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- It's a must reading to understand aluminium in architecture
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Aluminium Architecture: Construction and details
Hugues Wilquin
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Aluminium is an extremely versatile material. Light-weight and resistant to corrosion, it is a particularly suitable material for certain building requirements. Aluminium already played an innovative role in the post-WWII years, as can be seen in the work of the French engineer, Jean Prouvé. And because of its aesthetical qualities and great strength, aluminium is a highly rated material in today's sophisticated architecture. This book provides a systematic overview of the applications of aluminium as a building material, giving information on the properties of the metal and highlighting the latest technical advances. A selection of 25 international projects document the application of aluminium in load-bearing structures, facades, roofs and windows. Amongst the projects included are Toyo Ito's Aluminium House in Tokyo, Renzo Piano's Mercedes Benz Design Centre in Stuttgart, SOM's Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, and Norman Foster's Greenwich Transport Interchange.
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It's a must reading to understand aluminium in architecture.......2003-05-01
I've been in the aluminium industry (specifically what regards building applications) for almost ten years and this book covers a gap that existed in the publishg market, i.e. books concerning roofing applications.
It demonstrates very clearly and in plain English what aluminium is about (the basic principles such as corrosion resistance, alloys, history of the metal and so on), what the possibilities of this versatile material are in building, many case studies and so on.
I think that the author could have informed the details of the suppliers in order to get to know a little bit more about the finished products.
I also consider this a valuable work not only for experienced professionals but also for civil engineering and architecure students because veery little is taught about his metal in those courses.
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Skies & Clouds: The Watercolor Techniques Of 23 International Artists
Manufacturer: International Artist Publishing
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Painting Coastal Scenes (Watercolour Tips and Techniques)
ASIN: 1929834357 |
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Combining the most popular medium--watercolor--with the most significant element of the landscape--the sky--this spectacular gallery of paintings will appeal to a variety of readers. It includes:
* 23 start-to-finish, step-by-step demonstrations showcasing a spectrum of methods for painting emotive and moody skies
* An eclectic mix of styles from household name artists
* Insight into the way each artist's vision is translated onto the paper, for readers seeking to bring their own vision to light
With chapters from artists in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada, this book provides the credibility and scope every painter seeks in a painting guide.
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Beautiful.......2006-08-04
This book offers beautiful examples of skies and clouds rendered in watercolor. It is worth keeping on the coffee-table just to look at and enjoy. In addition, it provides useful instruction, showing some of the techniques used to make some of the paintings. As indicated in the title, the techniques relate almost exclusively to watercolor, though the paintings themselves will inspire painters who use other media. This is a fine book.
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Sea and Sky in Watercolour (Step-by-Step Leisure Arts)
Arnold Lowrey
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ASIN: 0855329203 |
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The sea reflects light and it is affected by weather. Skies change constantly from one minute to the next. Arnold Lowrey explores both subjects with enthusiasm and energy, showing how wonderful effects can be achieved with a range of watercolour techniques. Practical step-by-step demonstrations illustrate how to build up a painting, and inspirational paintings shows how the techniques can be adapted to create new pictures.
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Painting Skies (Watercolour Tips and Techniques)
Geoff Kersey
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Painting Mood and Atmosphere (Watercolour Tips and Techniques)
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Geoff Kersey shares his mastery of watercolour techniques in this fascinating and detailed guide to painting skies in landscapes. Clear step by step photographs and many useful tips show how to create six paintings with remarkable skies, from a clear winter sky over a snowy landscape to a stormy sky to a spectacular sunset in Venice. Geoff Kersey shares his mastery of watercolour techniques in this detailed and fascinating guide to painting skies in landscapes. Beginning with invaluable advice on sketching, using photographs, colour and mastering sky painting techniques, he goes on to demonstrate six beautiful paintings with remarkable skies. Learn how to paint a clear winter sky over a crisp snowscene, a sky reflected in water, a stormy sky, a sunset in Venice and more. Both beginners to watercolour and experienced painters will benefit from this essential guide to painting skies.
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Learn to Paint with Watercolours: Learn how to paint trees, flowers, still lifes, buildings, people, water and skies through taught example, with over 800 colour photographs
Ian Sidaway
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How to Paint Watercolor Landscapes: From Photograph to Sketch to Your Very Own Masterpiece in 6 Easy Steps
ASIN: 1844762157 |
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A complete teaching course for eatercolor painting techniques for beginners to intermediates.
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Painting Sea & Sky in Watercolour (Leisure Arts)
Leslie Worth
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ASIN: 0855324074 |
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- A marvellous view of an ancient culture
- Rob's works are truly art ... his book ... an appetizer
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Earth Door Sky Door: Paintings of Mustang
Robert Powell
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A marvellous view of an ancient culture.......1999-07-01
Bob Powell's paintings are extraordinary and luminous, conveying both the ethereal nature and the earthiness of this ancient realm. The introduction by Roberto Vitali is a wonderful tour de force. He sums up the artist's work: " In some cases I am led to think that his documentary paintings are imaginary, while those that are imaginary seem documentary."
Rob's works are truly art ... his book ... an appetizer.......1999-06-18
The magic and mystery of the Kingdom Lo, high in the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal on the border with Tibet ... this is as close as you can get without being there. More than a coffee table book, this book won't let you rest until you have stood and gazed upon the majesty which provoked the works. Rob's works are on display at the Smithsonian through September 26.
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Skies, Mountains and Lakes: Paint a Watercolour Landscape in Minutes
Keith Fenwick
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ASIN: 158180394X |
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Skies & Clouds (Pocket Watercolor)
Richard Taylor
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With these dozens of double-page spreads and close-ups, explore the full range of watercolor cloud and sky studies, from intimate sketches of wispy cirrus clouds to majestic storm-bearing cumulonimbus. Follow the charts and tips as you choose the time of day, year, and weather to express moods ranging from illuminating sunrises, foreboding thunderclouds, or meditative wintry grays.
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Disappointing.......2004-02-27
Skies & Clouds by Richard Taylor is disappointing. Beginners should find the text instructive and techniques not intimidating, but the examples contain many errors (often according to his own advice) making them counter productive to the student aspiring to greater proficiency. The author demonstrates merely modest painting ability of the subject. Regretfully the lighting and shadows are not well rendered and contrast values are weak. His clouds are overly ephemeral with little structure. A watercolor of a "Sky and Sea" is the most convincing, because the waves of the sea are well rendered, but the sky is confused with fog and rays of light that look like rain. The book's purpose of being a "field guide" to aid in the artists perception of nature is good, but a more observant eye and commentary is desirable. The watercolors display visual paint textures but fall short of being inspiring Skies or Clouds.
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Learn Paint-Skies In Watercolour
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Learn to paint with the guidance of experienced artists and teachers. Each of the guides in the Learn to Paint series is written by a professional and includes everything you need to begin: basic advice on paints and materials, a wealth of tips and techniques, simple exercises to develop skills, and clear, step-by-step demonstrations. Handsomely designed and filled with color illustrations, these are excellent guides for all aspiring painters.
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Painting Sea and Sky in Watercolour (Leisure Arts 8)
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- Not In Depth
- Too many applications attempted; spread too thin
- It is a good book, perhaps the best of its type but...
- Too much irrelivant information
- clear insights into various issues involved in character ani
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Character Animation In Depth: The Complete Expert's Guide to Professional Character Animation
Doug Kelly
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Whether or not you've got a background in traditional character animation, Character Animation in Depth can help you learn the art of creating animated figures in the digital realm. The author, Doug Kelly, offers hands-on techniques for building eye-catching and credible characters in a variety of tools. He reviews essentially the entire 3-D-graphics software market at the beginning of the book, and throughout the book he teaches you about how to harness the specific capabilities of some of these programs, such as 3D Studio MAX and trueSpace3. But in general, you can apply his advice to whatever 3-D modeling and animation program you prefer.
Kelly focuses on helping you make (or build on) a career in character animation. He advises you on producing a demo reel for prospective employers and on making entire animated films. You begin by learning how to collaborate with an animation-production team and create a storyboard, script, soundtrack, and timing sheets as you create a story reel. The second part of the book focuses on character modeling. You learn how to design figures and faces and work with modeling tools to fine-tune form and texture. Advanced projects include casting from life and working with laser-scan data. Part three, "Texturing," helps you define base attributes and learn about texture maps and material placement. There's a good deal of hands-on help on making and applying 2-D maps for heads, wrinkles, and more. Advanced tools here include 3-D paint tools and shaders.
In part four, "Setup," you learn how to prepare your characters for animation using replacement and displacement animation techniques. You also use the concepts of position, orientation, aim, and roll constraints to define your figures' movements. Here you also learn about switching, mixing, and blending constraints. Part five, "Animating," introduces you to the basic issues of character animation, including camera animation, timing, spline and keyframe controls, and shot composition. You focus on creating movements that reflect a character's personality, partly through the constraints that define a character's range of movements. You animate a basic walk and a caricature walk and work with balance and mass to produce staggers, double takes, and extreme takes--elements of classic (cartoon) animation.
Part six, "Post-Animation Production," teaches you about lighting, rendering, compositing effects, title design, finishing touches, and final output. Finally, you get guidance on starting out in the animation industry, whether as part of an animation team or as a self-employed animator. Appendices include a glossary of digital and traditional animation terms, a bibliography, and directories of contributing artists, studios, and software companies. A full-color section shows various models by contributing artists as well as images from the book's projects. Files for these projects are included on the accompanying CD-ROM. You'll also find script templates, sample storyboards, and clips from animated films. --Kathleen Caster
Book Description
Character Animation Enhanced is the first complete reference to all key character animation resources. Provides readers with feature-by-feature product comparisons that help them choose the right tool for every character animation task. Includes at least one tutorial for the software package or plug-in reviewed.
Customer Reviews:
Not In Depth.......2003-06-18
The Structure of the book is very complicated, it's as if constructed from many different articles written for some 3D application. And many of the information is very software specific. There are many examples but not a single complete advanced tutorial. Many chapters copied from Doug's old book LW5.0 character animation. There are many other books on Character Animation much better than this.1 out of 5.
Too many applications attempted; spread too thin.......1999-08-24
Overall this was a very helpful book. My main "problem" with this book is the author's attempt to cover so many applications so specifically. As a Lightwave user, I am still left in the dark about Lightwave's bones in character animation; which is one of the main reasons I purchased the book. Only the very basic setup was covered as a tutorial. How about something more complex such as a "hand" with limited ranges, fall-offs and strengths...? The version 5.0 and 5.6 is jumped between frequently...then Hash...then Softimage.....Max.... For character animation theory this is a good book but if you are trying to actually be a character animator using only one of the apps (such as Lightwave), then I suggest doing alot more reading from other books and web tutorials. For the price this book is good but no great wonder. I did learn from it; only not as much as I thought I would have when I bought it.
It is a good book, perhaps the best of its type but..........1999-06-12
It is a good book, perhaps the best of its type, and it could certainly be much better, in ways other readers have pointed out. But it has one fatal flaw for a book that should be computer platform agnostic - the CD-ROM is Windows only. What about all the Mac and UNIX people in the 3D Industry?
Too much irrelivant information.......1999-06-03
I have mixed feelings with this book. It covers a lot of information, which is good, but i often get lost because there aren't enough pictures to go along with the explanations. Also, many techniques are software specific, and many step-by-step tutorials involve software that you may not have. Many questions that i have are left unanswered... but then again no book can answer everyone's questions. If it did, it would be 20,000 pages! The character setup section mainly deals with Hash's Animation:Master. Little good that does people who use more industry standard software like MAX or Softimage. A related book that i recommend is George Maestri's Digital Character Animation... it covers much of the same material, is much easier to read, and actually IS software independant!
clear insights into various issues involved in character ani.......1999-03-14
character animators are small community in india and lack of dedicated schools and studios does not help us one bit,in such a scenerio doug kelly's book on character animation helped me a lot.good information on hash animation master and softimage.excellent reading material for the beginner and intermediate level.all in all superb reading material
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The Slayers Ultimate Fan Guide Book 1
Anthony Ragan
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The Slayers is a 78-episode fantasy anime series that follows the exploits of the beautiful teenage sorceress-supreme, Lina Inverse, and her mighty band of spellcasting, sword-wielding adventurers. This authorized reference guide and gaming supplement features detailed episode summaries, in-depth character profiles, setting and theme analysis, and role-playing character sheets for the popular Big Eyes, Small Mouth role-playing game. With hundreds of full-color images from the series, this book is the definitive English-language resource book for The Slayers. Covers episodes 1-26.
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Word Mapping for Business Information Mapping Success
Alfreda C. Doyle
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Command of the Waters: Iron Triangles, Federal Water Development, and Indian Water
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