This book is written by Ellery Connell, who is Assistant Professor of Multimedia Design at UW-Stout in Minnesota. He has produced a 352 page book on using modo that should appeal especially to graphic designers with a 2D background. This book help 2D graphic designers gain the skills they need for a competitive job market that increasingly demands the ability to create or work in 3D.

At Luxology store was added a new training video tutorial called “Spaceship modeling”. In this Andy Brown pays a tribute to the CG spaceships which were the reason and starting point for many CG Artists. For this tutorial, concept designer James Robbins created an original spaceship design, including eight orthographic reference images. Andy Brown explains that the modeling techniques used in this tutorial are not only for spaceship modeling, but they can be used to model any kind of car, vehicle or even boat. The goal of the tutorial is to teach you the workflow how to model this kind of object.

Eat 3D released a new training tutorial DVD for Cebas thinkingParticles for Autodesk 3DsMax called „Intermediate Concepts“. This is the second part of this training course made by Eat 3D which is specialized and known for their high-quality training materials. The author Hristo Velev covers on this training DVD almost everything which you should know about thinkingParticles; Raycasting, Referencing, Motion Inheritance, Generation, Driving Scene Objects, Shape Collision,

Digital Tutors is recently very busy preparing new training videos all kinds helping people from 3D industry to educate them. One of the new upcoming training is called „Introduction to MoGraph in Cinema 4D“. The training is focused on the powerful feature in Cinema 4D MoGraph where Digital Tutors covers how to utilize cloners and effectors for controlling the behavior of clones and other objects, incorporate dynamics into MoGraph objects and much more.