Vue 6 xStream Essential Training [CD-ROM]

Larry Mitchell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2, 2007

Vue 6 xStream Essential Training shows how to plan and create spectacular visual effects, from a bird's-eye view of clouds to city and landscape backgrounds. Instructor Larry Mitchell gives users a working knowledge of what can be done with Vue 6 xStream, including adding and editing ecosystems, working with cameras, animating objects, manipulating lighting, and more. He demonstrates how to achieve a variety of results on numerous different kinds of projects. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

Topics Include:

• Getting to know Vue
• Using the World Browser
• Adding and editing terrain and water
• Importing 3D objects
• Modeling objects
• Working with materials
• Animating in Vue
• Adding animated Poser characters to the Vue world
• Adjusting lighting parameters
• Using the Camera Control Center
• Adding and editing atmospheres

Duration: 9.25 hours
On 1 DVD-ROM

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Each lynda.com CD/DVD course offers hours of training movies that you watch on your computer. The movies are recorded in pixel-perfect quality, and include the authors' narration and movements as they teach the subject matter. Courses include the same project files that the instructors use, so you can follow along at your own pace. lynda.com tutorials are great for visual learners and people who like to learn by doing. Topics include software applications, workflow optimization, tips and techniques, and much more. Play, fast-forward, and rewind for easy learning.

About the Author

Larry Mitchell has been working as a digital media artist and producer for the past 20 years, and has created graphics and software for TV shows, arenas, video games, and commercials. He has taught and lectured on computer animation at international conferences and at various colleges and high schools, including Orlando College, Valencia Community College, Lyman High School, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and KEIO University. He has also used his animation expertise at Top Gun Entertainment and Panasonic (Osaka, Japan), and as CEO of Liquid Digital Dream Studios. Larry is now the CEO of Liquid Digital Entertainment (ld-e.com/ent).

Product Details

• CD-ROM
• Publisher: lynda.com, Inc (October 2, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596713860
• ISBN-13: 978-1596713864
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,282,835 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

In 1994, while traveling to Tokyo, Japan to lecture to Japan s top 3 technical institutes on 3D animation and advanced virtual reality design, I began development on a process through which cartoons could be made without the need for drawing. This process is now available in most 3D applications as 'Cell Shading'. The white paper on this process was submitted to ACM SIGGRAPH's 1995 "Panels and Papers" by my development partner (Mitsuru Kaneko) and I.

I've animated, directed and produced 3D animation projects for commercial, international and TV network clients since 1985.

I'm deeply passionate about working in digital media production.