Visual Storytelling Teach Yourself Visually Digital Video is an excellent resource for beginning to intermediate videographers.  Lonzell Watson employs a combination of short, easy-to- read paragraphs, dynamic cartoon illustrations and labeled screenshots to quickly demonstrate how to create compelling video.

Autodesk Maya 2010 – Supercharged 3D Simulation Engine Memorable movies and animated video games include numerous scenes and special affects incorporating Maya Unlimited tools: Maya nParticles, Maya nCloth, Maya Fluid Effects, Maya Hair, and Maya Fur. With these powerful tools, Maya 2010 adds Maya MatchMover and Composite (Toxik) for a complete workflow producing futuristic digital [...]

Easy-to-Learn How to Create 3D Animation Characters Put a piece of clay in your hands. Can you resist shaping the clay? With Autodesk’s Mudbox 2010, this application lets artists regain the feel of working clay and paint, without the messy clean up. Mudbox 2010 allows beginners to experts the freedom to digitally mold and paint [...]

Visual Defects in Images What do you do with images that show scratches, dust, spots, pimples, wrinkles, or even the dreaded ex. Get Alien Skin’s Image Doctor 2.0. This Photoshop plug-in provides a set of five cool filters that clean up visual defects in digital images.

If a painted image tells your story better than digital pixels, Alien Skin’s Snap Art 2.0 is just the tool to convert photos to an image with that hand crafted look. Students, teachers, marketing and web designers can experience a variety of painting styles, with just a click of the mouse using Snap Art 2.0.

Improving Digital Images You have a digital camera, you’re snapping lots of pictures, but you’re not happy with the results. Someone took your Kodachrome away. O.k., lets be honest. You donated your Kodachrome and the remaining film after getting hooked on shooting digital. Yet, now you want that film look back without losing the convenience [...]