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Mastering Maya 8.5        
Publisher Sybex Inc
Author Eric Kunzendorf
ISBN 0470128453
Release Date 09 April 2007

Take your Maya skills to new levels with the sophisticated coverage you’ll find in this authoritative Autodesk Maya Press reference and tutorial. From key basics through advanced techniques, our Maya experts provide the very latest professional-level instruction on Maya Complete and Maya Unlimited.

Early chapters offer a practical overview of Maya’s interface. A “Quick Start” exercise lets novices create an animation the first day and covers the basics of node structure, keyframes, and basic lighting. Advanced users will broaden their skills with pertinent coverage for nCloth, mental ray integration, volume Fur rendering, advanced texturing tools, and enhanced MEL scripting. Practical tutorials reinforce learning with hands-on practice.

If you’ve been looking for a professional-quality and complete Maya resource to turn to again and again, this is the book.

* Render and store stills through the Render View window
* Learn techniques with nCloth’s powerful cloth simulation
* Tweak and add drag-and-drop Fluid Effects for real-world effects

The CD provides tutorial files, images, and scene files that let you complete the hands-on exercises and compare your work to the pros. See the Introduction for details and complete system requirements.

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3D Game Textures Create Professional Game Art Using Photoshop
Publisher: Focal Press; Pap/Cdr edition (February 21, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0240807685
342 pages

Game artists, architects, simulation developers, web designers and enthusiasts alike can learn to create everything from bricks to books in Photoshop with this step-by-step instructional guide.

Because texture is 99% of what a gamer sees when playing, this topic deserves considerable coverage but has gotten little attention. Unlike anything on the market, this book is the first of its kind to provide an in-depth guide to game texturing with hundreds of high-quality examples. This guide teaches everything a game artist will need to know-from researching textures, basic artistic principles, tools and
techniques, to specific step-by-step tutorials that explain how to create textures for a myriad of environments. The goal of this book is to give the reader a guide that will actually help them secure a job as a developer/artist even providing them with images created using the tutorials that can be used in a portfolio.

* Learn everything you need to create stunning, professional textures from one easy to follow guide which features tutorials and over 500 high-quality images

* Follow the step-by-step
Download:tutorials to learn how to create suitable images which you can add to your portfolio and WOW prospective employers
* Companion CD includes sample textures and electronic versions of images you saw in the bookall the tools you need in one place!
* Hit the ground running or get a leg up on the competition with the tips, tricks, and real world examples featured in this comprehensive guide

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Author(s) : W. Clay Richardson, Donald Avondolio, Joe Vitale, Peter Len, Kevin B. Smith
Publisher : Wrox
Year : Feb 2004
ISBN 10 : 0471469513
ISBN 13 : 9780471469513
Language : English
Pages : 456
File type : PDF
Size : 12.5 MB  (book + source code)

Open source technology enables you to build customized enterprise portal frameworks with more flexibility and fewer limitations. This book explains the fundamentals of a powerful set of open source tools and shows you how to use them.

Portal development projects have become the centerpiece of IT acquisition and development strategy for many organizations. Enterprise integration and Web application developers predictably groan when they hear the word “portal” — nightmares of proprietary APIs, oversold features, and shoddy tool integrations. The authors of this book have been involved in over a dozen production portal efforts over the last several years. In that time, we have dealt with numerous products and frameworks, including some in-house frameworks based on servlets and JSPs. Through all of this, we began to wonder whether these commercial suites were really providing any value. We started to realize that we could put together a framework from open-source products.

We would like to point out that our portal framework is not meant to be an all-or-nothing solution. We present a number of tools that you may use to satisfy your enterprise portal needs, and we demonstrate how to use them, but because portal efforts are largely integration efforts, it would be folly to presume that anyone will drop all of their current systems and pick up our framework.

This book explains a set of tools at the foundation of an open-source portal framework, and demonstrates how to build your own portal using open-source tools. However, before describing the structure of the book, it makes sense to cover some fundamental concepts addressed therein.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - The Java Portlet API (JSR 168)
Chapter 02 - Searching with Lucene
Chapter 03 - Messaging with Apache James
Chapter 04 - Object to Relational Mapping with Apache OJB
Chapter 05 - Content Management with Jakarta’s Slide
Chapter 06 - Portal Security
Chapter 07 - Planning for Portal Deployment
Chapter 08 - Effective Client-Side Development Using JavaScript
Chapter 09 - Developing Applications and Workflow for Your Portal
Chapter 10 - Portlet Integration with Web Services
Chapter 11 - Performance Testing, Administering, and Monitoring Your Portal
Chapter 12 - Unifying the Enterprise Application Space Through Web Start


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PC World - 2007 December
True PDF
194 pages

PC World is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG. It offers advice on various aspects of PCs and related items, the Internet, and other personal-technology products and services.

The magazine's slogan is "Technology Advice You Can Trust" and it is known for criticizing poor computer products or companies, even at the risk of losing advertising revenue.

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Electronic Gaming Monthly December 2007
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English

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Brimming with beautiful pictures, this successful book guides you
through a project-based, progressive curriculum so that you can build
all the essential skills to enhance photographs creatively and
professionally with Photoshop CS3. If you are an aspiring professional,
enthusiastic amateur photographer, or a student learning photography,
digital imaging, art and design, or design graphics, you'll be amazed at
the stunning results you can achieve!

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