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Creating game-ready foliage by hand is simplified in this 3-hour workshop by Peyton Varney, Environment Texture Artist on The Last of Us Part II. This beginner-level tutorial walks through the complete process for asset creation, from sourcing references to the final implementation into the Unreal engine. The entire pipeline of foliage creation is covered, starting with an initial block-out based on the gathered references and moving into the modeling and sculpting process using the industry-standard tools Maya and ZBrush to flesh out the look of the plants. The texture-creation portion delves into Substance Painter and Substance Designer, teaching how you can bring your game assets to life with great textures.

Have you heard the buzz about Ansible and network automation and wanted to learn more? This course covers an overview of Ansible from a Network Engineer's perspective and goes over all of the basics that are needed to get going with Ansible in your lab and start automating your network!

Capture One Pro is a comprehensive 101 level course designed for photographers and retouchers to learn the most powerful RAW processing & post-production workflow program available today. Capture One Pro is highly regarded as an industry-leading software and continues to provide professionals with the best tools to take their images to the highest quality available.

Learn to create 2D animations with this industry leading software and bring your stories and characters to life.

Your comprehensive introduction to Massive Prime has arrived. Head of Crowd/FX TD, Reza Ghobadinic, demonstrates all the key aspects of working with Massive Prime software in this detailed workshop, sharing with you his industry-proven tips and tricks for producing credible crowd simulations suitable for film and TV productions.

The ultimate aim of artificial intelligence (A.I.) is to understand intelligence and to build intelligent software and robots that come close to the performance of humans. On their way towards this goal, A.I. researchers have developed a number of quite different subdisciplines.

Beginning R: An Introduction to Statistical Programming is a hands-on book showing how to use the R language, write and save R scripts, build and import data files, and write your own custom statistical functions. R is a powerful open-source implementation of the statistical language S, which was developed by AT&T. R has eclipsed S and the commercially-available S-Plus language, and has become the de facto standard for doing, teaching, and learning computational statistics.

Introduction to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology explains nanotechnology to an audience that does not necessarily have a scientific background. It covers all aspects, including the new areas of biomedical applications and the use of nanotechnology to probe the "quantum vacuum." After discussing the present state of the art in nanotechnology, the book makes estimates of where these technologies are going and what will be possible in the future.

Creating robots and science fiction characters with stories that go beyond the present is what Victoria Passariello — 3D video game and visual effects artist — loves. Specializing in modeling hard surface , a method with which he works rigid surfaces achieving the smoothness, details and textures of the material, he has created characters and models of mechanical appearance for games like BattleTech or The Mandate, trailers like Outriders and Destiny Warmind, and Netflix series.

Explore the foundations of illustration by learning the techniques to draw from observation and from your own imagination