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Tutorials & Manuals

Need help learning new software? We have several resources:

ONLINE

Safari Tech Books

More than 8,000 full-text, online technical manuals and streaming tutorials; topics ranging from a myriad of software applications to building, troubleshooting, and maintaining hardware. Photoshop, Maya, After Effects, Flash, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver are just some of the applications covered.

Virtual Training Company (VTC)

Comprehensive online computer software training - over 60,000 streaming tutorials. Categories include Animation & 3D, Audio, Graphics & Page Layout, Internet & Web Design, and more. Publishers' tutorials include Adobe, Apple, Corel, and others.

MATERIALS TO CHECK OUT

Digital-Tutors

This L.A. based company creates video-based training for emerging digital artists. Their tutorials are developed by a team of educators and industry professionals. AiS has over 100 Digital-Tutors titles to assist students using a variety of programs, including Maya, Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and more.

Click here for a current list of the library’s Digital-Tutors titles.

Gnomon Workshop

Gnomon's mission is "to provide the highest caliber training that both educates and inspires, in order to help artists achieve their personal goals." Included in the AiS library collection are more than 200 instructional Gnomon DVDs and DVD-ROMs that will be useful to any student who is interested in "digital matte painting, character modeling, digital sets, vehicle design, creature rendering or maquette sculpture." There are also titles for comic book artists and non-CG painters and illustrators.

Click here for a current list of the library’s Gnomon Workshop titles.

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