Introduction to Animation in 3dsMax: eLearning | 426.97 MBLearn the fundamentals of animation and achieve greater results using a time-saving workflow to effectively using and learning the animation tools available in 3ds Max. Contains over 3 hours of project-based training for artists new to animation.

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Adobe After Effects Basic Animation: After Effects Apprentice Basic Animation � Trish Meyer leads beginners through a gentle introduction to Adobe After Effects: from creating a new project and importing sources, through arranging and animating layers, applying effects, and creating variations, to rendering the final movie.

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Animation Techniques: Beginners Guide: jQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML, and is the most popular JavaScript library in use today. Using the features offered by jQuery, developers are able to create dynamic web pages. This book will act as a resource for you to create animation and advanced special effects in your web applications, by following the easy-to-understand steps mentioned in it.

jQuery 1.4 Animation Techniques: Beginners Guide will allow you to master animation in jQuery to produce slick and attractive interfaces that respond to your visitors� interactions. You will learn everything you need to know about creating engaging and effective web page animations using jQuery. The book uses many examples and explains how to create animations using an easy, step-by-step, beginnersguide approach.

This book provides various examples that gradually build up the reader�s knowledge and practical experience in using the jQuery API to create stunning animations. The book starts off by explaining how animations make your user interface interactive and attractive. It explains the various methods used to make the element being animated appear or disappear. It provides a set of steps to create simple animations and show fading animations.

You can later learn how to make complex animations by chaining different effects together as well as how to halt a currently running application. You will find out how to slide your animation elements and learn to create custom animations that can be complex and specialized.

You will find out how to obtain and set up the jQuery UI� the official user interface library for jQuery. The book will tell you how to animate a page�s background image, and will teach youhow to make images scroll in a certain direction and at a certain speed depending on the movement of the mouse pointer

Learn how to create engaging and interactive user interfaces, and attractive special effects using jQuery

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Character Animation Using Blender: Getting into animation has never been easier! With the advent of Blender, the free and open source 3D application, anyone can gain access to professional animation tools now.

This DVD covers all aspects of computer-based character animation including workflow, acting, posing, keyframes, weight, walks & runs and overlapping action, through a series of video tutorials that are easy to follow and allow you to stop and start playback whenever you want.

Each episode covers animation theories as well as practical implementation in Blender.
This DVD includes the latest (2.48a) version of Blender for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux, as well as several free to use rigged characters.

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Introduction to Camera Animation in 3DsMax: We’ll cover everything from creating turntables, to techniques we can use to add more entertainment to our shots by camera animation alone. We’ll learn various ways we can rig cameras and even discuss shot composition to make sure the audience knows who the significant players and objects of interest are in our scene. By the end, you’ll have the knowledge you need to animate the camera confidently, producing results that can captivate an audience.

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Computer Animation:ForTv, Games, Multimedia And Web: Any questions you have about 2D or 3D animation in this new digital age are answered in this comprehensive guide for all budding digital animators, games artists and media production students. It is lavishly illustrated with inspirational colour throughout to show you what you can achieve.

Whether you want to create moving digital imagery for TV, computer games, or new media you need to understand the production and creative processes, the constraints of each and how they fit together. Ensure you have all you need at your fingertips to compete in this fast-moving arena with this unique book and web package.

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Exploring Animation Principles in Maya 2011 Solid Drawing: In this collection of lessons we will learn about the animation principle of Solid Drawing.
What is Solid Drawing? How can this 2D concept be implemented in 3D? Throughout this course, we will define Solid Drawing and work through a variety exercises to help explain it. By the end of this course, you will understand the meaning behind the principle of Solid Drawing, which will help you to polish your animations to attain believable movements throughout the actions of your character.

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Exploring Animation in Maya 2011 Climbing A Wall: In this collection of lessons we will learn about a wide variety of animation techniques that are designed to improve your animation skill-set.


In this course we will build an animation of a character climbing over a wall from scratch, using techniques that can be implemented in any animation. Step by step, we'll create this climb while covering various techniques like: how to block in your extremes so that finalizing the animation becomes a faster process, strengthening poses to get a more entertaining outcome, and we'll also learn how to work smarter by utilizing Animation Layers to tweak pre-existing animation non-destructively, so that by the end of this course, you'll have the knowledgebase you need to create animations quickly and proficiently.

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"jQuery 1.4 Animation Techniques: Beginners Guide": All the concepts in the book are explained in a simple, easy to understand, step-by-step manner. There are plenty of examples and images used in this book, with the images properly explained. Written with a friendly and engaging approach, this Packt Beginner's guide is designed to be placed alongside the computer as your guide and mentor to create attractive web page animations using jQuery. This book is written for web designers and front-end developers who already have good knowledge of HTML and CSS, and some experience with jQuery. If you want to learn how to animate the user interface of your web applications with jQuery, then this book is for you.

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The Fundamentals of 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Animation: Create high-quality 3D animations and models by using the basic concepts and principles of 3D art presented by GeekAtPlay.com's Ami Chopine. This handy studio reference breaks down the core concepts into easy-to-understand segments and teaches you the 'why' in addition to the 'how.' Using application agnostic step-by-step tutorials, this book teaches you how to model, pose, and texture your creations as well as scenery creation, animation, and rendering. Learn which applications are best for your needs and how you can get started making money in the 3D field. The companion website includes video tutorials, models, project files, and other resources. This book is endorsed by Daz3d.com and includes exclusive Daz3d models.

*Teaches the basics and principles behind creating 3D art with these tips and techniques that cover everything from texturing to painting and scripting to rendering *Filled with 30 print and video tutorials for written by Ami Chopine of GeekAtPlay.com and featuring new models from Daz3d.com! *Companion website includes models, animations, video tutorials, links, and more

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