Author: Ian Stephenson
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: rendering, production
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2004-10-28
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 1852338210
ISBN-13: 9781852338213

In the past, rendering systems used a range of different approaches, each compatible and able to handle certain kinds of images. However, the last few years have seen the development of practical techniques, which bring together many areas of research into stable, production ready rendering tools. ?Production Rendering? is written by experienced graphics software developers and discusses the techniques they have used to implement feature film quality rendering engines. Written by experienced graphics software developers, this book provides a complete framework, showing how different topics fit

Author: Joel Naftali
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Keywords: rendering
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2011-01-25
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 1606841181
ISBN-13: 9781606841181

Thirteen-year-old Doug narrates in a series of blog posts (many interrupted by either his best friend, smart girl Jamie, or the artificial intelligence who mothers him, the avatar) how he came to temporarily save the world and to be branded a terrorist and a murderer. He was innocently playing video games in the employee lounge of the biotechnology center where his aunt was a director when an insane genius ex-employee broke in, stole the equipment to digitize anyone and make his own biodroid army, killed Doug’s aunt, and blew up the center (and soon the nearby town). Doug managed to esca

Author: Joep van der Stee
Publisher: Focal Pre
Keywords: max, 3ds, ray, mental, rendering
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-04-03
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0240808932
ISBN-13: 9780240808932

Realize your vision with stunning renders of your 3ds Max projects that can only be achieved with a powerful engine like mental ray. Beginning with a concise review of the essential concepts, you proceed to step-by-step tutorials that teach you how to render scenes with indirect light or with specific effects, such as depth of field and motion blur. Contour line shading and various other mental ray features are presented in detail, then you learn how to use the different light types of 3ds Max inside mental ray and how to use mental ray’s own specific area lights and its new daylight sys

Author: Alias
Publisher: Sybex
Keywords: rendering, maya, learning
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-05-14
List price: $59.99
ISBN-10: 1894893689
ISBN-13: 9781894893688

This official book, produced by Alias, is your solution to creating stunning images in Maya 6. Explore textures, lighting, cameras, shading networks, and other core rendering issues. Each chapter includes a theoretical discussion of the concepts, combined with tested step-by-step tutorials that make complex topics easy to follow. Gain additional insight and assistance from the valuable chapter-by-chapter QuickTime overviews provided by an Alias Certified Instructor. Don’t miss the inspiring full-color photo gallery of stunning images rendered in Maya. The companion DVD includes Maya Begi

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: verse, english, rendering, new, gilgamesh
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1993-06-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0374523835
ISBN-13: 9780374523831

A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for.

Author: Ramesh Menon
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: vol, rendering, modern, mahabharata
Number of Pages: 732
Published: 2006-07-18
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0595401872
ISBN-13: 9780595401871

The Mahabharata is the more recent of India’s two great epics, and by far the longer. First composed by the Maharishi Vyasa in verse, it has come down the centuries in the timeless oral tradition of guru and sishya, profoundly influencing the history, culture, and art of not only the Indian subcontinent but most of south-east Asia. At 100,000 couplets, it is seven times as long as the Iliad and the Odyssey combined: far and away the greatest recorded epic known to man.The Mahabharata is the very Book of Life: in its variety, majesty and, also, in its violence and tragedy. It has been sai

Author: Ramesh Menon
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: vol, rendering, modern, mahabharata
Number of Pages: 598
Published: 2006-07-19
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0595401880
ISBN-13: 9780595401888

The Mahabharata is the more recent of India’s two great epics, and by far the longer. First composed by the Maharishi Vyasa in verse, it has come down the centuries in the timeless oral tradition of guru and sishya, profoundly influencing the history, culture, and art of not only the Indian subcontinent but most of south-east Asia. At 100,000 couplets, it is seven times as long as the Iliad and the Odyssey combined: far and away the greatest recorded epic known to man. The Mahabharata is the very Book of Life: in its variety, majesty and, also, in its violence and tragedy. It has been