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Thursday, October 28, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Essential Guide To Model Trains
70% Commission-model Trains enthusiast Albert Coleman reveal Secrets That Save you A massive Amount Of Time and money when planning and construction of my model train layout
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Treasure hunt party game Summer theme for children
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Character Design and Modeling for Next-Gen Games
In this DVD, Vitaly Bulgarov walks you through his process for creating highly detailed organic-mech characters using XSI, ZBrush and Photoshop. Vitaly explains his 2D/3D concept design process, then shows his process for creating clean detailed meshes within XSI, as well as the sculpting process in ZBrush. Finally he shows how to add character and life to the hard surface and make a presentation of the final high-poly model using ZBrush and Photoshop.
Price: $69.00
Mary's Softdough for Halloween - Orange with Pumpkin Cookie Cutter
We have always given out Mary's Softdough for Halloween instead of candy. Now we have taken it one step further to add the pumpkin cookie cutter into a 2 oz container of Halloween Orange dough for all of you out there who would like to try a new approach to a Halloween give away item. Mary's Softdough is a soft, non-crumbly modeling dough that's fun to play with! It holds up well to lots of creative play and when stored in it's container will last up to a year. Ingredients: flour, water, salt, cream of tartar, soybean oil, food coloring and sodium benzoate (a food preservative). Recommended for kids 3 and up. Conforms to ASTM D4236-94. Manufactured by Terrapin Toys LLC in Eugene, Oregon USAPrice:
Monday, October 25, 2010
Papier Mache Masks Activity Box
1734 Features: -Contains 12 each papier mache masks. -Includes over 20 grams of spotted and duck quill feathers, 2 bags of different color craft hair and a variety of glitter glue pens. -Child safe, non-toxic. -For ages 3 years and up. -All papier mache masks are made of the highest quality. -Paint, decorate and create your own personalized Mardi Gras mask.Price:
Mini Modeling Balloon Air Pump (1 pc)
This mini modeling balloon air pump is the perfect accessory to fill modeling balloons quickly. Pump measures 15". No party should be without one! Pumps come in assorted colors.
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.
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Autodesk Mudbox 2010
Autodesk Mudbox 2010 digital sculpting and painting software gives artists the freedom to create 3D digital artwork as if they were working with clay and paint. Designed by professional artists in the film, game, and design industries, Mudbox combines a highly intuitive interface with a powerful toolset of stencils and brushes for creating ultra realistic models and environments.
 Mudbox combines a highly intuitive interface with a powerful toolset of stencils and brushes for creating ultra realistic models and environments. |
Whether you're a seasoned 3D professional, an artist who works with traditional media, an amateur enthusiast, or a 2D graphic designer or illustrator looking to add 3D to your workflow, Mudbox is what you need to add a whole new dimension to your creativity.
"Mudbox has always been a part of my workflow since I started to use it on King Kong. I really liked the real-time shading and rendering features that were added in the recent versions, and as a Maya user, I love Mudbox's working environment." -- Pascal Raimbault, 3D Modeler
Hit the road to freedom
Mudbox gives artists the ability to create without worrying about the technical details. Sculpt and paint as fast as you think. With its friendly user interface, Mudbox can be easily used by both traditional and digital artists.
Welcome to the age of digital sculpting and 3D painting
There was a day when design ideas were visualized through a physical model fabricated or sculpted from materials such as metal, paper, wood, or clay. There was a day when digital artists worked in 2D. That time is over. Meet Mudbox.
Brush based digital sculpting
With Mudbox you can digitally sculpt ultra realistic 3D models with incredible detail--down to the pores on a character's skin--with easy-to-use, high-quality sculpting tools, stamps, and stencils. Choose from an extensive list of brushes, or quickly tailor them to fit your project's particular needs.
If you are new to 3D, you can use one of the simple built-in primitive shapes, such as a sphere, as a starting point for creating organic forms. Artists already familiar with 3D software may want to begin their designs in a 3D application like Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, or Autodesk Softimage, and then bring them into Mudbox to refine the shape and add depth and texture. The Mudbox interface will be familiar to artists who already know these tools.
Texture painting
Rotate your model to apply paint precisely where you want, no matter how complex the surface. Quickly and easily paint multiple diffuse, specular, reflection, and bump textures across multiple high-resolution maps on your 3D models. 3D painting is integrated with the familiar stamps and stencils workflow.
 Become productive in hours, rather than weeks, with the intuitive Mudbox user interface. Click to enlarge. |
 High-quality brushes, stencils, and curves enable you to more quickly "sculpt" your geometry into the 3D model you envision. Click to enlarge. |
 Store different detail passes, design directions, libraries of morph targets, and more on multiple layers. Click to enlarge. |
 Enjoy excellent interactive camera performance with even the densest meshes. Click to enlarge. |
 Extend and customize Mudbox using its C++ application programming interface (API). Click to enlarge. |
 Create ambient occlusion maps for extremely high-resolution models. Then, bake the soft shadows and details of a model out to an image you can reuse without expensive recalculations. Click to enlarge. |
 Maintain performance when displaying textured models by managing how you use the graphical processing unit (GPU) memory to display textures on models with multiple UV tiles. Click to enlarge. |
 More quickly create high-quality images for design reviews and more by rendering your scene directly from the viewport. Click to enlarge. |
What you visualize is what they'll see
The real-time rendering effects in Mudbox enable you to see your work in progress from any angle. When you're done, use Mudbox to show it off to clients, co-workers, or friends.
"Mudbox is a joy to use and is always surprising me with new possibilities for creativity. This software gets an A in my book and is a must-have for the serious CG artist." -- Tom Cushwa
From 2D to 3D
It's never been easier to add a whole new dimension to your creativity. Adding Mudbox to your current 2D workflow frees you from the creative limitations associated with traditional photography, 2D software, hand illustration, and other traditional graphic design methods.
While the tools themselves will feel familiar to those who sculpt with clay, the Mudbox workflow offers the advantages of digital creative tools, such as Adobe Photoshop software, including the ability to organize your work using layers, mirror or flip them, and nondestructively edit your 3D models.
Let your inner child come out and play
When was the last time you played with Play-Doh? It's time to try it again (minus the funny smell)! Mudbox guarantees hours of guilt-free fun--you're on a computer, so you must be working, right? After all, Mudbox is a work tool used by major film, TV, and games studios to create 3D characters and environments.
Ideal for:
- 3D artists
- 2D artists
- Fine artists
- Web and multimedia professionals
- Traditional sculptors
- Students
Applications:
- Web and multimedia content
- Film
- Games
- Television products
- Design--automotive, consumer goods, industrial, architectural
- Advertising
- Product packaging
- Illustration (classic, medical, or scientific)
Features
What's Included
Documentation and Learning:
- Learning movies --Watch these movies to learn the essential skills to work in Mudbox.
- QuickStart tutorial--Learn the basics of sculpting and painting in this step-by-step lesson.
- Online documentation--The fully searchable online HTML-based help system includes user guides, tool references, and best practices.
Community:
The AREA, a community for Autodesk Media & Entertainment products. Access free tutorials, downloads or interact with fellow users in discussion forums and see the multitude of talent from around the globe. Directly connect with industry professionals through blogs--more at area.autodesk.com.
Detailed Features
IMPORTANT: Please read the System Requirements. As new hardware is added on an on-going basis, please also visit Autodesk's updated requirements.User Interface
Become productive in hours, rather than weeks, with the intuitive Mudbox user interface.
- For traditional artists with no previous 3D experience, tools that closely mimic the behavior of their real-world counterparts are quickly understood and easily adopted.
- Work with tools such as brushes, stamps, and stencils to quickly sculpt and create lifelike textures.
- Use the Layer Editor to organize your work.
- Maximize your workspace by hiding UI elements and using standard hotkeys to manipulate the camera.
Cameras
Mudbox features innovative, accelerated camera manipulation, for excellent interactive performance with even the densest meshes.
- Use multiple real-time cameras within a scene, including true perspective and orthographic cameras.
- Bookmark your camera positions.
- Model using reference images: each camera has its own image plane.
- Use Smart Focus to position the camera based on the cursor position and brush size.
- Manipulate your camera with trackball-style controls.
- Use the same keyboard shortcuts for Mudbox cameras as those that are used for cameras in Autodesk Maya software.
Display
Work interactively in an environment in which high-res 3D models retain their subtlety, realism, and detail.
- Apply one or more image maps to any object, independent of the other objects in the scene.
- Use smooth shading mode to get a display more representative of the limit surface.
- Interactively view multiple texture channels (including bump and reflection) at the same time.
- Interactively view multiple maps and multiple materials in the scene.
- Work in real time with models that properly display advanced lighting (including HDRI-based lighting) and shadows.
- Incorporate advanced display options into your presentation, including ambient occlusion, depth of field, and tone mapping.
Sculpt Layers
Store different detail passes, design directions, libraries of morph targets, and more on multiple layers.
- Mirror or flip the detail stored in one or more layers.
- Edit nondestructively: Mudbox delivers paintable masks.
- Quickly duplicate, merge, flatten, and reorder layers.
- Precisely blend layers using interactive multiplier sliders and layer masks.
- Use layers to store libraries of morph targets.
Advanced Digital Sculpting
High-quality brushes, stencils, and curves let you quickly "sculpt" your geometry into the 3D model you envision.
3D Brushes
- Use intelligently designed default brushes or quickly tailor them for custom behavior and performance.
- Choose from a number of base brush types, including
- Dry brush--enables you to create an effect similar to what can be achieved by painting only on the raised details of a model
- Clone brush--enables you to quickly and easily copy existing paint on a model from one area to another, for your retouching needs
- Sculpt brush--enables you to create complex forms with great control
- Flatten brush--enables you to quickly create planes and wipe away detail
- Wax brush--enables you to easily fill in area
- Accurately shape your brush tips with falloff curves and stamps. A sharp falloff curve will cut an accurate, sharp stroke into the geometry with no soft stroke profiles.
Workflow
- Sculpt both sides of topologically symmetrical models simultaneously--even when they are in an asymmetrical pose--with the powerful tangent space mirroring functionality.
- Use curves as guides for brush strokes.
- Use image stamps to quickly brush (in 3D) a detailed texture directly into your mesh.
- Quickly add high-quality detail through mesh displacement. Use 8-, 16-, or 32-bit images to displace your mesh; Mudbox even supports displacement using multiple maps at one time.
Texture Painting and Assignment
Quickly and easily paint multiple diffuse, specular, reflection, and bump textures across multiple high-resolution maps on your 3D models.
- Apply detail precisely where required, regardless of UV distortion or surface complexity. In the Mudbox 3D Paint mode, the brush position relative to the model is calculated in true world space; paint is projected tangent to the model. 3D painting is integrated with the familiar stamps and stencils workflow.
- Selectively paint reference images onto the model from a particular viewpoint. Using the new Projection brush, you can project paint onto the model from screen space.
- Paint hero characters with ease: Mudbox supports the painting of multiple maps on multiple meshes.
- Paint both sides of your model simultaneously with the familiar symmetry workflow.
- Paint and display a different texture for each UV square unit tile.
- Use the intuitive layer editor to easily manage multiple paint layers. You can select, blend, and organize several images for each texture channel.
Texture Baking
With its robust texture baking capabilities, Mudbox solves one of the most common bottlenecks in production pipelines: baking of normal and displacement maps.
- Bake high-quality normal and displacement maps between multiple arbitrary meshes. Detail can be baked into 8-, 16-, and 32-bit maps.
- Generate smooth, high-quality maps using extraction options designed to address issues related to poly faceting by extracting between the limit surfaces of the given meshes.
- Displace your meshes using multiple floating point maps.
- Bake normal maps that are compatible with Autodesk Maya and Autodesk 3ds Max software.
General Workflow
Mudbox performance is renowned, with tools organized in a familiar, intuitive manner.
- Work in real time even on 3D models that are fully subdivided into tens of millions of high-quality polygons.
- Manipulate the camera using conventional camera controls--to maximize your workspace and reduce "back and forth" workflows.
- Streamline your workflow through tools such as the Hover Pick functionality and hotkeys.
- Use asymmetrical mirroring to streamline the process of working on posed or asymmetrical models.
- Work on one mesh in the context of others: Mudbox supports multiple meshes within the scene.
- Use the built-in image browser--with full support for 8-, 16-, and 32-bit images--to view reference images and quickly assign them to stamps, stencils, or camera image planes.
Connectivity and Integration
Mudbox works well with Autodesk Maya and Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Softimage, as well as with other 3D software applications, making it a natural choice for experienced artists.
Simpler interoperability with Maya, 3ds Max and Softimage
Mudbox has support for Autodesk FBX file transfer technology, allowing artists to import and export scene data containing more information than the usual OBJ file format. Important data can be retained, including painted texture maps, cameras and image planes. This results in higher fidelity transfers; saving artists time.
Supported Formats | |
Scene Import | OBJ, FBX |
Scene Export | OBJ, FBX |
Texture Import | BMP, EXR, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIF |
Bitmap Output | BMP, EXR, JPEG, PNG, TIF. Some formats applicable to certain renderers only. |
PSD File Support
Round-tripping of Mudbox paint layers (converting to and from Adobe Photoshop) is now possible through added support for PSD import and export.
Software Developer Kit (SDK)
The addition to Mudbox of a software developer kit (SDK) opens up the software as never before, giving developers the ability to customize Mudbox and integrate it with their production pipeline. This is the launch of the Mudbox SDK and it is anticipated to be expanded with future releases.
Price: $745.00
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Body Modeling for Games: Low Poly Modeling with Mayan Escalante
Creating characters for games presents many challenges for the 3D artist. Issues such as poly count, flexibility of the rig, art direction, and the game environment itself will dictate the final look of the character. In this DVD, Mayan continues from the head model and design used in Head Modeling for Games, demonstrating the tools and techniques used to create low polygon characters. Topics such as working from a concept design, poly count, scripts, props and topology are discussed.Price: $59.00
Balloon Modeling Kit
This mini modeling balloon air pump is the perfect accessory to fill modeling balloons quickly. Pump measures 15". No party should be without one! Pumps come in assorted colors.
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
Binney & Smith 236001 Model Magic Self-Hardening Modeling Compound 75 1oz Pouches per Carton White
Binney & Smith 236001 Model Magic Self-Hardening Modeling Compound 75 1oz Pouches per Carton WhitePrice:
Sculpey III Polymer Clay MultiPacks - Classic Collection
Sculpey III has the same excellent handling qualities of Sculpey, combined with the added dimension of color. Bakes to permanent hardness in home oven at 275 degrees F and will not shrink. It is non-toxic, will not stain, and stays pliable if kept in a cool place. Ten colors in box; 2 oz. per color.Price: $18.99
Friday, October 22, 2010
Van Aaken Modeling Clay 1lb Black
Quality, economically priced modeling clay. Never hardens, remains pliable and plastic and can be used time and time again. Self-adhering, non-toxic and used by sculptors, model makers, clay animators and artists of all ages.Price: $3.89
Studio: Music Video Dist Release Date: 03/17/2009Melissa & Doug Shape, Model and Mold
The Melissa and Doug Shape, Model, and Mold Kit includes everything your little one needs to create fun, clay creations! Offering hours of imaginative fun, each kit includes 4 tubs of modeling dough, molded lids, a patterned wheel press, 5 wooden stamping cubes, and 3 patterned rolling pins. Children will have a blast rolling, cutting, pressing, and shaping their way to fun!Price: $19.99
3ds Max 2011 Bible
Updated version of the bestselling 3ds Max book on the market Used by more than 150,000 people, and the winner of more than 65 industry awards, 3ds Max is the world's most popular animation modeling and rendering software for film, television, video games, and design visualization. 3ds Max Bible is the worldâ??s most popular book for getting the most out of the software. Whether a novice looking to create something immediately using the Quick Start tutorial, or an experienced 3ds Max user who simply wants to check out the software's latest and greatest features, this update to the bestselling 3ds Max book on the market continues to be the most comprehensive reference on this highly complex application.
- Packed with expert advice, timesaving tips, and more than 150 step-by-step tutorials
- 16-page color insert highlights the work of some of todayâ??s most cutting-edge 3D artists
- Includes a companion DVD with a searchable, full-color version of the 3ds Max Bible, as well as customizable models and textures
The only comprehensive reference-tutorial on 3ds Max, it's no wonder the 3ds Max Bible is the bestselling 3ds Max book in the world and a favorite of both amateur and professional animators.
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Price: $49.99
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Van Aaken Modeling Clay 1lb White
Quality, economically priced modeling clay. Never hardens, remains pliable and plastic and can be used time and time again. Self-adhering, non-toxic and used by sculptors, model makers, clay animators and artists of all ages.Price: $3.89
Character Modeling for Next-Gen Games
In this DVD, Richard Smith guides you through modeling a Next-Gen game character. Richard starts with a rough concept design and then creates a low-res base mesh. From there he sculpts each part in ZBrush with special attention paid to creating realistic clothing folds. Once each part is completely sculpted Richard retopologizes it inside of Maya using a plug-in called Nex. Finally, using XNormal he creates the normal map and then sets everything up in Maya. This DVD is intended for artists with a basic understanding of polygon modeling in Maya, but the techniques he demonstrates could be applied using other 3D modeling software.Price: $69.00
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Chenille Kraft 1719 Papier Mache Box Activity Pack, 24 Boxes, Decorating Items
1719 Features: -Children will have hours of fun creating their very own picture frames. -Activity box will allow them to decorate and create fun picture frames for themselves or for friends. -Contains 8 each of 3 different style papier mache frames. -Includes WonderFoam shapes, glitter glue pens, sequins, acrylic gemstones and glitter poms. -Child safe, non-toxic. -For ages 3 years and up. -Made of the highest quality materials. -Paint, decorate and create your own personalized picture frames.Price: $52.00
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