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I will be at SIGGRAPH on Monday and Tuesday. Monday is a whole day of Houdini master classes, Tuesday I'll be on the exhibit floor. Stop by the Wiley/Sybex booth around 10:00 am or so. I will be talking about my book (Maya Visual Effects: The Innovator's Guide) and demonstrating stuff for about an hour. Hope to see you there!

OK, a reader has pointed out an error on the CD that goes with my book. In the Zombie hand tutorial on page 29 I instruct you to "find the psdFileTex3 node" in the Hypershade. It's not there. the texture is in fact on the CD but the version of the scene that made it on the CD does not have the texture. So, to fix this you need to create a new psdFileTexture node and then use the file field to browse the CD. Select the zombieHandVeins.PSD texture from the chapter 2 sourceimages directory and then follow the instructions in the tutorial from there. I apologize for this mistake. These books go through several levels of technical and copy editing but mistakes can still slip through. Thanks for pointing out this problem. feel free to email me if more are discovered!

Pictures from SIGGRAPH and the new apartment next week...