Digital-Tutors Releases Paint Effects Training Title

Oklahoma City, OK – September 15, 2005 - Digital-Tutors announced today the availability of the highly awaited "Introduction to Paint Effects" training kit - the newest release in a growing library of popular training resources for emerging digital artists. "Introduction to Paint Effects" provides over 4 hours of project-driven training and guides users step-by-step through Maya’s powerful brushed-based technology, Paint Effects. Ideal for students, enthusiasts, and professionals, integrating Maya Paint Effects into their creative workflow, "Introduction to Paint Effects" provides an interactive approach to learning Maya Paint Effects and unleashes the user’s creativity.

"Among the most highly requested topics for training material, [Introduction to Paint Effects] was created in cooperation with our customers to provide training for the areas most commonly neglected and overlooked," said Kyle Green, Senior 3D Curriculum Designer. "In addition to an unrivaled overview of Maya Paint Effects, [Introduction to Paint Effects] allows users to apply their creativity freely and travel far beyond the default brushes commonly associated with Paint Effects," added Green.

Popular topics covered in "Introduction to Paint Effects" include: a thorough understanding and overview of the Paint Effects system, toon rendering with Paint Effects brushes, modifying existing textures using Paint Effects, connecting brush strokes to surfaces, efficiently using Paint Effects animation utilities, optimizing scenes and using the Mesh Brush to create 3D objects, creating a potted plants entirely from Paint Effects, building a trees from scratch, developing light based and control curve based effects with secondary animations, and several additional topics designed to boost your creativity and understanding of Maya Paint Effects.

For a full outline and pricing information of "Introduction to Paint Effects" visit: http://www.digitaltutors.com/store/product.php?productid=358.

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