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Painting the Web
Do you think that only professionals with expensive tools and years of experience can work with web graphics? This guide tosses that notion into the trash bin. Painting the Web is the first comprehensive book on web graphics to come along in years, and author Shelley Powers demonstrates how readers of any level can take advantage of the graphics and animation capabilities built into today's powerful browsers. She covers GIFs, JPEGs, and PNGs, raster and vector graphics, CSS, Ajax effects, the canvas objects, SVG, geographical applications, and more -- everything that designers (and non-designers) use to literally paint the Web. More importantly, Shelley's own love of web graphics shines through in every example. Not only can you master the many different techniques, you also can have fun doing it. Topics in Painting the Web include: GIF, JPEG, PNG, lossy versus lossless compression, color management, and optimization Photo workflow, from camera to web page, including a review of photo editors, workflow tools, and RAW photo utilities Tricks for best displaying your photos online Non-photographic raster images (icons and logos), with step-by-step tutorials for creating popular "Web 2.0" effects like reflection, shiny buttons, inlays, and shadows Vector graphics An SVG tutorial, with examples of all the major components Tips and tricks for using CSS Interactive effects with Ajax such as accordions and fades The canvas object implemented in most browsers Geographical applications such as Google Maps and Yahoo Maps, with programming and non-programming examples Visual effects such as forms and data displays in table or graphics Web design for the non-designer Graphics are not essential tothe web experience, but they do make the difference between a site that's functional and one that's lively, compelling, and exciting. Whether you want to spruce up a website, use photos to annotate your stories, create hot graphics, or provide compelling displays for your data, this is the book for you..
Price: $24.49
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Animate Form
Animate Form is a book and interactive CD-ROM of recent architectural projects designed by Form, the office of Greg Lynn. The projects documented here explore the potential of time-based animation techniques to inform architectural design. Historically, architecture has been considered static, fixed, and inert. Through the use of state-of-the-art animation and special-effects software, Lynn transforms space and form into highly plastic, flexible, and mutable entities. He uses topological geometries to bend, twist, deform, and differentiate structure, creating unprecedented departures from preconceived notions of architecture. In experimenting with these new methods and media, Lynn has charted an innovative direction in design. The book provides a theoretical context for the experimental projects through a collection of texts by Lynn, extensively illustrated in color. The CD-ROM is an interactive hypertext environment that fully documents the design processes used to generate the projects through animations, renderings, model photographs, videos, and texts. Using a virtual 3D interface, the viewer is able to navigate through space and select objects and animations to view at different scales..
Price: $22.49
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How to Animate Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants
Ahoy, mates! It's hard to believe there's anything more entertaining than watching SpongeBob SquarePants on TV. But cartoons don't have to be a spectator sport! With a little help from the fantastic tips and terrific techniques in this book, you can bring all your favorite Bikini Bottom buddies to life, making them walk, talk, hop--even karate chop! Dive right in to learn all about the amazing art of animation, from the spongerific essentials--including action poses, animation cycles, and expressions--to tricks of the trade, such as storyboards, flip books, and zoetropes. In no time at all, you'll be animating the underwater antics of the most absorbent guy in the sea!.
Price: $2.08
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Shade 7 designer LE: Model, Animate, Render
The Shade family of 3D programs, developed by e-frontier, inc., has long been popular in Japan. Now, California-based Curious Labs brings Shade to the English-speaking market for the first time. Shade 7 Designer LE, the entry-level version of the product, provides an easy and inexpensive introduction to the world of 3D graphics. Shade 7 designer LE: Model, Animate, Render, written by a team of experts assembled by e-frontier, teaches you the basics- not only of Shade, but of 3D graphics as well. The step-by-step tutorials in the book cover beginning modeling, the basics of textures, rendering and radiosity, an introduction to keyframe animation and more. Shade Masters are computer graphics artists, illustrators, engineers, and teachers who have years of experience working with Shade. They have pooled their knowledge and expertise to produce these tutorials. .
Price: $35.10
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Model, Rig, Animate with 3ds max 7
3ds max 7 provides unparalleled character animation functionality, and in this book you will learn how to take advantage of all of these tools. Simple step-by-step tutorials, glorious full-color examples, and an easy-to-understand approach to tricky concepts will have you creating and animating your own characters within hours! Author and award-winning animator Michele Bousquet answers all your questions about character modeling, rigging, and animating in 3ds max -- in the process illuminating the techniques used by game developers, broadcast and film companies, industrial designers, and more. As you complete the book’s projects and exercises -- using the files contained on the companion CD -- you’ll learn the fundamentals of character modeling, character rigging, creating rigs with custom controls, skinning, character animation, and more..
Price: $54.78
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The Animate! Book
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