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3D Art Essentials from £14.99 £

3D Art Essentials is a guide dedicated to helping you create brilliant artwork using leading CG software.

Inside, you’ll find inspiring artwork to show what can be achieved, and page after page of tutorials showing you how to use programs including 3ds Max and ZBrush.

Take a look at how 3D software is used in illustration today before jumping into four packed tutorial sections covering popular themes of characters, environments, creatures and vehicles. Each section offers a range of complete projects showing you how to create models and renders from start to finish.

Most projects are accompanied by video footage showing every second of how the artist created the artwork – the most complete help you could ever need.

Features Include:

Character posing tips
Sculpting clothing
Tropical beach landscape
Optimise your renders
Modelling a car

Published: February 2012

Pagination: 224 pages

Dimensions: 300 x 232mm

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Computer Arts Book of Inspiration Volume 3 from £14.99 £

Computer Arts Book of Inspiration Volume III is a selection of the world’s finest creative talent intended to inspire, entertain and aide you in your design endeavours.

A snapshot of what’s happening in the industry right now it will hopefully inspire you to progress and develop those ideas brewing in your head.

Volume III also plays host to some modern day design icons such as Kate Moross, Anthony Burrill, James Jarvis and more, all thoroughly deserving their places in our design hall of fame. Dive deep into the minds of the world’s foremost creative influencers.

There’s also in-depth profiles of some truly brilliant agencies who are pushing boundaries in the creative sphere – from the addictive apps of us two to the sublime branding work of Landor.

Published: December 2011

Pagination: 196 pages

Dimensions: 300 x 232mm

Computer Arts Collection from £16.99 £

Computer Arts Collection is an annual series of six in-depth guides, packed with insight and inspiration from the global design industry.

With 224 stunning pages, it's the definitive guide to the core creative fields that no designer can do without:

Graphic design
Typography
Illustration
Branding
Photography
Advertising

At its core is a groundbreaking 48-page special project, guest-edited by a different world-renowned design studio every issue, which details their creative process from initial idea, through development and into production - including 45 minutes of exclusive behind-the-scenes video sharing their secrets.

It also includes an unmissable 20-page report on the latest trends, extended interviews with iconic designers and industry decision-makers, and an indispensable talent directory to set up your next creative collaboration.

You'll receive 6 issues during a 1 year Computer Arts Collection magazine subscription.

From the Editor

"Computer Arts Collection is the perfect addition to your studio bookshelf. There's plenty of beautiful imagery to soak up, but there's substance as well as style - this is much more than just a coffee table book.

Invaluable insights and advice from your fellow designers will help your own client briefs run more smoothly, while our specially commissioned trend report will ensure your studio stays ahead of the curve."

Nick Carson - Editor, Computer Arts Collection

ImagineFX Binder (New-Size!) from £9.99 £

Our new binder is larger and will accommodate all copies of ImagineFX making it is perfect for storing and protecting up to 13 issues.

Artwork designed by Dan Scott

The IFX binder is designed to accommodate all copies of your favourite magazine

Stores a year's worth of issues (13 issues)

The Cordex, has spring-loaded cords to hold magazines in place.

The binder gives the appearance of a bound book which looks great and allows easy insertion of magazines.

Cinema 4D Essentials from £14.99 £

Improve your skills in Cinema 4D with this core guide to Cinema 4D Essentials. A key software package for illustrators, designers and animators worldwide, this guide will show you how to harness its power for yourself!

This bookazine is divided into sections according to subject such as environments, characters, vehicles and dynamics and the featured tutorials are arranged in ascending order of difficulty to aid readers at all levels. The tutorials are presented in three formats, an overview, a step-by-step walkthrough and a video guide which can be found on the included dvd.

The cover was created by Tommaso Sanguigni (tommasosanguigni.it).

Read this guide and you too could be creating images like those featured in no time at all!

Featuring:

Gallery - Cinema 4D images from artists worldwide
Gothic Church - Recreate a Gothic interior to uncover more complex texturing and post-production techniques
Exterior Lighting - Simulate a range of common real-world weather conditions, from sunrise to a foggy night
Swordmaster - Master fundamental character modelling techniques to create a low-polygon games model
Introduction to Rigging
Spaceship - Discover how to create concept art, then model and texture a spaceship from your designs
Motion Graphics - Create a complete logo animation with our concluding motion graphics masterclass
Q&A

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Please Note: The instructions given match the version of Cinema 4D for which each tutorial was originally written, and are for the Windows edition of the software. If you are using another version, you may notice minor differences in the names or locations of menu commands. With Release 12, Maxon integrated its old add-on modules into Cinema 4D, so where one is required for a tutorial, you may need to visit maxon.net to identify the equivalent current edition.

Maya Essentials from £14.99 £

Maya Essentials is your complete guide to mastering core techniques in Autodesk’s industry-standard 3D software.

Packed with 228 pages of Maya advice, leading designers, animators and visual effects artists walk you through the way things are done on real jobs, to help you build professional skills in easy stages. The guide also comes with a free dvd with 9 complete tutorials and 25 hours of video lessons to further help you harness Maya’s vast array of tools.

Split into three subject sections; environments, characters and vehicles, each section contains tutorials in ascending order of difficulty beginning with an overview then moving on to more detailed walkthroughs.

Features Include:

Gothic Church
Digital Set Extension
Cartoon Rigging
Character Animation
Light Cycle

Published: June 2011

Pagination: 228 pages

Dimensions: 300 x 232mm

Computer Arts Presents: Pro Software Skills - Photoshop from £7.99 £

Computer Arts Presents: Pro Software Skills - Photoshop - Your complete guide to mastering high-end design and illustration techniques.

Work faster and smarter, building on your existing design skills and fine-tuning your workflow and creative processes with expert guides, ultimate inspiration and pro-techniques all packed into this handy 116-page guide.

Amongst all the techniques and tips there's also profiles of the world's leading pro's including Justin Maller, Beefactory and Mike Kus.

Features Include:

New ways to use layers to make your creative process slicker
50 ways to traceless retouching
Transform your illustration workflow with Photoshop
Achieve smooth retouching without losing realism
The quick, easy way to mock up websites with Photoshop
Harness the wide-ranging power of curves
Master Photoshop’s full offering of colour tools to take your work to new highs

Computer Arts Presents: Pro Software Skills - Photoshop also includes a free disc with 1.5 hours of video tuition inc colour theory explained.

Computer Arts Presents: Pro Software Skills - After Effects from £7.99 £

Pro Software Skills: After Effects is full of tips, tutorials and tricks that will enable you to master the software and make your motion graphics the best they’ve ever been.

And if you’re a print designer, familiar with Photoshop and Illustrator, then this guide will help you get to grips with the sometimes daunting After Effects toolset. Take a look at out our Pro Guides. These give you an idea of After Effects key functions and uses, and we hope they’ll be invaluable reference tools.

Featuring:

The AE Interface
AE Essentials
Motion & Animation – Advanced AE Skills
Effects & Presets
Expressions
Title Sequences
Compositing
Vivian Kim
Broken Antler

And much, much more!

Computer Arts Presents: Pro Software Skills - Illustrator from £7.99 £

Computer Arts Presents: Pro Software Skills - Illustrator

Featuring:

Paths and Bezler Curves - Get more from your everyday tools
Pathfinder & Shapes - Unlock the potential of Pathfinder palette & CS5's new Shape Builder
Symbols and Brushes - Create versatile elements to save time
Artboards and Grids - Breeze through complex projects
Effects - Manipulate your designs with ease
Packaging - Create better packaging work from dielines to colour separations
Logo Design - 50 all-new ways to create stunning logos every time

And much, much more!

Computer Arts Presents: Pro Software Skills - InDesign from £7.99 £

Computer Arts Presents Pro Software Skills: In Design is a 116 page in-depth guide, designed to help creative professionals refine their print and publishing skills. Featuring 150 essential new techniques, you can learn how to work smarter and faster whilst speeding up your design workflow.

Get inspired by world-class print and digital design work from Mark Porter, Pentagram and Scott Dadich and discover tools and hidden shortcuts to help you boost your productivity.

Whether you spend your day laying out newspapers, magazines, brochures or reports - or are exploiting CS5.5's digital publishing capalities and designing for iPad - you'll find plenty of expert advice for getting more from InDesign at every stage of the production process.

Featuring:

Grids - Create more accurate, useful grids
Type - Get more from InDesign's type tools
Styles - How to achieve visual consistency
Templates - Free up your time and creativity
Print Prep - Never risk a bad print job again
Digital Publishing - Make the move into tablet design
Tool Guide - Know your way around the tool menus intimately
On the disc - Galleries, video training and free resources on your disc!

And much, much more!

Imagine FX Presents: Fantasy Art Essentials from £14.99 £

ImagineFX Presents: Fantasy Art Essentials is packed full of 288 pages of the biggest names in fantasy art including interviews, advice, workshops and new art from Wayne Barlowe, Chris Foss, Charles Vess, Dave Gibbons, HR Giger, Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell and many more!

It contains a mix of traditional art advice from people such as James Gurney, Brian Froud and Rodney Matthews as well as digital techniques from Adam Hughes, Marta Dahlig and Andrew Jones.

Fantasy Art Essentials is your ultimate guide to fantasy art techniques, advice and theory. It also comes with a free disc featuring video workshops, brushes, hi-res images, textures and more.

Features Include:

The History of Dungeons and Dragons Art – Legendary artists share their highs and lows of working for Dungeons and Dragons.
Dave Gibbons – The Watchmen artist talks & how to paint Rorschach.
Alien Tips – Wayne Barlowe reveals his 10 tips for creating unique creature designs
Adam Hughes – DC’s cover artist shares his art and paints Catwoman
20 Fantasy Tips – Henning Ludvigsen reveals the 20 ways to achieve better fantasy paintings, including colour, texture and light tips.

And much more!

Web Design Essentials: Volume 2 from £14.99 £

Web Design Essentials 2 is the second edition of this bookazine compiled for web designers & developers who enjoy creating stunning websites. With advice and tutorials from web design professionals this guide is packed with 228 pages of web design tips.

Featuring articles on where to find the best budget tools, how to get your site to the top of Google and an in-depth look at new technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3, it’s packed with hands-on projects and detailed features to take your HTML, CSS, Javascript, Flash, Photoshop and mobile skills to the next level. You’ll find inspiration for your web projects, insightful interviews and a look at some of the best sites around. There’s also a free CD included with fantastic tools, apps and 25 resource files for projects.

From the makers of .net magazine – this has been written by some of the biggest names in the industry and is essential to keep you ahead of the competition.

3ds Max Essentials from £14.99 £

Master the techniques of leading professional 3ds Max artists with our bumper 228-page guide to Autodesk's industry-standard 3D software.

Inside this jam-packed guide, leading illustrators, animators and games artists walk you through the way things are done on real jobs, enabling you to build professional skills in easy stages.

This complete guide to 3ds Max comes with a free DVD packed with 10 tutorials and four hours of expert video lessons. Brought to you by industry-leading magazine 3D World in association with 3D Total.com

Photoshop Essentials from £14.99 £

Master the world’s favourite and most powerful design, illustration and image-editing tool.

The 2011 edition Photoshop Essentials is fully updated with new tutorials from Computer Arts magazine – each written by a Photoshop professional – it will help you master the world’s favourite and most powerful design, illustration and image-editing tool.

The guide brings you an exhaustive guide to Photoshop’s tools, with every tool in the Tool Panel explored. You’ll discover how to use the tools, access them quickly and how to customise them to exactly how you want them.

Following this you’ll find over 40 tutorials revealing the secrets of illustration, compositing, digital painting, mixed-media collage and much more.

At the back of this edition – to inspire and entertain you – the guide includes a showcase section packed with the very best Photoshop art created by some of the world’s most exciting new digital artists and designers.

On the free disc you get all the starter files required for following each artist’s tutorial, plus a vast array of resources to help you create stunning artwork.

Features

Photoshop tool guide - the ultimate guide to Photoshop’s powerful features

Top creative tips - 40 ways to make better images

Techniques

Create explosive shatter effects - the Repoussé tool is a quick route to unique effects

The new take on cityscapes - collage elements of your world to make a whole new one

Produce dynamic photo-illustrations - blend images beautifully for dramatic photo effects

Get to know Repoussé - make the most of one of CS5’s most impressive features

Create light effects with texture - add a personal flare to your work by incorporating doodles and textures

Master dynamic manipulation - make your images leap from the canvas

Fresh illustration abstraction - build an abstract masterpiece from simple circles

Build blends for surreal landscapes - set stunning scenes by mixing found imagery

Master the Layer Mask - get to grips with this useful Photoshop function

Bring some energy to your artwork - add drama to your artwork using textures, gradients and brushes

Add 3D depth to 2D images - take your 2D illustrations into a whole new dimension

Fake a photo shoot the Photoshop way - if you don’t have the budget for studio photography, fake it

Construct beautiful distortions - add an abstract stance to photographic model works

Merge sketches with photography - place your hand-drawn characters into the real world

Create 3D type with the Repoussé tool - create complex textual images using the CS5 tool

Create your signature mask image - combine Photoshop tools with physical equivalents for a show-stopping mask shot

Take Photoshop further

Bring graphic accents to texture work - put a modern graphic slant on beautiful textured images

Explore illustrative typography - bring your own approach to pictorial type

Make 3D type with a street art influence - work with Google’s SketchUp Pro for fantastic 3D effects

Master mash-up - pattern fills - get spectacular textures by combining pattern fills

CSS Design Essentials from £10.99 £

How to create better websites with CSS – including hands-on tutorials from leading experts, plus disc inside with apps and 30 great website templates.

Calling all web designers! The time couldn’t be more exciting to create beautiful standards based websites, and CSS Design Essentials shows you how to get the most out of CSS. The guide contains features written by some of the leading experts in web design, covering everything from new CSS3 properties to adapting designs for multiple screen sizes.

This continues with an awe-inspiring showcase of the best sites built with CSS and related technologies plus interviews with some of the most respected designers and agencies in the industry.

CSS Design Essentials is jam-packed with hands-on projects (there’s a special focus on how to enhance your sites with CSS3 while providing fallbacks for older browsers).

Plus there’s your exclusive CD and details of the software, templates and tutorial files it includes.

On your Essential CSS CD

AllWebMenus Pro SE
FlySpeed SQL Query 2.7.6
Inspyder Sitemap
Creator 3 SE
LightPad 4.6.162
Style Master 4
Mediaroots training
Allwebco templates
WeBuilder 9

.net 200th Edition DVD from £7.99 £

.net is offering readers a unique opportunity – to own an amazing collection of the 200 top features, tutorials, interviews and opinion pieces from its history..net magazine has been the voice of web design and development since 1994, its authority stemming from a combination of world-class writers and access to industry experts.

Subjects covered include:

Design. Articles on everything from creating your own logo to using augmented reality.
Development. Master site navigation, convert your site for mobile, learn about HTML5 and more.
Big issues. Reports on Chinese censorship, spec work and other topical issues.
CSS. Nifty techniques for improving your tables, nav bars, scalability, IE6 hacks and more.
Flash. Create an interactive map, rotate an object in 3D and other fantastic Flash projects.
Coding. Our expert writers help you get under the hood of Ajax, PHP, JavaScript and AIR.

From the editor: “There’s an unbelievable amount of great stuff on this DVD, from informative features to easy to follow tutorials. We hope you enjoy it!” Dan Oliver, Editor of .net magazine

ZBrush Essentials from £11.50 £

Master the secrets of Hollywood’s digital sculptors with this essential guide to Pixologic’s 3D sculpting software, brought to you by the creators of 3DTotal and 3D World magazine.

Suitable for every level of experience, ZBrush Essentials is your complete guide to digital sculpting. Inside, the world’s leading 3D artists reveal their trade secrets, taking you from basic modelling to advanced detailing and texturing in easy stages.

The bookazine contains 24 complete tutorials, written by veterans of movies from X-Men 3 to Clash of the Titans. The accompanying DVD provides project files for each tutorial, including over 10 hours of video training.

Published: August 2010

Pagination: 228 pages

Dimensions: 300 x 232mm

Computer Arts Presents: iPad - the creative pro's guide from £5.50 £

Computer Arts presents iPad: The creative pro's guide...

For creative designers and developers the iPad is a hugely important and commercially fertile place for which to create content. Understanding how to design for the iPad and the rules and conventions that govern its content is key – and this is where The Creative Pro’s Guide to iPad comes in.

Within the pages of this special issue from the team behind Computer Arts magazine, you’ll find everything you need to know for creating iPad content, whether for paying clients or for your own creative intentions.

Inside the Guide:

The rules of app design
30 golden tips for creating killer content
Profiles of app creators making mega bucks from their designs
Behind the scenes on some of the App Store’s biggest-selling titles.
Packed tutorial section where you can learn the tricks and techniques for creating iPad-ready apps in no time at all.

The features and tutorials you’ll discover in the issue will equip you with the skills to go out and start pushing your content onto the 3 million iPad users ready and waiting to be entertained, challenged, aided or informed by your brilliant app idea.

Computer Arts from £13.99 £

Computer Arts: The Essential Read for the Modern Designer

Computer Arts is the leading magazine for designers, illustrators and creative professionals. Every month in the magazine you’ll find a plethora of inspiration, creative software skills and industry advice, all aimed at making you a better – and more successful – designer. Our Output section brings you the world’s best design work, and our new section, The design manual, is your essential desk companion – a collection of advice, tips and opinion that will help you complete your real-world, daily design challenges in double-quick time. And our Creative Skills section is the only place to find innovative software skills and techniques to improve your design workflow.

Every issue we feature pro skills in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Flash and more – making Computer Arts the ultimate guide to becoming a more versatile creative pro, and helping you undertake your creative challenges faster. We also bring you exclusive video tuition from our tutorial writers and Studio Life – a series of HD short films going behind the scenes at the world’s biggest agencies.

It’s simple. If you want to be a better designer, you need a Computer Arts magazine subscription.

You'll receive 13 issues during a 1 year Computer Arts magazine subscription.

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From the Editor

Why do creative people turn to Computer Arts? I’d say it’s down to the hard work of our expert team of designers, writers and freelancers.

The magazine is always exposing new talent, exploring the creative and business trends that make the design industry tick, and just as importantly revealing how your software can always be used in more intriguing ways.

If you’re passionate about visual communication, and constantly seek new inspiration, ideas and practical techniques Computer Arts is the mag for you.

Plus, via our website and online forum you can be part of a true community of international designers.

Don’t put it off. Join our merry band and find out what the next issue of Computer Arts has in store for you.

Rob Carney Editor - Computer Arts

Computer Arts iPad Magazine

Download the Computer Arts iPad magazine app from Newsstand on iTunes.

Single issues: £4.99 each

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Computer Arts App

Computer Arts - Visualator

From the makers of Computer Arts magazine, Visualator lets you create stunning abstract imagery with your fingertips. Play with colour, shape and form to produce vibrant collages on the move, that you can then use in your design work. Launching with two innovative tools - Gradulate and Triangulate – the app has been built entirely using Flash CS5 as an interactive showcase for what’s possible with the platform.

Get the app from iTunes: Free

Computer Arts Presents The Designer's Guide To Going Freelance

Packed with all the advice you need to forge a successful career as a creative professional. From taking those first steps to promoting yourself effectively, winning clients, setting your rates and managing your time and money - it’s all here. Available to read on your iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch or Kindle for only £7.99.

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ImagineFX from £13.99 £

If you love to paint, then ImagineFX is just for you.

ImagineFX is packed to the rafters with an eclectic mixture of in-depth workshops from the world's best fantasy and sci-fi artists, plus galleries and interviews, community news and product reviews.

Whether you're a professional artist, an art student or just create art for a hobby, each page of ImagineFX is filled with unrivalled advice from our team of world-famous artists who bring you bespoke, in-depth digital and traditional art workshops, tips and techniques. We're the only magazine dedicated to fantasy and sci-fi digital art.

Our DVD is crammed full of video tuition from professional artists, hi-res multi-layered workshop files, free brushes, textures and reference images, and the latest software trials. You won't get this level of content from any other magazine.

You'll receive 13 issues during a 1 year ImagineFX magazine subscription.

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From the Editor

Put simply, ImagineFX represents a worldwide community of people who are passionate about drawing and painting. What makes it so special is that artists from every level of expertise come together to share their passion. Professionals in the art industry - from concept artists to art directors - and students and hobbyists alike reveal what inspires them and explain their techniques.

We're passionate about imaginative arts in all it's forms. Whether you paint digitally or traditionally, there'll be something in the magazine that'll inspire you to get painting.

We commission bespoke cover art from the world's best artists such as Adam Hughes, Dan LuVisi and Raymond Swanland - and if you subscribe you get word-free covers so the art is left to do the talking.

So if you want to improve your digital and traditional painting skills and insight, or just browse some of the best digital artwork from around the globe, an ImagineFX magazine subscription is for you!

Claire Howlett - Editor, ImagineFX

ImagineFX iPad Magazine

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Print Subscriber Exclusive

It's all about the art! Subscribers to ImagineFX receive a limited edition cover image that's free of words, so you can enjoy the art as the artist intended.

Testimonials

"ImagineFX is the best published source of conceptual art information I have ever seen. It is a must-have investment for any aspiring concept artist that wants to take their skills to the next level."
Andrew Jones, Concept Artist, Massive Black Inc

"ImagineFX is a unique resource for the science-fiction and fantasy community. It has invaluable tips and techniques for a range of software, and encourages aspiring artists to get their work in print and receive international exposure."
Jonny Duddle, Freelance artist

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