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Monday, March 26, 2012

The Basics of Saucemaking

The new extended Basics of Sauce Making Foodservice Learning Solutions package combines the training information in our existing series titles – Brown, White, Tomato, and Emulsion Sauces – with an accompanying training guide that will make the most of your educational investment.

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CG Academy - HLSL Shader Creation 2: Light & Shading Models

CG Academy - HLSL Shader Creation 2: Light & Shading Models
English|Instuctor: Ben Cloward| 3h 24m| .ISO| 2.46GB
Genre: Video Training

In this second DVD in our HLSL Shader Creation series, Ben Cloward explores how you can create the main building blocks of a lighting and shading system in HLSL. He shows how you can build shaders to represent the Ambient, Diffuse and Specular components of surface shading. How to enhance your Ambient shading by using a combination of convolved HDRI environment maps and baked Ambient Occlusion. Ben also shows you how to create Point, Directional and Spot light sources. And we wrap up with a practical exploration of some of today’s standard surface shading models, including Phong, Blinn, Cook/Torrence and Oren/Nayar.
This DVD builds on the theory and skills taught in DVD one in this series. You need to know how to write basic HLSL shader code (surface & light) to get the most out of this title.

CH01: Normal Mapping
Ben starts by looking at how we can use Normal Maps to add surface detail and form to our shading.

CH02: Basic Lighting - Ambient Light
We start our exploration of surface shading by modelling the non-directional Ambient lighting component.

CH03: Basic Lighting - Diffuse Light
Now we add in directional diffuse lighting into our shading model.

CH04: Basic Lighting - Specular Light
And we finish off our basic shading model with our Specular highlights.

CH05: Advanced Lighting – Light Attenuation
Now Ben looks at how we can better model our light sources. So, firstly we make our lights intensity diminish over distance, just as lights do in the real world.

CH06: Advanced Lighting – Directional Lights
Next Ben models distant light sources, such as the Sun, with directional light.

CH07: Advanced Lighting – Spot Lights
And finally Ben looks at how we can focus a light into a defined circular throw, with a Spot light.

CH08: GI – Ambient Occlusion
We now move on to look at how we can model our Ambient light component more closely with Ambient Occlusion.

CH09: GI – Using Ambient Cube Maps
Then Ben shows us how we can use Ambient Cube Maps to blend in with our Ambient Occlusion maps, and produced enhanced ambient lighting.

CH10: GI – Creating Ambient Cube Maps
And finally we look at how we can create Ambient Cube Maps from our own HDRI images.

CH11: Lighting Models – Phong/Blinn
In this section of the DVD we look at further shading models. Firstly we look at the differences between the Phong and Blinn specular shading models.

CH12: Lighting Models – Cook/Torrence
And then we move on to look at the Cook/Torrence shading model. A shader designed to better model the specular response of metal.

CH13: Lighting Models – Oren/Nayar
And we wrap up the DVD by looking at the Oren/Nayar shading model. A shader that models highly diffuse surfaces.

Website:http://www.cg-academy.net/es_catalog/product_info.php?products_id=65

Creating a Robot in Photoshop - CG Cookie Tutorials

This Citizen Exclusive tutorial we take you through the all parts of drawing a robot in Photoshop.

About CG Cookie
CG Cookie is a 3D Animation education network that caters to a variety of softwares, subject matter, and works to make CG more accessible for everyone. The CG Cookie homepage is the central hub of our site network, including the sites of Blender Cookie, Max Cookie, Modo Cookie and a few others. The CG Cookie team is comprised of primarily Wes Burke, founder of CG Cookie and Jonathan Williamson, a Blender Foundation Certified Instructor. Between the two of us we try to keep things running and developing. We also have substantial support and help from Alessandro Cangelosi, Pippin Williamson, Robert Fayman, David Ward, Patrick Boelens, Porter Nielsen, Tim Von Rueden, Nubia Palacios, and others.

Overview
- Exclusive: Creating a Robot in Photoshop – Part 1 – The Head
For Concept Cookie’s first weekly Friday Citizen Exclusive tutorial I take you through the first part of drawing a robot in Photoshop, focusing on the head. This tutorial goes through starting from a circle and building it up using 2 of the preset brushes.
- Exclusive: Creating a Robot in Photoshop – Part 2 – The Body
For this Friday Citizen Exclusive tutorial we take you through the second part of drawing a robot in Photoshop, this time focusing on the body. I go through laying down base colors and shapes and then build on it with outlines and also how to create a glow effect.
- Exclusive: Creating a Robot in Photoshop – Part 3 – The Arms and Legs
For this Friday Citizen Exclusive tutorial we take you through the third part of drawing a robot in Photoshop, this time focusing on the arms and legs. I go through building up shading in the shapes and the different ways to flip them and copy them symmetrically without them looking exactly the same.
- Exclusive: Creating a Robot in Photoshop – Part 4 – Final Touches
For this Friday Citizen Exclusive tutorial we take you through the fourth part of drawing a robot in Photoshop, this time focusing using a multiply and overlay layers to enhance the drawing. This also covers laying out a quick background.

Website: http://cgcookie.com/concept/series/exclusive-creating-a-robot/

Cathe Friedrich's 4 Day Split Cardio + Weights

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Program The 4 Day Split is designed for busy people who want to get a full series of cardio and strength training for the whole week. The cycle consists of 4 training for about 60 minutes each. All of them consist of kardiosegmenta and subsequent intensive study of power. To maximize use of available time Kathy works by "push pull". It motivates you to do to exhaustion in a non-stop.Trenirovka # 1: Intensive step-aerobics (complex choreography at a fast pace) + strength with heavy weight: chest and back
Workout # 2: Low-Step (lighter athletic combination) + strength with heavy weight: shoulders, calves and muscular
Exercise # 3: Kardiokikboksing (basic technique strikes) + strength with heavy weight, legs, and muscular
Exercise # 4: Cardio "bottles Camp" (12 exercises in military-style racing from the hops up on the spot - it takes 5 square meters of space) + strength with heavy weight: biceps and tritsepsyChetyre ultra-challenging workout, each has its own style cardio and strength exercises its focus. Excellent coaching Katie, a huge variety of exercises and high intensity allow to achieve maximum effect and maintain motivation. Cardio is a non-stop, contains a large number of plyometric exercises and intensive hands. The power of no better - you consistently work through all the muscle groups, using the technique Super Series, the pyramids and isolation exercises. Training accompanied by club music.

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Beachbody: ChaLEAN Extreme - Deluxe DVD Workouts + Extreme Motivation CD + Fitness Guide

Description:
Get ready to burn fat and get lean with ChaLEAN Extreme™, the new extreme workout system that transformed everyone in the test group with 3 simple words: MUSCLE BURNS FAT™. It's a fact. The more lean muscle you have, the more fat you burn. You can burn up to 60% of your body fat in just 3 months and see visible results every 30 days—GUARANTEED
Add 3 brand-new extreme workouts to your ChaLEAN Extreme collection to maximize your fitness results. Burn intense amounts of fat and calories; create incredible strength and energy. These workouts are for advanced-level, intense and serious fitness buffs.
Includes workouts: FAT BURN CHALLENGE, GET LEAN INTERVALS, and I'VE GOT ABS
# Fat Burn Challenge: 32 minutes of intense cardio
# Get Lean Intervals: 42 minutes of extreme cardio and endurance intervals
# I've Got Abs: 15 minutes of the most effective core exercises

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New Yankee Workshop

Description:
Host of master carpenter Norm Abram, who is legendary for his skill in woodworking, will share with you the secrets of his skill. Millions of spectators took advantage of his advice in creating furniture.
Working in 936 square feet of working space Norm creates all of its project in two days. He does all the work himself, using only helpers for cleaning and finishing. Each episode in this series offers a step by step instructions for building furniture and other wood projects.
In this series of movies you will see how we can make (see pictures made ??in the screenshots):
- Medicine Cabinet (101) (hinged kit)
- Workbench (102) (Workbench) (in this series of video of low quality, the other is not found)
- Drop Leaf Table (103)
- Blanket Chest (104)
- Oak Bathroom Vanity (106)
- Bookcase (108)
- Chest of Drawers (109)
- Hutch (111)
- Writing Desk (112)
- Corner Cupboard (113).

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Ministry of Sound: Pump it Up - Body Burn with Gareth Walker DVDrip

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Ministry of Sound: Pump it Up - Body Burn (Gareth Walker)
In 2011, the Ministry of Sound is the novelty of the best-selling series of programs Pump It Up. Once again, we will gather for you the best musical hits of the year, and Gareth Walker will show you a new pas with the program 'Body Burn'. Work through your body, get a perfect shape, lose weight and learn a very fancy dance moves. And most importantly - enjoy your workout! This program will make you sweat. This year, we collected all the best from previous lessons Pump and changed the format a bit, giving you the right to choose the part of the workout to suit your mood. With Shake It Move It you raise your mood and learn a movement funky dance, in the Pop It Lock It you'll find the most fashionable at the moment Streetdance, but very very fanatical fans of fitness, we will offer aerobics in Burn It Lose It. Training are the most talented dancers of the country, which you might have seen at concerts and in videos of famous musicians. Moreover, a stunning soundtrack includes hits by artists such as Roll Deep, Dizzee Rascal, Black Eyed Peas, Rihanna, Ellie Golding, Example, Alex Gaudino, Tim Berg, and many others. If you love to dance, have fun and exercise for your favorite music, this DVD is for you!
This program - the result of a long-awaited Gareth Walker. It has two separate dance training in the style of 'Dancemix' and aerobics to enhance the effect. These days, when the market is simply flooded with interval training on the celebrity (if you need any, then choose from the training Davina), a series of Pump It Up offers you something quite special. Despite the fact that in the lesson, there are some complicated movements, in general, you can easily get into a rhythm and get a lot of fun. Gareth - a great instructor who knows how to motivate well. Indeed a worthy continuation of the series!

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