After years of working in production, New York-based artist Joe Gunn is releasing a series of commercial video tutorials. To keep costs down and get quick access to training materials, titles are available as digital downloads. Each title is an AVI format 1024x768 video. Also of note, some useful free tutorials are available from his website.

CG Academy has just released two new DVDs, including the second DVD in the HLSL Shader Creation series by Ben Cloward, co-author of Lumonix' ShaderFX plugin. Also of note, an upcoming DVD by Simon Thistlethwaite that focuses on character animation has been announced.

A new DVD by Allan McKay is available from Turbosquid: FumeFX Essentials includes more than three hours of training dedicated to showing how to create believable FumeFX simulations. The press release provides some more information.

Michele Bousquet and Allan McKay are offering Low Poly modeling and FumeFX workshops respectively at the CGSociety.

Mental Bout Max has made available two new training modules for Mental Ray users: the 4th and final part of their 'Elevated Lifestyle' project, and a module that belongs to their new 'Shader Series'. Read the official announcement for more.

Ted Boardman, speaker and author of many Max books, has introduced a new fundamental 3DS Max and VIZ video tutorial training series available as streaming video and soon to be released on DVD. The exercises are aimed at architects and background artists, but can be adapted to other disciplines. More information at TBMax.net.

CG Academy has released "HLSL Shader Fundamentals" by Ben Cloward (of Shader FX fame), the first in a series of DVDs on the creation of HLSL shaders for real time use in video games.

Mental Bout Max are producing video training modules for Mental Ray renderer specifically for 3DS Max.   [ more... ]

CG Academy has a series of DVDs on HLSL shader coding by Ben Cloward due for release in the very near future. More information can be found at CGTalk.com.

Great news, more quality modeling & texturing DVDs coming your way: three DVDs by character modeler Laurent Pierlot have been released by The Gnomon Workshop. Laurent Pierlot is a Supinfocom alumnus and currently works as character modeler at Blur Studios.