Every biological system is the outcome of its evolution; therefore, the deciphering of its evolutionary history is of tremendous importance to understand the biology of a system.
Since 1997 scientists of different disciplines have held an annual "Evolutionary Biology Meeting" at Marseille (France) in order to discuss their research developments, exchange ideas and start collaborations. Consisting of the most representative talks of the 11th meeting, this book provides an up-to-date overview of evolutionary concepts and how these concepts can be applied to a better understanding of various biological aspects.

BEHIND THE SCENES (BTS) is a new and exciting DVD series developed to showcase the creation of a game cinematic sequence. The series follows a team of artists as they demonstrate their production techniques from concept phase to final rendered animation. This chapter in the series focuses on the creation of the character Geo, a seasoned veteran of numerous infiltration missions. Cajun Hylton takes the viewer step-by-step through the 3D modeling process, from simple proxy to final model using Maya and ZBrush. The viewer also gets to go behind the scenes and witness actual production meetings that discuss the design and creation of the character.

Description: Instructor: Feng ZHU
The Gnomon Workshop - Concept Design 1: Vehicle Sketching
The ability to sketch and render vehicles is an important asset in the field of concept design. Using materials standard in the design industry, a detailed step by step demonstration will show the students the entire vehicle sketching process. Learn about the basics of perspective, the importance of thumbnails, techniques of sketching, and development of forms and proportions to create the final rendering.

Part 1: For Concept Cookie's first weekly Friday Citizen Exclusive tutorial I take you through the first part of drawing a robot in Photoshop, focusing on the head. This tutorial goes through starting from a circle and building it up using 2 of the preset brushes.

Part 2: For this Friday Citizen Exclusive tutorial we take you through the second part of drawing a robot in Photoshop, this time focusing on the body. I go through laying down base colors and shapes and then build on it with outlines and also how to create a glow effect.

Editable, recolorable Photoshop graphic (with editable Illustrator elements) showing the solution for ascension. All the objects are resizable vector shapes, except some glitters and shadows. PSD with organized layers and transparent PNG included.

CG Cookie is a 3D Animation education network that caters to a variety of softwares, subject matter, and works to make CG more accessible for everyone. The CG Cookie homepage is the central hub of our site network, including the sites of Blender Cookie, Max Cookie, Modo Cookie and a few others. The CG Cookie team is comprised of primarily Wes Burke, founder of CG Cookie and Jonathan Williamson, a Blender Foundation Certified Instructor. Between the two of us we try to keep things running and developing. We also have substantial support and help from Alessandro Cangelosi, Pippin Williamson, Robert Fayman, David Ward, Patrick Boelens, Porter Nielsen, Tim Von Rueden, Nubia Palacios, and others.

We'll start off by learning what concept sketching is and where it fits into a creative pipeline. We'll then begin exploring how we can utilize concept sketching as part of the pipeline on a number of different types of projects.

In this tutorial we will learn how to quickly create a highly finished Mech soldier. Throughout these lessons we will learn how to make silhouettes, and clean shapes that you will then bash in to the silhouette of your choosing. Photoshop will be the program of choice during this tutorial. By the end, you will have a solid understanding of the workflow that is required to create a highly finished 2D Mech robot quickly.