The Dungeons and Dragons special edition of ImagineFX comes with a 2011 fantasy and sci-fi art calendar, plus it's free DVD full of tutorial goodies. Within we look at the history of D&D and how it helped to define fantasy art for many, in a 10-page feature filled with some of the greatest D&D art.

Game Character Creation in Maya is a step by step guide to create a character games. The manual describes - low poly modeling, texturing and animation, Aset in Maya and Adobe Photoshop. The course also includes an overview of Unity 3, including import and characters and the creation of interactive animations in the Script Editor.

Put the power of Expressions to work in your animations with controls and efficiencies impossible to achieve with traditional keyframing techniques.
No programming skills are required. Foundation concepts and skills orient the new designer and serve as a handy reference to the experienced one. Basics of creating Expressions, variables, commands, and Expression helpers precede the leap into javascript and math essentials for more advanced Expressions that include randomness and physical simulations.

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"The Digital Matte Painting Handbook is the best book of its kind. Mattingly has created an insightful and inspiring resource for anyone wanting to get into digital matte painting."
--Dylan Cole, matte artist, concept artist

You ll learn how to construct experiments that identify opportunities for optimization, interpret the results, and take effective action. You ll also find powerful insights into microbenchmarking including how to avoid common mistakes that can mislead you into writing poorly performing software. Then, building on this foundation, you ll walk through optimizing the Java HotSpot VM, standard and multitiered applications; Web applications, and more.

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