| The Gnomon Workshop – The Techniques of Neville Page Volume 4: Rendering Flesh Posted: 19 Jul 2009 04:18 PM PDT 
In this lecture, Neville leads you methodically through the process of creating a wet, fleshy creature. First emphasizing the importance of reference, the properties of fleshy surfaces are deconstructed. Neville teaches how to create custom brushes by sampling from an image, how to define the diffuse, specular and translucent qualities of flesh, and he also provides a thorough reflectivity demonstration. Leaving little to chance or guesswork, through process and technique, Neville illustrates the ways in which he achieves his character's disturbingly real skin textures.
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| The Gnomon Workshop – The Techniques of Neville Page Volume 3: Rendering Eyes Posted: 19 Jul 2009 06:31 AM PDT 
Making eyes appear rich and soulful is critical to conveying character. In Rendering Eyes, Neville Page clearly describes a process for rendering beautiful, frightening, or appropriately horrible eyes. Detailing the anatomy of the eye, he explains how to approach the various details that contribute to a natural looking eye including reflection, glossiness, refraction, color, veins, the iris and wetness. Whether you choose to start with an existing sketch, render from scratch, or paint over a rough sculpture – all of which are described during the course of the lesson – these techniques are crucial to any character rendering.
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| The Techniques of Neville Page Volume 2: Digital Painting Posted: 19 Jul 2009 06:15 AM PDT 
Drawing on the content from his Character Design and Sketching DVD, Neville paints a quick photo-realistic illustration using techniques employed within Photoshop. He starts off by establishing a color palette and value study by generating a small thumbnail painting. This becomes the foundation for the final illustration. Neville demonstrates various texture brushes and glazing techniques to create a quick, yet realistic representation of animal skin. The lesson reveals techniques for hair and detailing, as well as graphic treatments and color shifting. Neville also shows how to create a simple photographic studio setting for your character.
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| The Techniques of Neville Page. Volume 1: Character Design Posted: 19 Jul 2009 05:47 AM PDT 
Neville breaks down the development of character design and drawing into a systematic process that is easy to follow and easy to implement. He starts off with a very free form approach utilizing black/white thumbnails to create strong silhouettes. This also helps to take the edge off of the potential intimidation at the start of a project. Neville shows you how to create plausible anatomy, form delineation via simple primitive shape studies and surface detailing such as skin, wrinkles, hair and graphics.
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| Producing for Web 2.0: A Student Guide Posted: 19 Jul 2009 04:38 AM PDT  Producing for Web 2.0: A Student Guide Product Description This clear and practical guide to planning, setting up and managing a website in web 2.0 includes illustrated examples of good page design and site content, tips on using multimedia, including video, audio, flash, and images, and offers online support tutorials on the companion website.
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| iWork 09 For Dummies Posted: 19 Jul 2009 04:37 AM PDT  iWork 09 For Dummies Product Description
Dress up office documents the Apple way with iWork ‘09 and this friendly guide If you’re a Mac lover and want to explore life outside of that “other productivity suite,” here’s your chance to dress up your docs with Apple’s iWork ‘09 and this easy-to-follow guide from Mac technology expert, Jesse Feiler. He draws on 20 years of experience with Apple software to share his secrets of producing fun and creative files using Apple iWork ‘09.
Explore iWork’s word processing software, called Pages, and start cranking out text that not only reads well, it looks great. Add style to your spreadsheets with Numbers. And produce dazzling presentations with Keynote–all of it with iWork’s special bells and whistles that will give your everyday documents extra Apple style. Discover how to: - Use this creative office productivity suite for your Mac
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| Open Source for Knowledge And Learning Management Posted: 19 Jul 2009 04:35 AM PDT  Open Source for Knowledge And Learning Management Product Description
“In the last years, knowledge and learning management have made a significant impact on the IT research community. Open Source for Knowledge and Learning Management: Strategies Beyond Tools presents learning and knowledge management from a point of view where the basic tools and applications are provided by open source technologies. Open Source for Knowledge and Learning Management: Strategies Beyond Tools explains an intense orientation to the critical issues of the open source paradigm: open source tools, applications, social networks, and knowledge sharing in open source communities. Open source technologies, tools, and applications are analyzed in the context of knowledge and learning, and this convergence formulates a challenging landscape for the deployment of information technology. ” download  |
| Scripting Your World: The Official Guide to Second Life Scripting Posted: 19 Jul 2009 04:34 AM PDT  Scripting Your World: The Official Guide to Second Life Scripting Product Description
Find complete information about Second Life scripting and gain access to more than 50 previously unpublished ready-to-use scripts in Scripting Your World: The Official Guide to Second Life Scripting. Learn how to script Second Life behaviors, grouped into categories like avatar movement, communications, prim and object control, automation, land control, combat, special effects, environment control and physics, and interacting with the world outside of Second Life. After you read this engaging book, you will possess a solid understanding Linden Scripting Language conventions.
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| Web Design All-in-One For Dummies Posted: 19 Jul 2009 04:33 AM PDT  Web Design All-in-One For Dummies Product Description
Web designers must wear many hats. Among books on Web design, Web Design All-in-One For Dummies is the one that helps you successfully wear all those hats without losing your head.
Full-color illustrations and five self-contained minibooks show you how to be a graphic designer, creative organizer, visual communicator, markup language technologist, and cutting-edge trendsetter, all in one. This book helps you lay the groundwork, follow design rules, test your site, register a domain name, and much more. - Getting Started covers planning, defining your target audience, choosing the right software, and more
- Designing For the Web acquaints you with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, plus how to choose a layout and optimize graphics
- Building Web Sites gets down to nuts and bolts: putting text, images, hyperlinks, and multimedia files together, organizing content, and building navigation systems
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Web Design All-in-One For Dummies also helps you learn how to choose a Web editor and graphics program, how to make your site accessible to the widest possible audience, and when it's time to call in a pro like author Sue Jenkins. It's just what you need to start and manage a great site. download  |
| Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Programming Posted: 18 Jul 2009 09:01 PM PDT  Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Programming Product Description
Master the increasingly complex feature set of the latest release of Microsoft SQL Server with the information in Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Programming. Review the new features of SQL Server that will be of interest to you as an experienced developer and move on to more detailed, practical code examples. Learn how to write complex queries, build different types of data structures, improve application speed and performance, manage advanced scripting and errors, and design advanced databases the latest edition of this valuable programming guide.
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