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Digital Character Design and Painting: The Photoshop® CS Edition, is a completely updated version of this beautifully illustrated, full-color book. In the first edition, users learned digital skills using Corel® Painter(TM) but in this edition, all the techniques have been updated and modified for use with Photoshop CS. The book provides a unique combination of ideas and techniques that teach both the fundamentals of character design and the skills of digital painting. It explores the key principles of design and teaches conventional artists how to enhance their traditional skills and transfer them to the Web, computer/video games, commercials, and film production work. Using a variety of tutorials and exercises, artists employ Photoshop CS to learn the techniques, methods, and artistic theory of digital painting. They explore how to create images that will be viewed in two dimensions, but actually look three-dimensional. And, they work through detailed projects on sketching, color theory, lighting, and texturing, along with specific techniques for trees and foliage, eyes, faces, hair, clothing, and fur. Using the practical ideas and techniques covered here, artists learn how to create and beautifully illustrate their own life-like or fantasy characters for games, movies, and other commercial productions.
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Good images, good exercises.......2007-09-23
Print in full color, it gives you a lot of ideas, it makes me wanna do more things!!
Best thing I could have ever invested in.......2007-02-14
This book is a wonderful resource for beginners and non-beginners. I totally recommend getting it because it is easy to follow along, and also has pictures to show you the process, along with the explanation.
Not That Good.......2006-12-07
Do not buy this book unless you have a solid background in painting fine art. Do not buy this book if your are expecting to learn the mechanics of how to paint in Photoshop. I have been working on one of the tutorials for about four weeks and have only come somewhat close to the results that the author demonstrates in the book. I must have done the tutorial about 20 times over so far. I can attribute this to two things: my lack of technical knowledge of how to paint fine art and the lack of information from the author about how to achieve the results that he is demonstrating. It's particularly frustrating when the author says, "continue to refine the painting" or "begin to clean up the contours" without explaining how exactly that is done using Photoshop. This whole book is supposed to be about painting with Photoshop but the whole process is never really dissected and explained. There is one short chapter on blending in Photoshop but it doesn't really help you all that much when you are going through a tutorial on how to paint something as complex as a a portrait of a face. I found the tutorials to be just brief overviews on how the author painted a particular piece. I would rather have one tutorial about how to really paint in Photoshop instead of 10 that just give you an overview of the process. The rest of the book is only mildly interesting. Why not have tutorials that delve into specific techniques like blending (briefly covered in book), shading and highlighting. How about getting into what brushes you would use to achieve certain effects. Or, how to use the opacity settings in combination with different types of brushes to achieve certain effects. I could go on and on. These are the kinds of things that I thought this book would cover; unfortunately it did not.
Book is more for Beginners.......2006-08-04
This book was somewhat of a let down for me since I thought it would focus more on intermediate/advanced digital character design techniques using Photoshop CS. Most of the book is aimed for the beginner (or pre-beginner). However there are a few usefully chapters near the end for more advance graphic professionals.
Good book for digital painting.......2006-03-04
Ive done just about everything else with photoshop and wanted a good book on digital painting so I could use my traditional art skills in that way. Its a good amount of content for the price and it has some really nice tips on creating your own brushes. The tutorials are pretty much step by step, although a little more info would have been nice. A lot of the process depends on your own ability and experience with the pen and tablet. So, overall I'd say its a good resource.
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Title: Hit the road with rugged devices: looking for an all-terrain, all-weather device that won't let you down when the going gets tough?(Hardware)(includes listing of devices)
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Title: When the rubber hits the road: next time you buy a new set of tires, wouldn't you love to cut down on gas consumption? Well, maybe it's time to let you in on a little secret ...(Briefings)
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- Some of the zaniest sites you'll ever see
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505 Unbelievably Stupid Web Pages
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Following up his surprise hit 505 Unbelievably Stupid Web Pages, teenage author Dan Crowley again takes on the Web's weirdest and wildest in 505 Weirdest Online Stores.
This is the ultimate guide to the Internet's strangest stores, where you can spend your time and money in pursuit of dehydrated water, duct tape fashion and a corporate hairball.
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Some of the zaniest sites you'll ever see.......2005-06-06
Want to locate the Internet's strangest stores? Jut turn to Dan Crowley's 505 Weirdest Online Stores: 505 Things You Never Knew You Could Buy Online. From a DVD of teddy bear violence to a Kilt Store and an International Banana Club and Museum, here are some of the zaniest sites you'll ever see, online or off. Web addresses and a synopsis of offerings and oddities make for lively leisure browsing even for avid computer browsers.
The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation, And Much More!.......2005-05-23
This is a wonderful book for those who like laughing at the excesses of the Internet. Many of the sites in this book are designed to be laughed at ("Naked Dancing Llama"), but, disturbingly, many are not ("Villisca Axe Murderers"). The scope of the book is quite comprehensive and everyone I have shared the book with has been simultaneously mortified and amused. Some of my favorite sites from the book are "Bob Barker Prison Supplies," "Ornithopter Zone," "Texas Bigfoot Research Center," "Pole Vault World," and of course "Air Sickness Bags," a site for collectors of (what else?) airsickness bags (www.airsicknessbags.com.) Really.
While many of these stores ("The British Lawn Mower Museum") are not designed primarily as stores, all of these sites have something to sell, from designer diapers from Montana, to wooden computer peripherals.
This book is eye opening, hilarious, and just a little bit frightening.
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- original classical music that even beginners can play!
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The Complete Piano Player Collection 1 (Book 1)
Poldi Zeitlin , and
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Manufacturer: Amsco Publications
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ASIN: 0711906688
Release Date: 1998-12-31 |
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A unique collection of music in original form by the greatest composers. This volume contains 77 works divided into solos, folk songs, études, sonatinas, and duets.
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original classical music that even beginners can play!.......2000-07-04
This collection of pieces is great because there are easy to play pieces by Beethoven, Scarlatti etc. I like the Sonatina section best; they sound very accomplished when you play them but actually they are really easy. There are also some nice Etudes to use to practice basic techniques; these are lovely too. I didn't enjoy the first folk song section so much and I have no-one to play the duets with, but I intend to buy the book today!
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Fred Rogers opens the door for stepfamilies to safely talk about their good and sometimes not-so-good feelings by encouraging both parents and children to communicate. While he acknowledges that difficult situations will probably arise, he emphasizes that the joy of belonging is what all families are really about.
"In a simple, straightforward manner, Rogers describes the variety of feelings that children might have. . . and he offers ways of dealing with some of the difficulties that arise." (The Horn Book)
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When parents remarry, children face some hard changes. Suddenly part of a new family, they may feel displaced and worried. There are new rules that take getting used to. If there are new siblings, the oldest child may suddenly be the youngest, and a child who once had his or her own room may have to share a room. In face, they may have to learn to share a lot more things -- and people! The biggest question children in stepfamilies seem to have is: "Where is my place in this family?"
In his characteristically gentle way, Fred Rogers writes that children can play a part in working our their new place in the family be learning to express their concerns and feelings. He emphasizes that all the members of the family may have the same concerns and worries. He reminds children that a stepfamily may bring new people into their lives who will love and care for them, and who will share new good times with them.
For all children who have a new family, this book can help them understand how to find their place.
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The children in this book defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented by the media. Tender, generous and often religiously devout, they speak with eloquence and honesty about the poverty and racial isolation that have wounded but not hardened them.
The book does not romanticize or soften the effects of violence and sickness. One fourth of the child-bearing women in the neighborhoods where these children live test positive for HIV. Pediatric AIDs, life-consuming fires and gang rivalries take a high toll. Several children die during the year in which this narrative takes place.
A gently written work, Amazing Grace asks questions that are at once political and theological. What is the value of a child's life? What exactly do we plan to do with those whom we appear to have defined as economically and humanly superfluous? How cold -- how cruel, how tough -- do we dare be?
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A compelling eye-opener.......2007-09-10
Kozol's Amazing Grace is a true eye-opener. After reading it, I feel that I had nothing close to an accurate image of the conditions of poverty that people still live in in some of the inner city neighborhoods. The reality Kozol awakens us to shatters the illusion America holds of "equal opportunity for all," and the book is an indictment of a far-too-unaware society run by politicians who must think about quick fixes (prisons, tax cuts) that try to please voters or address problem symptoms rather than causes (terrible schools, decrepit surroundings, congestion of the homeless, and the not-always subtle discrimination that continues in society). A truly important book, which will challenge any readers who are supportive of Rudy Giuliani to defend his startling insensitivity to the issue, displayed by his cutting of funding of public services that are so crucial to many people Kozol writes of.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind.......2007-08-20
Jonathan Kozol has dedicated his work on bringing light to the inequalities that exist within our nation. These inequalities are best seen, unfortunately but not unexpectedly, along racial lines. "Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation" is a book with a lot of questions, a lot of shocking information, but not a lot of answers; if only because the answers may not exist. It is a stunning look at the deep disparity between rich and poor within our nation.
Kozol focuses on the South Bronx ghetto of Mott Haven, the poorest borough in New York, clearly segregated from the middle and upper classes, where two-thirds of the population are Hispanic and one-third African-American. Through interviews with school children, teachers, ministers, and community members, Kozol paints a bleak picture of the equally bleak lives led by those who live in this area. He recounts stories of buildings where wires have been eaten through by rats that are the size of squirrels, of drugs being bought and sold openly on the streets (although the drug dealers have enough respect to break when school lets out), and of families too numerous to count who are being killed off one by one by AIDS. The way these children see the world is frightenly dead-on; they know when they're not wanted because it's proven to them everyday in the way they have to live.
"Amazing Grace" is not an easy read due to its topic matter. Kozol's style is matter-of-fact, made up of usually uninterrupted comments by those he's interviewed, sometimes with his questions thrown in, and his own comments and hypotheses as to how this can go on. But Kozol doesn't necessarily have answers or even blame. Surely, some blame has to go to a system that keeps the poorest people with the least chance for success segregated from others, a separation of the haves and have nots to the greatest degree. And certainly others would place the blame on the poor people themselves. Perhaps it's a combination of a lot of factors, not one or the other, but what is certain is that too little is being done (or maybe can be done) to make a difference before it is too late.
An important book.......2007-06-25
It is a book about children. Children who live in Mott Haven, one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the South Bronx. I have almost never read anything that has moved me and at the same time disturbed me as this book has. Jonathan Kozol has with great care and sensitivity interviewed children living in this place that's both crime ridden and run down. Most of these kids start off as being trusting and innocent but grow into becoming more and more disillusioned about their surroundings and hope for survival. The HIV and AIDS virus has really hit hard in these places and this is connected to the large amount of the population that abuse heroin. The heroin has such self-mocking names as "Jungle Fever", "Black Sabbath", "DOA"(dead on arrival), and "True Power". Many of the children are born to addicted mothers, some of who are in jail, already contracting the disease in utero. First time mothers have an average age between 16 and 17, while grandmothers can be in their late thirties and great great grandmothers in their late 50s.
Its incredible how close Jonathan Kozol manages to come to these kids. They really take him in and open up their hearts. They share with him their stories. These stories are full of horrible and painful things that are so far from the realities that we experience here in modern day big city Stockholm. The segregation in these South Bronx neighborhoods is total, whether it's the schools, hospitals, or prisons. And almost always the kids receive the short end of the stick. Children tell of how they see murders on the street, get attacked by rats, how some are killed or burned from household fires, how some eat cold oatmeal out of the box for dinner, many of the kids live with chronic asthma due to anxiety, others live with mothers dying of AIDS, and often have classrooms that are decrepit and completely rundown. There are less qualified doctors and teachers here than anywhere else in the state of New York. There have been major tax cuts in the city that have hit these citizens hardest. Like cuts in sanitation that has resulted in mountains of garbage lining up inside buildings drawing hordes of rats. Cuts in maintenance of buildings that leave elevators broken, often resulting in playing kids falling down the elevator shafts and dying. The police refer to some of the housing projects to as "death camps" because so many drug dealers and addicts dominate them. The tax cuts have also led to many social workers losing their jobs as well as closing of several youth centers that allow kids safe places to be while their parents work. Prostitution is also common among the women. Mostly serving the truck drivers who drive through the neighborhood to deliver goods to the Hunts Point market that is close. They turn tricks for 3 to 5 dollars that go to feeding their addictions. This happens all hours of the day and night, even when the children can see. Many times when the children or adults are asked how they manage to survive they mention their faith in god and heaven. That the place that they are in now is more reminiscent of hell, but this is not where they will end up.
As a atudent of theology I cannot help but see this book as a strong wake up call. The gospels of the New Testament took the part of the poor, saying the last shall be first and the first shall be last. In the Christian nation of America that prints "In god we trust" on their coins-this is how they treat the poor. One priest who works in the South Bronx took a little kid with him when he had to drive to Queens to do some errands. There he took him to Burger King to eat. The kid had never been outside of the Bronx before. The priest later learned from the kid's teacher that he wrote an essay in school about their lunch called "My trip to Burger King"-the same way a rich kid might write about a trip he made to Florida. Most of these kids never get any Christmas or birthday presents. They don't even have their own rooms. Sleeping on sofas or on mattresses on the floor. One child says, " it feels like I'm hidden", and this is a good observation. Nobody wants to be reminded of what these children are going through. Therefore their stories are seldom, if ever, heard. This is why Jonathan Kozols book is so important. Only a short distance away just across 96th street lies the park avenue apartments that houses some of the wealthiest people in the nation, households with an average income of 300,000 dollars a year. Toward the end of the book the author talks to an old poet living in the Bronx and the start to discuss the Nazi holocaust and the concentration camps. How there are certain disturbing parallels to what happened then and whats happening now. How the outcasts and those human beings viewed as being "superfluous" are quarantined. "Its not the same" he says, "but there are some similarities. There is the feeling of eclipse. There is the likelihood of death for many. There is a sense of people watching from the outside but seeming paralyzed and doing nothing. And then there are the miracles."
Amazing Grace: Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, The .......2007-05-07
I ordered a series of books for my daughter. Excellent email response, timely receipt and accurate updates of the order. More than what I expected. The materials were in good condition on arrival. Very satisfied with the service.
A Disappointing Look into a Terrible Problem.......2007-01-29
Having read Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol, I expected something similar in style but different in content in Amazing Grace. I was not happy with Kozol the first time around but willing to try again, and despite my second chance this was just as disappointing. Normally in a book like this there would be a story that would connect the reader to the problem and personalize it, lots of fully cited statistics, and a workable solution. The book had only two of those, a story and statistics, which is my problem with Kozol. An excellent storyteller, he wraps you in page turning narratives, an unexpected plus in a book about America's most destitute victims of racism. Endless numbers prove his every point and bring you to his side of the table. That is not where the problem lies. Kozol's writing is simply annoying! Reading this book is like being guilt-tripped for something he makes you seem powerless over. I cannot stand that in either book he does not discuss a solution. The weakness is that it gets repetitive, going on and on with little difference between his rich people/poor people examples, however, the writing manages to stay interesting. What was most interesting was the similarity of Amazing Grace to Savage Inequalities. I thought that book was repetitive and mostly unhelpful, but now this? He even used the same school in both books and a critic of the book noted that the school he re-referenced has been repaired but Kozol had not bothered to redo his research. It is a strange feeling to read a book where the author has poorly plagiarized his own work. What is disheartening is that Kozol could write in such a selfish way. It cannot be articulated in one quote, but read the book and you will understand how he makes you feel like he is the only person in the world with a heart. It feels incomplete, and I am baffled that he did he not come across any way to help during his extensive research. I would not want to read another guilt tripping Kozol book and believe this is not an extremely important read. I would even recommend Savage Inequalities over this. I took away knowledge of a racial problem in America, but was put down by the seeming impossibility of any solution and the unnecessary jabs at anyone who is white or above the poverty line.
Casey Gollan
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Title: Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation. (book reviews)
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Books:
- Dore's Illustrations for "Paradise Lost" (Dover Pictorial Archives)
- Drawing for older children & teens
- Drawing Realistic Textures in Pencil
- Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Trucks and Trains
- Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism (Turning Points in History)
- Ethnic Needlepoint: Designs from Asia, Africa and the Americas
- Everything That Creeps
- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Cartooning but Were Afraid to Draw (Christopher Hart Titles)
- Fearless Creating (Inner Workbook.)
- First Aid for a Teenager's Soul (Charming Petites Series)
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- Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design Since the Sixties
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