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 Duration: 5h 24m | Video: .MP4 1280x720, 30 fps(r) | Audio: AAC, 48000 Hz, 2ch | Size: 2.09 GB Genre: eLearning | Language: English Representing the natural world in a 3D program can be a daunting task. Autodesk Maya comes to the rescue with an incredible array of tools for world-building. In this course, learn how to command the powers of Maya to model, sculpt, and shade scenes of nature. Terrains can be imported as heightmaps, generated with procedural texture patterns, sculpted by hand, or art directed with any combination of those methods. With tools such as XGen and Paint Effects, you can easily populate a scene with plants and other objects. The layout requirements for exteriors often include special visual effects such as image planes and camera constraints. Volumetric clouds and atmospheric perspective complete the illusion of reality for a photorealistic natural setting. This course even touches on real-time workflows, rendering a cubic environment map in Maya and loading it into Unity. Get ready to tame the wilderness and design realistic exterior settings in Maya.  MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch Skill Level: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 1h 29m | Size: 559.8 MB If you're a modern-day marketer, you're not going to get by with just numbers, charts, and graphs anymore. In addition to your quantitative data, you need to learn what your customers really want. In short, you need to know your customers. You have to know what's going to motivate and drive them, what they're feeling as they're making buying decisions, interacting with your products, or engaging with your brand. In this course, market research expert and best-selling author Sarah Weise walks you through the best practices and processes of gathering qualitative research, and how it should fit in with your marketing strategies. Sarah's tactical course shows how to conduct a new research project, and covers topics like interviews, focus groups, diary studies, and ethnography. She also gives guidance on selecting the right methodology for your research and tips on moderating your groups.  MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch Skill Level: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 29m 46s | Size: 139 MB Whether you're new to YouTube or well-established, you need to know how to leverage SEO to make sure people can find your videos easily. In this course, instructor Ash Blodgett offers useful tips on how to rank better in searches. Ash shows you how you can save yourself time and effort by doing tag and keyword research beforehand. She explains the importance of a clickable thumbnail. Ash covers how to get the length of your title, keywords, and description just right. She goes over where you can add keywords for your channel and how you can improve user engagement. Ash introduces Tube Buddy, which can help you find, compare, and rank the keywords your competitors are using. She concludes with some free SEO tools that you can start using right away.  MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch Skill Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 1h 37m | Size: 306 MB By harnessing the power of the LinkedIn platform, you can tap into an expansive network of professionals, companies, and groups in your industry and beyond. In this course, discover how to make the most of your LinkedIn account. Follow Oliver Schinkten as he explains how to build a stellar LinkedIn profile, and shares how to expand your network, look for new career opportunities, join groups, share updates, and contribute your own thought leadership. Plus, Oliver explores privacy settings and account types. Upon wrapping up this course, you'll have the tools you need to grow your career by leveraging LinkedIn.  MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch Skill Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 2h 8m | Size: 316 MB Azure DevOps is a bundle of services to help developers ship high-quality products faster. In this course, instructor Walt Ritscher teaches you everything you need to get up and running using this DevOps solution. Walt gives you an overview of the Azure DevOps services, then explains how to create projects and add users to organizations or teams. He presents a quick tour of Azure Boards, the hub for managing software projects, then describes how to use work items, backlogs, sprints, Kanban boards, and more. Walt shows you how Azure Repos provides a place to capture every team member's source code on the Microsoft cloud servers. He walks you through the parts of Azure Repos and how to manage what each part does. Walt explains the parts and features of Azure Pipelines, the set of services that automate your application build and deployment phases. He concludes with different extensions you can add to DevOps, including Slack, Marketplace, and Persona.  MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch Skill Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 21m 26s | Size: 381 MB Understanding labor market dynamics is an important skill for leaders on multiple levels. Leaders need to hire people, they need to secure resources, and they need to manage their own careers. In this course, Jason Schenker shares the most important job market basics that can inform effective labor market strategies for leaders. He shows you how to identify levers of opportunity to secure labor market resources, like how to get the best people on your team and the best time to hire. Jason details how to manage resource constraints like layoffs, furloughs, and hiring freezes while still leading your team and organization to success. He also highlights strategies for your own career, like the best time to look for a new role, the value of education, and how remote work impacts labor market access for leaders. After this course, you'll have a better idea of how to strategically approach job market decisions and challenges, as well as evaluate opportunities in your career.  MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch Skill Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 52m 16s | Size: 139.4 MB With so many technical terms, cultural quirks, and options to pursue, getting started with Linux can seem overwhelming. In this course, instructor Scott Simpson covers the fundamentals of what you need to know in order to make smart choices about learning Linux. Scott discusses the Linux kernel, the software that allows you to interact with a computer's hardware. He explains desktop environments, text-based terminal interfaces, and standard tools that are used on a Linux system. Scott goes over where different types of files are stored on Linux systems. He offers tips on choosing which Linux distribution, or distro, to use and helps you plan your Linux system. Scott shows you how to direct your strategy for learning Linux, then gives some tips on how to find answers and ask for help  MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch Skill Level: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 49m 5s | Size: 388.5 MB How does diversity shape what your clients need from a sales relationship? Find out what can happen when you invest the time to understand your clients' experiences. Instructor Meridith Powell explains how you can gain a set of tools to create awareness of your own strengths, challenges, and blind spots regarding diversity. Meridith explores how you can become aware of cultural differences and offers strategies to use when selling to someone unlike you. She goes into the strategic differences when selling to different cultures; tells you how to be prepared, aware, and ready to adapt to the customs of different clients; and teaches you what sales professionals need to know and understand about selling to different generations. Meridith concludes by pointing out the importance of expanding your view of selling to diverse cultures beyond the first sale.  Duration: 1h 9m | Video: .MP4 1280x720, 30 fps(r) | Audio: AAC, 48000 Hz, 2ch | Size: 1.3 GB Genre: eLearning | Language: English In order to grow your network and advance your skills, you need to attend conferences. In this course, business expert Bianca Lager walks you through how to make the most of attending one. Bianca explains how to stand out with your personal interactions at conferences. She emphasizes the importance of preparation, presence, positivity, and setting achievable goals. Bianca goes over how you can maximize networking opportunities before, during, and after a conference. She shows you how to prepare a plan ahead of time, as well as analyze how to project power through your positivity and appearance. Bianca concludes with useful tips for those running the conference, for first-time conference attendees, and more.  Duration: 3h 41m | MP4 | Video: AVC, 1280x720 30 fps | Audio: AAC, 48 KHz, 2 Ch | Size: 607 MB Skill Level: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English Is Google Cloud Platform (GCP) the right choice for your enterprise application? GCP now has the enterprise-level features large organizations demand: IAM security, custom encryption, NoSQL database support, and cloud-native continuous integration and deployment. This course helps enterprise architects, network admins, and technology stakeholders evaluate and implement GCP services for their organizations. Learn how GCP addresses enterprise concerns-from reliability to partner integration-and discover the scenarios where it shines, including data warehousing and disaster recovery. See how GCP solutions-serverless computing, data storage, and data pipelines-map to these different scenarios, and explore the developer and DevOps tools that Google provides for building your own custom solutions. Along the way, instructor Lynn Langit shows how to use GCP to manage virtual machines, Docker containers, Kubernetes clusters, relational data stores, NoSQL data, data lakes, and more. She also shares practical tips for saving money, planning deployments, and integrating compatible services. |
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