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Prepare to Board! Creating Story and Characters for Animated Features and Shorts: Creating Story And Characters For Animated Features And Shorts
by Nancy BeimanSuccessful 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.
Preparing for the Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam
by Matt DornMaster the objectives required to pass the Certified OpenStack Administrator exam. About This Book • Focuses on providing a clear, concise strategy so you gain the specific skills required to pass the Certified OpenStack Administrator exam • Includes exercises and performance-based tasks to ensure all exam objectives can be completed via the Horizon dashboard and command-line interface • Includes a free OpenStack Virtual Appliance to practice the objectives covered throughout the book • Includes a practice exam to put your OpenStack skills to the test to prove you have what it takes to conquer the live exam • Updated for the 2017 exam featuring OpenStack Newton Who This Book Is For This book is for IT professionals, system administrators, DevOps engineers, and software developers with basic Linux command-line and networking knowledge. It's also a great guide for those interested in an entry-level OpenStack position but have limited real-world OpenStack experience. After passing the exam, Certified OpenStack Administrators will prove they have the required skills for the job. What You Will Learn • Manage the Keystone identity service by creating and modifying domains, groups, projects, users, roles, services, endpoints, and quotas. • Upload Glance images, launch new Nova instances, and create flavors, key pairs, and snapshots. • Discover Neutron tenant and provider networks, security groups, routers, and floating IPs. • Manage the Cinder block storage service by creating volumes and attaching them to instances. • Create Swift containers and set access control lists to allow read/write access to your objects. • Explore Heat orchestration templates and create, list, and update stacks. In Detail This book provides you with a specific strategy to pass the OpenStack Foundation's first professional certification: the Certified OpenStack Administrator. In a recent survey, 78% of respondents said the OpenStack skills shortage had deterred them from adopting OpenStack. Consider this an opportunity to increase employer and customer confidence by proving you have the skills required to administrate real-world OpenStack clouds. You will begin your journey by getting well-versed with the OpenStack environment, understanding the benefits of taking the exam, and installing an included OpenStack all-in-one virtual appliance so you can work through objectives covered throughout the book. After exploring the basics of the individual services, you will be introduced to strategies to accomplish the exam objectives relevant to Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat, and troubleshooting. Finally, you'll benefit from the special tips section and a practice exam to put your knowledge to the test. By the end of the journey, you will be ready to become a Certified OpenStack Administrator! Style and approach Clear, concise, and straightforward with supporting diagrams and lab environment tutorials, this book will help you confidently pass Certified OpenStack Administrator objectives on the Horizon dashboard and command-line interface.
PrestaShop Recipes
by Arnaldo Pérez CastañoCustomize all your PrestaShop themes with easy-to-follow recipes designed to remedy common pitfalls. Separated clearly into subjects, you will easily be able to look up the problem you are having and find a solution. Free of jargon and long sections of theory, PrestaShop Recipes enables you to troubleshoot and learn all at the same time. This book will aid you in your PrestaShop development – the free, open source e-commerce content management solution written in PHP and with support for MySQL. Accessible to small start-ups or larger businesses, it is becoming a very popular eCommerce solution and this book will enable you to use it to its full potential.
Presto Sketching: The Magic of Simple Drawing for Brilliant Product Thinking and Design
by Ben CrothersDo you feel like your thoughts, ideas, and plans are being suffocated by a constant onslaught of information? Do you want to get those great ideas out of your head, onto the whiteboard and into everyone else’s heads, but find it hard to start? No matter what level of sketching you think you have, Presto Sketching will help you lift your game in visual thinking and visual communication.In this practical workbook, Ben Crothers provides loads of tips, templates, and exercises that help you develop your visual vocabulary and sketching skills to clearly express and communicate your ideas. Learn techniques like product sketching, storyboarding, journey mapping, and conceptual illustration. Dive into how to use a visual metaphor (with a library of 101 visual metaphors), as well as tips for capturing and sharing your sketches digitally, and developing your own style.Designers, product managers, trainers, and entrepreneurs will learn better ways to explore problems, explain concepts, and come up with well-defined ideas - and have fun doing it.
Preventing Digital Extortion
by Dhanya ThakkarLearn the art of preventing digital extortion and securing confidential data About This Book • Get acquainted with multiple cyber extortion attacks and techniques to mitigate them • Learn how DDOS, Crypto Virus, and other cyber extortion techniques can infect your computers, smartphones, servers, and cloud • A concise, fast-paced guide that develops your skills in protecting confidential data by leveraging widely used tools Who This Book Is For This book targets IT security managers, IT security engineers, security analysts, and professionals who are eager to avoid digital extortion for themselves or their organizations. They may have heard of such attacks but are not aware of their various types, techniques, and business impact. What You Will Learn • Delve into the various types, stages, and economics of digital extortion • Understand the science behind different attacks • Understand the gravity of and mechanics behind ransomware and prevent and mitigate data breaches and financial losses • Use effective tools to defend against ransomware • Analyze attacks, the money flow, and cyber insurance processes • Learn the art of preventing digital extortion and securing confidential data • Get an idea of the future of extortion tactics and how technological advances will affect their development In Detail More and more cyber threats keep emerging every day, affecting organizations across the board, targeting the entire spectrum of the Internet. Digital--or cyber--extortion so far has come across as the most serious of such threats as it seeks to profit from criminal activity, akin to blackmail. Such extortion has been rising exponentially in the digital age and has become a huge illegal money-making business, affecting users and organizations ranging from small businesses to large enterprises. This is an insightful study spelling out in detail the ways and means employed by cyber criminals in targeting various devices and the multiple dangers such malicious activity embodies. Here will be found an overview of methods employed to impact and infect computers, smartphones, servers, and the IoT for cyber extortion. Then, it will move on to specific subjects in more detail, covering attacks such as DDoS-based extortion, cryptoviruses, and ransomware. You will learn how to prevent such attacks and eliminate them if you are compromised. This book will help you become a pro at securing your data and preventing your organization from paying a hefty ransom. Style and approach This step-by-step guide will start with the fundamentals of digital or cyber extortion and the various techniques used by hackers to demand ransom from an organization. It also focuses on types of ransomware and how it can infect your computer, mobile, cloud, server, and IOT. This practical guide will also explain how you can eliminate such attacks by leveraging various open source/commercial tools.
Principal Component Analysis Networks and Algorithms
by Xiangyu Kong Changhua Hu Zhansheng DuanThis book not only provides a comprehensive introduction to neural-based PCA methods in control science, but also presents many novel PCA algorithms and their extensions and generalizations, e. g. , dual purpose, coupled PCA, GED, neural based SVD algorithms, etc. It also discusses in detail various analysis methods for the convergence, stabilizing, self-stabilizing property of algorithms, and introduces the deterministic discrete-time systems method to analyze the convergence of PCA/MCA algorithms. Readers should be familiar with numerical analysis and the fundamentals of statistics, such as the basics of least squares and stochastic algorithms. Although it focuses on neural networks, the book only presents their learning law, which is simply an iterative algorithm. Therefore, no a priori knowledge of neural networks is required. This book will be of interest and serve as a reference source to researchers and students in applied mathematics, statistics, engineering, and other related fields.
Principles of Applied Engineering
by Kenneth Reid David Reeping Elizabeth A. StephanNIMAC-sourced textbook
Principles of Data Wrangling: Practical Techniques for Data Preparation
by Connor Carreras Jeffrey Heer Joseph M. Hellerstein Sean Kandel Tye RattenburyA key task that any aspiring data-driven organization needs to learn is data wrangling, the process of converting raw data into something truly useful. This practical guide provides business analysts with an overview of various data wrangling techniques and tools, and puts the practice of data wrangling into context by asking, "What are you trying to do and why?". Wrangling data consumes roughly 50-80% of an analyst’s time before any kind of analysis is possible. Written by key executives at Trifacta, this book walks you through the wrangling process by exploring several factors—time, granularity, scope, and structure—that you need to consider as you begin to work with data. You’ll learn a shared language and a comprehensive understanding of data wrangling, with an emphasis on recent agile analytic processes used by many of today’s data-driven organizations.Appreciate the importance—and the satisfaction—of wrangling data the right way. Understand what kind of data is available. Choose which data to use and at what level of detail. Meaningfully combine multiple sources of data. Decide how to distill the results to a size and shape that can drive downstream analysis.
Principles of Information Technology
by Kathleen M. Austin Lorraine N. BergkvistPrinciples of Information Technology presents basic principles and concepts about information technology to help students become more valuable employees, better citizens, and knowledgeable consumers. Written specifically for high school students, this text maps to the IC3 Digital Literacy Certification standards. By studying this text, students can prepare for taking the Certiport IC3 Digital Literacy Certification exams. IC3 Digital Literacy Certification is a well-respected and internationally recognized credential.
Principles of Information Technology: Preparing for IC3 Certification
by Suzanne WeixelNIMAC-sourced textbook
Principles of Security and Trust
by Mark Ryan Matteo MaffeiThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Principles of Security and Trust, POST 2017, which took place in Uppsala, Sweden in April 2017, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2017. The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: information flow; security protocols; security policies; and information leakage.
Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity in Europe
by Wolf J. Schünemann Max-Otto BaumannThis book offers a comparative perspective on data protection and cybersecurity in Europe. In light of the digital revolution and the implementation of social media applications and big data innovations, it analyzes threat perceptions regarding privacy and cyber security, and examines socio-political differences in the fundamental conceptions and narratives of privacy, and in data protection regimes, across various European countries. The first part of the book raises fundamental legal and ethical questions concerning data protection; the second analyses discourses on cybersecurity and data protection in various European countries; and the third part discusses EU regulations and norms intended to create harmonized data protection regimes.
Privacy Technologies and Policy
by Erich Schweighofer Herbert Leitold Andreas Mitrakas Kai RannenbergThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2017, held in Vienna, Austria, in June 2017. The 12 revised full papers were carefully selected from 41 submissions on the basis of significance, novelty, and scientific quality. These selected papers are organized in three different chapters corresponding to the conference sessions. The first chapter, "Data Protection Regulation", discusses topics concerning big genetic data, a privacy-preserving European identity ecosystem, the right to be forgotten und the re-use of privacy risk analysis. The second chapter, "Neutralisation and Anonymization", discusses neutralisation of threat actors, privacy by design data exchange between CSIRTs, differential privacy and database anonymization. Finally, the third chapter, "Privacy Policies in Practice", discusses privacy by design, privacy scores, privacy data management in healthcare and trade-offs between privacy and utility.
Privacy Technologies and Policy: 5th Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2017, Vienna, Austria, June 7-8, 2017. Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10518)
by Manel Medina Andreas Mitrakas Kai Rannenberg Erich Schweighofer Nikolaos TsouroulasThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2018, held in Barcelona, Spain, in June 2018. <P><P>The 11 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections named: technical analysis and techniques; privacy implementation; compliance; and legal aspects.
Private Investigation and Homeland Security
by Daniel J. BennyThe threat against the homeland continues and the private investigator plays a critical part in this effort. This includes in providing criminal, civil and background investigation, protective service, security consulting and electronic sweeps. The text will provide an overview of the role of private investigation in protection of the homeland and show how such skill can be utilized by business and government in this effort.
Privately and Publicly Verifiable Computing Techniques
by Denise Demirel Lucas Schabhüser Johannes BuchmannThis book presents the first comprehensive overview of various verifiable computing techniques, which allow the computation of a function on outsourced data to be delegated to a server. It provides a brief description of all the approaches and highlights the properties each solution achieves. Further, it analyzes the level of security provided, how efficient the verification process is, who can act as a verifier and check the correctness of the result, which function class the verifiable computing scheme supports, and whether privacy with respect to t he input and/or output data is provided. On the basis of this analysis the authors then compare the different approaches and outline possible directions for future work. The book is of interest to anyone wanting to understand the state of the art of this research field.
Pro Angular
by Adam FreemanGet the most from Angular 2, the leading framework for building dynamic JavaScript applications. Best-selling author Adam Freeman begins by describing the MVC pattern and the benefits it can offer and then shows you how to use Angular in your projects, starting from the nuts-and-bolts and building up to the most advanced and sophisticated features, going in-depth to give you the knowledge you need. Each topic is covered clearly and concisely and is packed with the details you need to learn to be truly effective. The most important features are given a no-nonsense in-depth treatment and chapters include common problems and details of how to avoid them. What you'll learn Gain a solid architectural understanding of the MVC Pattern Learn how to create rich and dynamic web app clients using Angular 2 Learn how to extend and customize Angular 2 Learn how to test your Angular 2 projects Who this book is for Web developers with a foundation knowledge of HTML and JavaScript who want to create rich client-side applications.
Pro Apache Phoenix
by Shakil Akhtar Ravi MaghamLeverage Phoenix as an ANSI SQL engine built on top of the highly distributed and scalable NoSQL framework HBase. Learn the basics and best practices that are being adopted in Phoenix to enable a high write and read throughput in a big data space. This book includes real-world cases such as Internet of Things devices that send continuous streams to Phoenix, and the book explains how key features such as joins, indexes, transactions, and functions help you understand the simple, flexible, and powerful API that Phoenix provides. Examples are provided using real-time data and data-driven businesses that show you how to collect, analyze, and act in seconds. Pro Apache Phoenix covers the nuances of setting up a distributed HBase cluster with Phoenix libraries, running performance benchmarks, configuring parameters for production scenarios, and viewing the results. The book also shows how Phoenix plays well with other key frameworks in the Hadoop ecosystem such as Apache Spark, Pig, Flume, and Sqoop. You will learn how to: Handle a petabyte data store by applying familiar SQL techniques Store, analyze, and manipulate data in a NoSQL Hadoop echo system with HBase Apply best practices while working with a scalable data store on Hadoop and HBase Integrate popular frameworks (Apache Spark, Pig, Flume) to simplify big data analysis Demonstrate real-time use cases and big data modeling techniques Who This Book Is For Data engineers, Big Data administrators, and architects.
Pro Functional PHP Programming
by Rob AleyBring the power of functional programming to your PHP applications. From performance optimizations to concurrency, improved testability to code brevity, functional programming has a host of benefits when compared to traditional imperative programming. Part one of Pro Functional PHP Programming takes you through the basics of functional programming, outlining the key concepts and how they translate into standard PHP functions and code. Part two takes this theory and shows you the strategies for implementing it to solve real problems in your new or existing PHP applications. Functional programming is popular in languages such as Lisp, Scheme and Clojure, but PHP also contains all you need to write functional code. This book will show you how to take advantage of functional programming in your own projects, utilizing the PHP programming language that you already know. What You'll Learn Discover functional programming in PHP Work with functional programming functions Design strategies for high-performance applications Manage business logic with functions Use functional programming in object-oriented and procedural applications Employ helper libraries in your application Process big data with functional PHP Who This Book Is For Programmers and web developers with experience of PHP who are looking to get more out of their PHP coding and be able to do more with PHP.
Pro Hadoop Data Analytics
by Kerry KoitzschLearn advanced analytical techniques and leverage existing tool kits to make your analytic applications more powerful, precise, and efficient. This book provides the right combination of architecture, design, and implementation information to create analytical systems that go beyond the basics of classification, clustering, and recommendation. Pro Hadoop Data Analytics emphasizes best practices to ensure coherent, efficient development. A complete example system will be developed using standard third-party components that consist of the tool kits, libraries, visualization and reporting code, as well as support glue to provide a working and extensible end-to-end system. The book also highlights the importance of end-to-end, flexible, configurable, high-performance data pipeline systems with analytical components as well as appropriate visualization results. You'll discover the importance of mix-and-match or hybrid systems, using different analytical components in one application. This hybrid approach will be prominent in the examples. What You'll Learn Build big data analytic systems with the Hadoop ecosystem Use libraries, tool kits, and algorithms to make development easier and more effective Apply metrics to measure performance and efficiency of components and systems Connect to standard relational databases, noSQL data sources, and more Follow case studies with example components to create your own systems Who This Book Is For Software engineers, architects, and data scientists with an interest in the design and implementation of big data analytical systems using Hadoop, the Hadoop ecosystem, and other associated technologies.
Pro HTML5 with CSS, JavaScript, and Multimedia
by Mark J. CollinsGet ahead in HTML5, including markup, styling, and scripting, with many practical examples and best practice insights. You’ll quickly understand HTML5 markup elements and when to use them, and then apply the latest CSS3 features to create amazing web pages.Pro HTML5 with CSS, JavaScript, and Multimedia teaches the fundamentals of client-side scripting and covers the immense functionality available with HTML5. Learn to use JavaScript to create web applications that are dynamic and interactive, and add advanced features, including audio, video, SVG, and drag and drop capabilities. Using practical hands-on demonstrations you will access a larger set of technologies to create more diverse and powerful websites and applications.What You'll LearnHow, and when, to use all the HTML5 markup tagsUse CSS3 features to simplify website designMaster JavaScript fundamentals and advanced featuresLeverage the native browser support for Geolocation, IndexedDB, and drag and drop capabilitiesWho This Book Is ForWeb developers and designers who want to increase their HTML5 skills to create modern interactive websites
Pro Java 9 Games Development
by Wallace JacksonUse Java 9 and JavaFX 9 to write 3D games for the latest consumer electronics devices. Written by open source gaming expert Wallace Jackson, this book uses Java 9 and NetBeans 9 to add leading-edge features, such as 3D, textures, animation, digital audio, and digital image compositing to your games. Along the way you'll learn about game design, including game design concepts, genres, engines, and UI design techniques. To completely master Java 3D game creation, you will combine this knowledge with a number of JavaFX 9 topics, such as scene graph hierarchy; 3D scene configuration; 3D model design and primitives; model shader creation; and 3D game animation creation. With these skills you will be able to take your 3D Java games to the next level. The final section of Pro Java 9 Games Development puts the final polish on your abilities. You'll see how to add AI logic for random content selection methods; harness a professional scoring engine; and player-proof your event handling. After reading Pro Java 9 Games Development, you will come away with enough 3D expertise to design, develop, and build your own professional Java 9 games, using JavaFX 9 and the latest new media assets. What You'll Learn Design and build professional 3D Java 9 games, using NetBeans 9, Java 9, and JavaFX 9 Integrate new media assets, such as digital imagery and digital audio Integrate the new JavaFX 9 multimedia engine API Create an interactive 3D board game, modeled, textured, and animated using JavaFX Optimize game assets for distribution, and learn how to use the Java 9 module system Who This Book Is For Experienced Java developers who may have some prior game development experience. This book can be for experienced game developers new to Java programming.
Pro MERN Stack
by Vasan SubramanianAssemble the complete stack required to build a modern web app using React: MongoDB (a NoSQL database) and Express (a framework for web application servers), which runs on Node (JavaScript on the server side), complement React very nicely. This book will also cover many other tools that go into building a complete web application: React Router, React-Bootstrap, Redux, Babel, and webpack.Though the primary focus of Pro MERN Stack is to equip you with all that is required to build a full-fledged web application, a large portion of the book will be devoted to React.The popular MEAN (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node) stack introduced Single Page Apps (SPAs) and front-end Model-View-Controller (MVC) as new and efficient paradigms. But it has its shortcomings such as lack of support for SEO friendly server-side rendering and being too prescriptive by being a framework.Facebook's React is a technology that competes indirectly with AngularJS. It is not a full-fledged MVC framework. It is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces (in some sense the View part). Yet, it is possible to build a web app by replacing AngularJS with React – hence the term MERN stack.What You Will LearnDiscover the details of React, the React Way, and how to get the maximum out of this librarySee the basics of MongoDB, Express, and Node, enough to build a web appWork with other tools complementary to React, including React-Bootstrap and React RouterUse the tools required to build JavaScript based SPAs Tie all the components together to build a complete web app.Who This Book Is ForDevelopers and architects who have prior experience in any web app stack other than the MERN stack will find the book useful to learn about this modern stack. Prior knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS is required.
Pro Processing for Images and Computer Vision with OpenCV: Solutions for Media Artists and Creative Coders
by Bryan Wc ChungApply the Processing language to tasks involved in computer vision--tasks such as edge and corner detection, recognition of motion between frames in a video, recognition of objects, matching of feature points and shapes in different frames for tracking purposes, and more. You will manipulate images through creative effects, geometric transformation, blending of multiple images, and so forth. Examples are provided.Pro Processing for Images and Computer Vision with OpenCV is a step-by-step training tool that guides you through a series of worked examples in linear order. Each chapter begins with a basic demonstration, including the code to recreate it on your own system. Then comes a creative challenge by which to engage and develop mastery of the chapter’s topic. The book also includes hints and tips relating to visual arts, interaction design, and industrial best practices.This book is intended for any developer of artistic and otherwise visual applications, such as in augmented reality and digital effects, with a need to manipulate images, and to recognize and manipulate objects within those images. The book is specifically targeted at those making use of the Processing language that is common in artistic fields, and to Java programmers because of Processing’s easy integration into the Java programming environment. What You'll LearnMake use of OpenCV, the open source library for computer vision in the Processing environmentCapture live video streams and examine them frame-by-frame for objects in motionRecognize shapes and objects through techniques of detecting lines, edges, corners, and moreTransform images by scaling, translating, rotating, and additionally through various distortion effectsApply techniques such as background subtraction to isolate motion of objects in live video streamsDetect and track human faces and other objects by matching feature points in different images or video framesWho This Book Is ForMedia artists, designers, and creative coders
Pro Python Best Practices
by Kristian RotherLearn software engineering and coding best practices to write Python code right and error free. In this book you'll see how to properly debug, organize, test, and maintain your code, all of which leads to better, more efficient coding. Software engineering is difficult. Programs of any substantial length are inherently prone to errors of all kinds. The development cycle is full of traps unknown to the apprentice developer. Yet, in Python textbooks little attention is paid to this aspect of getting your code to run. At most, there is a chapter on debugging or unit testing in your average basic Python book. However, the proportion of time spent on getting your code to run is much higher in the real world. Pro Python Best Practices aims to solve this problem. What You'll Learn Learn common debugging techniques that help you find and eliminate errors Gain techniques to detect bugs more easily Learn techniques to keep your project under control Who This Book Is For Experienced Python coders from web development, big data, and more.