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Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom
Publisher: Wiley; Pap/Dvdr edition (February 3, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470436352
ISBN-13: 978-0470436356

Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom is like having a personal instructor guiding readers through each lesson, while they work at their own pace. This book includes 11 self-paced lessons that let readers discover essential skills and explore new features and capabilities of Adobe Illustrator CS4. Every lesson is presented in full color with step-by-step instructions. Learning is reinforced with video tutorials and lesson files on a companion DVD that were developed by the same team of Adobe Certified Instructors... (Read More)

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InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom
Publisher: Wiley; Pap/DVD edition (November 3, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470410949
ISBN-13: 978-0470410943

InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom is like having a personal instructor guiding readers through each lesson, while they work at their own pace. This book includes 12 self-paced lessons that let readers discover essential skills and explore new features and capabilities of Adobe InDesign CS4. Every lesson is presented in full color with step-by-step instructions. Learning is reinforced with video tutorials and lesson files that were developed by the same team of Adobe Certified Instructors and Flash... (Read More)

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Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium Digital Classroom
Publisher: Wiley; Pap/Dvdr edition (June 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 047047842X
ISBN-13: 978-0470478424

Full-color book and instructional DVD form a complete training package for Adobe CS4 Design Premium

Written by a team of Adobe certified instructors, this complete training package helps you learn to use the market-leading design and development suite at your own speed. The book includes 26 lessons that let you discover essential skills and explore the new features of Adobe CS4 Design Premium. Each lesson includes step-by-step instructions and lesson... (Read More)

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Wordpress Theme Design – Be a Wordpress RockStar
Theme Like a Professional!

Managing web content has always been tricky, but with WordPress, any web designer can have a flexible, free and powerful CMS to use not just on blogging projects, but on all sorts of websites. In How To Be a Rockstar WordPress Designer you will learn step by step how to take a straight HTML site and power it with WordPress.

During the course of the book you?ll build THREE WordPress themes, a blog, a portfolio site and a general site with menus and submenus. Each theme demonstrates different aspects of WordPress theming and all three are packaged in with the book so you?ll have Photoshop, HTML, CSS and WordPress PHP files to refer to.

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LightWave 3D 8 Cartoon Character Creation Vol 1 & Vol 2
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers (October 31, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 155622253X
ISBN-13: 978-1556222535

Character design, modeling, and texturing are the fundamental building blocks of character animation. LightWave 3D [8] Cartoon Character Creation Volume 1: Modeling & Texturing includes both general theory and comprehensive tutorials for every aspect of modeling and texturing 3D characters. Learn how, why, and when to use the most efficient techniques so you can have fun creating your own fantastic 3D characters. Find out how to configure... (Read More)

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Publisher: Faber & Faber; Second Edition edition (December 8, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0571238343
ISBN-13: 978-0571238347

Richard Williams is a man who is largely responsible for the revival of the art of animation in the early 1970s. Williams had Disney animator Art Babbitt and Warner great Ken Harris working in his studio in London and training a new generation of animators in the techniques of good character animation, which was not taught at the time in any school or considered an art form.

Williams’ long awaited book on animation technique is the logical successor to Preston Blair’s CARTOON ANIMATION and it successfully updates... (Read More)

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Digital Animation Bible: Creating Professional Animation with 3ds Max, Lightwave, and Maya
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 1 edition (October 2, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071414940
ISBN-13: 978-0071414944

This title deals with: how to choose and use the right software for your animation needs – covers industry leaders Lightwave, Maya, and Flash; how to create and execute intricate storyboards; character rendering; and lighting in 3-D animation.

JOIN THE RANKS OF CREATIVE, HIGHLY PAID DIGITAL ANIMATORS!

MASTER DIGITAL ANIMATION — USING THE THREE HOTTEST PROGRAMS
Essential to today’s... (Read More)

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The Art of Maya
Publisher: Sybex; 2nd edition (January 2, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1894893131
ISBN-13: 978-1894893138

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“[The Art of Maya] should be the first book you buy for your collection.” — Ian Cairns, Editor, MAYA Association
An Introduction to 3D Computer Graphics

Maya is a 3D modeling, rendering, animation, and paint software package that delivers all the tools and features 3D artists need to produce animation and visual effects on the computer. From feature films to interactive video games, Maya lets you play the role of director, actor, set designer and cinematographer as you build, render... (Read More)

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Image Processing and Analysis – A Practical Approach
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN : 0199637016

This volume presents the subject of image processing and analysis to the point of view of the user. The standard algorithms, procedures and rules of thumb are explained in the context of successful application to biological or medical images and chapters cover image acquisition, processing, analysis and pattern recognition. This approach equips the user with the necessary background for informed use of image processing software, and the ability to write their own programs if need be. There are explanations of more advanced techniques, such as the reconstruction,... (Read More)

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WordPress Theme Design: A complete guide to creating professional WordPress themes
In Detail

This title will take you through the ins and outs of creating sophisticated professional themes for the WordPress personal publishing platform. It will walk you through clear, step-by-step instructions to build a custom WordPress theme. From development tools and setting up your WordPress sandbox, through design tips and suggestions, to setting up your theme’s template structure, coding markup, testing and debugging, to taking it live it reviews the best practices. The last three chapters are dedicated to additional tips, tricks and various cookbook recipes for adding popular site enhancements to your WordPress theme designs... (Read More)