Focus is an important artistic tool, directing your viewers into and around your image, but a technical challenge too. In this book, the first serious treatent of the topic in the digital age, John Neel shows how a mastery of your lens will greatly enhance the quality and 'wow' factor of your photographs. Never losing sight of what real-life photographers need to know, Focus in Photography will…
This full-color book concentrates heavily on four key areas: Environments - Construct beautiful virtual worlds with moving objects and sounds Inputs - Enter and explore the worlds you construct by creating a Character and specifying how it ...
Teach yourself iPhone application development in 24 hours.
During his career as one of America's most sought-after illustrators, Andrew Loomis (1889-1959) taught at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, and in 1939 he codified his lessons in his first manual, Fun with a Pencil. Four years later it had already been through six printings, and he followed up over the next two decades with a series of even more successful how-to books that remain the gol…
A comprehensive human anatomy guide for today's 3D artist, offering fundamental, theoretical and practical skills in anatomy and proportion.
tête-bêche Book. One half depicts the mega city problems, but when the book is flipped over, the other half provides the garden city solutions.Packed with photographs, diagrams, and colourful info-graphics, Garden City Mega City presents a compelling case for re-examining and re-planning the mega cities of the 21st century.
Essential Skills--Made Easy! Learn how to create data models that allow complex data to be analyzed, manipulated, extracted, and reported upon accurately. Data Modeling: A Beginner's Guide teaches you techniques for gathering business requirements and using them to produce conceptual, logical, and physical database designs. You'll get details on Unified Modeling Language (UML), normalization, i…
The long awaited follow-up to our all-time bestseller Thinking with Type is here. Type on Screen is the definitive guide to using classic typographic concepts of form and structure to make dynamic compositions for screen-based applications. Covering a broad range of technologies—from electronic publications and websites to videos and mobile devices—this hands-on primer presents the latest i…
This book is an easy to use introduction to working with ZBrush that will allow anyone to improve the quality of their 3d work and illustrations by reading it.
All You Need Is a Pencil, Paper and Your Imagination! Ever wondered how you could become a character designer for video games, film or animation? Veteran art director and concept artist Marc Taro Holmes shares proven methods for honing the skills and building the portfolio necessary to become a pro gaming artist. This is the first and only work-at-your-own pace home study program that teaches t…
Today, B2B marketers must excel across all areas, from messaging to demand generation to sales team enablement. New technologies and techniques make excellence possible. This book makes it real. Top B2B marketer Kim Ann King will help you profit from cutting-edge B2B analytics, experimentation and optimization, marketing automation, targeting and personalization, and more.
DIGITAL PERFORMER FOR ENGINEERS & PRODUCERS: MUSIC PRODUCTION MIXING FILM SCORING AN
The definitive guide to using data and technology in reporting, this text teaches students how to combine data analysis with traditional reporting to create compelling stories. Through coverage of theory, practical examples, online tutorials, and celebrated stories from around the world, thistext demonstrates the tools and principles of data-driven journalism.
In 25 concise steps, you will learn the basics of blockchain technology. No mathematical formulas, program code, or computer science jargon are used. No previous knowledge in computer science, mathematics, programming, or cryptography is required. Terminology is explained through pictures, analogies, and metaphors. This book bridges the gap that exists between purely technical books about the b…
Helps readers learn the craft of designing and building parallel programs - specifically programs that employ multiple processors operating at once to solve a large computational problem. This book addresses techniques for parallel programming on both major categories of parallel computers - SMPs and clusters.
Create and Review Your Own Contracts Minimize your legal risks and lock in profits as experienced contract attorney Laura Plimpton walks you through a fail-safe method of reviewing any contract. Learn to identify and neutralize the trick phrases that can create enormous risks for you and your business. Plimpton's expert advice can save you thousands of dollars in legal fees and may just prevent…
Written by well known business writer, Patrick Forsyth, this book contains tips to increase your sales. Grouped into logical sections, it details how to get buyers to say yes, how to create the right first impression, & understand customers' needs.
A fool-proof guide to the good, the bad, and the ugly about e-learning and how to make it work for any company.