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Lynda – Illustration Compositing Techniques

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Lynda – Illustration: Compositing Techniques
English | Size: 463.2MB
Category: Tutorial


Add flexibility to your illustration process by exploring digital compositing-combining whole or partial drawings into a single, adjustable illustration. Comic illustrator and digital artist Daniel Lieske shows you how to make composites and achieve great results in this course. Daniel demonstrates how to merge several components, from objects and backgrounds to more complex elements like light, color, and reflections. This hands-on course goes beyond classic illustration techniques to help you expand your creative process and even handle rendering of challenging lighting effects including ambient light, sunlight, bounce light, and specular highlights. [Read more…]

Lynda – Game Art Model & UV Map a Low Poly Character

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Lynda – Game Art: Model & UV Map a Low Poly Character
English | Size: 2.5GB
Category: Tutorial


Expand your game artistry know-how by becoming skilled in low-polygon modeling. Joel Bradley shows how to model and UV map low-poly assets in this course. Joel takes you through the process, using 3ds Max, of modeling a low-poly character for use in in a game engine. He starts by providing an overview of tools and options to get you ready to set up a scene. Then he dives into character building and creation including, mapping, shaping, and using guide objects. Once the forms are established, Joel demonstrates how to unwrap, detail, texture, and refine a model. He concludes the course by showing how to finish, render, and export a model. [Read more…]

Lynda – Ethical Hacking – Perimeter Defenses

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Lynda – Ethical Hacking – Perimeter Defenses
English | Size: 262.95 MB
Category: CBTs


Ethical hacking-testing to see if an organization’s network is vulnerable to outside attacks-is a desired skill for many IT security professionals. In this course, cybersecurity expert Malcolm Shore prepares you to take your first steps into testing client defenses. Malcolm provides you with an overview of firewall technology, and demonstrates the two main operating system firewalls. Next, he goes into web application firewalls and API gateway threat mitigation solutions. Learn about the Cowrie honeypot, how to use Security Onion to detect intrusions, and more.
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Lynda – Building Android Apps with Cloud Services

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Lynda – Building Android Apps with Cloud Services
English | Size: 566.72 MB
Category: Tutorial


If you’re an Android developer, you have access to an assortment of cloud-based services that can help you create and deliver a high-quality app. In this course, Albert Lo shines a spotlight on some of the most popular services and tools for Android developers, and demonstrates how they work by implementing them in a power failure monitoring application. He explores how to use Crashlytics to troubleshoot crashes, use Fabric.io to deploy an app for remote users so they can beta test it externally, structure the codebase to use any analytics provider, use Firebase remote configuration to configure parameters in runtime, and more. [Read more…]

Lynda – After Effects CC 2017 – Motion Graphics Essential Training

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Lynda – After Effects CC 2017 – Motion Graphics Essential Training
English | Size: 1.19 GB
Category: CBTs


Get up and running with After Effects CC 2017. Although this is an introductory course, if you’re brand new to After Effects, check out After Effects CC 2017 Essential Training: The Basics; in that course, instructor Mark Christiansen starts from the very beginning, introducing you to the interface and other basic concepts to help you understand what After Effects is, and how it’s used in a variety of workflows. In this course, Alan Demafiles covers all of the main aspects of this program, providing you with a solid foundation for using this tool in a motion graphics context. To begin, Alan breaks down After Effects into six foundations, each of which serve as the basis for subsequent course chapters. He covers how shape layers offer some of the power of Illustrator vector tools right in After Effects, and shares basic animation techniques like creating looped animation with expressions. In addition, he also touches on the program’s powerful Type tool and shows you how adding type animators can make unique text manipulation possible. He wraps up the course with a project-based chapter that helps reinforce your new skills and provides you with valuable workflow tips. [Read more…]

Lynda – After Effects CC 2017 – Editors and Post Essential Training

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Lynda – After Effects CC 2017 – Editors and Post Essential Training
English | Size: 1.45 GB
Category: CBTs


In this course, Alan Demafiles covers the core aspects of After Effects commonly used in editing and post production: masks, shapes, type, logos, stills, animating, rendering, and exporting. To begin, Alan compares After Effects to Premiere Pro so you can see the similarities and differences. Then he dives into hands-on demonstrations of how to limit effects with masks, create elements with shape layers, use text templates, animate a logo, and create a 3D type extrusion. Next he shows you how to work with imported pictures, create a Z-space camera montage, change the speed of animations, and more. He wraps up by walking through outputting steps and then kicks off a challenge exercise where you can put your skills into practice.
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LiveLessons – PowerShell for Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics

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LiveLessons – PowerShell for Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics
English | Size: 1.57 GB
Category: Tutorial


PowerShell for Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics LiveLessons
by Brien Posey
Publisher: Sams
Release Date: February 2017
The Rough Cuts/Sneak Peek program provides early access to Pearson video products and is exclusively available to Safari subscribers. Content for titles in this program is made available throughout the development cycle, so products may not be complete, edited, or finalized, including video post-production editing. [Read more…]

Linux+ LPIC Level 1 Exam 101

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Linux+ LPIC Level 1 Exam 101
English | Size: 7.84 GB
Category: Tutorial


Linux + LPIC Level 1 Exam 101
This course is updated to cover both LX0-101, LX0-103, LPI exam 101, and LPI exam 103.
One of the hottest jobs in Information Technology today is Linux Administration. As the Cloud vendors continue to grow, the need for talented and knowledgeable Linux Administrators will continue to grow with them. While you may believe that it can take years to acquire the expertise necessary to succeed in this field, you might be surprised.
Industry certification is the first step to demonstrating your ability to succeed in a demanding and fast paced technical environment. The Linux Professional Institute has released what has become the global standard in Linux Certification. These certifications (called LPIC – Linux Professional Institute Certifications and CompTIA Linux+) are important to any company looking to hire experienced and capable Linux professionals. [Read more…]