Category: Graphics

Adobe Edge Animate – Rocky Nook’s elegant new software how-to guide – #webdesign #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Adobe Edge Animate Using Web Standards to Create Interactive Websites Simon Widjaja (Rocky Nook – paperback, Kindle) Simon Widjaja’s new book is both elegant and practical. It is elegantly structured and illustrated, and it is practical in its approach to showing how to use Adobe Edge Animate. That software package, Widjaja says, “is a multimedia … Continue reading Adobe Edge Animate – Rocky Nook’s elegant new software how-to guide – #webdesign #bookreview

Blender Master Class – Excellent hands-on guide to modeling, sculpting, materials & rendering – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Blender Master Class A Hands-On Guide to Modeling, Sculpting, Materials, and Rendering Ben Simonds (No Starch Press, paperback, Kindle) This excellent hands-on guide shows “how to create models and environments in 3D, using two pieces of software: Blender, for 3D design and animation, and GIMP, for 2D image editing.” It covers Blender 2.6x. The author, … Continue reading Blender Master Class – Excellent hands-on guide to modeling, sculpting, materials & rendering – #bookreview

Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual Chris Grover (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) Chris Grover’s well-written and updated new book shows you how to build animated HTML 5 graphics for the iPhone, the iPad, and the Web, using familiar Adobe features. By the sixth page of the first chapter, you are using the software to begin … Continue reading Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual – #bookreview

Adobe Edge Animate Preview 7: The Missing Manual – #bookreview #html5 #animation

by Si Dunn

Adobe Edge Animate Preview 7: The Missing Manual Chris Grover (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) Chris Glover’s well-written new book shows you how to build animated HTML 5 graphics for the iPhone, the iPad, and the Web, using familiar Adobe features. By the sixth page of the first chapter, you are using the software to create … Continue reading Adobe Edge Animate Preview 7: The Missing Manual – #bookreview #html5 #animation

The Data Journalism Handbook – Get new skills for a new career that’s actually in demand – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

The Data Journalism Handbook: How Journalists Can Use Data to Improve the News Edited by Jonathan Gray, Liliana Bounegru, and Lucy Chambers (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) Arise, ye downtrodden, unemployed newspaper and magazine writers and editors yearning to be working again as journalists. Data journalism apparently is hiring. Data journalism? I didn’t know, either, until … Continue reading The Data Journalism Handbook – Get new skills for a new career that’s actually in demand – #bookreview

Getting Started with D3 – A guide to working with data-driven documents – #bookreview #javascript

by Si Dunn

Getting Started with D3 Mike Dewar (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) This focused, 58-page how-to guide introduces the basics of D3, a JavaScript library written by Mike Bostock. The D3 library, a free download, can be used to manipulate documents based on data. According to the Data-Driven Documents website, “D3 allows you to bind arbitrary data to a … Continue reading Getting Started with D3 – A guide to working with data-driven documents – #bookreview #javascript