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“Made in China”: The Ultimate Warning Label
Author Peter Navarro
This Element is an excerpt from The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won (ISBN: 9780132359825) by Peter Navarro. Available in print and digital formats.A matter of life or death: why you can’t trust the safety of any product that’s be....
Release Date 2010/02 -
[digital] Visual Effects and Compositing
Author Jon Gress
In this latest book in the critically-acclaimed [digital] series from New Riders you’ll learn all of the techniques and skills that will take you from beginner to visual effects (VFX) professional in just one book. Seasoned visual effects producer Jon Gress has re....
Release Date 2014/10 -
Author William Vaughan
Professional modeling is the foundation of every aspect of the 3D production pipeline and is essential to the success of any 3D computer graphics project. [digital] Modeling is unlike any other modeling book you’ve seen—it gets to the core of what it takes to create....
Release Date 2011/12 -
Author Phil Simon
Zoom into the new world of remote collaborationWhile a worldwide pandemic may have started the Zoom revolution, the convenience of remote meetings is here to stay. Zoom For Dummies takes you from creating meetings on the platform to running global webinars. Along the way ....
Release Date 2020/08 -
ZBrush® Character Creation: Advanced Digital Sculpting, Second Edition
Author Scott Spencer
This ebook does not provide access to the companion materials.A stunning, content-rich update to this top-selling ZBrush guide!This second edition of ZBrush Character Creation has been fully updated for ZBrush 4, the newest version of this fascinating and popular 3D....
Release Date 2011/02 -
ZBrush Professional Tips and Techniques
Author Rick Baker , Paul Gaboury
Learn to work effectively and creatively with all versions of ZBrush!ZBrush is used by top artists in Hollywood to model and sculpt characters in such films as Avatar, Iron Man, and Pirates of the Caribbean. In addition, this amazing technology is also used in jewel....
Release Date 2012/06 -
ZBrush Digital Sculpting Human Anatomy
Author Scott Spencer
Taking into account that many of today's digital artists -- particularly 3D character animators -- lack foundational artistic instruction, this book teaches anatomy in a coherent and succinct style. A clear writing style explains how to sculpt an accurate human fig....
Release Date 2010/01 -
ZBrush Creature Design: Creating Dynamic Concept Imagery for Film and Games
Author Scott Spencer
Zero in on the most cutting-edge trend in creature design for film and games: ZBrush!ZBrush allows you to develop a creature for film and games in realistic, 3D format. With this book, you will learn how to create a unique creature from start to finish and search fo....
Release Date 2012/05 -
ZBrush Character Creation: Advanced Digital Sculpting
Author Scott Spencer
ZBrush's popularity is exploding giving more CG artists the power to create stunning digital art with a distinctively fine art feel. ZBrush Character Creation: Advanced Digital Sculpting is the must-have guide to creating highly detailed, lush, organic models using....
Release Date 2008/06 -
ZAG: The Number-One Strategy of High-Performance Brands
Author Marty Neumeier
"When everybody zigs, zag," says Marty Neumeier in this fresh view of brand strategy. ZAG follows the ultra-clear "whiteboard overview" style of the author’s first book, THE BRAND GAP, but drills deeper into the question of how brands can harness the power of differ....
Release Date 2006/09 -
Author Mike Monteiro
Whether you’re a designer or not, you make design decisions every day. Successful design projects require equal participation from both the client and the design team. Yet, for most people who buy design, the process remains a mystery. In his follow-up to Design Is ....
Release Date 2014/11 -
Author Philip J. Romero
Most "managerial economics" textbooks are thinly disguised microeconomics texts: highly theoretical, too dependent on abstract and unproven assumptions, and simply undigestible by busy, practical-minded executives/readers. Furthermore, such texts leave it up to the....
Release Date 2011/12 -
Author Steve Pacey
You've recently purchased Cubase. You're ready to set up your home recording studio and finally produce that album you've been talking about. Now what? Your Cubase Studio provides a complete guide to setting up your digital recording studio with Cubase so you can....
Release Date 2008/02 -
Your Camera Loves You: Learn to Love It Back
Author Khara Plicanic
With this friendly, accessible guide, beginning photographers will learn to take control of their photography and get the photos they want every time they pick up their camera! Beginning photographers often rely heavily on the “Auto” setting in their photography and....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Carl Purcell
Overcome the obstacles to your artistic expression Improving your artwork can be as simple as learning how to trust your eyes. Your Artist's Brain shows you how to portray even the most complex subjects by focusing on what you really see—not what you think you s....
Release Date 2010/05 -
Author Jon Margulies , Chris Buono
YOUR ABLETON LIVE STUDIO will show you step-by-step how to get in on the action using Ableton Live as the central component of your home-based audio-production studio. What's more, YOUR ABLETON LIVE STUDIO will help you create a mobile-based studio so you can take ....
Release Date 2010/11 -
Author Seth Adam Smith
What's holding you back? Seth Allen Smith says look in the mirror. It's who, not what. All of us feel trapped, stuck, or unable to move forward in life at some point. But ultimately, the greatest obstacle to achieving your full potential is you. But the good news ....
Release Date 2015/01 -
Author Noah Blumenthal
All of us have things about ourselves we'd like to change. Maybe you want to be more organized, healthier, thinner, or more outspoken. Or perhaps you want to procrastinate less, quit smoking, listen better, or be a better leader. Whatever you want to change, y....
Release Date 2007/03 -
Author Ralph Roberts
A concise, enjoyable look at using Yammer, the secure, fun-to-use private social network for your company, now from MicrosoftShare what you're doing, post announcements, congratulate people, link to documents or interesting websites, make files available, ask or an....
Release Date 2012/10 -
Author Michael C. Neel
This Wrox Blox will guide you through the world of 3D programming and give you solid knowledge and a foundation in game programming using Microsoft's XNA Framework. You will learn the fundamentals from 3D mathematics to model animation, including all the subjects n....
Release Date 2010/01 -
XML Publishing with InDesign CS2+
Author Dorothy J. Hoskins
Adobe InDesign's user documentation provides some examples of importing and formatting XML. But if you need to wrangle XML that comes from a database or website and make it look good inside an InDesign document, you'll want to dive deeper. (Note: while Adobe made....
Release Date 2007/06 -
XML Publishing with Adobe InDesign
Author Dorothy J. Hoskins
From Adobe InDesign CS2 to InDesign CS5, the ability to work with XML content has been built into every version of InDesign. Some of the useful applications are importing database content into InDesign to create catalog pages, exporting XML that will be useful for s....
Release Date 2010/09 -
Author Dorothy J. Hoskins
Discover the power of XML publishing with InDesign, and create content for multiple applications—including digital-first publishing workflows. With this book, XML evangelist Dorothy Hoskins teaches you several techniques for working with the built-in XML capabilitie....
Release Date 2013/01 -
Xlib Reference Manual for Version 11 of the X Window System
Author Adrian Nye
A complete programmer's reference for X library functions, which is the lowest level of programming interface to X.Reference pages for each Xlib functionA permuted index to the Xlib functionsreference pages for each event typeDescription of macrosA listing of the s....
Release Date 1989/01 -
Xcelsius 2008 Dashboard Best Practices
Author Loren Abdulezer
THE DEFINITIVE, COMPREHENSIVE, OFFICIAL GUIDE TO XCELSIUS 2008 DASHBOARDSUsing Xcelsius, you can create powerful, interactive dashboards, gather data from spreadsheets or databases, and deliver knowledge that can be instantly understood and acted upon. Now there’s a....
Release Date 2008/12 -
X Windows System Administrator's Guide, Vol 8 (Definitive Guides to the X Window System)
Author Eric Pearce , Linda Mui
As X moves out of the hacker's domain and into the "real world," users can't be expected to master all the ins and outs of setting up and administering their own X software. That will increasingly become the domain of system administrators. Even for experienced sy....
Release Date 1992/10 -
X Window System User's Guide, Vol 3 (The Definitive Guides to the X Window System)
Author Tim O'Reilly , Valerie Quercia
This book orients the new user to window system concepts and provides detailed tutorials for many client programs including the xterm terminal emulator and the mvm window manager. Once you have a basic knowledge of the system, the later chapters explain how to custo....
Release Date 1988/09 -
X Window System User's Guide for X11 R3 and R4 of the X Window System
Author Tim O'Reilly , Valerie Quercia
The X Window System User's Guide orients the new user to window system concepts and provides detailed tutorials for many client programs, including the xterm terminal emulator and window managers. Building on this basic knowledge, later chapters explain how to cust....
Release Date 1990/05