When her brother Hiroki disappears after a violent altercation with school bullies, Yuriko finds a magical book in his room. The book leads her to another world where she learns that Hiroki has been possessed by the evil King in Yellow, and that only she can save him...and solve the riddle of why the King is also called "Hero." -- VIZ Media

"Rapid Viz: A New Method for the Rapid Visualization of Ideas, Third Edition", provides hands-on instruction on quick sketching skills and techniques that allow readers to capture their ideas into visual form. Emphasizing speed and simplicity, the book breaks drawing down to the essentials, teaching the fundamental techniques of graphic art and design using only felt-tip pens and plain paper. Suitable for those in architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, industrial design, interior design, and other related arts and sciences, readers learn by doing as they master practical drawing skills in this fully updated instructional book.

Turn Your Ideas Into High-Impact 3D Models and Animations Transform flat drawings and concepts into impressive 3D visualizations that will amaze your clients with the comprehensive instruction you'll find in Mastering Autodesk VIZ 2007. Written by VIZ experts, this book shows you how to get the most out of the latest version of Autodesk's powerful 3D design, modeling, and animation tool with an in-depth, tutorial-based approach grounded in real-world examples. This new edition has been fully updated and revised to cover all of Autodesk VIZ 2007's new features--asset tracking, revamped Xrefs, an updated interface, and the improved rendering and editing tools--and it's packed with professional techniques you can apply immediately to your own work for striking results. Whether you're new to VIZ or simply want to master the latest features, this book offers the clear explanations and step-by-step instructions you need to create, animate, and render realistic architectural visualizations with VIZ 2007. Coverage includes: * Creating complex shapes with surface modeling tools * Using, organizing, and editing objects and meshes * Efficiently managing design data * Adding natural lighting effects * Staging a virtual walk-through of your room designs for clients * Applying radiosity to create lifelike views * Employing mental ray to achieve high-res rendering * Using AutoCAD and Photoshop(r) with VIZ * Exporting content to the Web Featured on the CD You'll find a trial version of VIZ 2007 plus project files for all of the book's exercises. Master VIZ 2007's great new features, including asset tracking, scene states, new modeling and texturing enhancements, batch rendering, and improved interoperability with other Autodesk products. Create 3D models quickly and intuitively using the new edit poly tools and Sweep modifier. Work effectively with lights, materials, and cameras. Animate your models and create interactive views. George Omura was cited as favorite CAD author by members of the Autodesk User Group International (AUGI) in AUGIWorld magazine's "Best of Everything CAD" issue, November/December 2003. www.sybex.com

Learn the Vizrt Artist program. Follow this step by step guide to design actual elements used in broadcast production. This book teaches the beginning of the Vizrt Artist software and also teaches the advanced user a thing or two. This book can be used as a companion for Vizrt Artist 3.0 and higher.Finally a Vizrt book, one that is written for professional designers and serious vizrt users. This new book starts the moment you launch the software. It teaches you about the user interface, file management and designing actual graphics for use with an on air broadcast. This book is an absolute for for a traditional broadcast designer making the jump to Vizrt Artist. The book's, step-by-step instructions make even the most complex Vizrt technique seem easy and accomplish-able. It is the type of book that puts all the pieces of the Vizrt puzzle together, making you realize you can truly be an accomplished Vizrt Artist.This book is ten chapters of real-world project based tutorials , with high resolution pictures that walks you through the process of designing actual graphics that can be used on-air. You'll learn design techniques that will make you a savvy Vizrt Artist user.