve made with Gamestudio. That tells me something about stability.” Gamestudio is not a game engine, not a game editor, and not a game programming language. It’s all of them together. The development system contains all the needed tools for creating a commercial-quality 3D or 2D game or any other graphics application right out of the box! It comes with a state-of-the-art 3D and 2D game engine, a level editor, a model and terrain editor, a script editor and debugger, and thousands of ready-to-use elements, such as models, level prefabs or textures. No need to purchase your tool kit and artwork by bits and parts!

Even if you’re a beginner to game development, you are not left alone. With about 10,000 registered users at our forum, it’s meanwhile difficult to ask a question that has not been answered already! The monthly AUM magazine offers tutorials, plug and play code snippets, as well as answers to users’ questions. The Pro Edition includes 12 months tech support. And the AU resource site is a great spot for finding thousands of free models, levels, textures, and other resources that can be used in your Gamestudio applications.

The Photoshop Secrets - Special FX Video CD-ROM from PhotoshopCafe includes tutorials for 19 stunning effects that will give your images a stunning and fresh appearance. You'll learn the secrets of the pros in plain English with a warm conversational style, without the technical jargon that can be so confusing. The fast loading CD ROM contains almost 2 hours of sharp 800 x 600 video with crisp, clear sound, and the advanced interface allows you to instantly jump to any of the 19 lessons with complete control over the playback. The CD-ROM also includes many unflattened Photoshop files (.psd format) so you can understand how the images are assembled, and easily duplicate the results. The CD-ROM is compatible with Windows and Macintosh Systems.

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE graphic viewer for Windows. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support. One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support. The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.

Some IrfanView features:
- Many supported file formats (http://www.irfanview.com/main_formats.htm)
- Multi language support
- Thumbnail/preview option
- Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
- Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
- Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
- Drag & drop support
- Fast directory view (moving through directory)
- Batch conversion (with image processing)
- Email option
- Multimedia player
- Print option

Create believable CG character models with this unique book and DVD package. The stunning color images show just what you can achieve, and the detailed step-by-step tutorials show exactly how to achieve them.

Every technique and tip is backed up with practical tutorials, using the models, textures and video on the companion DVD to offer a crash course to this vital skill. Jason Patnode takes you from low to high-resolution modeling - helping you span the gap between game and film industry skills. Based on Maya 2008 and ZBrush 3.0.

Youll learn: Pipeline and modeling guidelines Overview of Maya Introduction to ZBrush modeling Concept art Anatomy Creating a video game character Creating a hyper-real character Creating a photo-real character UVs and texturing How to create a demo reel

* Master professional techniques and workflow processes with clear, easy to follow tutorials
* Companion DVD contains video tutorials, plug-ins, models and texture maps as well as high quality art from participating artists
* Interviews with professionals connect the concepts to real world workflow and applications

LightWave® v9 is the perfect combination of power, speed and value. Long considered one of the easiest 3D animation systems to learn and use, LightWave 3D® is versatile enough for any application from award-winning visual effects to stunning hi-res print graphics, dynamic video games, powerful motion graphics and more. LightWave offers modeling, animation, dynamics, volumetric rendering, particle effects and a motion picture quality rendering engine with unlimited render nodes making LightWave the centerpiece of the most cost effective 3D production pipelines in the world.

LightWave 3D is a complete solution right out of the box that includes three different operating systems to meet your particular production requirements: Windows® 32-bit, Windows 64-bit and Macintosh®. LightWave for each operating system comes with unlimited render nodes. LightWave also supports the latest generation of dual-core and multi-core processor systems at no additional cost.

LightWave v9 introduces new interface paradigms, such as a Node Editor for materials and surfaces, volumetric lights, and displacements. Exciting new physically correct cameras have been added, allowing artists to recreate any real world camera lens, and have footage rendered in LightWave match real world photography (a must for compositing CGI and real footage together). These cameras can also be extended into the hyper-real, or even bizarre, as any mesh object can itself be made into a camera and record a scene. The possibilities are limitless.

New techniques for displacement mapping, and support for ZBrush® displacements have been added. New shading models, such as Blinn, Oren- Nayar, and Ambient Occlusion now allow for a tremendous versatility for artists no longer bound by the original shading model in previous versions of LightWave. Of particular note are the new shaders for sub-surface scattering, anisotropic specular and refl ection shaders (which allow for hromatic aberration), easy to use and offering a spectacular visual impact.