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‘Halo: The Great Journey – The Art of Building Worlds’
“‘The Art of Halo’; is the ultimate gallery of the Halo universe, with over 400 images including sketches and concept art by acclaimed artists such as Ashley Wood, detailed interiors and sweeping landscapes of Alex Chu, and Frank Capezzuto’s breathtaking spacescapes, plus commentary from the artists themselves and a Foreword from ‘the face of Halo,’ Frank O’Connor.”Read more
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A COMPLETE MANUAL & USER GUIDE ON THE DJI MAVIC 3 PRO
A triple-camera system, which takes the place of the dual-camera system found on the Mavic 3’s predecessor, is the standout feature of the Mavic 3 Pro. Similar to the iPhone camera tool, it is controlled by a single tap to switch between cameras (1x, 3x, and 7x). The Mavic 3 Pro’s triple camera setup enables users to quickly swap between shot compositions, giving content producers access to more shots in a shorter amount of time than ever before. We’re eager to explore how people will employ drones to change how viewers perceive distance and space. Although DJI has always provided drones with the capacity to monitor moving objects, avoid obstructions, and detect collisions, the Mavic 3 is where this technology-initiated advancement began. The 4/3 CMOS Hasselblad camera from the Mavic 3 Series is carried over into the Mavic 3 Pro. This camera is capable of 5.1K at 50 frames per second or DCI 4K at 120 frames per second and 12-bit RAW photo capture. With the new 10-bit D-Log M color mode, you may record up to a billion different colors while also achieving more natural color gradations and simpler color grading. Aside from that, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, Apple ProRes 422 and Apple ProRes 422 LT encoding are all supported by the three cameras that make up the Mavic Pro 3 Cine. A 1TB SSD and a 10Gbps lightspeed data connection are also incorporated into the drone.Read more
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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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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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Animate to Harmony: The Independent Animator’s Guide to Toon Boom
Want to create studio-quality work and get noticed? Just coming off Flash and looking for a Toon Boom intro? Are you a traditional pencil-and-paper animator? From scene setup to the final render, learn how to navigate the Toon Boom interface to create animation that can be published on a variety of platforms and formats.
Animate to Harmony guides you through Toon Boom’s Animate, Animate Pro and Harmony programs, teaching you how to create high-quality 2D animation of all complexities. The main text focuses onfeatures that are common across all three programs while “Advanced Techniques” boxes throughout the book elaborate on Pro and Harmony features, appealing to all levels of experience with any of the three main Toon Boom products.
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Animated Storytelling: Simple Steps for Creating Animation and Motion Graphics
Animation is a limitless medium for telling stories. Artists can create worlds, defy gravity, flip from factual to fantasy, and transport audiences to places they never imagined. The challenge is having the discipline to reel it in and be intentional about your storytelling choices. This book shows you how.
In Animated Storytelling, you’ll learn how to create memorable stories using animation and motion graphics by following 10 simple guidelines that take you through the stages of concept development, pre-production, storyboarding, and design. Award-winning animator Liz Blazer uses clear examples and easy-to-follow exercises to provide you with the instruction, encouragement, and tools you need to get your designs moving.
Whether your goal is to create exciting shorts for film festivals, effective messaging for broadcast or online, or simply to gain a deeper understanding of the medium, Animated Storytelling simplifies the process of creating clear and engaging stories for animation and motion graphics so you can get started easily.
In Animated Storytelling, you’ll learn how to:
- Write a creative brief for your project
- Find and communicate your story’s big idea
- Create a tight story using linear and nonlinear story structures
- Use color to clarify and enrich your story
- Define the rules for your animated world, and commit to them
- Ease into the challenging task of animation
- Make the work you want to be hired to do
- Share your work with the world!
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Beginner’s Step-by-Step Coding Course: Learn Computer Programming the Easy Way
The simplest, most visual introduction to coding for adults.
Using a graphic method to break complex subjects into user-friendly chunks, computer coding has never been easier thanks to this programming book.
Here’s what you’ll find inside the pages of this coding for beginners book:
– To reinforce learning, practical coding projects are followed by suggestions and challenges for the reader to adapt and personalise a project
– Step-by-step explanations visually break down each section of code and explain how coding works
– Written and checked by a team of expert coders
– Includes widely used languages, from introduction to career-usefulFrom learning Python coding and Javascript to HTML and Scratch, Beginner’s Step-by-Step Coding Course brings the most essential coding skills within easy reach! Each chapter contains tutorials on practical programming projects designed to teach you the main applications of each coding language, such as building websites, creating games, and designing apps.
You’ll learn to think like a programmer by breaking a problem down into parts, before turning those parts into lines of code. Short, easy-to-follow steps then show you, piece by piece, how to build a complete programme. This essential coding guide contains everything you need to get on the road to code! It’s perfect for anyone who wants to learn to code for a hobby or who wants to take their first steps towards a career in coding.
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Character Mentor: Learn by Example to Use Expressions, Poses, and Staging to Bring Your Characters to Life
You’ve researched your character extensively, tailored her to your audience, sketched hundreds of versions, and now you lean back content as you gaze at your final character model sheet. But now what? Whether you want to use her in an animated film, television show, video game, web comic, or children’s book, you’re going to have to make her perform. How a character looks and is costumed starts to tell her story, but her body language reveals even more. Character Mentor shows you how to pose your character, create emotion through facial expressions, and stage your character to create drama. Author Tom Bancroft addresses each topic with clear, concise prose, and then shows you what he really means through commenting on and redrawing artwork from a variety of student “apprentices.” His assignments allow you to join in and bring your drawing to the next level with concrete techniques, as well as more theoretical analysis. Character Mentor is an apprenticeship in a book.
Professional artists from a variety of media offer their experience through additional commentary. These include Marcus Hamilton (Dennis the Menace), Terry Dodson (X-Men), Bobby Rubio (Pixar), Sean “Cheeks” Galloway (Spiderman animated), and more. With a foreword by comicbook artist Adam Hughes, who has produced work for DC, Marvel Comics, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros. Pictures, and other companies.
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Clockwork Game Design
Only by finding and focusing on a core mechanism can you further your pursuit of elegance in strategy game design.
Clockwork Game Design is the most functional and directly applicable theory for game design. It details the clockwork game design pattern, which focuses on building around fundamental functionality. You can then use this understanding to prescribe a system for building and refining your rulesets. A game can achieve clarity of purpose by starting with a strong core, then removing elements that conflict with that core while adding elements that support it.
Filled with examples and exercises detailing how to put the clockwork game design pattern into use, this book is a must-have manual for designing games.
- A hands-on, practical book that outlines a very specific approach to designing games
- Develop the mechanics that make your game great, and limit or remove factors that disrupt the core concept
- Practice designing games through the featured exercises and illustrations
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Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins–Beauregard Lionett
From Mae Catt, and Critical Role’s Matthew Mercer and Marisha Ray, comes Mighty Nein member Beauregard Lionett’s origin story in a hardcover graphic novel.Despite her origins with a “traditional” family, Beau’s penchant for troublemaking was legendary.
Outraged by her criminal activity, Beau’s father arranged for her to be kidnapped and turned over to the order of monks known as the Cobalt Soul for some much-needed discipline and direction. But the direction Beau takes–toward the Mighty Nein–isn’t what anyone anticipated!
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Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins–Caduceus Clay
Death is never truly the end.Follow the origin story of the Mighty Nein’s Caduceus Clay in this beautiful hardcover graphic novel written by Kendra Wells (Tell No Tales), illustrated by Gus Allen (Lumberjanes), with colors by Eren Angiolini and letters by Ariana Maher. Created in consultation with the cast of Critical Role!
Generations of the Clay family have tended to the careful rituals in the Blooming Grove. But when corruption begins to creep in on their sacred space, the Clays depart one by one to seek answers. Soon young Caduceus and Clarabelle are the only ones left, and when a dangerous burial quest falls to Caduceus, he must leave the Grove to do the family’s work.
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Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences
Ready to give your design skills a real boost? This eye-opening book helps you explore the design structure behind most of today’s hit video games. You’ll learn principles and practices for crafting games that generate emotionally charged experiences—a combination of elegant game mechanics, compelling fiction, and pace that fully immerses players.
In clear and approachable prose, design pro Tynan Sylvester also looks at the day-to-day process necessary to keep your project on track, including how to work with a team, and how to avoid creative dead ends. Packed with examples, this book will change your perception of game design.
- Create game mechanics to trigger a range of emotions and provide a variety of play
- Explore several options for combining narrative with interactivity
- Build interactions that let multiplayer gamers get into each other’s heads
- Motivate players through rewards that align with the rest of the game
- Establish a metaphor vocabulary to help players learn which design aspects are game mechanics
- Plan, test, and analyze your design through iteration rather than deciding everything up front
- Learn how your game’s market positioning will affect your design
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Digital Painting Techniques: Masters Collection: 01 (Digital Art Masters Series)
Discover the tips, tricks and techniques that really work for concept artists, matte painters and animators. Compiled by the team at 3dtotal.com, Digital Painting Techniques, Volume 1 offers digital inspiration with hands-on insight and techniques from professional digital artists. More than just a gallery book – within Digital Painting Techniques each artist has written a breakdown overview, with supporting imagery of how they made their piece of work. Beginner and intermediate digital artists will be inspired by the gallery style collection of the finest examples of digital painting from world renowned digital artists. Start your mentorship into the world of digital painting today with some of the greatest digital artists in the world and delve into professional digital painting techiques, such as speed painting, custom brush creation and matte painting. Develop your digital painting skills beyond the variety of free online digital painting tutorials and apply the most up to date techniques to your digital canvas with Digital Painting Techniques for Animators.Read more
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Draw Anime Faces and Feelings: 800 facial expressions from joy to terror, anger, surprise, sadness and more
Drawing Anime Faces and Feelings is a great book for all abilities!
Big facial expressions are essential to anime and manga. However, faces can be challenging.
With this book, improve your anime-drawing skills with instruction for facial features and expressions for a wide variety of ages, character types, hair styles and activities. With 800 different facial expressions, you’ll be able to draw your character in any emotional situation or with any reaction.
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Elemental Magic , Volume 2: The Technique of Special Effects Animation
Design beautiful, professional-level animated effects with these detailed step-by-step tutorials from former Disney animator and animated effects expert Joseph Gilland. Filled with beautiful, full-color artwork, Elemental Magic, Volume II, breaks down the animated effect process from beginning to end-including booming explosions, gusting winds, magical incantations, and raging fires. He also breaks down the process of effects “clean-up,” as well as timing and frame rates. The companion website includes real-time footage of the author lecturing as he animates the drawings from the book. In these videos, he elucidates the entire process from blank page to final animation. See it all come to life like never before. Throughout the book, Joseph refers to and includes examples from his own professional work from feature films such as Lilo & Stitch and Tarzan.
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Elevate Your SEO Game with AI: TRENDS AND STRATEGIES FOR SEO SUCCESS
Elevate Your SEO Game with AI: Trends and Strategies for SEO Success by Pathik ShahWithin the pages of this book, you will discover a wealth of knowledge encompassing the latest trends and strategies that can pave the path to successful SEO implementation for any business. It serves as a comprehensive guide, offering insights and practical advice to help you navigate the ever-evolving landscape of search engine optimization. By delving into this valuable resource, you will gain the necessary knowledge to stay ahead of the curve and propel your business towards online visibility, increased traffic, and sustainable growth.
The book explores the transformative impact of AI-powered tools on search engines and SEO practices, including their use in keyword research, content optimization, and user experience enhancement. It emphasizes the importance of optimizing for mobile users and implementing mobile-specific SEO strategies to cater to the dominance of mobile search. The significance of UX signals, such as Core Web Vitals, in search engine rankings is highlighted, emphasizing the need to optimize page loading speed, interactivity, and visual stability. The book also underscores the growing importance of E-A-T (Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) as a ranking factor and provides insights into establishing credibility through high-quality content and authoritative backlinks.
Furthermore, it delves into the impact of voice search and the rise of voice assistants on SEO strategies, stressing the need to optimize content for voice search and featured snippets. The utilization of schema markup is discussed as a means to improve search engine understanding and enhance search results. The book emphasizes the importance of developing comprehensive content strategies aligned with user and search intent to improve search rankings and drive organic traffic. Additionally, it provides guidance on local search optimization for location-based businesses, including optimizing Google My Business profiles, local citations, online reviews, and local keyword targeting.
Lastly, the book emphasizes the significance of building high-quality backlinks from reputable sources and outlines ethical link building strategies, influencer collaborations, and the role of social signals. It stresses the importance of tracking SEO metrics, KPIs, and goal conversions to measure success, and highlights the value of utilizing tools and platforms for comprehensive SEO analysis, data-driven decision making, and effective communication with stakeholders.
By staying updated on these key trends and implementing the corresponding strategies, businesses can adapt to the evolving digital landscape, improve their search engine visibility, and drive organic traffic and conversions in 2023 and beyond.
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Funny You Should Ask: How to Make a Website: The 100% Not Boring Guide to Setting Up Your Website with WordPress (Funny You Should Ask: Breaking Down Internet Marketing,…
Learn How to Make a Website!
Who needs a website these days?
The answer is: everyone. If you’re reading this, you probably need a website!
Imagine having a great idea for a website and then being able to have that idea up and running in just a few hours. With the tools and skills you’ll learn in this book, you’ll be able to do just that!
In this guide, Amazon best-selling writer Lori Culwell (author of the “Funny You Should Ask” guides, as well as a ton of other books) breaks down the website setup process step by step, stopping along the way to make you laugh.
In Funny You Should Ask: How to Make a Website, you’ll discover:
- Why you need to do some keyword research before you even start your project
- How to get the best price on a domain–and which type to buy
- What level of hosting will save you the most money
- 7 basic Wordpress plugins every website needs
- “Gotcha” moments in the website setup process–one of which you must avoid at all costs
- Free themes vs. paid themes vs. theme-building software
- Maintenance, crashes, and how not to panic
- And much, much more!
Plus, you’ll receive a BONUS companion guide that boils down the entire process and gives you space to take notes.
Whether you’re a student, an author, an aspiring SEO consultant, affiliate marketer, or own a small business, this book lays out the basic website setup process that everyone needs.
Get your copy of How to Make a Website today! Just scroll up to the top of the page and click the “BUY NOW” button!
Part of the “Funny You Should Ask” series, in which Lori Culwell makes everything easy to understand in her trademark “snarky yet informative” style!
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Game Anim: Video Game Animation Explained
Game Anim teaches the technical and artistic fundamentals of video game animation and goes further to provide practical advice and industry insights to help you become a rounded and successful game animator.
Covering every stage of game production from the animator’s perspective, it is packed with the lessons learned from working on a variety of game types in both in-game and cinematic roles in animator, lead, and director positions. These have been successful across multiple studios regardless of team, size and culture.
The 2nd edition includes a new chapter on 2D and Pixel Art Animation, an enhanced mocap chapter covering the latest developments in Motion Matching, and even more interviews with top professionals in the field.
Game Anim provides essential guidance to those looking to break into the industry and successful animators wishing to take the next step in their career.
Key Features
• 20 Years of Insight: Accumulated knowledge from 2 decades of experience in all areas of game animation.
• The 5 Fundamentals: Reinterprets the classic 12 animation principles and sets out 5 new fundamentals for great game animation.
• Animator Interviews: Notable game animators offer behind-the-scenes stories, tips, and advice.
• Free Animation Rig: Free “AZRI” maya rig, tutorials and other resources on the accompanying website: www.gameanim.com/book
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Game Artist: The Ultimate Career Guide
HOW DO YOU BECOME A SUCCESSFUL GAME ARTIST?
The ultimate career guide walks you through the pitfalls and power-ups of building a career in this multi-billion dollar but secretive industry. Brimming with practical advice, for both aspiring artists and the experienced, GAME ARTIST leads you through the tricky process of career building, boosting you to the next level.
From experienced Art Director and Artist Paul Jones, GAME ARTIST provides you with the golden key to unlocking your full career potential. All you have to do is step through the door. This is a walkthrough and career guide rolled into one!
This book is for you, if:
- You want to learn the secrets of the games industry
- You want to get into a video game art department
- You wonder what makes a successful game artist
- You feel stuck in your role and want to level up
- You want to make the leap into team building and management
You don’t know how to get promoted? That’s ok. It’s because you don’t know the rules of the game. Until now.
Having worked for the last 25 years in the games industry, learning from the ground up, Paul has experienced a wide range of high-profile companies, Epic Games (Unreal Tournament 3), Rocksteady (Batman Arkham City), TTFusion (LEGO City Undercover) and the record-smashing Star Citizen with Cloud Imperium Games.
Game Artist is split into well-defined sections, making it easy for you to pick and chose.
Level One – Job Applicant
Covering the basics – including finding your way into the industry, getting a killer portfolio ready, understanding what an Art Director wants to see, and finally, interview and salary negotiation skills explained.Level Two – Junior Artist
Your first few months of working in a games company, paperwork and contracts, company benefits, perks and bonuses. Dive into game development pipelines and company hierarchies. What’s expected of you as a new recruit and how to succeed and avoid early burn-out, giving you a heads-up on self-care, keeping you productive, having fun and learning to climb the ranks.Level Three – Mid, Senior and Principal Artist
Decide where you’re heading next while mentoring others and working widely with the development team. Clear career progression outlining which skills you need for the all-important Personal Development Review (PDR). How and where to upgrade yourself – communication and teamwork, creativity, productivity, self-confidence, mentoring. Chose to specialise (or not) and when it’s time for a change, how best to make an exit strategy.Level Four – Lead Artist
Making the transition to managerial responsibilities. Development of management techniques, understanding both yourself and your team, how to build and drive a successful team, dealing with tricky situations, meetings, presentations, staff reviews and negotiation. Plus, a section dedicated to self-care – how to set time aside for thinking, planning, and artwork.Level Five – Art Director
The high-stakes role of Art Director explained. Working with executives and publishers, team deadlines, leading from the front, managing your team and the creative process. Revealing internal and external team pipelines, concept and game team artists, outsource studios and how to get the best from them all.Packed with hard-won information, from studios around the world, in-depth interviews with seasoned industry professionals, and advice on being the ideal professional, GAME ARTIST is the helping hand you always wanted.
No more messing, no more guessing – it’s time to level up!
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Games As A Service: How Free to Play Design Can Make Better Games
The games industry is serious business and the role of a games designer has dramatically changed over just the last few years. Developers now have to rethink everything they know about the creative, technical and business challenges to adapt to the transition to games as a service.
Games as a Service: How Free to Play Design Can Make Better Games has been written to help designers overcome many of the fears and misconceptions surrounding freemium and social games. It provides a framework to deliver better games rather than the ‘evil’ or ‘manipulative’ experiences some designers fear with the move away from wasteful Products to sustainable, trustworthy Services.
Oscar Clark is a consultant and Evangelist for Everyplay from Applifier. He has been a pioneer in online, mobile and console social games services since 1998 including Wireplay (British Telecom), Hutchison Whampoa (3UK) and PlayStation®Home. He is a regular columnist on PocketGamer.Biz and is an outspoken speaker and moderator at countless games conferences on Games Design, Discovery, and Monetisation. He is also a notorious hat wearer.
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Getting Started in ZBrush: An Introduction to Digital Sculpting and Illustration
Getting Started in ZBrush is a gentle introduction to ZBrush, today’s premier digital sculpting program. Beginning with the fundamentals of digital sculpting as well as a thorough introduction to the user interface, Getting Started in ZBrush will have you creating a variety of professional-level 3D models in no-time. More than just another button-pushing manual, this comprehensive guide is packed with start-to-finish projects that ease you into the workflow of the program, while at the same time providing tips and tricks that will allow you to achieve certain tasks much more quickly. After progressing through the tutorials, you will be shown how to customize brushes, materials, scripts, and the interface so that you can utilize these tools to their full advantage.
Special consideration is given to ZBrush’s integration plug-ins with Maya and 3ds Max, allowing you to properly import and export your models in all programs. Texturing, painting, mapping, decimation, baking, and topology are also fully covered so your Zbrush creations can come to life without sacrificing that high-resolution look.
- Ease your way into this complex subject with this straight-forward approach to ZBrush
- Perfect your technique with step-by-step tutorials that allow you to create high res models from start to finish.
- Expand your knowledge by visiting the companion website, which features video demonstrations, project files, texture and model files, scripts, customized menus, brushes, and additional resources.
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Getting Started with Processing, 2E: A Hands-On Introduction to Making Interactive Graphics (Make: Technology on Your Time)
Processing opened up the world of programming to artists, designers, educators, and beginners. This short book gently introduces the core concepts of computer programming and working with Processing. Written by the co-founders of the Processing project, Reas and Fry, Getting Started with Processing shows you how easy it is to make software and systems with interactive graphics. If you’re an artist looking to develop interactive graphics programs or a programmer on your way to becoming an artist, this book will take you where you want to go. Updated with new material on graphics manipulation, data, and for the latest version of Processing.
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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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???? The magic of colors will pull you into an amazing world – where you can unwind, relieve stress, have more fun with yourself and unleash your artistic potential. You will have a lot of fun with coloring & Drawing your favorite characters from your favorite seriesBook details:
✅ Suitable for beginners and those who want to improve their drawing skills
✅ Simple step-by-step tutorials by Following the picture.
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How to Start a YouTube Channel: How You Can Go from Making Videos to Uploading and Getting Subscribers to Making Money
Discover how you can start your own YouTube channel, grow it, and make money!Have you ever surfed through YouTube and wondered just what it would be like to have your own videos on there?
Do you watch YouTubers and believe you can do the same thing, if not better?
Are you a camera lover who can create great works of art you’d like to showcase to the world?
Then this is the book for you!
In this book, you will:
- Learn step-by-step instructions on how to design your YouTube channel and create amazing videos
- Discover hundreds of tips on how to make videos that get views and subscribers
- Master ways to brand yourself on YouTube, from logos and color schemes to thumbnails and graphics
- Learn how to make money on YouTube
- Discover what viewers are looking for and how to use ads to market to a much bigger audience
- Learn how to create entertaining content that people want to watch and share
- Learn the steps you should take before posting your first video
- Master the art of video editing
- Discover how to develop a YouTube channel strategy, even if you’re brand new
- Master ways to gain subscribers by setting yourself apart from the competition
How to Start a YouTube Channel is the ultimate guide every YouTube content creator needs. Whether you’ve always wanted to start a YouTube channel, or you already have one and want to take it to the next level, you’ve come to the right place.
Click the “add to cart” button and be part of an incredible online community that allows you to help others and make money on the side!
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How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You: Volume 2 (The Oatmeal)
Brilliantly whimsical yet oddly informative, TheOatmeal.com is an entertainment site full of comics, quizzes, and stories. Matthew Inman, creator of TheOatmeal.com, is a king of all trades when it comes to the Web. He writes, draws, and codes everything on the site, and his viral marketing skills make the site a huge success. How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill Youis a very funny, creative selection of comics, facts, and instructional guides, which all stem from the creative wonderland at TheOatmeal.com.The book will be designed to create suspense/anticipation with page turns analogous to the experience of scrolling down through the panels on the website. For example, “Cat vs. Internet” will use page turns to draw out the reader’s anticipation of what the crafty kitty might do next to get attention from his Internet-fixated owner. Other favourite cat comics include “How to Pet a Kitty,” “The Bobcats,” and “17 Things Worth Knowing About Your Cat.” A pull-out poster will be included at the back of the book.
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How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You: Volume 2 (The Oatmeal)
Brilliantly whimsical yet oddly informative, TheOatmeal.com is an entertainment site full of comics, quizzes, and stories. Matthew Inman, creator of TheOatmeal.com, is a king of all trades when it comes to the Web. He writes, draws, and codes everything on the site, and his viral marketing skills make the site a huge success. How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill Youis a very funny, creative selection of comics, facts, and instructional guides, which all stem from the creative wonderland at TheOatmeal.com.The book will be designed to create suspense/anticipation with page turns analogous to the experience of scrolling down through the panels on the website. For example, “Cat vs. Internet” will use page turns to draw out the reader’s anticipation of what the crafty kitty might do next to get attention from his Internet-fixated owner. Other favourite cat comics include “How to Pet a Kitty,” “The Bobcats,” and “17 Things Worth Knowing About Your Cat.” A pull-out poster will be included at the back of the book.
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How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems from Randall Munroe of xkcd
Randall Munroe is . . .’Nerd royalty’ Ben Goldacre
‘Totally brilliant’ Tim Harford
‘Laugh-out-loud funny’ Bill Gates
‘Wonderful’ Neil Gaiman
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The world’s most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer
For any task you might want to do, there’s a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It’s full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.
‘How strange science can fix everyday problems’ New Scientist
‘A brilliant book: clamber in for a wild ride’ Nature
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HTML, CSS, & JavaScript All-in-One For Dummies
A thorough and helpful reference for aspiring website builders
Looking to start an exciting new career in front-end web building and design? Or maybe you just want to develop a new skill and create websites for fun. Whatever your reasons, it’s never been easier to start learning how to build websites from scratch than with help from HTML, CSS, & JavaScript All-in-One For Dummies. This book has the essentials you need to wrap your head around the key ingredients of website design and creation.
You’ll learn to build attractive, useful, and easy-to-navigate websites by combining HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into fun and practical creations. Using the 6 books compiled within this comprehensive collection, you’ll discover how to make static and dynamic websites, complete with intuitive layouts and cool animations. The book also includes:
- Incorporate the latest approaches to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, including those involving new markup, page styles, interactivity, and more
- Step-by-step instructions for new site creators explaining the very basics of page layouts and animations
- Easy-to-follow advice for adjusting page color and background, adding widgets to a site, and getting rid of all the bugs that affect site performance
- Bonus 6th book available at https://www.wiley.com/en-us/HTML%2C+CSS%2C+%26amp%3B+JavaScript+All+in+One+For+Dummies-p-9781394164721.
Web development is a fun, interesting, and challenging skill that can lead to a lucrative career (if you’re so inclined). And with the right help, almost anyone can learn to create engaging websites from scratch. So, grab a copy of HTML, CSS, & JavaScript All-in-One For Dummies and you’ll be designing and building before you know it!
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I’m a pretty big deal… on Instagram: Cute Social Media Fan Notebook, Perfect Gift Idea For IG Influencer
120 page lined notebook
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Layout and Composition for Animation
This essential, hands-on guide is filled with examples of what a composition should look like and example of poorly designed layouts. Spot potential problems before they cost time and money, and adapt creative solutions for your own projects with this invaluable resource for beginner and intermediate artists. With Beauty and the Beast examples and Simpson character layouts, readers will learn how to develop character layout and background layout as well as strengthen composition styles with a creative toolset of trick shot examples and inspirational case studies. A companion website will include further technique based tools, finalized layout and composition examples and tutorials for further artistic skill development.
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Learn to Produce Videos with FFmpeg: In Thirty Minutes or Less
This title was superseded by the 2018 Edition of the same name, which is now available on Amazon and other online booksellers. If you purchased this version, send proof of purchase to janozer@gmail.com and I’ll send you a free PDF copy of the update ($29.95 value). Note that the changes in the book are concentrated, with new sections on Bento4 in Chapters 10 and 12, and several new sections on live transcoding and AV1 encoding in Chapter 14. Otherwise, most of the book is the same, so having a physical copy of the old edition and a PDF of the new should not be a hassle. Note that if you wait and buy a physical copy of the new edition, you won’t get a PDF copy.
This focused 120-page book teaches readers how to use FFmpeg to create full adaptive bitrate ladders and package them into HLS or DASH formats. The book also includes a primer on terms and technologies related to streaming and recommended settings for all parameters detailed in the book.
Initial chapters focus on installing FFmpeg on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers, and basics of command-line programming. Then the technology primer, and individual chapters on bitrate control, resolution, frame rate, I-, B-, P- and reference-frame settings. These are followed by chapters on H.264 and HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), which includes instruction on Apple tools Media File Segmenter, Variant Playlist Creator, and Media Stream Validator. Also covered is encoding for DASH with MP4Box. Next up are chapters on encoding HEVC with x265, and producing VP9, with the final chapter covering miscellaneous operations like concatenating multiple files, or computing PSNR with FFmpeg.
A downloadable zipped file includes all (Windows) batch files used in the book, which you can easily adapt for your own use, and a detailed Table of Contents and Index will help you find what you need. All these contents ensure that you’ll be able to Learn to Produce Videos with FFmpeg in 30 Minutes or Less.
(Note: the email in the book for the downloadable files is incorrect. Please email the request to jozer@mindspring.com. Sorry for any inconvenience).
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Lighting for Animation: The Art of Visual Storytelling
Lighting for Animation is designed with one goal in mind – to make you a better artist. Over the course of the book, Jasmine Katatikarn and Michael Tanzillo (Senior Lighting TDs, Blue Sky Studios) will train your eye to analyze your work more critically, and teach you approaches and techniques to improve your craft. Focusing on the main philosophies and core concepts utilized by industry professionals, this book builds the foundation for a successful career as a lighting artist in visual effects and computer animation. Inside you’ll find in-depth instruction on:
• Creating mood and storytelling through lighting
• Using light to create visual shaping
• Directing the viewer’s eye with light and color
• Gathering and utilizing reference images
• Successfully lighting and rendering workflows
• Render layers and how they can be used most effectively
• Specific lighting scenarios, including character lighting, environment lighting, and lighting an animated sequence
• Material properties and their work with lighting
• Compositing techniques essential for a lighter
• A guide on how to start your career and achieve success as a lighting artist
This book is not designed to teach software packages—there are websites, instructional manuals, online demos, and traditional courses available to teach you how to operate specific computer programs. That type of training will teach you how to create an image; this book will teach you the technical skills you need to make that image beautiful.
Key Features
- Stunning examples from a variety of films serve to inspire and inform your creative choices.
- Unique approach focuses on using lighting as a storytelling tool, rather than just telling you which buttons to press.
- Comprehensive companion website contains lighting exercises, assets, challenges, and further resources to help you expand your skillset.
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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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Making Short Films on Your Smartphone
Do you want to make your own short film? Maybe you don’t have a video camera. After all, they can be awfully expensive. With the advancements in smartphone technology, anyone can just become a short filmmaker. All you need is a dependable phone with a clear camera, and maybe you could become the next big thing in the film industry. Inside this book, you will find the following: • Why you should create a short film with your smartphone. • Is your phone good enough to make a film • Choosing the best accessories to go with your device • How to find free-or-cheap alternatives to professional filmmaking equipment • An app guide, to help you find the best software for shooting and editing your film • How to share your finished film with others • The basics of filmmaking, from thinking of an idea to finding cast and crew members, to shooting your footage, and finally editing everything together. Making Short Films on Your Smartphone isn’t just another tech-book about buying smartphones, or learning how to use apps. This book is aimed at people who have a passion for creating their own films, and would like to take advantage of the devices that they already own – a smartphone. Why wait until you save thousands of dollars for a “real” video camera? You could be creating award-winning short films right now, as other people have already done – using a smartphone, and your own creativity.Read more
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Marvel’s Spider-Man: The Art of the Game
An exclusive look at the art and creation of the PS4 exclusive videogame Marvel’s Spider-Man.
The worlds of Peter Parker and Spider-Man collide in the action-packed Marvel’s Spider-Man videogame exclusively on the PS4. Marvel’s Spider-Man: The Art of the Game is packed with hundreds of exclusive full-colour images of Spider-Man, his suit and equipment, the allies he relies on like MJ Watson and Aunt May, and the deadly villains he battles. This wealth of material is accompanied by exclusive insight into the creative process from the talented developers, artists, and designers responsible for bringing Spider-Man’s world to vivid life.
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Master Guide: SEO for Business: Learn how to improve your ranking with WordPress
An ultra-accessible approach to SEO and its techniques.
For the first time, SEOPress offers most of its knowledge in natural referencing. This ultimate SEO guide shows you how to appear in the first results of Google when you own a WordPress site, whether you are a business owner, developer, blogger or simply curious.
Whatever your field of activity, this book will help you understand and apply all the essential elements for your visibility for search engines. You can read a mix of observation, memorable examples and synthetic lists of simple actions to teach you:
* The fundamentals and trends of natural referencing
* How to find the best keywords
* Analyze the traffic and performance of your website
* Exposing important information about your e-commerce or local business more easily
* Optimize your presence and influence on social networks
* Use backlinks to establish your visibility.The Ultimate Guide to SEO is:
Educational for beginners:-
- A lively and accessible style
- Many illustrations
- Chapters that punctuate the pages you can read or skip
- Concrete and illustrated by case studies
- A glossary of 100 specific vocabulary words.
Operational for professionals:
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- Essential for defining a concrete and operational action plan for your online visibility
- The Ultimate Guide to SEO is the best way to update your knowledge of SEO, a constantly evolving discipline.
You can continue to devote yourself to your job and still perform on the Web. This classic is the essential book for all SEO professionals and beginners.
To read this book, only one quality is required: curiosity. Shall we start?
Table of contents
- Introduction to WordPress SEO
- How search engines work and what to do about it (do SEO)
- Is WordPress Good for SEO?
- Finding SEO keywords for your WordPress site
- Optimize WordPress posts for a keyword
- Getting your WordPress site indexed by Google
- Optimizing WordPress sites for Google EAT
- The importance of backlinks
- Doing better SEO with WooCommerce
- Getting started with ecommerce SEO using WooCommerce
- 14 WooCommerce SEO tips to Boost your ecommerce
- Selling Sunglasses with WooCommerce and SEOPress
- How to Write the Best Product Descriptions for SEO With WooCommerce
- How to Optimize Product Schema in WooCommerce
- Improving your Local SEO using WordPress
- Understanding local SEO
- 20 Tips for Ranking in Local Search with WordPress
- Ranking a mobile hairdresser’s website in Google
- How-to use SEOPress’ Local Business Widget for WordPress
- Master Google Structured Data Types (schemas)
- Which Schemas for Which Rich Snippets
- How to add schema markup to WordPress using the SEOPress plugin
- Optimizing a Blog’s Recipe Pages with Schem
- Optimizing WordPress for Speed
- Page Speed, Google, Ranking and WordPress
- Core Web Vitals and WordPress SEO
- 10 tips to boost your site speed
- Running Faster With WordPress
- Using PageSpeed Insights to Audit the Speed of Your WordPress Site
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Master the iPhone 15 Pro Camera: Your Ultimate Guide to Taking and Editing Stunning Photos and Videos: Learn from a professional photographer how to use the advanced features of…
Mastering the Art of iPhone Photography
Take Stunning Photos and Videos with the iPhone 15 Pro
The iPhone 15 Pro is one of the most powerful and versatile cameras available today. With its advanced features and capabilities, it can help you take stunning photos and videos in any situation.
But with so many features and options, it can be difficult to know where to start. That’s why I wrote this book.
In this book, I will teach you everything you need to know about iPhone photography, from the basics of composition and exposure to advanced techniques such as long exposure and astrophotography.
By the end of this book, you will be able to use your iPhone 15 Pro to take photos and videos that will amaze your friends and family.
Whether you are a beginner or an experienced photographer, this book has something for you.
Here are just a few of the things you will learn:
- How to use the iPhone 15 Pro’s advanced camera features, such as Night mode, Cinematic mode, and ProRAW.
- How to compose stunning photos and videos using the rule of thirds, leading lines, and other composition techniques.
- How to control exposure, aperture, and shutter speed to take great photos in any situation.
- How to edit your photos and videos using the built-in Photos app or third-party apps.
Whether you want to capture memories with loved ones, document your travels, or create professional-looking content, this book will teach you how to use your iPhone 15 Pro to take stunning photos and videos.
Order your copy today and start mastering the art of iPhone photography!
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Minecraft Master Builds: The official illustrated book for experienced Minecrafters showcasing a world of stunning creations and exclusive interviews with the builders behind them!
The definitive book on Minecraft’s greatest creations.
Minecraft is the global phenomenon inspiring people across the world to unleash their imaginations. Minecraft Master Builds showcases the creations that have taken the game to new levels, and introduces the builders behind them.
Explore awe-inspiring vistas as the pages take you from stunning underwater sculptures to monumental space panoramas, or travel through time to visit grand medieval towns and futuristic cityscapes.
Minecraft Master Builds is packed with beautifully rendered illustrations of each colossal creation, highlighting the painstaking details that make these builds masterful. Featuring exclusive interviews from the builders that provide insight into their design and creation, plus a foreword written by Mojang game tech lead and content creator slicedlime, this must-have book is perfect for Minecraft fans, aspiring builders, and anyone looking for inspiration!
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Minecraft: Exploded Builds: Medieval Fortress: An Official Mojang Book
Have you ever wanted to create your own legendary medieval kingdom to rule over? Well, now you can, with Minecraft Exploded Builds: Medieval Fortress.Learn how to design, build, and customize every part of your castle and the surrounding area, from sturdy walls and deadly traps to dank, dark dungeons and sprawling villages. Each build has an exploded view to show you exactly which blocks to use, plus extra ideas to make every part of your kingdom unique.
Packed with interesting facts about medieval life, full-color illustrations, and a foldout depicting the epic scale of the kingdom, this official Mojang book has dozens of building ideas to ignite the imaginations of Minecrafters of all ages.
Note: This book has been designed to mimic job-site engineering plans. The marks and scuffs on the pages are an intentional design element.
Collect all of the official Minecraft books:
Minecraft: The Island
Minecraft: The Crash
Minecraft: The Lost Journals
Minecraft: The Survivors’ Book of Secrets
Minecraft: Exploded Builds: Medieval Fortress
Minecraft: Guide to Exploration
Minecraft: Guide to Creative
Minecraft: Guide to the Nether & the End
Minecraft: Guide to Redstone
Minecraft: Mobestiary
Minecraft: Guide to Enchantments & Potions
Minecraft: Guide to PVP Minigames
Minecraft: Guide to Farming
Minecraft: Let’s Build! Theme Park Adventure
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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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