The Audio Masterclass Music Production and Sound Engineering Course is our most popular course and we strongly recommended it, unless you are already very experienced in audio. It covers the full range of recording activities from microphone selection and positioning, all the way through equalization, compression, reverb & effects, mixing and mastering. The course concludes with detailed advice on how to work as a freelancer in the music and audio industry and how, if you wish, to set about getting a job.

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In this DVD, Alex thoroughly covers how to create realistic plants using Maya, Paint Effects and Mental Ray. We begin by evaluating the default paint effects library and how to convert the strokes into renderable geometry with mia Materials. Using Physical Sun/Sky, we create more photorealistic renders through the creation of our own materials in a tonemapped workflow circumventing the default shaders created by Paint Effects. Everything necessary to create double sided shaders with realistic glossy reflections and translucency is demonstrated in detail. We look at mapping all relevant paramaters for more believable shaders via diffuse, bump, reflection and translucency, including how to organize UVs into tiles for variety in our leaf textures. We take an in-depth look at creating ivy with Paint Effects and the Ivy Generator tool and incorporate the discussed techniques for plants and ivy into a cliff scene.