The shading tutorial, compositing w/blue screens...

Heya, here are a few tutorials:

This is a new tutorial with PD Pro, on painting and shading for realistic effects on shapes with PD Pro Digital Painter.
www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/tuts/shadingtutorial

If you are a user of PD Particles (available here at GG), you may be able to do some of this too with it, since the Alpha channel features are similar (make sure you grab a hold of the free plugin collection, CoolTools #1 for PD Particles).


If you're into making video clips for use as looping textures, there is plenty of tutorial material to learn from in there too, and blue-screen composting too:

www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/tuts/cryptonite
www.thebest3d.com/pdpro/tutorials/bluescreencomp

Making looping animations (fading over ending frames with starting frames)
www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/tuts/loopanim/

waving tall grass in the breeze (or seatang under water) - using LUA scripts:
www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/lua/waving

Many morew tutes here:

www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/tuts/
www.thebest3d.com/pdpro/tutorials

and a reminder for users of PD Particles, tutorials here:
www.thebest3d.com/pdp/tutorials

Please note: As a user of PD Particles you should have a discount coupon which you can use if you're interested in sidegrading to PD Pro. Also, PD Pro 4 is on sale through April 1. The discount coupon can get you an additional discount, so be sure to contact me if you're interested and can't find your coupon.