An Essential Introduction to Maya Character Rigging

An Essential Introduction to Maya Character Rigging
Jan. 2008 - 408 Pages - PDF - 30.09 MB

Discover the concepts and techniques required to rig engaging CG character models with Maya in this unique book. The stunning color images show just what you can achieve, and the detailed step-by-step tutorials show exactly how to achieve them. Every technique and tip is backed up with practical tutorials, using the models, student work to offer a crash course in this vital skill. With Cheryl Cabrera youll learn about:

Designing your first Biped Character; Creating your first Biped Character - Modeling Basics, Biped Character Facial Expressions, Texturing Basics; Skeleton setup for a Biped Character Joint Placement; Control Rig setup for a Biped Character - IK and FK; Wrapping up the setup; Skinning your Character

* Use simple NURBS and polygon modeling in Maya for greater flexibility in your workflow

* Create control rig setups for a biped character - both IK and FK

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Tau CD Ripper v1.0

Tau CD Ripper v1.0
Size: 1.03 MB

Tau CD Ripper is an extra-compact, fast and easy-to-use CD ripping tool. Check out Tau CD Ripper, for it may well become your weapon of choice!
Tau CD Ripper is a simple tool that does its job really well. An intuitive user-friendly interface leaves no space for ambiguity and allows anyone to rip audio CD's in virtually no time. Not only does the application allow you to rip music in the WAV format, but also converts it into MP3, so you can download it to your web site or your iPod right away! Tau CD Ripper also supports WMA - another popular format. If your CD is a copy and you do not have any track information, Tau CD Ripper will help you identify them using the FreeDB database server. You can edit ID3 tags by changing the artist's name, the album, track number and name for each of the tracks, which greatly simplifies navigation in audio players with ID3 tag support. Make good use of multiple CD drives by ripping music from each of them in a sequence.
Simply put, Tau CD Ripper is simple and affordable tool that makes CD ripping a task even your grandmother can do. So why complicate things? Use Tau CD Ripper to quickly convert your CD collection to popular audio formats. When efficiency meets simplicity, the result may surprise you!

Audio CD Ripper Features:
:: CD Ripper alows you to convert: CD to MP3, CD to WAV, CD to WMA.
:: High Quality CD Ripping
:: ID3-Tag support
:: Get disc info from FreeDB server
:: Support Multiple CD-ROMs
:: Rename CD tracks
:: Intuitive User Interface

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Tau MP3 Splitter v1.0

Tau MP3 Splitter v1.0
Size: 1.16 MB

Tau MP3 Splitter is an easy-to-use tool to cut MP3 files.
Tau MP3 Splitter allows you to cut a MP3 file and save results into new MP3 file. Tau MP3 Splitter can quickly cut large MP3 files without recompression.

Tool allows you to break a large MP3 into smaller parts.

MP3 Splitter Features:
:: Fast Cutting without Recompression
:: Cutting without Reducing Quality
:: MP3 Tag Info
:: Intuitive User Interface

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Nature Illusion Studio v2.50

Nature Illusion Studio v2.50
Size: 5.77 MB

"Transform your real-world photo into an animated nature scene by adding a wide array of water, weather and sound effects to your own photos and images"

Make photo live
A photo restricts your excitement from holidays spent at the seaside or near a waterfall to flat, two-dimensional images. Nature Illusion Studio lets you go beyond these physical restrictions and make a self-made animated scene, which can bring the original spirit and excitement of the holiday back to life.

Realistic natural effects
All visual effects have been recreated with accurate physics, so ripples on the water or subtle movements of the air look and behave just like they might in the physical life.

Share to others
The best thing is that you can share your excitement with others. You can create a screensaver and present it as a gift to your beloved or friend, publish it on your website and let your guests or customers download it for free.

:: Apply up to 6 types of water effects to a single image.
:: Add Animated Objects to image. Supports animated GIF.
:: Add snow or rain.
:: Add sound effects up to 8 channels.
:: A library of water presets for various effects, including Waterfall, Lake, River, Fire, Fog, etc.
:: Auto View mode provides you with instant feedback on your changes in real time.
:: Save your creation as a screensaver, executable file, GIF or AVI file.
:: Created nature scenes can be used in Water Illusion Screensaver, or Ace Pro Screensaver Creator
:: Works with Windows Vista, XP, 2000, ME, NT, 98, 95

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Web Button Maker Deluxe 2.7

Web Button Maker Deluxe 2.7
Size: 16.71 MB

:: Presentation is everything, enhance your website with elegant buttons created with Web Button Maker Deluxe!

:: Easily create Vista and XP themed buttons, Mac and Aqua style buttons, colorful and shining web buttons, animated buttons and more!

:: Choose between over 150 premade button designs and 50 textures, or make your own button design.

:: You can fully customize the buttons by adding cool effects such as glow, stroke, grayscale, pulse animated buttons, transparency, gradient colors, font style, shadow effects, text rotation and more!

:: You can save the buttons as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, EXIF, WMF, EMF, ICON and even Animated GIF and Animated TIFF!

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IntelliAdmin v2.8 (Remote Control Lan)

IntelliAdmin v2.8

(Remote Control Lan Edition)

Size: 2.0 MB

Unlike other remote control solutions, Remote Control Lan does not require any agents to be installed on the remote computer. Using a windows administrator account you can control any computer on your network in seconds. It has never been easier to support computers on your network!

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Lafamilia Vista for XP Windowblinds 5+

Lafamilia Vista for XP Windowblinds 5+
Size: 3.67 MB

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Portable Art Studio Pro Bundle v1.35

Portable Art Studio Pro Bundle v1.35
Size: 21.18 MB
Turn your photo into WATER COLORS & DRAWINGS!

ArtStudioPro Volume 1 - Natural-looking Artistic Media
It's easy to create natural-looking artwork by simply loading an image and choosing a drawing style such as Colored Pencil, Crayon, Marker, Technical Pen or Watercolor then watch your photo transform into a work of art. ArtStudioPro Volume 1 is an easy to use application that requires no painting.

ArtStudoPro Volume 1 includes:

Colored Pencil, Crayon, Marker, Technical Pen, & Watercolor.Supporting Effects: Colored Pencil Brush, Colored Pencil Fill, Colored Pencil Inside, Colored Pencil Outside, Colored Pencil Outline, Colored Pencil Shade Outline, Crayon Brush, Crayon Inside, Crayon Outside, Marker Brush, Marker Outside, Marker Strokes, Paper Texture, Restore Original, Technical Pen Brush, Technical Pen Outline, Underlayment, Watercolor Base, Watercolor Blend Strokes, Watercolor Brush, Watercolor Details, Watercolor Dry Strokes, Watercolor Wash, & Watercolor Wet Strokes

ArtStudioPro Volume 2 - Natural-looking Artistic Media

Discover how you can create a masterpiece by simply loading an image and choosing a paint style such as Oil, Oil Pastel, Chalk, Charcoal or Finger Painting then watch your photo brush into a painted masterpeice. ArtStudioPro Volume 2 is an easy to use application that requires no painting.

ArtStudoPro Volume 2 includes:

Oil Painting, Oil Pastel, Chalk, Charcoal & Finger Painting.Supporting Effects: Chalk Outline, Chalk Smudge, Charcoal Outline, Charcoal Smudge, Oil Pastel Details, Oil Color, Oil Details & Oil Brush.

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4WomenOnly 5.7

4WomenOnly 5.7
Size: 7.52 MB
Menstrual Cycles and Ovulation Calendar

Software that calculates the day of ovulation. One of the most power systems for monitoring women's health. Detect the period most propitious for conception or preventing a pregnancy. Get detailed data about each day of your menstrual cycle, the prediction of your child's sex, information about your child's birth date. Supporting irregular cycles, showing the number of days before menstruation and ovulation, reminders, a calendar for half a year, statistics, export, printing, password protection and much more...

It's a 4WomenOnly

:: Calculates the number of your ovulation day (your luteal phase) in several ways

:: Uses the calendar to mark the last day before ovulation, menstruation days, ovulation days with the probability of conception in percent for each day, days with the very low probability of conception, days on which intercourse occurred and also the prediction of the child's sex using the calendar method

:: Displays a calendar for half a year with scrolling

:: The appearance of the calendar is customizable, there is a list of predefined themes and you can create your own themes

:: Displays a chart showing the probability of conception for a particular day in the menstrual cycle

:: Supports several calendars (for example, your female friends' calendars) Predicts the sex of a child by the Chinese Lunar Calendar

:: Displays detailed information about the future child's birth date in case the conception took place on a certain day (sex, lunar phase, horoscope, celebrities born on this day, etc.)

:: Displays the number of days till the next menstruation and ovulation

:: Supports irregular cycles storing the duration of all previous cycles and menstruations

:: Calculates and displays on the calendar future cycles based on the parameters of the last cycle

:: Allows you to edit the parameters of the current and each previous cycle

:: Allows you to record the state of your health every day

:: Comparing calendars

:: Displays a table with summary data for the period you specify

:: Allows you to set reminders for upcoming menstruation and ovulation

:: And many more ...

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PVII Glide Panel Magic 1.68 For Dreamweaver

PVII Glide Panel Magic 1.68 For Dreamweaver
Size: 1.20 MB

Glide Panel Magic is a PVII Widget that lets you present some or all of your Web page content in a logically structured, engaging, and compact format (as this page illustrates). You can, for instance, display product facts, multi-part forms, or multi-step tutorials, in logical chunks—and in a unique and visually engaging way. The Glide Panel Magic navigation bar quickly identifies major sections and minimizes page scrolling by keeping more information above the fold.

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Dziobas Rar Player

WinRar Movie Player
Size: 5.38 MB

A super little program that will allow you to open and view the #1 RAR movie file to see if the Rar Movie Player if you want to continue downloading the full series of files! To view a password protected movie file; Open Rar Player. Click on "File" on menu. Select Streaming from unrar...(no rewind). Add the password and view the movie. The viewing will last 8-12 min, you cannot advance and must watch in sequence, but you can exit program at any time.

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CCX Theme for Windows XP

CCX Theme for Windows XP
Size: 1.05 MB

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FaceFilter Studio v.2.0 Portable

FaceFilter Studio v.2.0 Portable

Size: 10.57 MB

Everyone takes sometimes poor photos, now... rather than throwing them away you can restore them using FaceFilter Studio. Youcan adjust everything from color balance to skin tone. You can even change the expressions of people in the photo (somethingawesome).

FaceFilter Studio's proprietary 3D muscle-based photo morphing technology lets you fine-tune facial expressions naturallysuch as adding a smile, widening eyes or raising an eyebrow.

:: Remove bad expressions

:: Change facial expression

:: Open and widen eyes

:: Adjust head proportion & width

:: Slim/Fatten face

:: Revamp & Beautify faces

:: Improve balance

:: Enhance the skins appearance with subtle color adjustment to improve skin color, add a suntan or whiten.

:: Improve skin'scomplexion and smooth the texture by reducing wrinkles, lines or rough skin.

:: and more...

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