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Minds of Metal: The Evolution and Essence of AI, Machine Learning, and Robotics: Handbook for Everyone
Set off on an engaging exploration of advanced technology with “Minds of Metal.” This detailed guide simplifies the intricate realms of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and Robotics, making them approachable for everyone from novices to tech enthusiasts.
Trace the Development: Journey through the intriguing history of AI and robotics, from their origins in ancient myths to today’s groundbreaking technologies. Learn about the key events and innovators who have steered technological advancement.
The Heart of AI: Delve into the fundamental principles and ideas behind AI. Understand neural networks, deep learning, natural language processing, and computer vision. Discover how these technologies are transforming industries and enhancing lives.
Clarifying Machine Learning: This section explains the algorithms and methods that underpin machine learning. Expect straightforward explanations and real-world examples, covering everything from decision trees to predictive analytics.
The World of Robotics: Enter the realm of robotics, where machines come alive. Learn about the mechanics, programming, and potential of robots in various fields, including healthcare, manufacturing, and space exploration.
A Guide for All: “Minds of Metal” caters to both the curious newcomer and the experienced tech aficionado. It includes a glossary to help you understand AI terminology, along with discussions on the ethical use of these technologies.
Peering into the Future: This book does more than just explain AI, Machine Learning, and Robotics. It also offers a look into the thrilling future they hold. Grasp the ethical challenges, societal impacts, and potential opportunities that await.
Ready to explore the minds of metal? “Minds of Metal” is your gateway to comprehending, exploring, and appreciating the technological wonders shaping our era. Suitable for students, professionals, or anyone curious about the future, this book provides the knowledge required to navigate the world of AI, Machine Learning, and Robotics.
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How To Draw Five Nights: Basic Cartool Drawing Tutorials Easy to Learn Guide For Beginner, Newbie and All Ages 2023 Edition Halloween Birthday Christmas Gifts
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Blender All-in-One For Dummies
Create excellent 3D animations with free, open-source software
When you’re looking for help with creating animation with Blender, look no further than the top-selling Blender book on the market. This edition of Blender For Dummies covers every step in the animation process, from basic design all the way to finished product. This book walks you through each project phase, including creating models, adding lighting and environment, animating objects, and building a final shareable file. Written by long-time Blender evangelist Jason van Gumster, this deep reference teaches you the full animation process from idea to final vision. With this fun and easy guide, you’re on your way toward making your animation dreams a reality.
- Set up Blender and navigate the interface
- Learn how to build models in virtual space
- Texture, light, and animate your figures―then render your final product
- Get help and inspiration from the Blender community
If you’re new to Blender or an experienced user in need of a reference, Blender For Dummies is the easy-to-use guide for you.
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The Muvipix.com Guide to CyberLink PowerDirector 21 Ultimate: The fun, powerful way to make movies on your home computer in 2023
PowerDirector is the fun, easy – but nonetheless surprisingly powerful – way to make great-looking movies on your personal computer. Steve Grisetti, founding member of videomaker support site Muvipix.com, shows you how to use all the tools in this amazing little program to make and publish professional-looking videos.
You’ll learn:* How to start up a project and gather media from your camcorder, smartphone, discs and hard drive.
* How to use the Slideshow Creator and Magic Movie Wizard to create instant videos!
* How to create and edit your movie on the Full Feature timeline and then bring it to life with an amazing library of effects.
* How to use the multicam editor and the video collage tool.
* How to keyframe animations and how to use the new Object Selection tools to make exciting video effects.
* How to use the new AI tool set to remove wind noise, remove echoes, enhance speech and even replace the sky in your videos.
* How to share your finished movies on popular social media sites or publish them as cool-looking DVDs or BluRay discs.Read more
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Force: Animal Drawing: Animal Locomotion and Design Concepts for Animators (Force Drawing Series)
This 10th Anniversary Edition of Force: Animal Drawing: Animal Locomotion and Design Concepts for Animators offers readers an enlarged and an enhanced selection of images that apply FORCE to animals. With larger images, readers can better appreciate and learn how to bring their own animal illustrations to life. New drawings and facts about the animals create a more comprehensive edition for your library. Readers will also adapt key industry techniques that will help personify animal animations as well as endowing their creations with human-like expressions and unique animal movement. content can be found at DrawingFORCE.com
Key Features:
• This full-color 10th Anniversary Edition makes FORCE even easier to understand through great diagrams and illustrations
• Color-coded page edges help you find more easily the animal you want to draw
• Learn about key specifications for each mammal such as their weight range, food they eat, and how fast they run
• Video content can be found at DrawingFORCE.com
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Adobe After Effects: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features: 5
Adobe After Effects: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features is your guide to editing and enhancing videos in Adobe After Effects. Whether you re animating text or objects, changing a scene s setting, or creating a 3D scene, After Effects is the tool for you and this book will teach you what you need to know. First, with a complete Course that includes a set of projects and lessons derived from video editor and Adobe Certified Instructor Ben Goldsmith, you will learn the procedures needed to use After Effects effectively and professionally. Dozens of exercises are included that can be applied to any videos you have in mind. Through step-by-step lessons, you ll be exposed to all of After Effects features in practical contexts and its best practices for optimal workflows. To complete the Course, we ll supply lesson documents and their assets to download, so you can work alongside the text. Then, for greater depth of knowledge and subsequent reference, you ll use the Compendium to uncover more of the how and why of After Effects. With each topic easy to access, you can find and explore all of Premiere Pro s key features and concepts in depth. With cross-references between the Course and Compendium, the two parts of the book complement each other perfectly. Best of all, when the lessons in the Course are done, the Compendium will continue to serve for months and years to come.Read more
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The Complete Guide to Blender Graphics: Computer Modeling and Animation: Volumes One and Two: 1-2
BlenderTM is a free Open-Source 3D Computer Modeling and Animation Suite incorporating Character Rigging, Particles, Real World Physics Simulation, Sculpting, Video Editing with Motion Tracking and 2D Animation within the 3D Environment.
Blender is FREE to download and use by anyone for anything.
The Complete Guide to Blender Graphics: Computer Modeling and Animation, Eighth Edition is a unified manual describing the operation of the program, updated with reference to the Graphical User Interface for Blender Version 3.2.2, including additional material covering Blender Assets, Geometry Nodes, and Non-Linear Animation.
Divided into a two-volume set, the book introduces the program’s Graphical User Interface and shows how to implement tools for modeling and animating characters and created scenes with the application of color, texture, and special lighting effects.
Key Features:
- The book provides instruction for New Users starting at the very beginning.
- Instruction is presented in a series of chapters incorporating visual reference to the program’s interface.
- The initial chapters are designed to instruct the user in the operation of the program while introducing and demonstrating interesting features of the program.
- Chapters are developed in a building block fashion providing forward and reverse reference to relevant material.
Both volumes are available in a discounted set, which can also be purchased together with Blender 2D Animation: The Complete Guide to the Grease Pencil.
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Adobe Premiere Elements 2023: Creating & Editing Action-Filled Movies Made Easy for Beginners & Professionals
Are you seeking to edit stunning videos for your private use? Or are you looking to find video software that is amazing and easy to use? If you are, then this is the right guide to get started with your video editing journey.
With Adobe Premiere Elements 2023, creating stunning movies is easier than ever. Adobe Premiere Elements is a condensed version of Adobe Premiere Pro that was created for average home users rather than professional filmmakers. With a handy collection of in-built lessons and basic settings that make it simple to start editing films, it performs a fantastic job of introducing novice users to the world of video editing.
Anybody wishing to edit films fast, have fun, or produce amazing movies from a range of clips and pictures can take advantage of the versatility Adobe Sensei AI gives, whether you want to modify and chop or apply creative effects and overlays. The Quick view option in Premiere Elements also allows you to animate your clips and add titles, graphics, effects, and transitions, among other things. The Expert View, on the other hand, enables you to perform significantly more sophisticated adjustments.
This guide will give you a solid foundation and background on the various functionalities and features packed in Premiere Elements, as well as the tools, resources, and skills needed to advance and produce the desired look and sound for your videos. For a start, you will learn about the Premiere Elements workspace, how to customize your workspace, how to use guided edits, how to assemble your video in Quick View, how to add transitions between clips, how to create time-lapse videos and so much more. Unsurprisingly, Adobe Premiere Elements 2023 can be used by anybody, even if they have no prior experience with design, printing, or publishing software.
Here is a snippet of what you stand to learn from this guide:- About Adobe Premiere Elements 2023
- How to edit in Quick View
- How to use Guided Edits
- How to create a still title
- How to adjust the effect
- How to add narration
- How to save a project
- How to organize clips in folders
- How to add media to your project
- How to choose between clips
- How to edit your video in Expert view
- How to create a video story or video collage
- How to customize transitions
- How to add audio and video effects
- How to mix audio and video sounds
- Movie editing tips & tricks
- … and lots more
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Pinnacle Studio 26 Revealed
Learn to unleash the full power of Pinnacle Studio by following practical examples. As Studio develops, so does the Revealed series, with all the features of this popular software covered in detail. Start from scratch, or dip in and out – this book works both as a manual and a series of tutorials.
From Basic Principles right through to understanding the latest additions to the program, Pinnacle Studio Revealed is packed with tips and examples, using both the sample footage and easily downloaded content. Topics include keeping your movies in sync, troubleshooting, Motion Titles, Masking and Motion Tracking, Multi-Cam, Split Screen templates and working with MyDVD as well as Legacy Disc Authoring.
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The Complete Guide to Blender Graphics: Computer Modeling and Animation: Volume One
BlenderTM is a free Open-Source 3D Computer Modeling and Animation Suite incorporating Character Rigging, Particles, Real World Physics Simulation, Sculpting, Video Editing with Motion Tracking and 2D Animation within the 3D Environment.
Blender is FREE to download and use by anyone for anything.
The Complete Guide to Blender Graphics: Computer Modeling and Animation, Eighth Edition is a unified manual describing the operation of the program, updated with reference to the Graphical User Interface for Blender Version 3.2.2, including additional material covering Blender Assets, Geometry Nodes, and Non-Linear Animation.
Divided into a two-volume set, the book introduces the program’s Graphical User Interface and shows how to implement tools for modeling and animating characters and created scenes with the application of color, texture, and special lighting effects.
Key Features:
- The book provides instruction for New Users starting at the very beginning
- Instruction is presented in a series of chapters incorporating visual reference to the program’s interface
- The initial chapters are designed to instruct the user in the operation of the program while introducing and demonstrating interesting features of the program
- Chapters are developed in a building block fashion providing forward and reverse reference to relevant material
Both volumes are available in a discounted set, which can also be purchased together with Blender 2D Animation: The Complete Guide to the Grease Pencil.
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The Complete Guide to Photorealism for Visual Effects, Visualization and Games
This book offers a comprehensive and detailed guide to accomplishing and perfecting a photorealistic look in digital content across visual effects, architectural and product visualization, and games.
Emmy award-winning VFX supervisor Eran Dinur offers readers a deeper understanding of the complex interplay of light, surfaces, atmospherics, and optical effects, and then discusses techniques to achieve this complexity in the digital realm, covering both 3D and 2D methodologies. In addition, the book features artwork, case studies, and interviews with leading artists in the fields of VFX, visualization, and games. Exploring color, integration, light and surface behaviour, atmospherics, shading, texturing, physically-based rendering, procedural modelling, compositing, matte painting, lens/camera effects, and much more, Dinur offers a compelling, elegant guide to achieving photorealism in digital media and creating imagery that is seamless from real footage.
Its broad perspective makes this detailed guide suitable for VFX, visualization and game artists and students, as well as directors, architects, designers, and anyone who strives to achieve convincing, believable visuals in digital media.
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LIVE STREAMING BASICS: Everything you need to get started – Simply explained
‘LIVE STREAMING BASICS: Everything you need to get started – Simply explained’ is a publication curated by Massimo Coloso – multimedia communication consultant and owner of Servizistreaming.com – whose aim is to provide those approaching this stimulating digital environment with all the necessary information to avoid taking a leap in the dark when setting up a live broadcasting workstation, be it professional or domestic. The book deals with all the fundamental aspects of live streaming: cameras, direction, connections, cabling and good practices to put in place during a live broadcast, all comprehensibly and clearly explained for a fluent but by no means superficial, rather in-depth reading.
120 pages divided into 13 chapters: STREAMING: WHAT IT IS AND HOW IT WORKS – HISTORICAL BACKGROUND – CONTENT FOCUS – THE BANDWIDTH – WIRED vs WIRELESS – CHOOSING THE CONFIGURATION – AUDIO/VIDEO SOURCES – CAPTURE CARDS AND CONNECTIONS – CONTROL ROOM – THE ENCODER – PLATFORM CHOICE – SET-UP HYPOTHESIS – STREAMING NETIQUETTE.
‘LIVE STREAMING BASICS: Everything you need to get started – Simply explained’ is one of the very few books currently available that deals with the topic of ‘how to do a live stream’ and can indeed be an important chapter in the education of informed streamers and future live shows directors.Read more
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The Ridiculously Simple Guide to Final Cut Pro X: A Beginners Guide to Video Edition Like a Pro
Apple promises that Final Cut – the company’s flagship digital editing software – is “not just a different cut, but a whole new production” –and it truly is. Workflow is faster, smoother and easier than ever. Background tasks are completely automated, and with the program logistics under control, you’re free to fully explore your creativity.
This guide will walk you through all the basics and have you editing video like a pro in no time at all!
This book is not endorsed by Apple, Inc and should be considered unofficial.
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Adobe Creative Cloud Classroom in a Book: Design Software Foundations with Adobe Creative Cloud
Your Adobe Creative Cloud subscription delivers a breathtaking collection of state-of-the-art creativity tools―for web, print, video, interactive, digital marketing, UX/UI design, and more. With so much power, where do you start? If you’re familiar with one or two of Adobe’s tools, how do you extend your knowledge to make the most of the entire Creative Cloud, choose the right tool for each job, and do amazing work? Start right here, with the only classroom-proven guide to the entire Adobe Creative Cloud suite: Adobe Creative Cloud Classroom in a Book.
Authored by leading designer and instructor Joseph Labrecque, this guide reflects his experience teaching hundreds of students at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Media, Communication & Information. Each chapter combines an overview of a Creative Cloud app with well-crafted hands-on practice. Labrecque introduces the software, explains essential concepts and design principles surrounding its use, guides you through basic tools and workflows, and then walks you through executing a project from beginning to end. You’ll learn how each tool works in real life, and how to apply design concepts and theory in your own creative practice.
Labrecque introduces the fundamentals of Creative Cloud for both desktop and mobile, Creative Cloud Express, and all these skills:
- Cloud-based photography with Lightroom
- Raster image compositing with Photoshop
- Vector graphics design with Illustrator
- Page layout management with InDesign
- Prototyping for screens with Adobe XD
- 3D rendering with Dimension
- Audio content production with Audition
- Video content sequencing with Premiere Pro
- Motion graphics compositing with After Effects
- Live performance capture with Character Animator
- Interactive content animation with Animate
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The Game Narrative Toolbox (Focal Press Game Design Workshops)
Learn how to create compelling game storylines.
Four experienced narrative designers from different genres of game development have banded together to create this all-inclusive guide on what it’s like to work as a writer and narrative designer in the video game industry. From concept to final testing, The Game Narrative Toolbox walks readers through what role a narrative designer plays on a development team and what the requirements are at every stage of development. Drawing on real experiences, authors Tobias Heussner, Toiya Kristen Finley, PhD, Ann Lemay, and Jennifer Brandes Hepler provide invaluable advice for writing compelling player-centered stories and effective dialogue trees to help readers make the switch from writing prose or screenplay to interactive.
Thoroughly revised, the Second Edition includes updated content reflecting the industry’s latest developments. In addition to revised and updated chapters, this new edition features two additional chapters covering more advanced topics that are applicable to the lessons learned from the original chapters.
Accompanying every chapter are exercises that allow the reader to develop their own documentation, outlines, and game-dialogue samples for use in applying for industry jobs or developing independent projects.
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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENT 2024 USER’S GUIDE: AN EASY-TO-FOLLOW, STEP BY STEP ILLUSTRATED MANUAL FOR LEARNING ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENT 2024
Are you ready to unlock the full potential of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2024?
Dive into the world of digital image editing with this comprehensive guide! Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced user, our in-depth exploration will help you harness the power of this incredible software.
Chapter 1: Getting Acquainted with Adobe Photoshop Elements 2024- Discover the latest features in Adobe Photoshop Elements 2024.
- Learn about system requirements for Windows and Mac.
- Follow step-by-step instructions for downloading and installing the software.
Chapter 2: Learning the Basics of Image Editing
- Navigate the home screen and launch the photo editor.
- Master essential editing techniques in Quick Mode.
- Share your photos using various providers and tools.
- Explore the history panel and understand file-saving options.
Chapter 3: Basic Image-Editing Concepts
- Gain a deeper understanding of pixels, resolution, and image dimensions.
- Calibrate your monitor for accurate color representation.
- Learn about color schemes and profiles in your workspace.
Chapter 4: Checking out the Photo Editor
- Explore the advanced edit mode and its tools.
- Understand contextual menus and the toolbox in Quick Mode.
- Dive into the toolbox in advanced mode, including view, select, enhance, draw, and modify groups.
- Master panel usage and become familiar with the photo bin.
Chapter 5: Moving Within the Organizer
- Sort and manage images on your hard drive.
- Use the Element Downloader and scanner in the Organizer.
- Export images from your mobile devices and customize Organizer preferences.
Chapter 6: Organizing Your Pictures with Organizer
- Get acquainted with the Organizer workspace.
- Use tags to group and categorize images.
- Create and view tags, add icons, and explore auto-curation features.
- Learn how to work with photo albums effectively.
Chapter 7: Viewing and Finding Your Images
- Catalog your files and create backups.
- Utilize the search options for efficient image retrieval.
- Hide files, stack images, and explore various search criteria.
Chapter 8: Editing Camera Images Using the Camera Editor
- Learn about the Camera Raw Editor and its features.
- Understand Raw file format attributes and profiles.
- Apply profiles to your images and enhance your photography.
Chapter 9: Making and Modifying Selections
- Master selection tools like marquee, lasso, magic wand, and more.
- Use the Refine Selection Brush Tool and work with eraser tools.
- Understand selection commands and refine selection edges.
Chapter 10: Working with Layers
- Dive into the world of layers and their types.
- Create, duplicate, and transform layers.
- Work with layer masks, merge layers, and understand layer basics.
Chapter 11: Simple Image Makeover
- Crop and recompose images using various tools.
- Explore one-step auto fixes for smart corrections.
- Correct contrast, color, and clarity in your photos.
Chapter 12: Correcting Contrast, Color, and Clarity
- Adjust color, lighting, and eliminate color casts.
- Fine-tune images with hue/saturation, color curves, and more.
- Enhance skin tones, defringe layers, and eliminate haze.
- Sharpen and focus your images for stunning results.
Chapter 13: Tips and Tricks on Photoshop Elements
- Learn valuable shortcuts and tips for efficient editing.
- Explore dialog box options, ruler units, and more.
- Make the most of keyboard shortcuts and hidden features.
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Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book (2023 release)
Learn video compositing, motion graphics design, and animation using Adobe After Effects
Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book (2023 release) uses real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. For beginners and experienced users alike, you can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Learn to:
- Create, manipulate, and optimize motion graphics for film, video, the web, and mobile devices
- Animate text and images, customize a wide range of effects, track and sync content, rotoscope, manipulate timing, correct color, and remove unwanted objects
- Customize cameras and lighting to create compelling 3D content
- Design Motion Graphics templates for editing in Adobe Premiere Pro
- Deform and animate objects and video using robust Puppet tools
Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does―an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the book’s “Getting Started” section to unlock access to:
- Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book
- Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, and videos that walk you through the lessons step by step
What you need to use this book: Adobe After Effects (2023 release) software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.)
Note: Classroom in a Book does not replace the documentation, support, updates, or any other benefits of being a registered owner of Adobe After Effects software.
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Murach’s HTML and CSS: Training & Reference
Until now, my websites looked great but have been coded with what seems like duct-tape and bubble-gum’ methods, just for appearances and not for professionalism or compliance. This book taught me all that is possible with HTML and CSS coding. What a game changer! That’s what one web designer posted about a previous edition of Murach’s HTML and CSS. Now, this 5th Edition updates and improves all the HTML and CSS content in the book…and it’s in full color so it’s easier than ever to learn from it. In fact, whether you’re a web designer, a JavaScript programmer, a server-side programmer, or a rookie, this book delivers all the HTML and CSS skills that you need on the job. This book begins with an 8-chapter hands-on course that teaches you HTML and CSS from scratch, including the latest HTML and CSS features. This short course ends with a chapter that teaches you how to use fluid design and media queries to implement Responsive Web Design so your pages will look good and work right on any screen, from phone to tablet to desktop. After that, the unique design of this book lets you go on to any other chapter to learn new skills whenever you need them. For example, chapters 9 and 10 show you how to use Flexible Box and Grid Layout. Chapter 13 shows you how to work with forms and data validation. Chapter 14 shows you how to enhance a site with video clips. Chapter 15 shows you how to use CSS transitions, transforms, and animations. Chapters 16 and 17 show you how to design and deploy a website. And chapter 18 introduces you to JavaScript, a must-have language that’s the next step for many web developers. One final point: After teaching you all the HTML and CSS skills that you need, this book becomes the best on-the-job reference you’ve ever used.Read more
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Working with Sound: The Future of Audio Work in Interactive Entertainment
Working with Sound is an exploration of the ever-changing working practices of audio development in the era of hybrid collaboration in the games industry.
Through learnings from the pre-pandemic remote and isolated worlds of audio work, sound designers, composers, and dialogue designers find themselves equipped uniquely to thrive in the hybrid, remote, and studio-based realms of today’s fast-evolving working landscapes. With unique insights into navigating the worlds of isolation and collaboration, this book explores ways of thinking and working in this world, equipping the reader with inspiration to sustainably tackle the many stages of the development process.
Working with Sound is an essential guide for professionals working in dynamic audio teams of all sizes, as well as the designers, producers, artists, animators, and programmers who collaborate closely with their colleagues working on game audio and sound.
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Blender 3.6: The beginner’s guide
Blender 3.6: The beginners guide
Are you keen to explore 3D modeling and animation using a powerful, open-source tool? Enter Blender. It’s not just software; it’s a canvas where your digital artistry finds its true calling. Blender 3.6 embraces many enhancements, streamlined user experience, and avant-garde technologies.
The Beginner’s Guide for Blender 3.6 unravels the intricacies of Blender, tailored especially for the novice artist or someone charting a course in digital artistry.
Here’s a snapshot of what’s inside:
- A comprehensive tour of the user interface
- Basics of 3D navigation
- Modeling: A deep dive into tools and techniques
- The Asset Browser’s offerings
- Shading: How to get interactive
- Materials and Textures decoded
- Mastering PBR materials with Cycles and Eevee
- Camera work essentials
- Rendering in-depth: Eevee and Cycles
- Crafting and exporting captivating stills
- The art of animation and interpolation
- Harnessing animation constraints
- The magic of the ‘follow path’ in animation
- Tools for animating and rendering visual stories
- Turning animations into cinematic videos
Grounded in practicality, the book is peppered with real-world examples, guided instructions for nuanced tasks like hierarchical animations, and insights into scene setups for Cycles and Eevee rendering.
Designed with the Blender newbie in mind, Blender 3.6: The Beginner’s Guide is devoid of jargon yet intricate in detail. And if you’re a seasoned artist from Blender’s earlier eras, consider this your refreshed guidebook. Accelerate your transition to Blender 3.6 and let your creativity soar!
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A Complete Guide to Character Rigging for Games Using Blender
This book is a comprehensive guide to using Blender to create character rigs for games, breaking down the technicalities of rigging tools and techniques into easily digestible chunks. It provides all the tools needed to go from a static character model to an animation-ready, high quality, and fast performing game rig.
Written to be accessible and easy to follow, the book covers character rigging theory that is supported by industry standard examples of how to apply that theory to character rigs for video games. It demonstrates the reasoning behind rigging decisions followed by instructions and examples on how to apply that knowledge to rig creation. It includes chapters that focus on the character deformation techniques that raise the visual quality of the model and subsequently of the animation and game it will be used in.
This book will be vital reading to those studying games animation as well as early-career rigging artists, character animators, modeling artists, technical animators, and technical artists.
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Disney Eeyore 2024 Calendar, Month To View Slim Wall Calendar, Official Product
2024 Eeyore Slim Wall Calendar. Each month features adorable imagery and quotes from this this much-loved donkey from Winnie the Pooh. This calendar has a monthly date grid where you can keep track of appointments, birthdays and make plenty of notes.
Product Dimensions: 420 X 149 MM
Danilo is the leading publisher of officially licensed calendars, diaries, greeting cards, gift wrap and gift bags in the UK. We are a family run company that’s been operating for more than 40 years. Our licenses range from baby to adult. All the paper we use is responsibly sourced and we only work with suppliers and manufacturers that meet our stringent ethical requirements.
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Disney Eeyore 2024 Calendar, Month To View Slim Wall Calendar, Official Product
2024 Eeyore Slim Wall Calendar. Each month features adorable imagery and quotes from this this much-loved donkey from Winnie the Pooh. This calendar has a monthly date grid where you can keep track of appointments, birthdays and make plenty of notes.
Product Dimensions: 420 X 149 MM
Danilo is the leading publisher of officially licensed calendars, diaries, greeting cards, gift wrap and gift bags in the UK. We are a family run company that’s been operating for more than 40 years. Our licenses range from baby to adult. All the paper we use is responsibly sourced and we only work with suppliers and manufacturers that meet our stringent ethical requirements.
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The Software Engineer’s Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups
In my first few years as a developer I assumed that hard work was all I needed. Then I was passed over for a promotion and my manager couldn’t give me feedback on what areas to improve, so I could get to the senior engineer level. I was frustrated; even bitter: not as much about missing the promotion, but because of the lack of guidance.
By the time I became a manager, I was determined to support engineers reporting to me with the kind of feedback and support I wish I would have gotten years earlier. And I did. While my team tripled over the next two years, people became visibly better engineers, and this progression was clear from performance reviews and promotions.
This book is a summary of the advice I’ve given to software engineers over the years – and then some more.
This book follows the structure of a “typical” career path for a software engineer, from starting out as a fresh-faced software developer, through being a role model senior/lead, all the way to the staff/principle/distinguished level. It summarizes what I’ve learned as a developer and how I’ve approached coaching engineers at different stages of their careers.
We cover “soft” skills which become increasingly important as your seniority increases, and the “hard” parts of the job, like software engineering concepts and approaches which help you grow professionally.
The names of levels and their expectations can – and do! – vary across companies. The higher “tier” a business is, the more tends to be expected of engineers, compared to lower tier places. For example, the “senior engineer” level has notoriously high expectations at Google (L5 level) and Meta (E5 level,) compared to lower-tier companies. If you work at a higher-tier business, it may be useful to read the chapters about higher levels, and not only the level you’re currently interested in.
The book is composed of six standalone parts, each made up of several chapters:
- Part 1: Developer Career Fundamentals
- Part 2: The Competent Software Developer
- Part 3: The Well-Rounded Senior Engineer
- Part 4: The Pragmatic Tech Lead
- Part 5: Role Model Staff and Principal Engineers
- Part 6: Conclusion
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Naming and levels vary, but the principles of what makes a great engineer who is impactful at the individual, team, and organizational levels, are remarkably constant. No matter where you are in your career, I hope this book provides a fresh perspective and new ideas on how to grow as an engineer.
Praise for the book
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