Shot on location in the Bahamas, this colourful series is a step-by-step guide to the techniques and materials needed for successful sketching and drawing. Alwyn and his wife June co-present the series and give advice on sketching people, animals, plants, boats and buildings. Each chapter includes demonstrations of different sketching media, including pencils, pastels, felt-tips, charcoal, oils and watercolour. Each chapter also shows how to complete a successful sketch in less than three minutes in real time. Locations include the Governor’s House in Nassau for the Changing of the Guard, the three mile long Coral Sands Beach, a viewing platform thirty feet under the sea, Paradise Island and a flamingo sanctuary.

The video will gear you up for a more advanced level of compositing. Based on viewer feedback from previous versions of our video's, we were able to design a nearly perfect way to train new fusion users. If you are new to compositing or switching from another compositing application over to Fusion 5, you will cherish the content of this video. We cover all the things that a entry level compositor will need the first day on the job

Learn how to bring the detail into those close up destruction shots by deciphering 3 distinct effects lectured by Craig Tonks. Not only does he take you through the detailed steps to create the effects of ash, melting and debris.. ..but does it in a way in which all artists can reuse the workflow on multiple scene setups.

In this training video you will learn how to create, comb, shade and render realistic looking hair by making use of Blender's often underestimated, yet extremely powerful particle-system. With Blender's hair-creating capabilities, you can take your creatures to the next level. because even the best model will look dull without some decent fur. This tutorial will explain the essential tools and settings that you need to cover our mammoth with some dirty, woolly, fuzzy fur.

This course is designed to teach you the fundamentals of using PowerShell to manage your SQL Servers, as well as develop on them. In Module 1, we cover basic DBA tasks using just PowerShell. With Module 2, we provide an introduction to the two main tools for working with SQL Server, the SMO, or SQL Management Objects, and the SQL Server Provider.

Nearly everything you do with CSS involves units for determining the look and formatting of your web page elements. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to work with an array of units—including measurements and keywords—that help you define color, text, distance between elements, location of external files, and other values.

FOOD AND CULTURE is the market-leading text for the cultural foods courses, providing information on the health, culture, food, and nutrition habits of the most common ethnic and racial groups living in the United States. It is designed to help health professionals, chefs, and others in the food service industry learn to work effectively with members of different ethnic and religious groups in a culturally sensitive manner. Authors Pamela Goyan Kittler and Kathryn P. Sucher include comprehensive coverage of key ethnic, religious, and regional groups, including Native Americans, Europeans, Africans, Mexicans and Central Americans, Caribbean Islanders, South Americans, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Southeast Asians, Pacific Islanders, People of the Balkans, Middle Easterners, Asian Indians, and regional Americans.

Sound and Vision magazine is your authoritative source of information about home theater, audio, video and multimedia products. Every issue of Sound and Vision brings you advice about buying and using equipment, choosing components and creating a state-of-the-art home theater. Plus, you also get the latest technological advances, movie and music news and reviews, along with a comprehensive annual buyer's guide.

Gray Cook, and Brett Jones reveal how to screen, and address the major contributing factor to hip and knee dysfunction. This 2-DVD set reveals a systematic approach to general screening, mobility/stability screening and corrective strategies that will lead you to return to effective exercise progressions.

Get a quick introduction to WebGL, the new standard for 3D rendering on the Web and a member of HTML5’s family of technologies. With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn essential WebGL development and production concepts, using the javascript 3D engine Three.js. At the end of the book, you’ll put everything together and build a full 3D application with WebGL.