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Flex is the technology for creating cutting edge web applications, bothin terms of functionality and design-it is easy to put together anapplication that works and looks great. But what if you want tocustomize the look and feel of your application, so that it doesn't looklike every other Flex application out there? That's not quite as simplea proposition. However, help is at hand with this book. Foundation Flexfor Designers is a dream come true for any designer working oncustomizing the look and feel of Flex applications. It takes you throughhow to customize style and layouts using CSS, how to bring design assetsinto Flex from applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks,and Flash, how to spice up your design work with some handy ActionScript3.0 techniques, and even a look forward to designing hybrid desktop/webapplications with Flex and AIR. It culminates with severaldesign-oriented case studies, including a video picker application,picture gallery, customer service site, and more.
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Introducing 3ds Max 2008 breaks down the complexities of 3D modeling,texturing, animating, and visual effects. You'll jump right into the 3dsMax pipeline-from preproduction through postproduction-with clear-cutexplanations, tutorials, and hands-on projects to build your skills. Aspecial color insert includes real-world examples from talented 3ds Maxbeginners. From immediately creating your first animation to masteringpoly modeling techniques and lighting final renders, you'll get a solidgrounding in 3ds Max 2008. Build the knowledge you need for game, film,and TV production.
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You hold in your hands the best-selling guide to NewTek's LightWave 3Danimation software, completely updated for LightWave v9 by award-winninganimator and trainer Dan Ablan. Rather than rehash the documentationlike other books, this down-to-earth, easy-to-follow guide offers aninvaluable set of project tutorials that teach you the ins and outs ofLightWave and show you the techniques you need to master this powerful3D software. Inside LightWave v9's accompanying DVD features hours ofhigh- quality video training tutorials that will help you take theprojects in the book to new heights. No other book has taught moreLightWave 3D users than Inside LightWave. Featured tutorials cover:- Insights into the new LightWave v9 workflow- Powerful new surfacing with the Node Editor- Character modeling- Bones and rigging for character animation- Particle animation- Hard body and soft body dynamics- Rendering concepts with the new Global Render options- Advanced camera tools Accompanying DVD-ROM offers hours of uniquetraining videos created just for this book, exclusively from3DGarage.com (requires QuickTime); a demo of LightWave v9 for Mac OSand Windows; all of the projects from the book; royalty-free texturesand reference images; and full-color screenshots from the book!
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Learn to build, render, and animate your own digital models and scenes,and begin to develop professional-level Maya skills with IntroducingMaya 2008. This new edition of a perennial bestseller is the idealinitiation to 3D and Maya. Starting with the basics, it builds from theground up, combining straightforward text with practical examples thatmake it fun and easy to learn Maya's core tools while introducing thelatest Maya 2008 features.
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Turn 3D models into film-worthy digital animations by mastering mentalray rendering once and for all. This must-have guide is the only book onthe market to focus exclusively on mental ray in Maya, 3ds Max, and XSI,and it's packed with techniques and insights you can't get anywhereelse. Best of all, the book's advanced rendering concepts apply to otherrendering software as well, including V-Ray, Brazil, Maxwell andRenderMan. You'll get a high-level look at techniques that usually takeprofessionals years to figure out.
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