CG producer Dan Casey shares his 3D workflow secrets and talks about the tools and methods that he feels have been a critical part of his successful commercial work.

Casey is known as a leading edge texture artist with a gift for creating photo-realistic characters and environments. He has been involved in many cutting-edge projects in his career including Final Fantasy the movie, as well as award-winning commercials for M&Ms and Arby's restaurants.

In this 72 minute DVD titled "3D Texturing and Painting" Casey candidly discusses why he chooses specific products from such manufacturers as Alias, Wacom, Adobe, Right Hemisphere, and Maxon. He talks about using Alias Maya as his primary 3D modeling environment and he details the workflow that he feels is vital for a professional 3D artist to be highly efficient.

This DVD provides a detailed look at texturing and painting a 3D character for use in a computer graphics short film. Segments in the 3D texture project include: mapping textures, painting the lips & eyes, painting the forehead, painting the cheeks & chin, painting the eyebrows, refining details, 3D painting, painting the bump map, and applying maps.