Книги жанра Taylor and Francis
Название: Understanding Language Testing
Жанр: Taylor and Francis
Год: 2009
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Understanding Language Testing presents an introduction to language tests and the process of test development that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field, the book promotes a practical understanding of language testing using examples from a variety of languages. While grounded on solid theoretical principles, the book focuses on fostering a true understanding of the various uses of language tests and the process of test development, scoring test performance, analyzing and interpreting test results, and above all, using tests as ethically and fairly as possible so that test takers are given every opportunity to do their best, to learn as much as possible, and feel positive about their language learning. Each chapter includes a summary, suggestions for further reading, and exercises. As such this is the ideal book for both beginning students of linguistics and language education, or anyone in a related discipline looking for a first introduction to language testing.
Жанр: Taylor and Francis
Год: 2013
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In this work, expert contributors provide an overview and analysis of public administration in select post-communist countries, including Russia, Georgia, Czech Republic, Romania, and Mongolia. Because these countries were largely closed off to the world, there has yet to be a comprehensive study on their administrative systems. The book includes coverage of public management and administration, political and economic reforms, civil society, human resource management, financial and budgetary management, accountability and corruption, as well as prospects for future development.
Жанр: Taylor and Francis
Год: 2008
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Francis Glebas, a top Disney storyboard artist, shows how to reach the ultimate goal of animation and movie making by showing how to provide audiences with an emotionally satisfying experience. Directing the Story offers a structural approach to clearly and dramatically presenting visual stories. With Francis' help you'll discover the professional storytelling techniques which have swept away generations of movie goers and kept them coming back for more. You'll also learn to spot potential problems before they cost you time or money and offers creative solutions to solve them. Best of all, it practices what it preaches, using a graphic novel format to demonstrate the professional visual storytelling techniques you need to know. This title uses the classic story of '1001 Arabian Nights' to show how to storyboard stories that will engage an audiences attention and emotions. It features 1001 drawings in graphic novel format plus teaching concepts and commentary. All of the storyboarding examples have a real project context rather to engage a very visual audience on their own terms and teaches through demonstration.
Название: Action Analysis for Animators
Жанр: Taylor and Francis
Год: 2011
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Action Analysis is one of the fundamental princples of animation that underpins all types of animation: 2d, 3d, computer animation, stop motion, etc. This is a fundamental skill that all animators need to create polished, believable animation. An example of Action Analysis would be Shrek's swagger in the film, Shrek. The animators clearly understood (through action analysis) the type of walk achieved by a large and heavy individual (the real) and then applied their observations to the animated character of an ogre (the fantastic). It is action analysis that enabled the animation team to visually translate a real life situation into an ogre's walk, achieving such fantastic results. Key animation skills are demonstrated with in-depth illustrations, photographs and live action footage filmed with high speed cameras. Detailed Case Studies and practical assignments ground action analysis methodology with real life examples. Action Analysis for Animators is a essential guide for students, amateurs and professionals.
Жанр: Taylor and Francis
Год: 2014
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Take your motion graphics and VFX projects to the next level by mastering the new CINEWARE feature in After Effects. CINEWARE provides you with an assortment of new 3D tools and options that are difficult or next to impossible to achieve in After Effects alone. The first section discusses how the two applications can work together in unison, illustrating how to seamlessly import and export 3D assets and compositons between each application. The second section explores modeling techniques and visual effects involved in using both applications together. The final section goes into optimization and rendering for multiple outputs and devices.
Название: Digital Painting Techniques
Жанр: Taylor and Francis
Год: 2009
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Discover the tips, tricks and techniques that really work for concept artists, matte painters and animators. Compiled by the team at 3dtotal.com, Digital Painting Techniques, Volume 1 offers digital inspiration with hands-on insight and techniques from professional digital artists. More than just a gallery book — within Digital Painting Techniques each artist has written a breakdown overview, with supporting imagery of how they made their piece of work. Beginner and intermediate digital artists will be inspired by the gallery style collection of the finest examples of digital painting from world renowned digital artists. Start your mentorship into the world of digital painting today with some of the greatest digital artists in the world and delve into professional digital painting techiques, such as speed painting, custom brush creation and matte painting. Develop your digital painting skills beyond the variety of free online digital painting tutorials and apply the most up to date techniques to your digital canvas with Digital Painting Techniques for Animators.
Жанр: Taylor and Francis
Год: 2014
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Your one-stop guide to creating mind-blowing visual effects in Autodesk Maya. Full-color, step-by-step tutorials detail industry-staple visual effects techniques such as fur and hair growth, fire and water simulation, soft and hard body dynamics, cloth construction, and so much more. Maya guru Lee Lanier starts you off with the basics and then moves into more advanced tehcniques such as creature animation, patch modeling, effects scripting, render pass set-up, and others. The companion website features a treasure trove of project files, image sequences, texture bitmaps, and model FBXs, allowing you to immediately apply the techniques learned in the book.
Жанр: Taylor and Francis
Год: 2009
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Create amazing animated effects such as fiery blazes, rippling water, and magical transformations. Animation guru Joseph Gilland breaks down the world of special effects animation with clear step-by-step diagrams and explanations on how to create the amazing and compelling images you see on the big screen. Elemental Magic is jam-packed with rich, original illustrations from the author himself which help explain and illuminate the technique, philosophy, and approach behind classical hand drawn animated effects and how to apply these skills to your digital projects. It helps to: create stunning animated effects such as sparkling pixie dust, roaring tidal waves, and raging fires; and, apply the theory behind effects animation to your traditional and digital animation projects. It is written by animated effects guru, Joseph Gilland, who has worked on such feature films as Lilo & Stitch, Brother Bear, Pochahontas, Tarzan, and Mulan.
Жанр: Taylor and Francis
Год: 2011
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Design beautiful, professional-level animated effects with these detailed step-by-step tutorials from former Disney animator and animated effects expert Joseph Gilland. Filled with beautiful, full-color artwork, Elemental Magic, Volume II, breaks down the animated effect process from beginning to end-including booming explosions, gusting winds, magical incantations, and raging fires. He also breaks down the process of effects clean-up, as well as timing and frame rates. The companion website includes real-time footage of the author lecturing as he animates the drawings from the book. In these videos, he elucidates the entire process from blank page to final animation. See it all come to life like never before. Throughout the book, Joseph refers to and includes examples from his own professional work from feature films such as Lilo & Stitch and Tarzan.
Жанр: Taylor and Francis
Год: 2012
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From demo reel creation to festival shorts, students and professionals alike are creating animated shorts that are dynamic and eye catching but the time constraints of these shorts are challenging in their own right. The unique format of the animated short of two to five minutes in length presents a practical and aesthetic challenge that is rarely addressed in the classroom. Ideas for the Animated Short is a comprehensive and practical blueprint for creative and unique animated short creation with a focus on the strength of a compelling story. A comprehensive guide to the animated short, this title is an invaluable asset for aspiring animation professionals, students and independent filmmakers. Explore the process of developing a short from conception to final delivery and adapt the industry's best practices in your own workflow. Written by four leading animators, artists and professors, Ideas for the Animated Short is written from the unique perspective of a professional animator adapting creative stories into incredible animated shorts. Follow from start to finish the creation of an animated short from the pre-production thought process to story development and character design. Explore the best practices and avoid the common pitfalls of creating two to five minute shorts. Watch a specially created animated short, demonstrating the core techniques and principles at the companion website! Packed with illustrated examples of idea generation, character and story development, acting, dialogue and storyboarding practice this is your conceptual toolkit proven to meet the challenges of this unique art form. The companion website includes in-depth interviews with industry insiders, short animations (many with accompanying animatics, character designs and environment designs) and an acting workshop to get your animated short off to a flying start! With all NEW content on script writing, acting, sound design and visual storytelling that further enhance your animated shorts and apply the industry best practices to your own projects.
Название: Understanding Sustainable Development
Жанр: Taylor and Francis
Год: 2014
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This new and expanded edition builds upon the first edition's powerful multi-perspective approach and breath of coverage. A truly comprehensive introduction to sustainable development, it is designed specifically to allow access to the topic from a wide range of educational and professional backgrounds and to develop understanding of a diversity of approaches and traditions at different levels. This second edition includes: — a complete update of the text, with increased coverage of major topics including ecosystems; — production and consumption; — business; — urban sustainability; — governance; — new media technologies; — conservation; — leadership; — globalization and global crises; — sustainability literacy and learning; — more examples from the Global South and North America, while retaining its unique coverage of first world countries; — chapter aims at the start and summaries at the end of each chapter; — glossary of key terms; — a new chapter on Conservation with a focus on behaviour change and values; — a brand new website which includes discussion of how projects are done on the ground, additional exercises and online cases, test questions and recommended readings and films. Offering boxed examples from the local to the global, Understanding Sustainable Development is the most complete guide to the subject for course leaders, undergraduates and postgraduates.
Жанр: Taylor and Francis
Год: 2009
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Moving from basic to more advanced topics, this popular core text has been revised and expanded to reflect recent advances. While giving readers the tools needed to understand and work with random processes, it places greater focus on thermodynamics, especially the kinetics of phase transitions. The chapter on Bose-Einstein condensation has been revised to reflect improvements in the field. The edition also covers stochastic processes in greater depth, with a more detailed treatment of the Langevin equation. It provides new exercises and a complete solutions manual for qualifying instructors.
Жанр: Taylor and Francis
Год: 2011
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Many artists are unsure how to bridge the gap between the many basic 'how to draw' books and the more advanced ones dealing with the esoteric details of composition, perspective and anatomy. Force: Animal Drawing is the comprehensive guide to developing artistic animals that are creative, dynamic and anatomical, bridging the gap between foundational art and advanced techniques. Artists and animators alike all find animal inspiration when animating characters — be they human or inhuman. For a unique 'larger than life' character, readers will learn to apply the unique facets of animal movement, locomotion, expressions, facial features, physical build and personality to their traditional and digital art. Readers will also adapt key industry tricks and techniques to personify animal animations with key characteristics of a human's face. Explore the practical application of force theories and learn from today's leading character designers with the included artist interviews and an extended video tutorial via www.drawingforce.com.
Название: Britain, 1846-1919
Жанр: Taylor and Francis
Год: 2003
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Britain, 1846 — 1919 is an exciting new approach to teaching and learning late nineteenth and early twentieth century British History at A Level, up to and including the First World War. It meets the needs of teachers and students studying for today's new AS level exams. In a unique style, Britain, 1846-1919 focuses on the key topics within the period. Each topic is then comprehensively explored to provide background, essay-writing advice and examples, source work and historical skills exercises. From 1846 to 1919, the key topics featured include: the Age of the Railways public Health and Social Policy Gladstone and Disraeli at home and abroad the Irish Question the Liberal and Coalition Ministries in the early Twentieth century Using essay styles and source exercises from each of the exam boards, AQA, Edexcel and OCR, this book is an essential text for students and teachers.
Название: British Civilization
Жанр: Taylor and Francis
Год: 2003
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A reference guide to the British way of life which explains the often puzzling and confusing terms and phrases used routinely in Britain and by British people. This easy-reference alphabetical guide sheds light on a comprehensive selection of words, phrases, organizations and institutions. All these are fundamental features of British civilization and society, and include aspects of politics and government, the law, economics and industry, education, the media, religion and social welfare, health and housing and leisure and transport.
Жанр: Taylor and Francis
Год: 2004
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On its first appearance in 1960, the Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy established itself as a classic; this third edition builds on its original strengths but brings it completely up to date. The Concise Encyclopedia offers a lively, readable, comprehensive and authoritative treatment of Western philosophy as a whole, incorporating scintillating articles by many leading philosophical authors. It serves not only as a convenient reference work, but also as an engaging introduction to philosophy.
Название: Europe, 1890 — 1945
Жанр: Taylor and Francis
Год: 2003
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Europe, 1890-1945 is a new approach to teaching and learning early twentieth century European history at A level. It meets the needs of teachers and students studying for today's revised AS and A2 exams. In a unique style, Europe, 1890-1945 focuses on the key topics within the period. Each topic is then comprehensively explored to provide background, essay writing advice and examples, source work and historical skills exercises. From 1890 to 1945, the key topics featured include: the origins and impact of the First World War the Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalin the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler Mussolini and Fascist Italy Stalin and the Soviet Union, 1928-41.
Название: France, 1814-1940
Жанр: Taylor and Francis
Год: 2003
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The history of 19th and early 20th century France has often seemed complex and confusing. France, 1814-1940 presents a an authoritative account of this fascinating period. It describes the characteristics of France's different regimes and their leading personalities and explains why during these years the people of France had to endure so many revolutions, wars and crises. The book introduces social and economic change as well as cultural developments and French overseas expansion.
Название: Poland, 1918-1945
Жанр: Taylor and Francis
Год: 2004
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In the turbulent history of twentieth century Europe, the reborn Polish State faced the most formidable and diverse array of problems imaginable. From 1918 until the end of the Second World War, Poland struggled to retain and consolidate Independence, finally falling prey to the alien ideology and political system of Communism. The period of the Second Polish Republic, from its establishment in 1918 until its end in 1945, has often been viewed in the context of its negative aspects and failures. This lucid new study demonstrates that a far more positive assessment is needed, through an informed, balanced and objective approach. Based on extensive range of Polish, British, German, Jewish and Ukranian primary and secondary sources, this work provides an objective appraisal of the inter-war period.
Название: Postmodernism in History
Жанр: Taylor and Francis
Год: 2003
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Postmodernism has significantly affected the theory and practice of history. It has induced fears about the future of historical study, but has also offered liberation from certain modernist constraints. This original and thought-provoking study looks at the context of postmodernist thought in general cultural terms as well as in relation to history. Postmodernism in History traces philosophical precursors of postmodernism and identifies the roots of current concerns. Beverley Southgate describes the core constituents of postmodernism and provides a lucid and profound analysis of the current state of the debate. His main concern is to counter pomophobia' and to assert a positive future for historical study in a postmodern world. Postmodernism in History is a valuable guide to some of the most complex questions in historical theory for students and teachers alike.
