Ace celebrated guitar tutor Jamie Humpries gives you a note-for-note guide to five of Jimmy Page's greatest guitar moments. This double-DVD set features close-ups on Jamie's playing so you won't miss a note as you learn the details of such classic guitar anthems as Rock And Roll and, of course, Stairway To Heaven! More than just songs, Zeppelin's albums laid the foundations for modern heavy rock, and established one of the most interesting guitar talents of all time in Page. From the greasy twists of Black Dog to the Celtic howl of Immigrant Song, here's your chance to get you fingers around those timeless rock riffs and tortured blues solos.

NUKE, short for "New Compositor", began as the in-house compositing and effects application at Digital Domain, where it won an Academy Award® for Technical Achievement. NUKE is built primarily for visual effects film work at a variety of element resolutions and color spaces, all within a floating point 2D and 3D environment. This lecture covers the essentials of working with film-based and CGI elements in a professional, extensible and fast compositing pipeline. Utilizing many techniques for speed and efficiency, NUKE is able to provide rich output results and ultimate customization for the user. In this DVD, Rob covers all the major aspects of NUKE and reveals many areas where the casual user would not have known to go at first glance. Rob also provides sensible approaches for how to lay a good foundation for proper compositing in your own projects. Rob uses Nuke 4.3 to teach this tutorial.

Being able to cut multiple bowls from a single wood blank offers numerous advantages including increased profitability, lower cost per bowl and is an environmentally sound approach to woodturning. Professional woodturner and instructor Mike Mahoney has cored thousands of bowls using the McNaughton Center Saver. Drawing on his years of experience, Mike has compiled this definitive video on bowl coring and nesting using the McNaughton Center Saver. In this video Mike shows step-by-step how to properly use the center saver with efficiency and ease in all it's applications.

Video lesson is one of the most extensive tutorials on modeling and animation of fully detailed AIM - in our case it is well known for fighting vehicle AIM in the third part of the Matrix. you can start modeling possessing even the most minimal knowledge of the program. at the conclusion of the lesson you will be completely finished and animated model ready for texturing and further editing is by your own imagination. On the second disc you waiting for a tutorial on modeling a hunter, pilot and the bridge (where your fighting machine can take his first steps).

Erected by the ancient Greeks as a temple to Athena, the Parthenon has served as a church, a fortress, an ammunition dump and the model for countless banks, courthouses and museums across the world. It has been shot at, exploded, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its magnificent sculptures and subjected to restorations that have been termed "catastrophic." Despite so much abuse and renown as an icon of Western civilization, the question of how the Parthenon was built has been largely ignored until recently. Now, thanks to the Greek government's $10 billion restoration program, scholars are finally probing the enigmas of its planning and construction.

Charles Darwin started a revolution when he published his evolutionary theory in the late 1800s. Since then, Darwinian theory has become the accepted scientific doctrine, but now scientist Ted Steele is stirring things up again. For years, Ted and his collaborators around the world have been researching ideas that challenge a fundamental principle of biology - the Weismann Barrier - and have given new life to one of the most discredited theories in the history of science. Their proposition is based on the work of Jean Baptiste de Lamarck, published some 50 years before Darwin's The Origin of Species. Lamarck's concept is that characteristics acquired during a lifetime could be passed on to the next generation. Ted is convinced that we can pass on these genetic improvements, such as stronger immunity, to our children.

Along the way we meet some remarkable Australian Scientists and discover a whole new life form. A young Queensland geologist, Dr Unwins, has quite possibly made one of the most significant biological discoveries of the last 100 years. Ten times smaller than any known living creature, her so called nanobes could hold the key to the origin of life on earth. These tiny creatures appear to eat plastic, may have come from outer space and have been linked with cancer.

Considered to be the most influential name in magic today, Criss Angel built his career by having a visionary approach and groundbreaking material. Now for the first time ever, it's available to you, in this exclusive Criss Angel Mastermind DVD series (volume two). The explanation of his most talked about demonstration -- Self Levitation -- as created by Criss Angel (inspired by a Jacob Spinney concept) and performed by Criss Angel on his critically acclaimed A & E television series MINDFREAK. Criss teaches everything you need to know.

The Gnomon Workshop: The Techniques of Christian Lorenz Scheurer - Introduction to Digital Painting in Photoshop | 3 GB

On the first DVD in this series, Christian introduces the fundamental techniques he uses to create digital concept paintings and matte paintings. In three exercises based loosely on digital photographs, he introduces the basic principals of digital painting in Adobe Photoshop®. The first exercise demonstrates and illustrates three types of perspectives. The second exercise introduces painting with shape, showing different ways to create selections. In the last exercise, Christian demonstrates perspective and shape techniques, showing how to import light layers, and create separate foreground, midground and background elements. The DVD includes the photographic plates and additional bonus exercises.

Lynda.com Training for Web Developers Collection DVD | 4.7 GB

IN EASY TECHNIQUES FOR SELF DEFENSE, Gene Simco demonstrates an assortment of effective self-defense techniques that any one can apply in threatening situations. With an easy approach to self-defense when physical confrontations are unavoidable, you can train yourself in an automatic, instinctive, reliable response to virtually any form of attack. This easy approach does not require size, strength, or speed. It requires you to use your brain and practice constantly. This lesson includes a supplemental segment on techniques for law enforcement and other professionals, which they use to subdue and restrain their attackers as well as defend themselves.

If you love to kiss, you owe it to yourself to see these two extraordinary how-to documentaries by William Cane, author of the best-seller The Art of Kissing. In ninety minutes of nonstop entertainment, Cane and a cast of teens show you how to kiss like the sexiest person alive. This DVD was produced and directed by William Cane so you know it’s the latest word on kissing. It also contains the deluxe director’s cut edition.

Visual Studio 2008 adds a large set of new functionality for the Visual Studio developer. From new language features, including LINQ (Language Integrated Query), to new client-side data support, Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 make it easier than ever to create robust, enterprise-level applications. You will learn how to build solid applications using structured exception handling, how to use the Visual Studio debugging features, how to use MenuStrip and ToolStrip controls, and how to add unprecedented flexibility to your user interfaces using the container controls.

The second part of our Animation Fundamentals series will build on the core animation techniques Simon taught you in the previous tutorial. Here we look at the importance of analysing and understanding our characters before attempting to animate them. How good staging, contrasting poses, observing silhouettes and related techniques will help deliver your drama clearly to the viewer. Simon will show you how the pose-to-pose animation technique will allow you to quickly and effectively animate in a production environment. Simon completes the tutorial with a practical example of how to put all of these principles into effect in a real world example staring Floppy the alien.