Thrud the Barbarian is a comics character created by Carl Critchlow in 1981. Although Thrud himself is a parody of Conan the Barbarian, particularly as depicted in the Arnold Schwarzenegger films, inspiration for the character's adventures and adversaries has been drawn from several fantasy sources.

During the 1980s, a Thrud comic strip was a regular and popular feature in the roleplay and wargame magazine White Dwarf with Thrud's grotesque and comic antics forming a memorable part of the magazine's golden age. In 2002, continued interest in the character from role-playing enthusiasts and a desire to be free to experiment with a new artistic style prompted Critchlow to self-publish a series of award-winning full-length Thrud the Barbarian comics.

A version of the German legend in which a man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge.

Lost Girl follows supernatural seductress Bo, a Succubus who feeds on the sexual energy of humans. Growing up with human parents, Bo had no reason to believe she was anything other than the girl next door пїЅ until she drained her boyfriend to death in their first sexual encounter. Now she has hit the road alone and afraid.

This tutorial will teach you how to become an expert in Photoshop. You will learn how to create top-level special effects for eye-catching movie posters, album covers, book covers, brochures, mailing pieces, magazine covers, article illustrations, and a very wide range of print ads and Web site graphics.

The Firm , based on the book and film by John Grisham, continues the life of Mitchell McDeere 10 years after the entire scandal with Bendini, Lambert & Locke. Now that his family is out of Witness Protection, Mitchell (Josh Lucas) and wife, Abby (Juliette Lewis) venture on with the future that can be. However, when things start to come back from Mitchell's past, he is forced to face them head on and roll the dice to see where it takes him.

OK! Magazine пїЅ 26 March 2012
What Digital Camera пїЅ April 2012
Digital SLR Photography пїЅ April 2012
Instyle UK пїЅ April 2012
Shape South Africa пїЅ April 2012
Maxim Australia пїЅ April 2012
Photoshop Creative пїЅ Issue 85, 2012

Fantasy and sci-fi digital art Imagine FX is the only magazine for Fantasy and Sci-Fi artists. Each issue of Imagine FX magazine contains an eclectic mixture of in-depth workshops from the world's best artists, galleries and interviews and features. Imagine FX magazine also features the latest community news, software and hardware reviews, and the latest sci-fi and fantasy films and comics. Imagine FX magazine is really the only monthly read for Fantasy & Sc-Fi Digital Art!

ImagineFX is the only magazine for fantasy and sci-fi digital artists. Each issue contains an eclectic mixture of in-depth workshops from the world's best artists, plus galleries and interviews, community news and product reviews.

AllPlayer - free player of Polish developers that supports many formats such as (AVI, MPEG, MP3, MKV, DivX, Xvid, Flash, QuickTime, DVD, FLAC), works directly with DirectX, especially without loading the system. Lots of built-in "chips", for example, can make subtitles, speed control, simultaneous work with several files, skins, the effect of frost.

Nero Video - is a powerful and very easy to use application for editing video, which can be used to quickly create professional-looking applications. Nero Video allows you to work in the rapid-editing mode, based on templates and presentation of the storyboard, which is very easy to learn video editing skills. In Advanced mode provides more options and better opportunities, professional editing.

Easy, fast, reliable and versatile tool to convert all popular video formats such as: AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, MP4, H.264/AVC, AVCHD, MKV, RM, MOV, XviD, 3GP and audio MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, M4A, AAC, AC3, OGG. Now you can convert your video, audio, and animated images for playback on PSP, PS3, IPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Xbox, Google phones, IPad and other digital media devices.

Today, 3D is everywhere. ItпїЅs in all the obvious placesпїЅexplosions, sci-fi media, illustrations, and design. Then thereпїЅs what you donпїЅt see. The film shot in Toronto that looks like New York. The ad with a car on a mountaintop. The photo of the new hotel in DubaiпїЅthat hasnпїЅt been built yet.

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead a Army of well over 100,000 (Persian king Xerxes before war has about 170,000 army) men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes waited for 10 days for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw left with no options he moved. The battle lasted for about 3 days and after which all 300 Spartans were killed. The Spartan defeat was not the one expected, as a local shepherd, named Ephialtes, defected to the Persians and informed Xerxes of a separate path through Thermopylae, which the Persians could use to outflank the Greeks.

UNCUT is the UK's most authoritative music and film magazine and every month celebrates the great legends, icons and maverick talents of rock and movies in one brilliant package that embraces both old and new, cult and classic. It is essential reading for anyone with a passion for music and film - and every month there's a free CD.

Green Disc - this is a great collection of the best programs and drivers for all occasions. Almost all the programs on the disk have enclosing the registration. The disk is recommended for those who often have to install the program and who likes to have everything at hand. Any program you can find in seconds using search on the disk. There is no need to wander around the program director! Now the disk has more than 560 programs and utilities! All the best on one disc. Nothing in excess!

Designed from the ground up to meet the needs of the most demanding VFX texture and matte painting artists, MARI is a 3D digital paint tool that will revolutionise your workflow.

3D Doctor is designed for rendering 3D images in the field of precision measurement and research purposes. Quantitative analysis is used to build histograms, rendering the actual size as possible analytical approach to building surfaces. 3D Doctor supports most common formats for storing static images, 3D models can also convert to VRML, IGES, 3DS, DXF, OBJ, STL.

VueScan - the program to work with scanners HP, Minolta, Nikon, Polaroid, Epson, Canon and others. Can work with internal color depth. VueScan supports automatic and manual settings of most parameters and batch scanning. Supported by more than 500 models of scanners with a certain superiority in the slide scanners - Nikon, Minolta, Polaroid, Microtek, Epson. There are automatic removal of image defects due to the channel infrared scanning and multipass scanning and averaging the result - to suppress the intrinsic noise of the scanner. There are filters suppress grain, unsharp masking and removal of spurious color original. There are means of manual adjustment of dynamic range and gradation characteristics (regardless of the channels R, G, B).