Creature Factory

Overview
"This extensive tutorial set, created by the renowned Blender artist Andy Goralczyk, teaches artists how to craft a fully finished 3D animated scene. Tracking the evolution of an idea from creation to final render - and beyond. The result of the tutorials is an epic 90 second trailer.

Andy has recorded all of the time spent in Blender: over 40 hours of modeling, shading, lighting, animation, rendering and compositing. These recordings have been selectively sped up, edited and enriched with a detailed commentary, resulting in a riveting 6 hour documentation of the creation of a cinematic movie scene.

Apart from the time-lapses, the DVD further contains a selection of short tutorial videos explaining in more detail the various techniques as used. Andy will reveal all his state of the art modeling tricks, the secrets of shading and lighting, how to get more out of your render with compositing nodes - everything that will help to give birth to your idea in Blender at lightning speed!

The DVD-ROM includes an HTML interface that itself contains written tutorial/reference material, a collection of videos (tutorials in 1024x768 resolution), all intermediate Blender files, all final textures, and of course the helper Blender files for the tutorials. "