Get a practical look at the world of visual effects (VFX). In this installment of the 13-part Creating a Short Film series, filmmaker Chad Perkins focuses on how to tackle the effects in the VFX portion of the post-production workflow. Throughout the course, Chad demonstrates how to create the visual effects seen in The Assurance, the short film featured throughout the series. Chad goes over a variety of common VFX tools and how to really sell effects shots. He digs into how to create magical effects with Trapcode Particular, Trapcode Form, and with native After Effects tools, as well as how to create a cool explosion shot by compositing live action fire footage, create swirling particles in Cinema 4D, build a custom lens flare using Optical Flares, and much more.

As part of any good IT infrastructure, security plays an important part in creating a stable technical environment. In the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam, the Security module makes up nearly a fourth of the exam questions. With cloud computing becoming more relevant to many professionals’ lives, even if tangentially, it's a vital topic to explore. This course, the second in a four-part series designed to help professionals in non-technical roles, provides you with a high-level grasp of the major security services and concepts in AWS. Instructor Hiroko Nishimura—author of Intro to AWS for Newbies—provides an overview of security in the cloud. She then delves into the different security services available: Identity Access Management (IAM), Shield, Inspector, and more. Note: This course also maps to the Security module of the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam. Taking all four courses in the Introduction to AWS for Non-Engineers series will help you prepare for the exam.

Git—the popular and free version control software—unlocks powerful code management tools, including branching, merging, and remote repositories. The course explains how to use these features and commands for change tracking and collaboration. Learn to navigate the commit tree and review the log to find specific commits. Find out how to create branches to test new ideas without impacting the main project and merge those changes into the project if they work out. You can also reset branches to undo changes and stash changes that are not ready to be committed in temporary storage. Instructor Kevin Skoglund also shows how to set up a remote repository to work with another developer and implement a collaboration workflow to ensure you are working together effectively.

Cucumber is a tool for behavior-driven development (BDD), which allows you to write assertions in plain language that are then testable by code. By making written requirements actually testable, it provides a common language between business and engineering professionals. In this course, learn how to use Cucumber to implement agile practices like BDD, test-driven development (TDD), and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD). Instructor Shashi Shekhar goes over the basics of BDD, TDD, and ATDD, and then dives into the Cucumber workflow. He also shows how to map user stories to features, add hooks, generate reports, and apply techniques to make BDD maintainable.

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Research tells us that resilience is one of the key attributes of successful leaders. Resilience can help you face challenges, navigate obstacles, and thrive in your role. But it can also help you lead your team and your business to bigger and better results. In this course, psychologist and executive coach Gemma Leigh Roberts helps you develop a resilient mindset, a resilient team, and a resilient organization, which can weather risk and change. The tips Gemma offers are approachable and actionable—designed for busy leaders who need an extra edge to survive and thrive in challenging times.

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Get up and running with Adobe Lightroom for mobile. In this course, Jan Kabili shows how to use this popular app to create, edit, and share high-quality images from your iOS or Android device. Jan starts with the basics, explaining how to add and capture photos with the app, as well as how to work with the general editing controls. Next, she dives into basic photo editing techniques, including how to adjust lighting, reduce noise, sharpen your images, and copy edits to other photos. Plus, learn about selective editing with radial gradients, converting color photos to black and white, organizing your photos into albums, and sharing your images.

Creating procedural materials is an important part of a modern visualization workflow, for both real-time and rendered applications. In this course, learn how to quickly create a variety of architectural materials in Allegorithmic Substance Designer, for application in design-visualization projects. Structured as a series of case studies on common material types such as carpet, vinyl flooring, and ceiling tile, this course incorporates techniques for crafting custom materials as needed for a design while staying true to the manufacturer's intentions. Discover how to create height, normal, and ambient occlusion maps for your substances, mask pattern components to simulate custom material blending such as mixed tile, and more.

In the world of big data, more and more information is consumed and analyzed in text form. Websites, social media, emails, and chats have become the key sources for data and insights. If you work with data, then understanding how to deal with unstructured text data is essential. In this course, instructor Kumaran Ponnambalam helps you build your text mining skill set, covering key techniques for extracting, cleansing, and processing text in Python. Kumaran reviews key text processing concepts like tokenization and stemming. He also looks at techniques for converting text into analytics-ready form, including n-grams and TF-IDF. Along the way, he provides examples of these techniques using Python and the NLTK library.

Demand for information security professionals has never been higher—and it's only projected to grow. Interested in finding a job in this exciting new field? Or simply advancing to the next level? IT security expert Marc Menninger explains how to launch and develop a successful career in information security. Learn about the nine most common security jobs and the duties and qualifications for each role. Learn which security certifications appear in job listings and which ones will help you get the job you want. Follow example career paths to learn how others have progressed: from IT hobbyist to help-desk technician to analyst, systems architect, and more. Marc closes with career advice specific to information security, which will help you succeed in this dynamic and high-demand industry.

In a field where reproducible results are essential, Docker is rapidly emerging as one of the top tools for bringing efficiency to the work that data science teams—particularly those working in machine learning (ML)—are doing. Creating and developing ML models is often messy. Seasoned data scientists know that different versions of the same software can produce different results. With Docker, you can include the right versions of each needed dependency and library, so no one ever has to do any configuration. After the Dockerfile is built, you'll have exactly what you need. In this course, Jonathan Fernandes helps data scientists get up and running with Docker, demonstrating how to build a Dockerized ML application that can easily be shared. Along the way, he shares common use cases for the tool. Upon wrapping up this course, you'll be prepared to leverage the power of containers in your other ML projects.

VR is poised to dramatically alter the way that individuals and organizations work and play. In this course, learn how to leverage the immersive power of VR as a storyteller. Instructor Emmanuel Henri delves into the tools, techniques, and assets you need to create your first film in VR. To begin, Emmanuel provides an overview of the filmmaking process and the basics of working with VR and 3D space. He then steps through the pre-production, production, and post-production processes, ensuring that you have a solid grasp of all that's involved with bringing your ideas to life in this exciting medium. Learn about the process of creating storyboards, modeling your characters and environments, texturing your models, and more.

You've finally identified your dream job—in another industry or profession. How do you get that job and stand out from candidates with more experience? The secret to successfully switching careers lies in identifying your transferrable skills and creating personal and professional personas that work in your new industry. Dr. Dawn Graham, author of Switchers: How Smart Professionals Change Careers and Seize Success, explains why the same old job-hunting rules don’t apply when you’re making a career change. You need to be able to convince employers you can make the leap to a new role or industry. To help, Dr. Dawn provides insider information from a hiring manager’s point of view and illuminates the psychological principles that underlie the job search process. She also provides tips for rebranding yourself and nailing the interview by turning tough questions to your advantage. Get ready to make the switch with these smart, actionable tips.

Moodle, the popular learning management system (LMS), has revolutionized education. Instructors can create online classes for anywhere, anytime learning; add assessments and activities; track student progress; calculate grades; and more. Students can access resources, complete assignments, and communicate with classmates and instructors—all from a single digital platform. This course demonstrates how instructors can get started using Moodle 3.7, including newer features such as messaging with audio and images. LinkedIn Learning staff author Oliver Schinkten shows how to set up an instructor profile, create a course, and adjust course settings. Then find out how to add files, post announcements, and make quizzes. Finally, learn how to enroll students, grade assignments, and run reports. Along the way, Oliver includes tips to make your Moodle experience even more efficient and effective.

You’ve already done the hard part—creating a product that customers will love. In this course, learn how to successfully shepherd that product into one of the internet’s most bustling marketplaces: Amazon. Ryan Mulvany—the founder of Quiverr, a top Amazon brand management and marketing agency—serves as your guide, showing you each of the key steps you need to follow to market and sell your products on the site. Learn how to create product listings and rank your products in a way that maximizes their potential; choose the right distribution strategy, whether it’s selling directly or using Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA); price your products; and look for smart ways to advertise.

Uptime is critical for modern systems, but downtime and security incidents are inevitable. Your users’ experience depends on your ability to respond quickly, confidently, and consistently when things go awry. In this course, learn how to handle unexpected crises in information systems from a DevOps perspective. Instructor Ernest Mueller steps through the overall incident response process, explaining how to define what constitutes an incident for your organization and select the tools you'll need to mitigate these high-stakes problems. He also explains how to detect and report incidents, communicate with users and internal employees about issues, troubleshoot problems, and continuously improve your incident management process.

Learn the fundamentals of Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (Sass), a modern web development language that helps you write CSS better, faster, and with more advanced features. Ray Villalobos shows you the best way to install Sass and work with its main features: variables, nesting, partials, and mixins. Plus, learn how to use SassScript to create complex functions from Sass lists and control statements.

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