eBook By Category (Design & Graphics)

The past decades have seen significant improvements in 3D imaging where the related techniques and technologies have advanced to a mature state...

3D Modeling and Animation: Synthesis and Analysis Techniques for the Human Body covers the areas of modeling and animating 3D synthetic human models at a level that is useful to students, researchers, software developers and content generators...

Programmable GPUs provide the processing horsepower necessary to render realistic graphics in real time, but this has put a new burden on graphics programmers...

Just add talent!

Award-winning animator Tony White brings you the ultimate book for digital animation...

The twentieth century was a landmark era in graphic design, the art that combines words with graphic images on posters, book and magazine covers, record jackets, billboards, and other print advertising and publicity media...

Based on 10 years of animation teaching experience, this comprehensive guide to key techniques will ensure your skills best fit the computer animation workplace...

Improve your character animation with a mastery of traditional principles and processes including weight and balance, timing, walks, birds, fish, snakes, four legged animals, acting and lip-synch...

Put the essential concepts and techniques of digital compositing to work for you without the need of a single mathematical equation...

Compressed Image File Formats is an appealingly compact and useful guide to some of today's most popular file formats used for image data...

“Data-Driven 3D Facial Animation” systematically describes the important techniques developed over the last ten years or so...

Transform Your 3D Projects with Your Own Digital Photographs

Enhance your 3D animation by adding photographs that you've composed, lit, and shot specifically for use in your 3D projects...

Written from a photographer?s point of view, "Digital Retouching and Compositing: Photographers? Guide" solves every snap-shooter?s real-life problems painlessly...

Are you a traditional scrapbook enthusiast looking for a way to organize your memories electronically? Have you never tried scrapbooking because you?re not sure where to start? "Digital Scrapbooking" is here to start you on your journey! Cover the fundamentals of digital photography and digital scrapbook elements?incorporating existing elements or even creating your own...

If you are involved in the world of 3D in any way—or even if you're simply a student of art and design theory—please take a look at this book...

RenderMan has long been associated with top-end film production and is an essential tool for creating many of the effects and images in recent animated films (such as Monsters, Inc...

Artists have aspired for centuries to master the technique of drawing the human figure...

It's all too often that designers leave a meeting with clients feeling as if they've been speaking an entirely different language...

Virtual Humans are becoming more and more popular and used in many applications such as the entertainment industry (in both film and games) and medical applications...

Designers are quick to tell us about their sources of inspiration, but they are much less willing to reveal such critical matters as how to find work, how much they charge, and what to do when a client rejects three weeks of work and refuses to pay the bill...

Open your mind to the possibilities

Let this in-depth professional book be your guide to Blender, the powerful open-source 3D modeling and animation software that will bring your ideas to life...

Turn 3D models into film-worthy digital animations by mastering mental ray rendering once and for all...

Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book is a collection of the author's previous books on assembly language and graphics programming, as well as past columns for Dr...

Here is a striking collection of minimal graphic designs that get the message across...

Graphics and game developers must learn to program for mobility...

This thesis is concerned with image communication considering all stages from the beginning to the very end...

Whether you are just starting out with Painter, or are a seasoned pro who wants to take your photographs to the next level, you cant go wrong with this essential guide by your side! Covering Painter X, but also applicable to earlier versions and to both PC and Macintosh users, this reader friendly book and DVD package will show you how to get the most out of this powerful program...

PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is the next-generation graphics file format for the Web...

This book offers guided access to a collection of algorithms for the digital manipulation and analysis of images...

Every graphics professional worth his or her salt knows the importance of color management...

A business card is more than a piece of paper with your name on it...

Here is the complete guide to the principles and practices of digital graphic design in the new century, particularly in designing for the World Wide Web! The Complete Guide to Digital Graphic Design takes a look at all the major areas in which design is applied-such as packaging, signage, advertising, exhibition and display systems, corporate identity, multimedia, etc...

For all those involved in any way with the design and production of documents, The Design Manual is the first comprehensive reference book that will give you all the answers and assistance that you will need...

Written by two internationally acclaimed animators, this classic text teaches you all you need to know about the art of timing and its importance in the animated film...

Computer generated 3D animation has matured over the years into a complex art form...

This is the first text to focus on virtual reality applications for design of the built environment...

In the early days of the Web a need was recognized for a language to display 3D objects through a browser...