If you were lucky enough to get the Art of Rigging Series as an actual book, then you are familiar with not only how great the content of the CGToolKit series is, but how well produced the physical books were. Since then CGToolKit has stopped offering the physical books and has opted to sell eBook versions of their product, and now CGToolKit is offering The Character Kit as well as The Art of XSI as eBooks with a special summer price of $4.99 which includes all the downloadable content, plugins and material from the respective books as well.
CGtoolkit is happy to be finally releasing both of their critically acclaimed training tutorials, “The Art of XSi” and “The Character Kit” as eBooks along with full downloadable content of all models, rigs, scripts and plugins. Available as a Summer Special for an incredible price of $4.99 each.
The Character Learning Kit
takes the user through the entire process of bringing production quality characters, both realistic and cartoony to life in Maya. Trainning set includes our critically acclaimed Making of Leon character solution as well as our new “Art of 3D Toons” ebook. All the models, rigs, scripts and plugins are included . We also encourage you to use them in your own animation reels, short films etc… just have fun with them.
The Art of XSI
CG Toolkit ©, the company that brought to you the critically acclaimed book series “The Art of Rigging” has announced the release of “The Art of XSI” ebook. This ebook will explore the software in depth, by presenting to the reader a series of practical and inspiring exercises.
The step by step approach used makes the book easily followed by a novice, yet it still manages to cover some of the most interesting features of the software, such as Hair, the Compositing Module, and Mental Ray, so even advanced XSI users will find “The Art of XSI” a compelling read. As always the manual will come bundled with all the necessary scene files, plug-ins and textures as well as a bonus chapter about incorporating a 3d object into a photograph.