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Architectural Rendering with 3ds Max and V-Ray: Photorealistic Visualization

by Markus Kuhlo

Create high-quality photorealistic renders of architectural visualizations using 3ds Max and Vray with the project-based tutorials in this book. Learn how to combine lighting and rendering options to end-up...

Tradigital Blender: A CG Animator's Guide to Applying the Classical Principles of Animation

by Roland Hess

Expand your animation toolkit with foundational animation techniques, software expertise, professional best-practices, proven and time-tested work flows. Roland Hess, a leading Blender artist and instructor,...

BLADE's Guide to Making Knives

by Joe Kertzman

Learn the Secrets of Knifemaking From the Masters of the Trade

With an all-star cast of renowned knifemakers, BLADE's Guide To Making Knives 2nd Edition brings you the most up-to-date, inside information available...

Animating with Flash 8: Creative Animation Techniques

by Alex Michael

Whether you are a designer who hasn't yet used Flash, a professional animator who wants to create digital animation for the first time, or a Flash user who hasn't yet made the most of the animation features...

Producing Animation

by Catherine Winder & Zahra Dowlatabadi

Drawing heavily from the authors' twenty years of combined experience, Producing Animation offers a clear overview of this exciting industry and a comprehensive guide to the process of developing a project from...

Producing Independent 2D Character Animation: Making & Selling A Short Film

by Mark A. Simon

PRODUCING INDEPENDENT 2D CHARACTER ANIMATION takes an in-depth look at the artistry and production process of cel animation in a friendly, how-to manner that makes the sometimes tedious process of animation...

Don't Call the Thrift Shop: What to Do With a Lifetime of Well-Loved Possessions

by Susannah Ryder

What do you do with a lifetime of well-loved possessions when Mom moves to the retirement home, or there's a death in the family, or you are ready to move to a smaller home? Is that old chest a valuable antique...

The Story of Western Furniture

by Phyllis Bennett Oates

" A well organised survey of a facinating subject." David Pearce, RIBA Journal

Deconstructing the Elements with 3ds max 6: Create natural fire, earth, air and water without plug-ins

by Pete Draper

Master professional techniques in 3ds max with expert guidance from this unique book and DVD-ROM package!

A must have guide for those with 3ds max experience who want to get more out of the base kit this versatile...

Designing Sound for Animation

by Robin Beauchamp

This nuts-and-bolts guide to sound design for animated films explains audio software, free downloads, how sound works, the power of sound when wielded by an animation filmmaker, and provides varieties of examples...

Essential CG Lighting Techniques with 3ds Max

by Darren Brooker

Lighting is the one thing that makes or breaks any CG environment. This inspirational book and DVD give you everything you need to create convincing CG lightin; from the concepts and theoretical aspects to the...

Guide to Computer Animation: for tv, games, multimedia and web

by Marcia Kuperberg

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...

Developing Effective Websites: A Project Manager's Guide

by Roy Strauss & Patrick Hogan

Is your website project out of control?

Every website project needs a manager. Developing Effective Websites describes Internet technologies in plain language and helps you see beyond your expertise to the big...

Animation in the Home Digital Studio: Creation to Distribution

by Steven Subotnick

So you want to create animation! Where do you start? With an idea. This creative, exercise-packed guide contains examples and idea-generating activities. What tools do you need? Your computer, simple software...

The Hands of War: A Tale of Endurance and Hope, from a Survivor of the Holocaust

by Marione Ingram & Keith Lowe

An in-depth introduction to the U.S. war in Afghanistan written by one of the country's leading military scholars. The war in Afghanistan is now the United States' longest running war. For over a decade, the...

Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances

by John C. Greene

This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s...

Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances

by John C. Greene

This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s...

Historic Floors

by Jane Fawcett

This is the first book in the UK to be devoted to historic floors. It introduces an important and largely neglected subject and considers conservation methods in a European context.

It traces the history of...

Precious and Semi-Precious Stones

by , Michael Weinstein

This early work on gemmology is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains a comprehensive account of the varieties of precious and semi-precious stones and their characteristics. This...

How to Buy and Sell Art

by Michael Reid

Never bought a painting or a sculpture? This guide has all the answers for those who want to start collecting art but don't know where to begin.