Particles Learn about the very basics of creating smoke with no plugins.
This will teach you the bare bones of advanced compositing and integrating CG with live video. These are more production notes on how I went about doing a specific FX shot, showing how to send a boulder crashing down a hill into an easter island statue, blowing it into pieces of debris. This covers advanced particles, advanced comping and visual effects. This tutorial covers the basics of polygonal modeling, it goes through creating a woman from scratch with polygons and using mesh smooth to subdevide the surfaces for even more detail and quality. It gives you a basic introduction to a lot of the polygon tools as well as a lot of tricks and other effective ways at going about various modeling tasks.