Review:AOMEI Backupper 2.1.0 (Updated)

Aomei Backupper is a free backup and restoration software's from AOMEI, which provides the possibilities to create entire disks, partition as well as system backup for your sensitive and personal data. Additional to backup and restore features it's allows user to clone the entire disk or a partition , check the integrity of the backup images, mount/unmount of the backup images and also to create a emergency bootable CD/DVD or usb media.

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Escape Studio's May Free Tutorial: Sculpt Atmospheric Smoke in Maya Fluids

May Free Tutorial: Sculpt Atmospheric Smoke in Maya Fluids

Escape Studio's April Free Tutorial: Scurrying Scarab Beetles

Scurrying Scarab Beetles

I am sure most of you have seen " The Mummy" and " The Mummy Returns".If you also want to create the the thousands of beatles coming out from a hole or from the demon mouth effects which is shown in the movie . Escape studios vfx aritst and tutor Dan Shutt  will demonstrate you to how to animate thousands of beatels using Maya Goal  Objects and Particle Instance.

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CG Arena released the another free  issue of there CG Magazine.
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Create your own wall-e robot and rig its tank tracks in Maya

I am sure most of us watched Wall-e .If you also want to create and rig a Wall-e kinda robot here is a amazing tutorial for you by Anthony Ward. After watching this tutorial you can also create your own  wall-e  robot  and rig its tank tracks in Maya .

Anthony Ward a freelance digital artist and a animator will tell you how to rig a cute robot in Maya using  Maya expressions and demonstrates  the principals of rigging a rotation track .

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CG Arena released the another free  issue of there CG Magazine.


What  Inside  Dec - Jan 12 Issue 

• Interview with Andre Holzmeister

• Photoshop: Making of Spellweaver

• ZBrush: Making of Deep One

• 3ds Max: Making of The Wolf Brigade

• 3ds Max: Making of English Pub

• Gallery - Showcase of latest 3D inspiring art 

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Escape Studios: January's Free Tutorial Animate a Bird & Make it Fly - Part 2

Last November Escape Studios gave away the 1st part of there free animation tutorial entitles "Animating a Bird & Making it Fly " in which they covered the mechanics of the bird locomotion and now they released the second part of the tutorial in which Alex Williams will demonstrate you how to take a simple avian flap cycle and put it in a believable environment. You'll also learn how to add personality and character to your work while retaining a simple workflow.  Learning to create a motion path and  to attach the bird to the motion path in also included in it. Finally to add a simple texture and lighting to the environment and to create a batch render to create a final shot for a animation showreel .

Duration: 22 minutes

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Escape Studios: December's Free Tutorial - Mastering Maya's Transfer Maps

Escape Studios released another free tutorial, In  this 26 Min  video  Tutor, Simon Fenton will explain you how to use default settings to achieve quick results, you’ll also learn how to bake a texture map from multiple pieces of geometry and how to manipulate settings.

Tutorials Breakdowns

• How to use default settings to achieve quick results
• How to manipulate settings and explore varying effects
• How to bake a diffuse texture map
• How to compare maps to gain control of the final result

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Digital Tutors: Maya tutorials to improve your modelling

3DWorldmag and Digital Tutors shared free tutorial to improve your modelling skills in Maya .In this 1 hour and 30 mins series of tutorial Justin Marshall will teach you how to create a smoother workflow and getting better results.

VIDEO COPILOT :New Tutorial and Free Stock Footage!

Andrew Kramer released another interesting tutorial "Magical Hits".In this 15 mins mystical  tutorial he teach you to composite the stock footage elements with custom made particle effects to create a magical hits as well as use ripple distortion to enhance you blast effect.

Free Training :Beginner’s Guide to 3ds Max

Here is a interesting Tutorial for all who want to learn 3D Max. Digital Tutors  is providing a free tutorial for 3D Max basics.

In this series tutorials, Joshua Kinney will teach you the basics terms and techniques in 3ds Max.

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CG Arena released the another free  issue of there CG Magazine.

What  Inside  Dec - Jan 12 Issue 

• Interview with Dan Roarty

• Photoshop: Making of Airbattle

• Photoshop: Making of Natalie

• 3ds Max: Making of a Cop

• 3ds Max: Making of Steampunk Faith

• Gallery - Showcase of latest 3D inspiring art

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Escape Studios:November's Free Tutorial Animating a Bird & Making it Fly - Part 1

Escape Studios released another free tutorial ,This tutorial is done by Alex Williams, character animator tutor in Escape Studio this time the are going to split it in two parts .This tutorial cover the mechanics of the bird locomotion and breakdown a seemingly complex motion into simple and easily digestible parts.

Tutorial Breakdown
Animating a Bird – Part 1
•    How to use and apply live action reference
•    Planning animation
•    Timing and animating a flap cycle
•    Refining the flap cycle

Duration: 21 minutes

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The second part of this tutorial will release in December So stay tune.

CGArena Animation Magazine Sep - Oct 11 Issue Available for free download

CG Arena released the another free  issue of there CG Magazine

Sep - Oct 11 Issue Articles

• Interview with Justin Holt
• Photoshop: What are they Staring at
• ZBrush: Making of Iron Asylum
• Photoshop: Making of Knight
• Photoshop: Making of Amazons Vs. The Sea Monster

• Gallery - Showcase of latest 3D inspiring art 

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