Join Chris Converse as he teaches how to add a wraparound effect to your homepage marquee with Dreamweaver and a concise bit of jQuery code. The course covers positioning the photos, adjusting the navigation, activating the marquee, and making sure the marquee auto-plays. In a few short movies, designers can learn how to add this dynamic feature to their web sites.

Git is a popular distributed version control system (DVCS). In this course, learn how to create a local repository, commit files, push changes to a remote repository, fix errors in your commits, and many of Git's other features. Understand the difference between the working copy, staging area, and repository itself. Come learn the power of Git.

Character Animation Fundamentals in 3ds Max demonstrates the basic principles of character animation that help bring simple 3D characters to life. Starting with an overview of the character rig, author George Maestri provides guidelines for creating strong poses and explains how to animate from pose to pose in an organized fashion. The course also covers locomotion—animating realistic gestures, walks, and runs; explores the basics of facial expressions and dialogue; and culminates with an animated scene built entirely from scratch.

We'll begin by learning about three different groups of color that, together make up the twelve segments of our basic color wheel. From there we'll talk about how these twelve segments can change using tints, shades, and tones. We'll then discuss color temperature followed by some basic rules for creating colors that harmonize. Next, we'll learn about the psychology behind color. Then we'll explore some of the tools within Photoshop for working with color. Finally we'll walk through a process that will help guide us in making great color selections on a real world project. Using the techniques discussed here, you'll gain a better understanding of how color works. You'll also be better equipped to make informed color decisions on your own projects.

DSLR video is a growing if not exploding area of cinematography. In our second DSLR course we contrast the urban intensity of our Japan course with the majestic intensity of the landscape of Yellowstone national park. Without a doubt the best person we could think of to teach this course is Captain Tyler Ginter of the 55th Combat Camera Company. Tyler is well known for his work in helping the Army's camera company move to DSLRs and has worked in some of the most rugged and unforgiving environments on Earth. No one is better suited to discuss what you should take into the field to shoot away from the protected environment of the studio than Tyler.

Take your Smoke knowledge and put it to a creative use. Now that you have tried the Smoke demo or have taken the Introduction to Smoke on Mac course here at fxphd, now is the time to really see what you can do with all of Smoke's tools.

Taught by Christos Obretenov, this course covers the use of the software in production. Artists and Technical Directors will find this course useful for expanding their shading knowledge in Renderman, as well as learning some of the newer advanced ray tracing, physically-based shading, and image-based lighting techniques being used in production today. Coming out of the course the student will be able to put into practice, in a production environment, the procedural shading techniques we cover and understand their use more thoroughly, as well as design a shading/lighting pipeline around the physically-based shading and lighting paradigm.

In this advanced technical look at grading and managing EPIC footage, we will aim to both build upon our earlier EPIC production courses and our color science understanding. This course presents a range of detailed options for EPIC workflow. It will present some simple workflows but also aim to cover more complex issues leading into grading. All EPIC footage is shot to be graded, and while we will cover some effects work, our primary aim will be to present a way to get great graded footage from the EPIC and make sure that what you are shooting produces the best possible footage.

Tim Clapham from Luxx returns with another course for Cinema4D and After Effects users. Primarily aimed at intermediate users, some knowledge of Cinema4D is definitely useful. However, Clapham is very thorough with his explanations and most competent users should be able to follow along without any problem.

EXOTIQUE 7 showcases the best character artists in the world and launches the careers of almost one hundred unpublished artists with an amazing collection of genres and styles.