Robin Hood is the inspiration for more movies, radio and TV programs than any other folk hero, but the man in tights and a feathered cap is a recent addition to the myth. THE REAL ROBIN HOOD probes the fascinating story behind the marauding vigilante of English folklore. In reality, the character is a composite of actual historical figures whose exploits date back to the Crusades, a dark time of tremendous brutality.
With extraordinary access to one of the country’s most secretive companies, this shows how Formula One racing team McLaren is now building a road car using some of their F1 technology. During the summer of 2011, McLaren launched the MP4-12C. It is claimed that this 168,500 pound super car is one of the most cutting-edge and glamorous machines ever built and shows British design and precision engineering at its best.
Get ready for a learning adventure like never before. The best just got a whole lot better! More than 7 Hours of Interactive Tutorials! If you are a photographer, designer, hobbyist, anyone who works with images, beginner to professional, this Disk is for you!
Now includes Full Screen Playback. For MAC and Windows. Also works on iPad, iTunes and Apple TV! This ground-breaking 5th release of Photoshop Secrets for Digital Photographers, will blow your socks off! Colin has pulled out all the stops. All the workflows have been fine-tuned to take advantage of the new features in Photoshop CS5. Don’t just learn the features, integrate the skills into your every day workflow. Read more on next page.
See Michael Jackson, one of the most recognizable and popular entertainers of all time, like never before in the feature-length tribute Michael Jackson: The Life of an Icon. Known to millions of fans worldwide for his record-breaking albums, groundbreaking music videos, mesmerizing dance moves and humanitarian efforts, his true story has never really been told…until now. This unprecedented look into the King of Pop’s fascinating life includes all-new interviews with his mother Katherine Jackson as well as siblings Tito and Rebbie Jackson, family, friends and music legends such as Smokey Robinson, Dionne Warwick and many more.
On 3 September 1939, 25-year-old English aristocrat Unity Mitford walked into a Munich park and shot herself in the head. Distraught at the prospect of England declaring war on her beloved Fnhrer, Britain’s most notorious Nazi sympathiser seemed determined to make the ultimate act of fanatical devotion.
Scott Kelby, Editor of Photoshop User magazine, once again brings to life some of the most popular special effects, the latest techniques, and the coolest tricks from the magazine’s TENTH year. This time around, Scott is joined Dave Cross, Matt Kloskowski, and Corey Barker to give you 3.5 hours of nonstop tutorials, who add into the mix their favorite tricks and techniques.
What do you get when you ask the people of the world to chronicle a single day in their lives? You get 80,000 submissions, 4500 hours of footage, from 192 countries. Kevin Macdonald has taken this raw material, all shot on July 24, 2010, and created a 90-minute paean to what it means to be human in the world today.
RedFin Outdoors has brought together several of the best musky anglers in the industry to help you become more effective in handling fish at the side of the boat. In ‘Focus on the 8’, you’ll receive “on the water” instruction combined with real-life situations that will help you increase your ability to catch more fish at the side of the boat.
This is one of the best Discovery Channel documentaries! Very thought provoking and exciting to see what the future holds for all of us and our automobile.
Take a fascinating ride to the year 2030, and catch a glimpse at the futuristic car designs that will redefine automobiles as we know them and the incredible technologies that will make it all happen. Highlighting the new ways that cars will take shape, such as engines replaced with wheel motors and steel that is replaced by nanomaterials, Future Cars will immerse you in the world of the visionaries that are creating these unique automobiles.
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This exclusive digital painting DVD is a chance to watch and learn as you work on one of the most detailed portraits to date, starting with a blank canvas and ending with a personalised portrait of photorealistic detail.
A running commentary will explain what techniques I use and some of my decisions, while real-time speed videos allow you to follow each process and every stroke along the way. The “After Dark” feature, included on this disc, will show you how to transform your portraits into concept characters or fantasy art for use in games, fiction or commission work. Videos come in high quality Xvid format so you get to see the painting process at full detail. The disc also includes extras, such as brushes, palettes and work stages. Read complete details on next page.
More than 7 Hours of Video Tutorials with Exercise Files. For MAC and WINDOWS.
Look at the finest portraits displayed in the top quality museums of the world and all those portraits display a sense of beauty and style that simply is lacking in much of the portrait and wedding photography in the market these days. Digital wedding photography looks mostly flat and one-dimensional. It’s about time we revisit the images that demonstrate the “lost art” of classical lighting, sensible posing, and good composition. This DVD will show you how to recapture that lost art…using the lighting of the masters.
Walk into a church or any location for that matter. How do you handle the lighting and compositional challenges you are presented with? What focal length lens should I use? How do I balance the exposure in a difficult situation? Where do I place the subject within the composition? See list of tutorials on next page.
Listen up and wipe those grins off your faces! It’s time to get serious about your design work. For too long you’ve allowed yourself to go soft, relying on your software to do all of your creative work for you. This will show you how to use every tool and feature, teach you the importance of drawing out your ideas, analyzing the shapes, and then methodically building them precisely in vector form using the techniques explained.
In Vector Basic Training, acclaimed vector designer Von Glitschka takes you through his systematic process for creating the kind of precise vector graphics that separate the pros from the mere toolers. Along the way, he’ll whip your drawing skills into shape and show you how to create elegant curves and precise anchor points for your designs. Between the book and the video tutorials on the included DVD, you’ll be ready for active creative duty in zero hundred hours or less. For ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR and CORELDRAW.
