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Digital Storytelling: A Creator's Guide to Interactive Entertainment
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Digital Storytelling: A Creator's Guide to Interactive Entertainment
by Carolyn Handler Miller

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Equally useful for seasoned professionals and those new to the field, Carolyn Handler Miller covers effective techniques for creating compelling narratives for a wide variety of digital media. Written in a clear, non-technical style, it offers insights...
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The Focal Easy Guide to Combustion 4: For New Users and Professionals
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The Focal Easy Guide to Combustion 4: For New Users and Professionals
by Gary M Davis

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Learn all you'll need to know to get up and running quickly with Autodesk's highly-affordable, powerful version 4 upgrade to Combustion. Get a jump-start learning the major features or the software without bogging you down with unnecessary detail. The...
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Virtual Vixens: 3D Character Modeling and Scene Placement
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Virtual Vixens: 3D Character Modeling and Scene Placement
by Arndt Von Koenigsmarck

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Hot, hotter, hottest. See how todays leading modeling artists create 3D characters that sizzle and get the techniques youll need to create your own virtual vixens. Steven Stahlberg, Liam Kemp, Marco Patrito, and Sze Jones from Blur Studio are just a few...
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Animation: The Mechanics of Motion
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Animation: The Mechanics of Motion
by Chris Webster

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Learn the key skills you need with this practical and inspirational guide to all the fundamental principles of animation. With extended pieces on timing, acting and technical aspects, Chris Webster has created the vital learning tool to help you get the...
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Story and Simulations for Serious Games: Tales from the Trenches
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Story and Simulations for Serious Games: Tales from the Trenches
by Nick Iuppa and Terry Borst

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How to create a simulation where participants have a sense of freedom and personal control while still maintaining the structure necessary for an effective story is a difficult task indeed. This book examines how to create an engaging, effective story...
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Rendering with Mental Ray & 3ds Max
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Rendering with Mental Ray & 3ds Max
by Joep Van Der Steen

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Realize your vision with stunning renders of your 3ds Max projects that can only be achieved with a powerful engine like mental ray. Beginning with a concise review of the essential concepts, you proceed to step-by-step tutorials that teach you how to...
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3ds Max Maxscript Essentials
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3ds Max Maxscript Essentials
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Write your own MAXScript functions and utilities to automate repetitive tasks and create custom tools and UI elements. Beginning with an introduction to essential programming concepts, you learn the MAXScript basics that include cloning objects, MAX...
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Mocap for Artists: Workflow and Techniques for Motion Capture
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Mocap for Artists: Workflow and Techniques for Motion Capture
by Midori Kitagawa

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Make motion capture part of your graphics and effects arsenal. This introduction to motion capture principles and techniques delivers a working understanding of today's state-of-the-art systems and workflows without the arcane pseudocodes and equations...
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Realistic Architectural Visualization with 3ds Max and Mental Ray
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Realistic Architectural Visualization with 3ds Max and Mental Ray
by Roger Cusson

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Bring new realism to your visualizations with a command of the 3ds Max toolset. Three step-by-step tutorials demonstrate exterior and interior, day and night lighting scenes. You learn the nuts and bolts of importing models from CAD programs, lighting...
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Animating with Flash MX: Professional Creative Animation Techniques with CDROM
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Animating with Flash MX: Professional Creative Animation Techniques with CDROM
by Alex Michael

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If you are a professional animator and want to learn to use the Flash environment as a vehicle for your creative work then this is the book for you. It gets you up to speed fast with the basics of how to use Flash MX to animate, so you can start...
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3ds Max 7 Fundamentals and Beyond Courseware
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3ds Max 7 Fundamentals and Beyond Courseware
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Welcome to the Discreet Official Training Courseware for 3ds max 7 software! Consider this book an all-access pass to the production and training experience of Discreet developers and training experts. Written for self-paced learning or instructor-led...
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Character Modeling with Maya and Zbrush: Professional Polygonal Modeling Techniques
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Character Modeling with Maya and Zbrush: Professional Polygonal Modeling Techniques
by Jason Patnode

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Maya is the most powerful and popular 3D graphics software in the film industry and is being increasingly adopted by games developers. Modeling believable human and non-human characters with this package is an absolutely vital skill for 3D artists in...
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Digital Art Masters, Volume 2
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Digital Art Masters, Volume 2
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Meet some of the finest digital 2D and 3D artists working in the industry today, from Patrick Beaulieu, Philip Straub, Benita Winckler, Alessandro Baldasseroni to Khalid Al Muharraqi, Marcel Baumann and Marek Denko and see how they work. More than just a...
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Creative After Effects :  Workflow Techniques for Animation, Visual Effects and Motion Graphics 7.0 - With DVD (07 Edition)
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Creative After Effects : Workflow Techniques for Animation, Visual Effects and Motion Graphics 7.0 - With DVD (07 Edition)
by Angie Taylor

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Realize your creative potential with a working knowledge of After Effects 7. Renowned artist and designer Angie Taylor demonstrates professional workflows and inspires with practical tutorial lessons that help put the theory (and you!) to work. You...
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Building Interactive Worlds in 3D: Virtual Sets and Pre-Visualization for Games, Film & the Web
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Building Interactive Worlds in 3D: Virtual Sets and Pre-Visualization for Games, Film & the Web
by Jean-marc Gauthier

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In Building Interactive Worlds in 3D readers will find turnkey tutorials that detail all the steps required to build simulations and interactions, utilize virtual cameras, virtual actors (with self-determined behaviors), and real-time physics including...
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Secrets of Figure Creation with Poser 5
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Secrets of Figure Creation with Poser 5
by B. L. Render

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Learn from a Poser master how to make the best use of this versatile and exciting figure creation package, whether you are using version 3, 4, the Pro Pack or the new version 5 upgrade. BL Render provides an in-depth guide that explains each aspect of...
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Flash + After Effects
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Flash + After Effects
by Chris Jackson

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After Effects provides the Flash designer with an assortment of visual effects that are difficult or impossible to achieve with the Flash toolset. Flash projects can be executed more efficiently and more creatively with the addition of After Effects...
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A Guide to Computer Animation: For TV, Games, Multimedia and Web (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation)
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A Guide to Computer Animation: For TV, Games, Multimedia and Web (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation)
by Marcia Kuperberg

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Any questions you have about 2D or 3D animation in this new digital age are answered in this comprehensive guide for all budding digital animators, games artists and media production students. It is lavishly illustrated with inspirational colour...
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Interactive Design for New Media and the Web (01 Edition)
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Interactive Design for New Media and the Web (01 Edition)
by Nicholas V. Iuppa

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In an age where digital technology makes just about anything possible, Interactive Design for New Media and the Web demonstrates how to realize that promise through the creation of outstanding interactive programs. This hands-on, practical book examines...
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Learning Autodesk 3ds Max 2008 Foundation
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Learning Autodesk 3ds Max 2008 Foundation
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Learning Autodesk(R) 3ds Max(R) 2008 ] Foundation is your shortcut to learning 3ds Max quickly and effectively. You'll get hands-on experience with the key tools and techniques through easy-to-follow, step-by-step project-based lessons, while learning to...
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