Renowned Berklee College of Music faculty guitarist Jon Finn, combines his experience, education, and stylistic versatility in this eclectic series of lessons for aspiring rock guitarists. Jon's innovative approach is unique, fun, and challenging. The book/CD set and DVD both offer a well researched original take on the use of pentatonic scales in rock improvisation. Using his "Warp Refraction Principle" which takes into account the major third tuning interval between the second and third strings, Jon presents a series of five vertical patterns applied in two-string increments throughout the fretboard. The philosophy behind this project is to present concepts and techniques as a thought process rather than simply providing a reference manual.

Renowned Berklee College of Music faculty guitarist Jon Finn, combines his experience, education, and stylistic versatility in this eclectic series of lessons for aspiring rock guitarists. Jon's innovative approach is unique, fun, and challenging. The book/CD set and DVD both offer a well researched original take on the use of pentatonic scales in rock improvisation. Using his "Warp Refraction Principle" which takes into account the major third tuning interval between the second and third strings, Jon presents a series of five vertical patterns applied in two-string increments throughout the fretboard. The philosophy behind this project is to present concepts and techniques as a thought process rather than simply providing a reference manual.

3Delight For Maya is our plug-in for Maya users wishing to create high quality work that is sometimes difficult to achieve using Maya's internal renderer. The plug-in was designed to be easy to use for Maya artists as well as provide the necessary power and flexibility for the more demanding production environments.

shaderMeister allows you to override the shading of surface on a scene by scene basis. This is accomplished by a shader plugin that needs to be applied to all surfaces that should be overridden by shaderMeister. When rendering the shader plugin will detect if a shaderMeister global shading network is present and then evaluate it. The shaderMeister global shading network itself is saved with the scene. A master handler plugin manages it.

Tutorials on After Effects from Video Copilot (Andrew Kramer), 1-97 tutorial
• All lessons from the site, laid up to 07.11.2009 (1-97 + SinCity Effect)
• Presets from VideoCopilot, used in some tutorials
• Two low-weight programs for easy viewing FLV and SWF

Scripted control of your cameras and more from your laptop. Perfect for situations where photos must be taken on time, every time. Includes eclipse circumstance calculations and GPS support! This software controls cameras during a solar eclipse so that you can be free to concentrate on observing the event visually. Preprogram all exposures using our handy script wizard customized for your exact coordinates and camera. Enter your latitude/longitude coordinates and the software will automatically calculate local circumstances for you. Then, all camera actions can be timed in reference to these specific eclipse events. All features are optional, so the program can be used for as little or as much as desired.

Tutorials on After Effects from Video Copilot (Andrew Kramer), 1-97 tutorial
• All lessons from the site, laid up to 07.11.2009 (1-97 + SinCity Effect)
• Presets from VideoCopilot, used in some tutorials
• Two low-weight programs for easy viewing FLV and SWF

Tutorials on After Effects from Video Copilot (Andrew Kramer), 1-83 tutorial
• All lessons from the site, laid up to 23.01.2009 (1-83 + SinCity Tutorial)
• Presets from VideoCopilot, used in some tutorials
• Two low-weight programs for easy viewing FLV and SWF

Dramatically extend the boundaries of photo-editing software
A natural addition to Adobe® Photoshop®, KPT Collection makes a significant impact on your creativity and productivity.

Refraction is a style to inspire and amaze for phpBB3 . Utilising transparent overlays over professional and artistic background images produces staggering results, all matched with the perfect colour combination. Its easy to radically change the design with just an image and colour.

Genius Maker v3.0 (NEW - Educational Application) | RS | 5.4 MB

The Genius Maker is an excellent educational application, specially designed for high school students.
All the ICSE, CBSE or any State Board students, who are appearing for the competitive Entrance Exams, will find this tool as most informative and beneficial. The tool will help them to prepare for IIT, JEE, AIEEE, CET and any other equivalent standard entrance exam. It provides 16 different modules related to Mathematics, 12 Physics modules, and 4 Chemistry modules. Each module contains a comprehensive help menu, providing the full information regarding the subject. So that students can brush up their knowledge once again. The software allows the user to practice maths, and science problems and they can evaluate the results also. In free edition only 9 modules can be enjoyed freely. The offered free tools are (Matrix Algebra, Determinant, Number System, Progressions, and Permutation Combination) in maths, (Unit Converter, Refraction of rays) in Physics, and (pH value, Molecular Weight) in Chemistry. The versatile, number of awards winning tool, will take your standard of knowledge to a next progress level.

iClone3 is the complete 3D movie machine with real-time animation and actor creation tools for rendering movies with ultimate detail. Design actors that are ready to take the stage as fully animated 3D avatars featuring custom faces, facial animation, motion, clothing and accessories. Build scenes with actor-interactive props, elaborate architecture and natural environmental elements including sky, terrain, water and atmosphere. Film iClone animation in real-time with advanced live actor puppeteering and vehicle piloting powered by keyboard hotkeys (W,S,A,D) and game-like mouse look control. Export and share your movies online or as footage for post-production video projects.

Create and animate a variety of distortions, including controlling the thickness of the liquid and the size and speed of the brush stroke Create stunning fractals such as crystal clouds, with an improved rendering engine and increased navigational control Use realistic 3D paint tools to synthesize photo-realistic materials, and apply lighting, reflection, refraction and transparency Smear,smudge, twirl, pinch or "finger-paint" an image to produce stunning liquid distortion effects or short animations Add drops of liquid to a surface to create everything from water spots to smoky swirls Customize and create realistic lightning effects by controlling every aspect of the bolt and path, including its color, the number of forks, and attractor and generator points.

"Twilight 01: Twilight", "Twilight 02: New Moon", "Twilight 03: Eclipse", "Twilight 04: Breaking Dawn".
Read by Ilyana Kadushin, Matt Walters.

What’s New
Innovative Graphite Modeling Toolset
Create models quickly and efficiently with the new Graphite modeling toolset. Graphite takes 3ds Max polygon modeling to a new level by delivering over 100 tools for advanced polygonal modeling and freeform design. Because the Graphite tools are displayed in one central location, it‘s easy to find the tools you need for the job. With Graphite you can customize the tool display or hide the command panel and model in Expert Mode.

Material Explorer
Easily manage complex scenes using the new Material Explorer, a productivity-enhancing toolset that simplifies the way users interact with objects and materials. Use it to quickly browse and replace materials in your scene, and to view material properties and relationships.

Refraction is a template to inspire and amaze. Utilising transparent overlays over professional and artistic background images produces staggering results, all matched with the perfect colour combination. Its easy to radically change the design with just an image and colour.

RokTwittie is the centre stage module in the July release providing a window into the world of twitter right in your Joomla website.

The basic idea was to provide the Photoshop user with a complete 3D renderer interacting with Photoshop’s layers. Phototracer includes a realtime preview (wire, flat, Gouraud) and a top quality hybrid renderer. Hybrid renderers are a mix of scanline-based algorithms and raytracers. In Phototracer, the raytracer’s first hit is accelerated by a scanline. Following rays are accelerated by an OSS structure (a space partitioning technique). Geometric antialiasing is performed by an A-Buffer, texture antialiasing is performed by bilinear filtering and summed-area tables (SAT). Phototracer also supports bump mapping, instant rendering (same as the G-Buffers in MAX), multiple lights, multiple reflection and refraction levels, has a customized UI, some neat manipulators (virtual sphere and so on), and I just can’t remember everything since that’s a strong feature-packed plug in.

iClone3 is the complete 3D movie machine with real-time animation and actor creation tools for rendering movies with ultimate detail. Design actors that are ready to take the stage as fully animated 3D avatars featuring custom faces, facial animation, motion, clothing and accessories. Build scenes with actor-interactive props, elaborate architecture and natural environmental elements including sky, terrain, water and atmosphere. Film iClone animation in real-time with advanced live actor puppeteering and vehicle piloting powered by keyboard hotkeys (W,S,A,D) and game-like mouse look control. Export and share your movies online or as footage for post-production video projects.

Features:

Production Environment
* New Interactive Play-to-Create movie directing mode.
* New Complete scene and actor editing mode.
* New Collapsible user interface and full screen operation.
* New Scene Manager for total project asset list and access.
* New In-screen object editing, faster object transformation, multiple select, model copy, and save to library.
* New Record live footage inside iClone3 as Action Captures.
* New Multiple actor selection and management tool.

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.