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The Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA) credential is the first tier of Citrix certification. The CCA is most often sought out by IT professionals whose networks employ Citrix virtualization technology, and for those IT professionals who are seeking a broad base of general network expertise. The number of CCAs is estimated at between 65 and 70K, up from 45,000 in 2003.
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Once the realm of a few stalwart artists, animating with sand, clay, and wet paint is now accessible for all filmmakers with an experimental frame of mind. Created directly under the camera with frame-by-frame stopmotion, this "fluid frame animation" provides a completely unique visual world for animators. While pioneering animators such as Caroline Leaf, Alexander Petrov, and Ishu Patel paved the way, the availability of frame capture programs, compositing software and digital workflow is opening up new avenues of exploration for artists of all experience levels. This book will walk you through setting up your studio, choosing and working with your materials, and combining the physical under-the-camera production with digital compositing and effects to enhance your animation.

· 　 　 　 　 Firsthand advice from experimental animation veterans and rising stars in the field

· 　 　 　 　 Covers the digital aspects of experimental animation, including the latest techniques in After Effects CC

· 　 　 　 　

Tutorials and source files for under-the-camera approaches　and After Effects enhancements on the book’s companion website

In addition to the practical advice, you’ll find historical and contemporary examples of successful films, step-by-step tutorials for working under the camera and working with the footage digitally, and interviews and tips from artists who are currently pushing the boundaries in these experimental mediums. Stacked with information and images from over 30 artists, this book is an indispensable resource for both the student and professional wishing to get their hands dirty in an increasingly digital world.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Section I: Constructing the Context

1. Definition of Terms

2. A Brief Historical Overview - Three waves of experimental collaboration

Section II: Animation In Practice

3. Finding your voice: Concept and Pre-Visualization

4. Setting Up the Studio

5. Animation techniques

Section III: Individual Lessons: (incl. interviews and/or tutorials with practicing artists)

6. Sand Animation

7. Paint-on-Glass Animation

8. Clay-on-Glass Animation

9. Post-Production

Section IV

10. Conclusion

Appendix: List of Works and Artists

What will you learn from this book? Ready to learn Java? This book combines puzzles, strong visuals, mysteries, and soul-searching interviews with famous Java objects to engage you in many different ways. It's fast, it's fun, and it's effective. And despite its playful appearance, Head First Java is serious stuff: a complete introduction to object-oriented programming and Java. You'll learn everything from the fundamentals to advanced topics. The new third edition brings the book up-to-date for Java 8-17, including major recent updates to the Java language and development platform. Java has seen some deep code-level changes and more modern approaches, requiring even more careful study and implementation. So learning the Head First way is more important than ever. What's so special about this book? If you've read a Head First book, you know what to expect--a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works. If you haven't, you're in for a treat. With this book, you'll learn Java through a multi-sensory experience that engages your mind rather than a text-heavy approach that puts you to sleep.

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Lighting for Animation　is designed with one goal in mind - to make you a better artist. Over the course of the book, Jasmine Katatikarn and Michael Tanzillo (Senior Lighting TDs, Blue Sky Studios) will train your eye to analyze your work more critically, and teach you approaches and techniques to improve your craft. Focusing on the main philosophies and core concepts utilized by industry professionals, this book builds the foundation for a successful career as a lighting artist in visual effects and computer animation. Inside you’ll find in-depth instruction on:

　

• Creating mood and storytelling through lighting

• Using light to create visual shaping

• Directing the viewer’s eye with light and color

• Gathering and utilizing reference images

• Successfully lighting and rendering workflows

• Render layers and how they can be used most effectively

• Specific lighting scenarios, including character lighting, environment lighting, and lighting an animated sequence

• Material properties and their work with lighting

• Compositing techniques essential for a lighter

• A guide on how to start your career and achieve success as a lighting artist

　

This book is not designed to teach software packages—there are websites, instructional manuals, online demos, and traditional courses available to teach you how to operate specific computer programs.　 That type of training will teach you how to create an image; this book will teach you the technical skills you need to make that image beautiful.　

Key Features

Stunning examples from a variety of films serve to inspire and inform your creative choices.

Unique approach focuses on using lighting as a storytelling tool, rather than just telling you which buttons to press.

Comprehensive companion website contains lighting exercises, assets, challenges, and further resources to help you expand your skillset.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Why We Light The Role of LightingCreating Visual ShapingDirecting the Viewer’s EyeInterview with Chris Wedge – Director :: Blue Sky Studios Chapter 2: Observing the World Around UsGathering ReferenceProcessing Reference Utilizing ReferenceInterview with Sharon Callahan - Lighting Director of Photography :: Pixar Animation StudiosChapter 3: The Lighter’s ToolboxCommon CG LightsBasic Properties of LightShadowsInterview with Andrew Beddini – Technical Supervisor of Imaging :: Blue Sky StudiosChapter 4: The Lighter’s WorkflowPre-LightingUnderstanding the Roles of Each LightLet There Be Light!Render LayersRender WorkflowInterview with Mike Knapp – Art Director :: Blue Sky StudiosChapter 5: Dissecting a Well-Lit ShotTelling the Story By Emphasizing the MoodDirecting the Viewer’s EyeVisual ShapingInterview with Josh Staub – Visual Effects Supervisor & Lighting Supervisor :: Walt Disney Animation StudiosChapter 6: Lighting ScenariosCharacter Lighting EyesInterior LightingExterior LightingInterview with Haji Uesato :: Blue Sky StudiosChapter 7: Materials and CompositingMaterialsSimulating Specific MaterialsCompositing Layering The Final TouchesInterview with Brian Hill – Materials Supervisor :: Blue Sky StudiosChapter 8: Honing the Artistic EyeImage BreakdownsInterview with Gabriel Portnoff – CG Supervisor :: Dreamworks AnimationChapter 9: Lighting WalkthroughsLighting Scenario One :: Character Beauty LightingLighting Scenario Two :: Character and EnvironmentLighting Scenario Three :: Multiple CharactersInterview with Yann Mabille – Creative Director/Partner :: InterstateChapter 10: Master LightingLook Development and Master LightingCreating a Clean RigInterview with Eldar Cholich– Lighting Lead :: Blue Sky StudiosInterview with Kurt Kaminski – Lighter :: Walt Disney Animation StudiosChapter 11: Closing StatementsGetting Started as a Lighting ArtistThriving in the IndustryInterview with Deb Stone – Manager, Talent Development :: Blue Sky Studios

Successful storyboards and poignant characters have the power to make elusive thoughts and emotions tangible for audiences. Packed with illustrations that illuminate and a text that entertains and informs, Prepare to Board, 3rd edition presents the methods and techniques of animation master, Nancy Beiman, with a focus on pre-production, story development and character design. As one of the only storyboard titles on the market that explores the intersection of creative character design and storyboard development, the third edition is an invaluable resource for both beginner and intermediate artists.

Key Features

Adapt key techniques, tips and tricks of experienced character designers and storyboard artists with 30 years of experience to your film, television and animation projects.

Save time and money with workflow solutions and avoid common mistakes and problems with troubleshooting tips.

Implement creative solutions for your own projects with this invaluable resource for beginner and intermediate artists with examples of what a good storyboard and character design should look like and example of poorly designed storyboards. and tricks.

Further your artistic skill development with an interactive, companion website which will includes video tutorials, examples of animatics and good and bad pitching techniques.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 First Catch Your Rabbit: Creating Concepts and Characters

Chapter 2 How Storyboard Took Over the Movies (And Television)Live Action and Animation Boards

Chapter 3 Putting Yourself into Your Work

Chapter 4 Situation and Character Driven Stories

Chapter 5 Treat ‘em rough: beginning character design and setting story rules

Chapter 6 Appealing or Appalling? Developing your Characters

Chapter 7 Working with Multiple Characters

Chapter 8 Beauties and Beasts: Creating Character Contrasts in Design

Chapter 9 Color and Design in Storytelling

Chapter 10 Starting Story Sketch: Compose Yourself

Chapter 11 Boarding Time: Getting with the Story Beat

Chapter 12 Roughing It: Basic Staging

Chapter 13 The Big Picture: Creating Story Sequences

Chapter 14 Patterns in Time: Pacing Action on Rough Boards

Chapter 15 Present Tense: Creating a Performance on Storyboards

Chapter 16 Color My World: Art Direction and Storytelling

Chapter 17 Show and Tell: Presenting Your Storyboards

Chapter 18 Talking Pictures: Assembling a Leica, Story Reel or Animatic with a Scratch Track

Chapter 19 Team Storyboard: Working on Group Projects

Chapter 20 Maquette Simple: Modeling Characters in Three Dimensions

Chapter 21 Building a Better Mouse: Creating Final Model Sheets

Chapter 22 Screen and Screen Again: Preparing for Production

Chapter 23 Appendices: Animated Interviews

Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Networks introduces the autonomous network by juxtaposing two unique technologies and communities: Networking and AI. The book reviews the technologies behind AI and software-defined network/network function virtualization, highlighting the exciting opportunities to integrate those two worlds.

Outlining the new frontiers for autonomous networks, this book highlights their impact and benefits to consumers and enterprise customers. It also explores the potential of the autonomous network for transforming network operation, cyber security, enterprise services, 5G and IoT, infrastructure monitoring and traffic optimization, and finally, customer experience and care.

With contributions from leading experts, this book will provide an invaluable resource for network engineers, software engineers, artificial intelligence, and machine learning researchers.

Table of Contents

1. The Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Network Automation & Security 2. Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence 3. The Shift to a Software Defined Network 4. Blockchain and Cryptography for Secure Information Sharing 5. Building the Autonomous Networks of the Future 6. Role of Open Source, Standards and Public Clouds in Autonomous Networks 7. Machine-learning, Containers, Cloud-natives and Micro-services 8. Artificial Intelligence Software and Hardware Platforms 9. Artificial Intelligence for Network Operation 10. Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security 11. Artificial Intelligence for Enterprise Networks 12. Artificial Intelligence for 5G+, Edge Compute and IoT 13. Artificial Intelligence for Infrastructure Monitoring and Traffic Optimization 14. Artificial Intelligence for Customer Experience and Care 15. New Artificial Intelligence Frontiers for Autonomous Networks

Security for Software Engineers is designed to introduce security concepts to undergraduate software engineering students. The book is divided into four units, each targeting activities that a software engineer will likely be involved in within industry.

The book explores the key areas of attack vectors, code hardening, privacy, and social engineering. Each topic is explored from a theoretical and a practical-application standpoint.

Features:

Targets software engineering students - one of the only security texts to target this audience.

Focuses on the white-hat side of the security equation rather than the black-hat side.

Includes many practical and real-world examples that easily translate into the workplace.

Covers a one-semester undergraduate course.

Describes all aspects of computer security as it pertains to the job of a software engineer and presents problems similar to that which an engineer will encounter in the industry.

This text will equip students to make knowledgeable security decisions, be productive members of a security review team, and write code that protects a user’s information assets.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Security 0: Security for Software Engineers 1: Roles Unit 1: Attack Vectors 2: Classification of Attacks 3: Software Weapons 4: Social Engineering Unit 2: Code Hardening 5: Command Injection 6: Script Injection 7: Memory Injection 8: Threat Modeling 9: Mitigation Unit 3: Privacy 10: Authentication 11: Access Control 12: Encryption Appendices A: Arrays B: Function Pointers C: V-Tables D: Integers E: The Callstack F: The Heap G: Further Reading H: Works Cited I: Glossary J: Index

Written by high performance computing (HPC) experts, Introduction to High Performance Computing for Scientists and Engineers provides a solid introduction to current mainstream computer architecture, dominant parallel programming models, and useful optimization strategies for scientific HPC. From working in a scientific computing center, the authors gained a unique perspective on the requirements and attitudes of users as well as manufacturers of parallel computers.

The text first introduces the architecture of modern cache-based microprocessors and discusses their inherent performance limitations, before describing general optimization strategies for serial code on cache-based architectures. It next covers shared- and distributed-memory parallel computer architectures and the most relevant network topologies. After discussing parallel computing on a theoretical level, the authors show how to avoid or ameliorate typical performance problems connected with OpenMP. They then present cache-coherent nonuniform memory access (ccNUMA) optimization techniques, examine distributed-memory parallel programming with message passing interface (MPI), and explain how to write efficient MPI code. The final chapter focuses on hybrid programming with MPI and OpenMP.

Users of high performance computers often have no idea what factors limit time to solution and whether it makes sense to think about optimization at all. This book facilitates an intuitive understanding of performance limitations without relying on heavy computer science knowledge. It also prepares readers for studying more advanced literature.

Read about the authors’ recent honor: Informatics Europe Curriculum Best Practices Award for Parallelism and Concurrency

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Modern Processors

Stored-program computer architecture

General-purpose cache-based microprocessor architecture

Memory hierarchies

Multicore processors

Multithreaded processors

Vector processors

Basic Optimization Techniques for Serial Code

Scalar profiling

Common sense optimizations

Simple measures, large impact

The role of compilers

C++ optimizations

Data Access Optimization

Balance analysis and lightspeed estimates

Storage order

Case study: The Jacobi algorithm

Case study: Dense matrix transpose

Algorithm classification and access optimizations

Case study: Sparse matrix-vector multiply

Parallel Computers

Taxonomy of parallel computing paradigms

Shared-memory computers

Distributed-memory computers

Hierarchical (hybrid) systems

Networks

Basics of Parallelization

Why parallelize?

Parallelism

Parallel scalability

Shared-Memory Parallel Programming with OpenMP

Short introduction to OpenMP

Case study: OpenMP-parallel Jacobi algorithm

Advanced OpenMP: Wavefront parallelization

Efficient OpenMP Programming

Profiling OpenMP programs

Performance pitfalls

Case study: Parallel sparse matrix-vector multiply

Locality Optimizations on ccNUMA Architectures

Locality of access on ccNUMA

Case study: ccNUMA optimization of sparse MVM

Placement pitfalls

ccNUMA issues with C++

Distributed-Memory Parallel Programming with MPI

Message passing

A short introduction to MPI

Example: MPI parallelization of a Jacobi solver

Efficient MPI Programming

MPI performance tools

Communication parameters

Synchronization, serialization, contention

Reducing communication overhead

Understanding intranode point-to-point communication

Hybrid Parallelization with MPI and OpenMP

Basic MPI/OpenMP programming models

MPI taxonomy of thread interoperability

Hybrid decomposition and mapping

Potential benefits and drawbacks of hybrid programming

Appendix A: Topology and Affinity in Multicore Environments

Appendix B: Solutions to the Problems

Bibliography

Index