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LightWave 8 Killer Tips

By: Dan Ablan,Randy Sharp

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The hottest collection of cool tips and hidden secrets for the LightWave 8 user who needs results FAST! LightWave 8 Killer Tips is packed with nothing but sidebar tips that the pros use every day! When it comes to LightWave, time is money. LightWave 8 Killer Tips is all about speed--showing users how to get more work done faster, while actually increasing quality. This book is designed to teach you all those hidden productivity tips, inside shortcuts, and little-known tricks with the latest version to get twice the work done in half the time. Build on the premise that "Speed Kills," you will get faster at LightWave and have more time to be creative. In an ever-tightening and competitive marketplace, this kind of book is sorely needed.

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New Riders

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0132932946

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9780132932943

Digital Cinematography & Directing

By: Dan Ablan

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Digital Cinematography & Directing

By: Dan Ablan

digital Cinematography and Directing is unlike any other cinematography or directing book you've seen. This book was written entirely for 3D animators. Based on real-world photographic and cinematic principles, it teaches you essential skills and concepts that you can apply to any industry 3D application, such as LightWave 3D, Softimage XSI, 3ds max, CINEMA 4D, Maya, and other leading programs. This book does not focus on using software but rather teaches you how to understand and use the camera within your 3D application. Master focal lengths, f-stops, and apertures within your 3D aplication. Learn how pre-production planning can guide and enhance your project by applying essential storyboarding techniques. Use light as not only an illumination source, but as a tool for cinematic storytelling. Learn how to direct your digital cast with proper staging techniques "Dan Ablan's years of innovating digital production techniques and his undeniable expertise at teaching CGI, FX, and Film, makes digitalCinematography and Directing a must-have!" -Dave Adams, Dreamworks.

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New Riders

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0132798204

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9780132798204

Inside LightWave 3D v10

By: Dan Ablan

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Inside LightWave 3D v10

By: Dan Ablan

This best-selling guide to NewTek's LightWave 3D animation software has now been completely updated for LightWave v10 by award-winning animator and trainer Dan Ablan. This down-to-earth, easy-to-follow guide offers an invaluable set of real-world project tutorials that teach you the ins and outs of LightWave and show you the techniques you need to master this powerful 3D software. Inside LightWave 3D v10's accompanying DVD features hours of high quality video training tutorials that will help you go further with each chapter. No other book has taught more LightWave 3D users than Inside LightWave. Featured tutorials cover: In-depth tour of the new LightWave v10 interface Powerful surfacing with the Node Editor Bones and rigging for character animation Particle animation Hard body and soft body dynamics Rendering concepts Advanced camera tools All of Peachpit's eBooks contain the same content as the print edition. You will find a link in the last few pages of your eBook that directs you to the media files. Helpful tips: If you are able to search the book, search for "Where are the lesson files?" Go to the very last page of the book and scroll backwards. You will need a web-enabled device or computer in order to access the media files that accompany this ebook. Entering the URL supplied into a computer with web access will allow you to get to the files. Depending on your device, it is possible that your display settings will cut off part of the URL. To make sure this is not the case, try reducing your font size and turning your device to a landscape view. This should cause the full URL to appear.

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Pearson Education

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0132656256

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9780132656252

Inside LightWave v9

By: Dan Ablan

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Inside LightWave v9

By: Dan Ablan

You hold in your hands the best-selling guide to NewTek's LightWave 3D animation software, completely updated for LightWave v9 by award-winning animator and trainer Dan Ablan. Rather than rehash the documentation like other books, this down-to-earth, easy-to-follow guide offers an invaluable set of project tutorials that teach you the ins and outs of LightWave and show you the techniques you need to master this powerful 3D software. Inside LightWave v9's accompanying DVD features hours of high- quality video training tutorials that will help you take the projects in the book to new heights. No other book has taught more LightWave 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 unique training videos created just for this book, exclusively from 3DGarage.com (requires QuickTime); a demo of LightWave v9 for Mac OS and Windows; all of the projects from the book; royalty-free textures and reference images; and full-color screenshots from the book!

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0132704889

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9780132704885

Digital Cinematography & Directing

By: Dan Ablan

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Digital Cinematography & Directing

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Careers For Creative People

Design: and some real world advice from ridiculously talented individuals doing jobs they love

By: Chris Gomersall,Dan Keston

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Careers For Creative People

Design: and some real world advice from ridiculously talented individuals doing jobs they love

By: Chris Gomersall,Dan Keston

You are unknowingly part of an underground army that gives the world new things every day. New designs, new looks, new features, and new ways for old things to work. Most of the world doesn’t know where they come from, they just love to have them. Billions of dollars a year depend on creative people and thousands of companies hire them. This is where you come in. This is why the world needs you. Right now. Simply put, this book is about the business side of creativity, written for creative people, by creative people. Get a job you love, keep a job you have, get paid more for your talent. Whether you want a solo career, your own business, a position at a well-known company, or a promotion from within, this book will be your guide. This book also provides a comprehensive list of creative jobs in design, career best practices, and advice from experts in their field, helping talented creative people to: • Understand the vast universe of creative occupations in design • Choose which career path to follow • Master the social and business politics of the creative world • Learn the truth about the Design industry (the good, the bad, and the ugly) from people who are already making money doing it The amount of people who hope to turn their creativity into a professional career wildly outnumber the very select few who actually end up doing so. Why? The biggest reason many amazingly gifted people never pursue a career in creativity is that they don’t know where to start or how to do so. Thus, they never realize that they too can be one of the many people out in the world making a (rather good) living by doing something they love. Creativity is as genetic as eye color. It's hardcoded baby. Built in. Irreversible. Irresistible. Don't try to shake it. Embrace your talent, find the right job, get paid for your talent. This book is about so much more than money. It's about love. Loving what you do. Loving what you create. Loving where you work. There are very few people that can create something out of nothing. Use this book as a guide to focus your efforts in finding the right creative job. Don't stop wondering. Don't stop asking questions. And don't stop looking until your Monday mornings are as enjoyable as your Friday afternoons. It might not be easy to find, but that job exists.

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Peachpit Press

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0133853985

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9780133853988

The Physician's Guide To Investing

A Practical Approach To Building Wealth

By: Robert M. Doroghazi,Dan W. French

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The Physician's Guide To Investing

A Practical Approach To Building Wealth

By: Robert M. Doroghazi,Dan W. French

In addition, the author offers sound advice on setting financial goals, drawing up appropriate documents, saving for retirement and a child's education, purchasing insurance, and minimizing fees. Dr. Doroghazi's advice is based on many years of personal financial management and investing that have allowed him to pay his own way through college and medical school, to own his own home and a vacation condominium free of debt, to fund his children's education, and to have accumulated sufficient assets to achieve financial security at an early age."--Jacket.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1588295699

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9781588295699

Inside Lightwave [6]

By: Dan Ablan

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Inside Lightwave [6]

By: Dan Ablan

Gain mastery of the next generation modeling and animation software with this revised edition, chocked full of hands-on, real-world examples, insider tips, and inspirational graphics that go beyond the basics to help users create professional-level scenes and animations. The CD guides users through the features and provides dozens of sample files and demo versions of plug-ins.

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New Riders Publishing

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073570919X

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9780735709195

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques

By: Ben Willmore,Dan Ablan

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques

By: Ben Willmore,Dan Ablan

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques has been completely updated to cover the new features in CS4. In a friendly, easy-going style that's long on information and short on techno-babble, Photoshop Hall-of-Famer Ben Willmore and photographer Dan Ablan guide you through the concepts and features that will truly make a difference in how you use Photoshop every day. They'll take you from blindly following step-by-step instructions to an in-depth understanding of how Photoshop works, cutting through the fat to focus on what they consider to be Photoshop's essential features. This full-color book delivers the content in three easily digestible sections: Working Foundations, Production Essentials, and Creative Explorations. Streamlined for this new edition, the book will distill Photoshop's vast capabilities down to what you need to know for a full understanding of the program, while simultaneously focusing more directly on best practices for the photographer. Beginning with a quick "refresher course" on the working foundations of Photoshop, you'll move on to real-world production techniques. Finally, you'll get to fully explore Photoshop's creative potential by blending and enhancing images, creating collages, retouching photographs, colorizing, and working with filters and layer masks. By the time you finish this book, your creativity and efficiency levels will soar and you'll feel like you finally "get" Photoshop.

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Adobe Press

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0132316439

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9780132316439

Composition for Portraiture

Creating Compelling Headshots, Group Shots, and Senior Pictures

By: Dan Ablan

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Composition for Portraiture

Creating Compelling Headshots, Group Shots, and Senior Pictures

By: Dan Ablan

In Composition for Portraiture: Creating Compelling Headshots, Group Shots, and Senior Pictures, Certified Professional Photographer Dan Ablan teaches the composition basics you need to know to improve your portraits. Starting with a definition of composition–what it is and why it's important–Dan then tackles the basic concepts of composition, such as the rule of thirds, negative space, and the use of angles in photography to create more compelling imagery. Dan then dives into portraiture, discussing the best ways to work with your subject (or subjects), and how to "posture" (rather than just "pose") your subjects in order to create flattering images that bring out their best. Additionally, Dan discusses the topic of "environment"–including foreground, background, and leading lines–as well as the best ways to crop your images (in camera and in post-production) to maximize success. The book wraps up with Dan discussing some of the lesser-known composition tools at your disposal (golden ratio, fibonacci spiral, golden triangle) to help you create your best composition when you're both shooting and editing your images.

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Peachpit Press

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0133760537

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Inside LightWave v9

By: Dan Ablan

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Inside LightWave v9

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0132704889

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Digital Photography for 3D Imaging and Animation

By: Dan Ablan

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Digital Photography for 3D Imaging and Animation

By: Dan Ablan

This practical and easy-to-follow book showa you how to transform your 3D projects with your own digital photographs and enhance your 3D animation by adding photographs that you’ve composed, lit, and shot. The featured tips and ideas will quickly have you creating quality photographs for use throughout the 3D workflow. From the mechanics of megapixels to the tricks of lighting to the art of finding the best images to shoot, you’ll learn valuable techniques that will transform your designs. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470165987

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9780470165980

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques

By: Ben Willmore,Dan Ablan

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques

By: Ben Willmore,Dan Ablan

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0132316439

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Inside Lightwave 3D V10

By: Dan Ablan

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Inside Lightwave 3D V10

By: Dan Ablan

LightWave is a software package used for rendering 3D images, both animated and static. Version 10 is completely new and includes an all new code engine with a new interface and feature sets. Written by award-winning animator and trainer, Dan Ablan, this down-to-earth, easy-to-follow guide offers an invaluable set of project tutorials that teach readers the ins and outs of LightWave and shows them the techniques they need to master this powerful 3D software. The accompanying DVD features hours of high-quality video training tutorials that will help readers take the projects in the book to new heights.

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0132656280

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9780132656283

LightWave 8 Killer Tips

By: Dan Ablan,Randy Sharp

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LightWave 8 Killer Tips

By: Dan Ablan,Randy Sharp

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0132932946

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Photoshop CS4. Avanzado

By: Ben Willmore,Dan Ablan

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Photoshop CS4. Avanzado

By: Ben Willmore,Dan Ablan

La mejor manera de aprender Photoshop es analizando en profundidad el cómo y el porqué de sus herramientas. Ésta es la forma de dominar el programa como un auténtico experto, eliminando lo innecesario y centrándose en los conceptos importantes. Este libro es un clásico mundial para el estudio de Photoshop CS4, una guía con estilo propio y asequible que abarca todas las funciones más importantes. Está repleto de información y ejemplos prácticos para aprender a hacer buenas composiciones y cosas divertidas con sus imágenes. Pensado para editores, diseñadores gráficos, fotógrafos y una amplia gama de creadores, aprenderá a desarrollar sus proyectos como un profesional, con fundamentos sólidos, pinceles, menús, paneles, capas, máscaras y selecciones que le proporcionarán resultados impresionantes. Dé rienda suelta a su creatividad y atrévase a soñar.

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8441526354

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9788441526358

LightWave 6.5 Magic

By: Dan Ablan,Julian Kain

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LightWave 6.5 Magic

By: Dan Ablan,Julian Kain

Collects twenty-one projects demonstrating core animation techniques, including texturing effects, explosions, composting, and walking spiders.

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New Riders Pub

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0735709963

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9780735709966

LightWave Power Guide

By: Dan Ablan

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LightWave Power Guide

By: Dan Ablan

This book is a visual guide to unleashing LightWave's true power. It breaks down the powerful high-end functions of LightWave and presents them with simple explanations and visual examples.

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New Riders Pub

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1562056336

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9781562056339

Two-way Mirror Power

Selected Writings by Dan Graham on His Art

By: Dan Graham

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Two-way Mirror Power

Selected Writings by Dan Graham on His Art

By: Dan Graham

Essays charting the diverse works of renowned conceptual artist Dan Graham.

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MIT Press

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0262571307

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9780262571302

Dan and Phil Go Outside

By: Dan Howell,Phil Lester

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Dan and Phil Go Outside

By: Dan Howell,Phil Lester

YouTube sensations Dan Howell (danisnotonfire) and Phil Lester (AmazingPhil) were just two awkward guys who shared their lives on the Internet…until now. Dan Howell and Phil Lester, avoiders of human contact and direct sunlight, actually went outside. Traveling around the world on tour, they have collected hundreds of exclusive, intimate, and funny photos, as well as revealing and candid side notes, to show the behind-the-scenes story of their adventure. Fans of Dan and Phil’s #1 New York Times bestseller, The Amazing Book Is Not on Fire, and their more than 10 million YouTube subscribers will love this full-color book featuring never-before-seen photos and stories from Dan and Phil.

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