xpert guitar instructor Mark John Sternal starts you out with simple power chords, riffs, tricks and techniques that form the backbone of Heavy Metal Guitar Playing.

DirectGuitar 3.0 is an innovative Stratocaster guitar for NI Kontakt (No kontakt Player). Direct recorded for amp simulator. It means that the guitar has been recorded directly to the audio interface exactly like when you plug a real electric guitar into it. Add your favorite amp simulator such as NI Guitar Rig or Amplitube and shape the sound as you wish.

Playing a note—or even a handful of notes—is one thing, but learning to give each note life, while making them sound tight, professional and desirable, is an important task to master. Using simple techniques that have taught thousands of eager students over the past 18 years, expert guitar instructor Mark John Sternal teaches you fun, useful guitar tricks quickly and easily. You’ll be amazed at how, after learning a few basic guitar tricks and techniques, you’ll never be at a loss when it comes to guitar playing—whether writing your own songs, playing cover tunes or improvising.

Christmas is coming early this year. We're putting your favorite Christmas carols together into a brand new collection of high energy, layered production music, perfectly redesigned for use in promo productions!

THE GLOCK is a multi sampled orchestral Glockenspiel with sustain pedal. It is recorded in one of the best sounding scoring stages; the Teldex Studio in Berlin. We used the finest microphone setup and preamps to capture the fabulous magic in this famous hall (e.g. a Decca Tree and Mid AB setup with 5x legendary Neumann M50s microphones!).

In this two-disc set on MEL, Kevin Mannens introduces the rich possibilities of MayaÆs Embedded Language. With over ten hours of lecture, Kevin creates a well-structured foundation for MayaÆs scripting language. Through an in-depth look at what goes on under MayaÆs hood, he leads you to a firm understanding of commands, syntax and procedures. Based on real-life production examples of MEL scripts, the second disc of this set delves right into advanced scripting methods. By carefully dissecting every line of code in an existing script, you will learn about each command, KevinÆs scripting workflows, tricks and common pitfalls.

3d Studio Max is an industry leading application for design visualization, game development and visual effects. 3ds Max is powerful and flexible enough for professionals, but intuitive enough for the beginner. Whether new to 3ds Max or new to 3D, these lectures provide ample discussion of the tools needed to create visually rich imagery and animations. User interface foundations are presented, focusing on 3ds Max's ease and simplicity. Learn core concepts as well as efficient, professional modeling, animation, texturing and lighting techniques.

Presenting the most complete encyclopedia of acoustic drum kits ever collected into one product: Studio Kit Builder brings you 130 drum kit pieces and more than 50 prebuilt drum kits. Studio Kit Builder supplies you with ten times the quantity of many other drum virtual instruments on the market. Create your own perfect drum kit from highly detailed top-of-the-line kit pieces. Whether you're working on a sultry brush groove or a heavy-hitting metal track, Studio Kit Builder is able to cover a wide variety of genres and stylistic needs. It offers full control over multiple mic positions and multi-track mixing of the kit. It's simple to create pristine and beautiful professional studio quality drum parts from its built-in MIDI grooves. Employing breakthrough techniques for realism and dynamic playing, Studio Kit Builder sets a new standard for what is expected of modern drum virtual instruments.

SCARBEE RICKENBACKER® BASS captures the unmistakable sound of a Rickenbacker® 4003 for the first time in software. Delivering meaty, low end thunder and the crisp, defined midrange that has shaped rock and pop history, RICKENBACKER® BASS is the first software instrument to be officially approved byRickenbacker®.

The Blues EZX comes with two complete kits; a 1970s Gretsch and a calfskinned Swedish Levin set from the 1940s. On top of that, it features contemporary Paiste and Sabian crashes, vintage Zildjan A and K series cymbals as well as extras such as a suitcase and a set of calfskinned tambourines. All instruments were handpicked and in many cases road-worn by the sampling drummer himself, a blues musician with decades worth of experience behind the kit playing the blues. It was recorded in an empty Swedish theater and later mixed in a high-end studio through vintage and modern outboard gear. The end result is a cross-pollination between new and old; warm and characteristic sounds that cover the whole range, from old school to modern, from dry to ambient. This is the sound of then, now and time to come.

The Art and Technology of Animatronics. How to Make a Monster takes the audience on a journey of monster reation from the original concept, storyboarding process and how the maquettes are made, through to how the full size pieces are sculpted, moulded and finished. The exhibitionÆs key focus is on animatronics: the components designed and installed within the monsters to create their 'bones' and 'muscles' and bring them to life.

The training series starts out with very simple and basic principles of rendering with mental ray in SOFTIMAGE|XSI. It gradually turns it up a notch and we begin covering some more advanced features. This training series is designed for beginners to rendering in general, people new to mental ray but coming from another renderer, aspiring rendering artists, those looking to learn to create photo-realistic CGI in SOFTIMAGE|XSI, and people who are looking to improve their rendering skills and take their renders to the next level.

The Happy Trails Animation team shares their 2D animation workflow secrets as they talk about the tools and techniques they use to create edgy, organic animation. Happy Trails is known for pushing the envelope of mediums, techniques and movements to create unique, humanistic animations for commercials and short-films. As an independent studio in Portland, OR, Happy Trails has found that technology plays an important role in maintaining an advantage in the competitive world of animation. In this 74 minute DVD titled "2D animation", Happy Trails' principles, Andy and Amy Collen candidly discuss why they choose specific products from such manufacturers as Macromedia, Wacom, Bauhaus, and Adobe. They talk about using Bauhaus Mirage and Macromedia Flash as a comprehensive animation environment in their digital workflow that they feel is vital for an animator be highly efficient.

VIDEO DESCRIPTIONS
* Chapter 01 Foundations - Anti Aliasing.
* Chapter 02 Foundations - Ray Tracing.
* Chapter 03 Foundations - Global Illumination.
* Chapter 04 Foundations - Caustics.
* Chapter 05 Foundations - Gamma.
* Chapter 06 Irradiance Methods.
* Chapter 07 Foundations - Area Lights.
* Chapter 08 Foundations - Volumetrics.

Guitar Apprentice teaches you real hit songs in a rhythm game format by breaking them down into easy portions on multiple levels, showing you exactly what and when to play. By watching the scrolling fretboards and playing as they drop in to place, you'll never be lost or overwhelmed. On the first level, you play only a chord or two. By the time you reach the highest level, you're playing the entire song like the original recorded version. Grab any real guitar, pop in a DVD, and you're ready to rock – even if it's the first time you've picked up a guitar! Every Guitar Apprentice DVD includes: 15 levels of play per song • easy color-coded finger diagrams • moving guitar necks show what's coming • strings light up to show you what and when to play • instruction on the fundamentals of playing guitar.