More than 101 all new video tutorials show you how to quickly create amazing effects, solve common problems, and get the most out of Sony Movie Studio.
You'll discover the secret to quickly doing things like Picture-in-Picture videos, Split-Screen interview effect, flying video windows, professional titles and intro graphics, cloning actors, plus much more!

In the series of lessons, we will explore the various tools, techniques, and procedures that we can use when lighting an outdoor scene in Maya. We will begin the tutorial by learning how to set up a realistic outdoor illumination source, and how to simulate physically-accurate light behavior within our scene.

This course describes two powerful techniques from Earik's private files that provide a complete forecasting and trading approach. Learn how the planets interact to create energy vibrations, how those vibrations influence us on Earth, and how the information can be used to forecast turning points in price and time with incredible accuracy. A daytrading method and a position trading method are both provided, including rules on entries, exits, risk management, and position sizing. Best of all, watch as Earik places live trades and comments on the market in the video portion of this course!

This course will teach techniques and concepts for rendering realistic, physically based CG elements in a visual effects context (i.e. for integration into live action shots). As it is a hands-on course in using Mental Ray to do these things, it will start with a fundamental treatment of everything from light and pixels through to cameras, response curves and compositing, as well as "learning to see". The course will be performed using the 3ds Max application, but most things apply to Maya and Softimage as well.

Deke's Techniques is a collection of short Photoshop and Illustrator projects and creative effects that can be completed in ten minutes or less. The series is taught by computer graphics guru Deke McClelland, and presented in his signature step-by-step style. The intent is to reveal how various Photoshop and Illustrator features can be combined and leveraged in real-world examples so that they can be applied to creative projects right away.

This first video examines fashion and glamour lighting using just 1 or 2 light sources.
We will examine each of the 12 lighting modifiers and how or when we might use them.
We will discuss the 18 lighting diagrams and the 19 images created.
Follow me as I comment on the lighting diagrams and watch a behind-the-scenes
video of the 4 models photographed. This video spans what I have learned over the
last 20 years of shooting and modifying the light quality of my studio flash units
to a give a 3-dimensional and cinematic light quality.

The demand for cartoon illustration is booming. The creative industry is crying for artists who can work digitally. Photoshop has become the leading software for cartoonists and illustrators worldwide. Whether you're cartooning for your own enjoyment, or you're a traditional cartoonist looking to make the leap to digital, these lessons will walk you through the process of turning a sketch into a cartoon illustration. Patrick's approach is easy enough for a beginner to learn cartooning, but is also full of valuable information for working industry professionals.