* Shows beginning users how to create an exciting animation their very first day with 3ds max, the world's most popular animation modeling and rendering software for film, television, games, and design visualization
* 3ds max is used to create high-profile animations for feature films such as X-Men 2, Minority Report, and Tomb Raider, and in the creation of popular games such as Dungeon Siege, Spiderman, Command and Conquer: Renegade, and Grand Theft Auto
* More than 150 tutorials give readers valuable hands-on experience under the expert guidance of 3ds max master Kelly Murdock
* A valuable CD-ROM will include a demo version of the new 3ds max release, tutorial files, 3D models, bonus plug-ins, and more
* A sixteen-page, full-color insert shows how contributing artists are taking max to the next level

Book Description
Minimizing theoretical background and mathematical formalism, Image Analysis provides basic principles of image acquisition, enhancement, measurements, and interpretation in a very simple form, using an approach toward applications and properties of available tools. The singular study lists different tasks to do and offers complete solutions to these tasks, based on the author's experience with the procedures described.

Card catalog description
Minimizing theoretical background and mathematical formalism, Image Analysis provides basic principles of image acquisition, enhancement, measurements, and interpretation in a very simple form, using an oriented toward applications and properties of the available tools. The singular study lists different tasks to do and offers complete solutions to these tasks, based on the author's experience with the procedures described.

Book Description:
A gaming site, a portfolio site, an information site: Each requires a home page, but each of those home pages requires disparate elements and approaches. How to Wow: Photoshop for the Web walks you through the process of designing each, plus 15 other navigation, animation, and automation projects that show you how to add wow to your Web pages with Photoshop-created graphics. Just like your favorite cookbooks-the ones with short, clear-cut instructions and mouthwatering photos of the delectable concoctions-this book identifies challenges, provides simple recipes for overcoming them, and plugs in inspirational photos of the glorious results. Part 1 takes you through a range of navigation, animation, and automation projects (creating rollover navigation, building animated slide shows, producing a dynamic Flash banner, and more), while Part 2 walks you through the steps entailed in creating home pages for gaming, portfolio, and information sites. Each project explains how to create a lush graphic element, while sidebars and glossaries provide the low-down on important underlying principles. A CD includes the lesson files and image assets required to complete the book's projects.

About the Author:
Prolific author and trainer Jan Kabilihas taught Photoshop and ImageReady to thousands of users. She is the author of five other step-by-step training books, as well as a regular columnist for Mac Design magazine. Graphic designer, author, and trainer Colin Smith is well-known in the design community for his stunning photorealistic illustrations composed entirely in Photoshop. He has written numerous books on Photoshop and is a regular columnist for Photoshop User magazine.

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A step by step video tutorial by 2keen where you will learn how to make a bottle from start (using Illustrator) to end (using Mental Ray) with Maya. Chapter 2 - Illustrator: Preparing the AI file for the Bottle
Chapter 3 - Maya: Importing the AI file for Revolve
Chapter 4 - Maya: Adjusting Normals
Chapter 5 - Maya: Adjusting Glass Shaders
Chapter 6 - Mental Ray: Fine tuning 1
Chapter 7 - Mental Ray: Fine tuning 2

Walt Stanchfield was an animator who taught life drawing classes for animators with a special emphasis on gesture drawing. For each weekly class session, he wrote informal handouts to emphasize the theme of the current class session, to comment on work done in the previous class, or discuss whatever topic struck his fancy.

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Book Description
As a Flash 8 designer, you have discovered the power of the video tools in the application. The new filters and effects and ActionScript classes allow you to create a variety of stunning visual effects in Flash. What you probably haven't discovered is how easy it is empower your video hundreds of times more by combining the many effects and tools in After Effects 7 Professional with Flash!

This book, the first to explore the potential power and creativity boost that can be unleashed when After Effects and Flash are used together, is designed to get you up to speed with working in these two applications while hitting you with some creative innovation. You will discover how effectively you can use After Effects to create video and animation effects that were either extremely difficult or impossible to achieve in Flash.

By the end of this book, you will have created a variety of projects ranging from text effects, masks, and alpha channel video to 3D effects and audio visualization. All are designed to show you the potential available to you with these two powerhouse applications, and, more importantly, to expand the arsenal of creative motion graphics tools at your disposal.

Summary of contents:

Chapter 1: From Concept to Final Product in After Effects
Chapter 2: From Final Product to Upload in Flash Professional 8
Chapter 3: Motion Graphics and the Preset Text Effects
Chapter 4: Creating Alpha Channel Video for Flash
Chapter 5: Creating Text Animations for Flash
Chapter 6: Creating Special Effects
Chapter 7: Playing with Text
Chapter 8: Meet the Parents
Chapter 9: The Video Behind the Mask
Chapter 10: Track Mattes Are Your Friend
Chapter 11: Adding a Third Dimension
Chapter 12: Audio, the Red-Headed Kid in a Family of Blondes

Our universities are facing immense pressures from within because of the increase in the ???publish or perish??™ syndrome. There are severe budgetary demands on university libraries attempting to enable access to this increasing avalanche of information. University teaching also needs to prepare graduates for a rapidly changing and connected world. This book explores the role of technology in this challenging scenario. Technology is portrayed as part contributor to the challenges higher education faces, and also part contributor to the solutions we need to explore. This book is not a ???doom and gloom??™ exposition but is forward-looking, offering fresh insights and new strategies for understanding the nature of scholarly communication in higher education. In this book there are three threads that are constantly intertwined ??“ information literacy, eLearning and digital publishing ??“ with information literacy acting as the glue that connects eLearning and digital publishing. This book was designed to occupy a unique niche in the literature accessed by library and publishing specialists, and by university teachers and planners. It examines the interfaces between the work done by these four groups of university staff who have been in the past quite separate from, or only marginally related to, each other. Yet all four groups are directly and intimately connected with the main functions of universities ??“ the creation, management and dissemination of knowledge in a scholarly and reflective manner. The structure of the book has three main sections: the first has primarily an educational focus, the second a focus on digital publishing, and the third builds on the first two sections to examine overall implications for the growth of knowledge and scholarly communication. This collection brings perspectives (in alphabetical order) from Australia, Hong Kong, People??™s Republic of China, Singapore, Taiwan, United Kingdom and United States of America. Various chapters, therefore, examine the central concerns with different lenses. Our ability to understand the extent of the shifts that are occurring in modern universities, and still need to occur in the next few years, relies on our ability to synthesize ideas and experiences from a wide range of university staff. This is just what we hope this book offers.

Some Highlights
self-contained.
Over 60 new image processing functions are developed??”a 35% increase over the comprehensive set of functions in the Image Processing Toolbox.
A fully documented listing of every new function developed is included in the book.
Using C code with MATLAB is covered in detail.
There are 114 examples, over 400 images, and over 150 graphs and line drawings that enhance the discussion of the material.
All MATLAB, Image Processing Toolbox, and new functions used in the book, are conveniently summarized in an appendix.
The design of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) is covered in detail.
A book web site provides complimentary support.