Join creativeLIVE for a five-day immersion into the lighting theory, techniques, and methods essential to creating jaw-dropping, beautiful photographs. True photographic talent is illuminated through the use of light and lighting techniques.

If you want to build web apps in PHP, CodeIgniter is a great way to do it. It’s simple and elegant, but also well documented, too. Let’s learn the best practices with CodeIgniter.

Hack Your Light is part of our special week-long event Lighting Toolkit.
Join award-winning photographer Chuck Arlund for an introduction to innovative lighting methods that result in breathtaking, dynamic images.

Join award-winning photographer Tony Corbell for an in-depth exploration of how light works and how it can be controlled to create dramatic images.

Sonic brings the disco looping funk in this latest 'How To Make Funky House' course presented by SA resident Bryan Spence. Working firstly on Drums and Percussion and then moving on to sourcing your own disco samples, we work through the track covering all aspects of creating this song from start to finish.

With its warm filters and unique analog characteristics, the Minimoog is on more classic tracks than any other synth. Monark, from Native Instruments, captures and expands upon the Minimoog's essence. Learn all about Monark right here, right now!

The human mouth is one of the most flexible and expressive parts of the human body. And every one’s mouth is different. So when we are building and sculpting the mouths of our characters we want to create the same type of individuality while still adhering to some common structural elements.

In this series of After Effects tutorials, we are going to learn all of the steps you need to integrate graphic particles into our snowboarding shot.

In this 3ds Max tutorial we will learn about the animation tools of 3ds Max. We’ll explore everything from how to set up animation preferences and create key frames, to learning how animation can be modified from 3ds Max’s Trackbar and Curve Editor.

In this set of tutorials you will learn techniques for transferring character animation, created from a custom rig, between Maya and 3ds Max without sacrificing control over your rigs.
We’ll first start by learning about the Send To feature that creates a bridge between the two software. We’ll then cover how to setup objects to track the animation we’d like to transfer, and then, how regain control over our rigs so that we have the liberty to change the animation if needed.

In this tutorial we will cover how to create a live action shot with 3D elements. We will learn video shooting techniques, how to add 3D objects into live footage and then animation, lighting and rendering for the project in Maya and compositing in NUKE.
First, we will start with important settings of the DSLR Camera, then we will take our footage to Maya, where we will add 3D elements on our footage. After that we’ll animate lighting and rendering in passes. We will then take these 3D passes in NUKE and start compositing.

In this Illustrator tutorial, we will learn how to create an infographic from scratch.
We start out by discussing why infographics are appealing and when are good scenarios to use them. We’ll then learn a little bit about the researching process and a step-by-step list for the preparations you need to go through when doing your own research on your topic.

In this ZBrush tutorial, you will learn about concepting a demon character using ZBrush and Photoshop.
Throughout the training you’ll also learn methods and techniques for creating ZSpheres, DynaMesh, and polypaint – just to name a few.