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Learn Traditional Sketching Techniques then Trace Over Your Designs in Adobe Illustrator To Add Depth and Color! Guest Instructor Mike Macnerland begins the lesson by sketching for 60 minutes and sharing many of his tips and tricks for drawing animals. The second hour of the tutorial teaches how to trace over his dog design in Adobe Illustrator. This part covers the basics of drawing with vector art in Illustrator.

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Cartoon Smart Animal Character Design

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01 – Introduction (Running Time: 0:53)
02 – The Workspace (Running Time: 9:15)
In this video, Craig gives you a quick tour of the new Flash CS4 workspace and shows you how you can customize the arrangement of the workspace.
03 – Motion Tweens (Running Time: 11:46)
One of the most anticipated new features of Flash CS4 is the new Tween engine. Motion tweens and motion guides are now much simpler than they were before, and in this video, Craig will demonstrate their use.
04 – Tweening Properties (Running Time: 3:50)
So far, we’ve just looked at tweening the position of a movie clip. In this video, Craig will demonstrate how add tweens for properties such as size and transparency as well.
05 – Motion Editor (Running Time: 13:05)
The motion editor is a very powerful new tool that allows us to fine-tune our motion tweens in a way that was never possible before.

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Learnflash.com New Features of Flash CS4

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This exciting and comprehensive overview describes the underlying principles, implementation details, and key enhancing features of the new IEEE 802.11n standard, which has been created to significantly improve network throughput. A detailed discussion of important strength and reliability enhancing features is given in addition to a clear summary of any issues. Advanced topics are also covered. With numerous examples and simulation results included to highlight the benefits of the new features, this is an ideal reference for designers of Wireless Local Area Network (LAN) equipment, and network managers whose systems adopt the new standard. It is also a useful distillation of 802.11n technology for graduate students and researchers in the field of wireless communication.

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Next Generation Wireless LANs

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Ubuntu Linux is a state-of-the-art operating system, and you need a book that’s just as advanced. Along with being the most comprehensive reference to installing, configuring, and working with Ubuntu, A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux® also provides extensive server coverage you won’t find in any other Ubuntu book.

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A Practical Guide To Ubuntu Linux

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The first edition of this book was released at the 2001 Tech Ed conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Since that time, this text has been revised, tweaked, and enhanced to account for the changes found within each release of the .NET platform (1.1, 2.0, 3.0 and now 3.5).

The last version, .NET 3.0, was more of an augmentative release, essentially providing three new APIs: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). As you would expect, coverage of the “W’s” has been expanded a great deal in this version of the book from the previous Special Edition text.

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Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform

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Learn the secrets of professional animators and achieve amazing results with the detailed instruction you’ll find in this new edition of Advanced Maya Texturing and Lighting. Written by industry veteran Lee Lanier, whose texturing and lighting has been featured in such films as Mortal Kombat, Antz, and Shrek, this in-depth book focuses on advanced techniques used in real-world production environments.

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Advanced Maya Texturing and Lighting

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