6/07/2011

Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012 Essentials - free download

Book Description
Get the Essentials on Autodesk's fastest-growing software package!

The new Essentials series from Sybex helps you quickly learn and use Autodesk software. This beautiful, task-based, full-color Autodesk Official Training Guide thoroughly covers the fundamentals of Revit Architecture, teaching readers what they need to become quickly productive with this popular building information modeling (BIM) architectural design software.

By following the book's clear explanations, practical tutorials, and step-by-step exercises, you'll cover all the essentials of a typical design workflow. Topics include how to best use the interface, creating floor plans, adding walls and curtain walls, generating color fill plans, preparing documentation, as well as annotating, collaborating, and more. This four-color Essentials guide provides you with the fast and thorough grounding you need in Revit Architecture.

  • Covers Revit Architecture 2012 fundamentals, so you become quickly productive with the software
  • Prepares you for the Revit Architecture Associate and Professional certification exams
  • Uses straightforward explanations and real-world, hands-on exercises and tutorials to teach the software's core features and functions
  • Helps you quickly develop the skills needed throughout a project, whether you're a beginner or a more experienced user brushing up on the basics

Go from concepts to complete construction documents with this essential, full-color guide.

From the Back Cover
Learn Revit Architecture Quickly and Easily

This unique new Autodesk Official Training Guide thoroughly covers the fundamentals of Revit Architecture and teaches you everything you need to become quickly productive with the software. Learn how to best use the interface, create floor plans, add content, prepare documentation, annotate, and more. Whether you're an aspiring BIM professional or just brushing up on the basics, this is the fast and thorough grounding you need in Revit Architecture.

Learn these Revit Architecture essentials—and more:

  • Visualizing and documenting your design
  • Adding and modifying content
  • Working with walls and curtain walls
  • Modeling, massing, and "sketching" your best ideas
  • Tagging rooms and generating color fill plans
  • Preparing documentation with views and phases
  • Annotating and scheduling efficiently
  • Enabling worksharing and collaborating effectively

Easily create accurate takeoffs and attractive presentation documents.
Learn how to design beautiful stairs and railings.

This striking Essentials book features:

  • Chapter-opening learning objectives
  • Step-by-step tutorials
  • Four-color screenshots and illustrations
  • Concise chapter summaries and suggested practice exercises
  • Downloadable exercise files

Book Details

  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Sybex (May 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1118016831
  • ISBN-13: 978-1118016831
  • File Size: 28.3 MiB
  • Hits: 606 times
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Introducing Autodesk Maya 2012 - free download

Book Description
A practical, step-by-step guide to Maya 2012

This book is the ideal primer to getting started with Maya, the premier 3D animation and effects software used in movies, visual effects, games, cartoons, short films, and commercials. You’ll learn the Maya interface and the basics of modeling, texturing, animating, and visual effects. Professional visual effects artist and instructor Dariush Derakhshani explains the nuances of the complex software, while creative tutorials offer realistic, professional challenges for those new to 3D. You’ll be up and running in no time with the world’s most popular professional 3D software application.

  • Provides a thorough, step-by-step introduction to Maya 2012
  • Explains the core concepts of CG and working in 3D
  • Covers modeling, rigging, HDRI lighting, mental ray rendering, and more
  • Concepts are reinforced with tutorials that offer realistic challenges and clear explanations
  • Color insert provides real-world examples from talented beginning Maya users

Build your Maya and animation skills from the ground up with this practical, thorough guide.

From the Back Cover
ENTER A NEW DIMENSION WITH MAYA 2012

Maya 3D animation, effects, and compositing software is a top choice for film and video creators, game artists, and 3D design professionals. Now you can learn to build and animate your own digital models and scenes, and begin developing professional-level Maya skills, with Introducing Autodesk Maya 2012.

This new edition of the perennial favorite and bestseller is a perfect introduction to 3D and Maya. Starting with the basics, the book builds from the ground up, combining straightforward text with fun and practical examples to make it easy to learn Maya’s core tools. Follow clear, step-by-step lessons while you learn by doing, using the hands-on project files available for download from the Web. The book includes a full-color insert with striking examples from talented new Maya users to inspire you.

  • Learn CG and 3D core concepts and production workflows
  • Get a fast, but thorough primer on Maya 2012′s user interface
  • Build a simple animation of the planets in the solar system, right away
  • Explore the basics of NURBS, polygons, and subdivision surfaces modeling
  • Create an alien hand, a steam locomotive, a toy wagon, and more
  • Rig for animation and get the most out of Maya’s powerful Graph Editor tool
  • Master HDRI lighting, mental ray rendering, dynamics, visualization, and effects

Use mental ray Sun & Sky to light a wagon
HDRI lighting increases fidelity

Book Details

  • Paperback: 648 pages
  • Publisher: Sybex (May 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470900210
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470900215
  • File Size: 78.6 MiB
  • Hits: 958 times
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Maya Studio Projects Photorealistic Characters - free download

Description
Create realistic characters with Maya tools and this project-based book

Maya character generation tools are extremely sophisticated, and there’s no better way to learn all their capabilities than by working through the projects in this hands-on book. This official guide focuses on understanding and implementing Maya’s powerful tools for creating realistic characters for film, games, and TV. Use a variety of tools to create characters from skeleton to clothing, including hairstyles and facial hair, and learn how to use Performance Capture. A DVD includes supplementary videos, project support files, textures, tools, professional shaders, and more.

  • This project-based book focuses on Maya’s powerful tools for creating realistic characters for TV, film, and games
  • Covers key techniques necessary to make a character work in a professional setting: texturing, sub-surface scattering, hair, fur, homemade motion-capture, muscle systems, and clothing
  • Includes a DVD featuring supplementary videos, project support files, textures, tools, professional shaders, and more
  • An Autodesk Official Training Guide

Maya Studio Projects: Photorealistic Characters is an excellent training aid for both Maya newcomers and seasoned pros.

From the Back Cover
CREATE REALISTIC CHARACTERS WITH MAYA 2012

How do you make human characters look really human? Step into the studio with veteran animator Todd Palamar and learn how to use Autodesk Maya 2012′s sophisticated tools to create amazingly realistic characters for film, games, and television. As you work on a series of projects, you’ll learn body and facial rigging and how to do hair, skin, muscles, lighting, motion-capture, and much more. An Autodesk Official Training Guide, this book offers you the very best, professional-level training for a career.

  • Create a character named Jack, starting with his skeleton
  • Build facial rigging that allows Jack to talk and show emotion
  • Understand hair in all its glory—bangs, bowl cuts, wet hair, thinning hair, growing hair, and more
  • Master fur tools and create eyebrows, eyelashes, and Jack’s beard
  • Add blood, sweat, tears, and more with textures and nParticles
  • Outfit your character in field pants, safari shirt, and a bomber jacket
  • Bring Jack to vivid life with Performance Capture, made famous in Avatar

Simulate hair, fur, clothing, and skin
Create your own motion-capture studio
Simulate muscle motion using motion capture

Book Details

  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Sybex (May 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470944978
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470944974
  • File Size: 68.9 MiB
  • Hits: 712 times
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