Work better and faster in Maya with the quick-hit tips and techniques in this practical book. Designed for busy Maya users, this guide offers dozens of how-tos, workarounds, and shortcuts culled from years of experience in a fast-paced, deadline-driven production pipeline. You’ll discover tricks and timesavers on texturing particles, customizing Paint Effects brushes, modeling polygon faces, creating facial rigs with wire deformers, and much more-while useful, full-color illustrations reinforce the concepts. From modeling, animating, and rigging to texturing and lighting, this book will help you streamline workflow and improve your skills.

Книга "Professional Techniques for the Wedding Photographer" раскрывает все главные приёмы свадебной фотографии для начинающих. В книге большое количество фотографий и схем освещения.

Alternative Digital Photography will lead you through a detailed exploration of alternative techniques in digital photography. Whether you are an amateur photographer, a beginning professional, or an advanced professional looking to add more creativity to your photography, this book will help you develop the skills you need to create unusual, creative, and artistic images using digital photography. It includes hands-on lessons designed to help you quickly develop new and creative ways of viewing the world around you. It is filled with example photographs, outlining the steps taken to achieve each image. It emphasizes simple, creative, and inexpensive suggestions that anyone can use--no need for a professional studio or a large financial investment. The book does also include coverage of advanced techniques as well as expensive tools that allow you to continue using the book as your experience grows.

This Maya modeling book is unique in its approach to modeling a high-resolution character model. Where other books take a grueling approach that often leaves readers confused, Maya 8 Character Modeling breaks down the character into an easy-to-follow formula. Readers learn that modeling a character can be accomplished without the fear of being in over their heads. In addition, the author takes a light-hearted approach to the subject matter, making the learning process easier to digest. This allows the reader to look at the modeling process as an enjoyable undertaking as opposed to dealing with the steep learning curve of other modeling books.

Книга посвящена пакету компьютерных программ для производства анимации и спецэффектов - MAYA.

This book is all meat and cuts right to the point - modeling and texturing game weapons like a professional. Written by Christian Chang, weapons modeler on America’s Army and now at EA, this book delivers what the reader wants. Starting with a discussion on customizing your modeling application for ease of use, the book emphasizes the importance of employing professional techniques when setting up your project. From there, the chapters concentrate on creating specific weapons - from a samurai sword to a modern high-velocity, fully-automatic machine gun - in a step-by-step progression from simple to complex. Each weapon is modeled, UV mapped, optimized, and finally textured for realism.

A combination of up-to-date practical tips with ancient Eastern techniques to help you and your lover focus on mutual erotic pleasure. This book includes sensual massage techniques to restore and build sexual energy levels along with provocative exercises to stimulate heightened orgasmic enjoyment. It also features a repertoire of skin-to-skin positions for closer sexual intimacy and erotic meditations to help you verbalise your physical desires.

If you’re new to Maya, the industry–leading 3D animation and effects software, Introducing Maya includes step–by–step tutorials and easy–to–follow explanations to teach you the basics and nuances of this complex software. Whether you’re a student or a hobbyist, you can learn all about the Maya interface and the fundamentals of modeling, texturing, animating and visual effects with realistic examples. If you’re new to 3D animation or transitioning from another 3D application, this book will provide you with the tools you need to become proficient at Maya.

Working as an effective professional Java developer requires you to know Java APIs, tools, and techniques to solve a wide variety of Java problems. Building upon Ivor Horton's Beginning Java 2, this resource shows you how to use the core features of the latest JDK as well as powerful open source tools such as Ant, JUnit, and Hibernate. It will arm you with a well-rounded understanding of the professional Java development landscape.

Автор: Дэвид А. Д. Гоулд
Описание:
Книга содержит всестороннее описание возможностей программирования в системе Maya, являющейся лидером на рынке приложений для работы с трехмерной компьютерной графикой. Основное внимание уделено в ней встроенному языку программирования MEL (Maya Embedded Language) и интерфейсу прикладного программирования (API) на языке C++. Вместе с тем, материал книги начинается с описания базовых принципов функционирования Maya, что позволяет получить полное представление о внутреннем устройстве системы. Эти знания помогут читателю быстро и эффективно приобрести опыт написания собственных программ.

Предлагаемое автором описание языка сценариев MEL столь глубоко и основательно, что может с полным правом считаться настоящим учебником по этому языку, достойным самого пристального внимания со стороны начинающих пользователей. Простота MEL и сходство его синтаксиса с языком C++ способствуют его легкому освоению даже теми, кто делает свои первые шаги в освоении пакета Maya.

Детальное описание методик создания подключаемых модулей, нестандартных команд и узлов с использованием C++API превращает эту книгу в уникальное по своей лаконичности и четкости изложения пособие по расширению возможностей Maya. Каждый демонстрируемый прием автор сопровождает реальным практическим примером и подробно анализирует требуемый исходный код.

Рекомендуется как начинающим пользователям Maya, так и подготовленным специалистам, желающим расширить свои знания по организации системы и приобрести умения и навыки программирования для нее.

Для тех кто осваивает MAYА профессионально - книга бесценна!

В книге подробно представлены все этапы сборки пластиковой модели с иллюстрациями. Полезно как для начинающих, так и для опытных моделистов.

Photoshop for Video, Third Edition (DV Expert Series)/by Richard Harrington(Author).Master the graphic design and production skills required of today's video editors and motion graphic professionals with this comprehensive guide to the video tools in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended. Every page is filled with techniques to help the video professional make graphics for use in television, video, the Internet, and DVD.
Lively discourse, full-color presentations, and hands-on tutorials demonstrate everything you need to know about how to combine still and moving images. Fundamental concepts such as transparency, pixel aspect ratio, and alpha channels are made precisely clear, and advanced techniques show how to use Photoshop as a character generator, color corrector, and animation tool.
Features:
*Real-world solutions for making graphics for video, motion graphics, and DVD authoring
*Expanded coverage of High Def video
*16-bit and 32-bit image processing techniques for greater color fidelity
*Integration guides for top selling Editing, Motion Graphics, and DVD software
*Automation and shortcut methods that cut production time and improve final product
*Downloadable extras for Photoshop CS3 Extended

It's no mystery why InDesign has become the premier page layout program: It offers great tools-not least among them its sophisticated typographic controls. Here to show you how to take advantage of them is the first book devoted solely to that topic. Whether you're a graphics pros migrating from InDesign's long-entrenched competitor QuarkXPress or a hobbyists producing fancy invites and book-length projects, you'll appreciate this guide's finely tuned focus on everything typographic. Realizing that to take full advantage of InDesign's typographic tools, you must understand the principles guiding their use, author Nigel French addresses both the whys and the hows of good typography. Using practical examples, and loads of tips, Nigel provides a comprehensive overview of all of InDesign's type features, including the Paragraph Composer, optical kerning, and its support for OpenType fonts. Starting with character formats and then moving through paragraph formats, styles and effects, and layouts, you'll have gained all the skills they need to produce beautiful type by the end of the volume.

Книги от известного мастера Айкидо Морихиро Сайто, основателя направления "Ивама-рю"
язык: японский/английский и очень много илюстраций
В пятитомник вошли следующие тома:
Vol.1 Basic techniques
Vol.2 Advanced techniques
Vol.3 Applied techniques
Vol.4 Vital techniques
Vol.5 Training works wonders

Delphi 6 simply builds on the solid foundations of the VCL to deliver astonishing and all-encompassing software development tool. Looking for database, client/server, multitier, intranet, or Internet solutions? Looking for control and power? Looking for fast productivity? With Delphi 6 and the plethora of techniques and tips presented in this book, you'll be able to accomplish all this.
Includes all updated applications, plus an in-depth discussion of COM, Corba, and ActiveX. --Excellent for all levels of Delphi knowledge; beginner to experienced programmer. Learn to stretch Delphi to the limit!

Книга посвящена методикам создания и анимации визуальных эффектов в пакете Maya Она является прекрасным дополнением к книге Денни Риддела "Maya 5 для Windows и Macintosh" ("ДМК Пресс", 2004). Здесь рассматриваются как теоретические сведения о работе с визуальными эффектами, так и примеры их применение - имитация огня, воды, травы и других объектов реального мира. Изучаются приемы работы с системами частиц и фракталами. Рассматривается задача создания средствами языка MEL собственного встраиваемого модуля для управления движением группы объектов.

Хотите создать свою мастерскую? Эта книга для вас. В ней описанно, как создать столярную мастерскую с верстаком, стелажами и полезными приспособлениями, облегчающими работу, все проекты с подробными описаниями, чертежами и фотографиями.

Digital Photography Techniques - популярный зарубежный журнал о фотографии, фототехнике и обработке изображений.