Название: Facial Animation in 3D, Games, and Extended Realities
Автор: Amrinder Singh Romana
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2027
Страниц: 199
Язык: английский
Формат: True PDF, True EPUB
Размер: 21.2 MB

This book explores how the digital face has become a vital medium of expression, emotion, and identity in contemporary visual culture. Integrating artistic practice, anatomical understanding, and technological innovation, this book charts the evolution of facial animation from traditional rigging and motion capture to the new frontiers of real‑time performance and immersive environments. Through close examination of modelling, rigging, capture, and design processes, it reveals how the animated face functions as both an expressive surface and a communicative interface within digital media. Combining creative analysis with production‑based case studies, this book provides animators, researchers, and creative technologists with a framework for designing and interpreting digital faces. It demonstrates how facial performance continues to evolve across 3D cinema, interactive games, and extended realities, transforming how we perceive, perform, and connect within virtual worlds.

Название: Adobe Lightroom Classic Classroom in a Book 2026 Release
Автор: Rafael Concepcion
Издательство: Adobe Press/Pearson Education
Год: 2026
Страниц: 385
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 182.4 MB

The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Lightroom Classic. Adobe Lightroom Classic Classroom in a Book 2026 Release contains 12 lessons that use real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Adobe Lightroom Classic has seen several important updates since the 2024 release, many of which focus on AI-based tools designed to make editing faster and more precise. This edition introduces these newer capabilities and shows how they fit naturally into an efficient photographic workflow. You’ll explore enhancements to familiar tools, including more intelligent masking options and improved noise reduction powered by AI. These features allow Lightroom to better understand the content of your images and help you target specific areas with greater accuracy while maintaining full creative control over your edits.

Название: Engineering Design Graphics: Sketching, Modeling, and Visualization, 3rd Edition
Автор: James M. Leake, Molly Hathaway Goldstein, Jacob L. Borgerson
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2022
Страниц: 458
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 58.8 MB

The most accessible and practical roadmap to visualizing engineering projects. In the newly revised Third Edition of Engineering Design Graphics: Sketching, Modeling, and Visualization, renowned engineering graphics expert James Leake delivers an intuitive and accessible guide to bringing engineering concepts and projects to visual life. Including updated coverage of everything from freehand sketching to solid modeling in CAD, the author comprehensively discusses the tools and skills you'll need to sketch, draw, model, document, design, manufacture, or simulate a project. Computer-­aided design (CAD) is a technology concerned with the use of computer-­based tools employed by engineers, architects, and other design professionals in their design activities. CAD is used in the design of such artifacts as consumer products, tools, machinery, buildings, and infrastructure.

Название: The Animator's Blueprint: The Beginner's Guide to Mastering Moho
Автор: Chris Georgenes, McCoy Buck
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2027
Страниц: 257
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 100.8 MB

If you’ve always wanted to animate your own characters, this is where you start. The Animator’s Blueprint: The Beginner’s Guide to Mastering Moho walks you step by step through how to design, rig, and animate using Moho’s professional tools and workflows. Whether you’re brand new to animation or a seasoned animator exploring Moho for the first time, you’ll gain real confidence as you master Moho’s core tools to create your own characters and bring them to life on screen. You’ll learn by doing, following a guided project that takes you from your first design to a finished animated scene. Moho animation software, renowned for its robust features and intuitive interface, stands as a powerhouse in the world of 2D animation. Designed for both beginners and professionals, Moho combines advanced vector-based drawing tools with powerful bone and rigging systems, allowing artists to bring their characters to life with stunning fluidity and expressiveness. By the end, you won’t just understand Moho; you’ll have the foundation and essentials to bring your stories to life through animation.

Название: Igniting Creativity With Reading Intelligence: The Method That Integrates Art And Technology
Автор: Qian Liu, Wenling Li
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing
Год: 2026
Страниц: 333
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

Igniting Creativity with Reading Intelligence: The Method that Integrates Art and Technology introduces a practical model for developing creative talent in the digital and AI era. The book outlines how art, design, and technology can be taught together through capability-driven learning, presenting clear educational models, theoretical foundations, and real-world projects across film, animation, game design, and digital media. It also highlights the role of AI and digital tools in modern creative processes and demonstrates effective teaching methods based on project work and interdisciplinary collaboration. Generative AI is a collection of technologies that teach the distribution patterns of massive amounts of data through Machine Learning models, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in Deep Learning, Diffusion Models, and Large Language Models (LLMs), and use input prompts to generate entirely new content (text, images, audio, videos, etc.).

Название: Game Design Deep Dive: Cozy Games
Автор: Joshua Bycer
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2027
Страниц: 122
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 132.2 MB

Game Design Critic Josh Bycer continues the Deep Dive series with an examination of cozy games. The market for coziness has grown dramatically, thanks to showcases like Wholesome Direct and consumers wanting something to help them relax in a stressful world. The UI represents how someone physically interacts with your game and is often paired with the graphical user interface (GUI), which is the on-screen elements that someone will use to play the game. The UX is the feel or aesthetic of your game you are trying to convey. Both are essential to building any video game, not just cozy ones, and the best designers will learn this as early into their career as possible. When you are thinking about the UI, this is about figuring out the control scheme for your game. Growing as a designer is being able to think about your UX and how your mechanics and systems can facilitate that experience for the consumer. This will aid you in all parts of design, as knowing who your market is will allow you to focus better on gameplay that appeals to them.

Название: The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox, 2nd Edition
Автор: Tobias Heussner
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2027
Страниц: 269
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 28.0 MB

The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox, 2nd Edition, is an updated version of The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox, continuing where The Game Narrative Toolbox left off. While The Game Narrative Toolbox covered the basics of writing and narrative design for games, The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox covers techniques and approaches for the intermediate and professional writers. This book covers topics such as how to adapt a novel to a game, how to construct transmedia worlds, and how to bring your content into the game. The second edition adds chapters on Unreal Engine, how to work with material for children, and how to overcome and work with communication biases. Each chapter is written by a professional with exceptional experience in the field and ends with an exercise encouraging you to try out what you learned.

Название: 3D-печать. Практическое руководство
Автор: Рэдвуд Б., Шофер Ф., Гаррэт Б.
Издательство: ДМK
Год: 2020
Cтраниц: 220, цвет.ил.
Формат: pdf (ocr)
Размер: 26 мб
Язык: русский

Книга посвящена стремительно развивающимся технологиям 3D-печати, которые находят свое применение во множестве отраслей: дизайне, строительстве, медицине и других. Помимо самих технологий и материалов печати рассматриваются характеристики различных 3D-принтеров, общие особенности 3D-моделей и методы их постобработки.

Название: Beyond Slop: Professional AI image creation (MEAP 9)
Автор: Will Kurt
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2026
Страниц: 505
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 42.7 MB

Anyone can create interesting and entertaining images using the powerful Stable Diffusion AI model—no data science required! If you want to make damn fine images with Stable Diffusion, you need Beyond Slop. This practical, entertaining, and occasionally irreverent book teaches you how to get the images you want out of Stable Diffusion without a lot of jargon and technical ceremony. With Beyond Slop, you’ll be amazed at what you can create after just the first few lessons. This hands-on book skips the low-level theory and gets on with the business of creating and refining images. Along the way, you'll learn just enough about building your own tools, LoRAs, and fine-tuning models to personalize Stable Diffusion for your needs. Beyond Slop helps you get amazing results out of Stable Diffusion fast. You’ll learn how to create everything from graphics for blogs and websites to high-resolution desktop wallpapers. Start with the basics of text prompt engineering for image generation, then quickly move on to using the WebUI to tweak your outputs to your specifications. From there, you’ll explore methods for making hi-resolution images, programming Stable Diffusion directly with Python and Hugging Face, utilizing ControlNet for poses, and custom LoRAs for specific styles and images.

Название: Adobe Photoshop Tricks and Tips - 23rd Edition 2026
Автор: Papercut Limited
Издательство: Papercut Limited
Год: 2026
Страниц: 96
Язык: английский
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 30.2 MB

Adobe Photoshop Tricks and Tips is the perfect digital publication for the user that wants to take their skill set to the next level. Do you want to enhance your user experience? Or wish to gain insider knowledge? Do you want to learn directly from experts in their field? Learn the numerous short cuts that the professionals use? Over the pages of the new advanced user guide you will learn everything you will need to know to become a more confident, better skilled and experienced owner. A user that will make the absolute most of their use and ultimately Photoshop itself. An achievement you can earn by simply enabling us to exclusively help and teach you the abilities we have gained over our decades of experience.