I've been a martial artist for 9 years. I'm a brown belt in jiu-jitsu and have trained in boxing and kickboxing.
This is the best material I've ever seen for using open handed striking. If push came to shove and I needed something to save my skin quick, this is the stuff I'd use first despite all my more "technical" martial arts experience.
The high points are the open handed striking instruction and the excellent weapons instruction (by far the most realistic, practical weapons defense instruction I've come across).
The low point of the DVD's is the ground fighting instruction, which I found a bit TOO simplistic. As I said, I'm a jiu-jitsu brown belt, so it is hard for me to bracket that experience, though; it might be great ground instruction for someone with no ground experience.
Besids the techniques, Grover is certain to explain principles and give drills. This is an awesome DVD.

The second part of our Animation Fundamentals series will build on the core animation techniques Simon taught you in the previous tutorial. Here we look at the importance of analysing and understanding our characters before attempting to animate them. How good staging, contrasting poses, observing silhouettes and related techniques will help deliver your drama clearly to the viewer. Simon will show you how the pose-to-pose animation technique will allow you to quickly and effectively animate in a production environment. Simon completes the tutorial with a practical example of how to put all of these principles into effect in a real world example staring Floppy the alien.

I've been a martial artist for 9 years. I'm a brown belt in jiu-jitsu and have trained in boxing and kickboxing.
This is the best material I've ever seen for using open handed striking. If push came to shove and I needed something to save my skin quick, this is the stuff I'd use first despite all my more "technical" martial arts experience.
The high points are the open handed striking instruction and the excellent weapons instruction (by far the most realistic, practical weapons defense instruction I've come across).
The low point of the DVD's is the ground fighting instruction, which I found a bit TOO simplistic. As I said, I'm a jiu-jitsu brown belt, so it is hard for me to bracket that experience, though; it might be great ground instruction for someone with no ground experience.
Besids the techniques, Grover is certain to explain principles and give drills. This is an awesome DVD.

Joe McNally takes you to, what only can be called not the prettiest of locations to teach you just how far a little creative lighting can take your shotпїЅ and tell a story. Join him as he uses a lot of different lights in a lot of different ways to tell a story with a beautifully lit, if not so beautiful, ending.

Celebrity trainer Joel Harper reveals his body-firming and fat-burning secrets. This easy-to-follow workout program is perfect for all fitness levels and ages. FIRMING AFTER 50 contains 3 workouts пїЅ upper body, lower body, and an abs workout. This DVD shows you various stretch techniques and exercises that will help you tone and firm every muscle in your body. If you are looking to lose weight and get rid of those flabby thighs and arms then this is the DVD for you! It will give you a complete body workout, leaving you energized, and improve your posture.

These videos will walk through the essential tools for creating photorealistic materials.
We'll start with establishing our shading toolkit through the various models of simulating real-world light interactions.
Then we'll jump into a series of challenging material types, and develop the basic shading networks required to make them happen.