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Digital-Tutors Reveals New Series of Training for Backburner Plus Additional Courses

Latest releases provide step-by-step guides to learning essential workflows and techniques in Backburner, Maya, Mudbox and Softimage.

Oklahoma City, OK – October 29, 2009 – Digital-Tutors, award-winning developers of interactive training for emerging digital artists, today announced a new list of highly anticipated releases including the first course in an original series of training for Backburner, ‘Getting Started with Backburner,’ as well as ‘Character and Scene Development with Maya and Mudbox’ and ‘Introduction to mental ray in Softimage 7.5.’

Created for artists of all skill levels, these titles offer over nine hours interactive training to maximizing render farms with Backburner; creating a finished character and scene using Maya and Mudbox; simulating the effects of indirect lighting and rendering highly realistic scenes with mental ray in Softimage.

“Adding Backburner to our library has helped established our commitment to the consistent growth of our training collection,” said Chris Glick, Production Manager at Digital-Tutors. “And through that promise, we will continue to provide artists around the globe with high-quality training from the industry’s leading software applications,” added Glick.

Availability and Pricing

To access Digital-Tutors latest releases, please select an Annual Membership plan at: www.digitaltutors.com/09/pricing.php
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Getting Started with Backburner

Key Topics: basic concepts; setting up Backburner manager, server and monitor; Maya, Toxik and 3ds Max Backburner job submission; working with jobs in the Backburner queue monitor; changing the job order using priority; server scheduling and assignment; creating and using server groups; and dependencies to order jobs.

For a complete outline and free preview, visit: www.digitaltutors.com/09/training.php?cid=209&pid=217
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Characters and Scene Development with Maya and Mudbox

Key Topics: modeling, sculpting and posing the body and clothing of an alien; transferring geometry from Maya to Mudbox; painting a color base for the alien; creating specular and gloss maps; projection painting; extracting normal maps and applying as bump; exporting as FBX from Mudbox; resizing scene to real-world scale within Maya; primary and secondary illumination sources; SSS to create the character's skin; global illumination and final gather; shadow patterns using gobos; additional render layers for compositing; and compositing and color correction in Photoshop.

For a complete outline and free preview, visit: www.digitaltutors.com/09/training.php?cid=5&pid=216
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Introduction to mental ray in Softimage 7.5

Key Topics: Softimage render settings; global illumination and final gather; saving and reusing indirect illumination data; HDR images for realistic lighting results; caustic light patterns; architectural material; photon attributes in the Render Tree; high-quality displacement effects; subsurface scattering shader; rendering with physical sun and sky shaders; tone mapping shaders to the camera; portal lights; importons and irradiance particles; alternative workflow for image-based lighting; multiple render passes; render channels; and transferring render settings to the render manager.

For a complete outline and free preview, visit: www.digitaltutors.com/09/training.php?cid=32&pid=232
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About Digital-Tutors

Digital-Tutors is an innovator and leader in video-based training for emerging digital artists. The award-winning educational solutions developed by the team of educators and industry professionals at Digital-Tutors are currently being used by students, professionals, universities, and production companies from across the globe. Artists from the world's top studios are utilizing Digital-Tutors' training solutions and services to assist in the creation of next generation feature films, commercials, video games, visual effects, and emerging media. Digital-Tutors maintains strategic relationships and partnerships with Autodesk, Pixologic, Houdini, Luxology, Next Limit, Adobe, Pixar, eyeon, and Microsoft in the development of the software and education materials. Learn more at www.digitaltutors.com.

For press inquiries, web demos, and media relations please contact Courtney Shaw at courtney@plstudios.com.

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The Digital-Tutors Team